loyalrebel: (wearing a tie/sigh)
Malik Al-Sayf ([personal profile] loyalrebel) wrote in [community profile] synopsychic2015-05-09 06:44 pm

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[There's something a bit rough and tired to Malik's mental voice, even as he speaks with crisp efficiency.]

The Defenders and Miners are wrong, and you do not have all you should. I do not know what everyone has been told but hopefully this information will not be too late to help.

The Automata do not seek to destroy the grid or infect the rest of the network. They are trying to stop the Cryptos from escaping and have been trying to do so since the beginning.

Nothing anyone has told you of them is likely true.

[He pauses before continuing again.]

What you need to know is this.

There is a covert team of automata who are trying to preserve the grid. They are under the directive of a... I am not sure that pair is the right word? The Users they are following the directive of are some sort of creature and two who were once one.

[He doesn't know anything of Trumps or tarot, being from the middle ages is difficult sometimes when having to deal in symbology.]

I will not argue over the fact that they are dangerous. The desperate acting against overwhelming numbers tend to be.

I can answer what I know of, and offer what conclusions I have come to.

One of which is that the Cryptos are far more of a danger than I think anyone realizes.

...I will also need a sword once I return to the grid if any have one to lend.
neverfeltthatway: (wide eyes)

[personal profile] neverfeltthatway 2015-05-10 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... Moebius was a jaunt that happened about sixteen months ago. It... it was worse than Harrogate, and none of the Travelers can remember anything before Moebius, even though we know many of us were Traveling before then. [Armin visibly shivers, looking away. Sixteen months later, and the mere name still makes him tremble.

Then he looks up, confused, at her question.
] Influencing them directly? What do you...

Are you talking about the automata? The Lovers may have created the automata corruption, but I don't think they're controlling anyone directly. The corruption changes your programming, though, so it is a much more complete form of control than anything we've seen before - but I think that has to do with the nature of this jaunt, of everything being like a computer? [This is so not Armin's area of expertise. He barely understands what a program is.] It... has something to do with the relationship between program and User, too.
foreveralawn: (excuse me)

[personal profile] foreveralawn 2015-05-11 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay...

[Quinn tucks Moebius away to think about later. It's obvious that whatever happened, it affected Armin badly and she doesn't want to push about the past when the present has so many problems already.]

Do you think so? I d-don't remember much about computers... It just seemed k-kind of weird to me.
neverfeltthatway: (working it out)

[personal profile] neverfeltthatway 2015-05-11 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Armin gives something of a helpless shrug.] You still probably know more about computers than I do.

And... it definitely is kind of weird - just not that kind of weird, I think. When I was corrupted, it changed my motive, my purpose - but there was definitely no direct influence.
foreveralawn: (how do I say this...)

[personal profile] foreveralawn 2015-05-14 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm... I'll t-take your word for it. I guess I d-did remember who PsycheNET was b-back at the school. Even if I d-didn't remember PsycheNET as, you know...g-god-like.