[Jaunt] Roughly about an hour or so before Naoki's post

[triggerhappytraitor]

...they were trying to eliminate the need for sleep. To find a way to keep working while they rested.

Only the method they found... didn't go the way they had expected.

[[a short pause]]

S3NT0's memory's been restored. He realized what was happening too late to stop it and tried to make a break for it. But didn't make it. That's why his memory was missing.

Comments

[crouching_sin]

... Well, I can understand that urge, if nothing else.

[There's a little bit of an... uncertain edge to his tone, though.]

[triggerhappytraitor]

I think anyone who's ever had a deadline looming can, yeah.

[[but then the light humor fades back to seriousness]]

But when you can rewrite yourself like they can...

[crouching_sin]

Or just an intense need to work in general.

I've already done some work with rewriting code for them. I've passed along my work because something else more pressing came up, unfortunately.

[triggerhappytraitor]

...What sort of rewriting?

[crouching_sin]

Attempting to patch a Program who is... essentially two Programs melded together. They were rerezzed, but it went... strangely.

[triggerhappytraitor]

...like the original was grafted on to a new host...?

[vrepit_no]

Ooo.... That'd make a great upgrade if it weren't so faulty.

[verdeleonessa]

No.

[vrepit_no]

Whaaat? 'M gonna be up anyway, so might as well get somefin done 'stead 'f makin' myself look like an idjit.

[verdeleonessa]

Yeah, but I'd rather teach you to actually sleep rather than give you more reasons not to.

[vrepit_no]

I know howta sleep! ...It jus' doesn't stick the whole night. Not like I'm settin' 'larms or anythin'.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Yeah. Flipping a switch to an alternate self to keep working... I can very much understand why they went for it.

[[a small pause before he swaps it to Private Level 2]]

I just don't think I could trust anything like that. The thought of voluntarily giving up control to another self... especially with how their alternates took over...

Private: Lv 2

[vrepit_no]

I dun think they would wanna do that either, though?? Like... T'me sounds kinda like... like they wanted ta jus... keep on doin' what they were workin' on at the time. So jus' not need ta sleep like. Ever. If it didn't make a separate person in y'r head, if it was you alla time...

Private: Lv 2

[triggerhappytraitor]

Yeah. Just the method they came up with didn't work out that way.

[[There's a small pause]]

I know technically Undead don't need to sleep. ...And I'm not sure if Galen needed to either. It's foolish, but I'm a little afraid to test it, so I never have.

Re: Private: Lv 2

[vrepit_no]

.......yeah, that would cut the joy. An' to be fair, sleep's awful nice. Big fan. Sleep an' I go way back. Jus' not so big frien's anymore, 'sall.

[claudiometer]

...welp. That sure does help explain why it's the sloppiest hack I've ever seen.

[triggerhappytraitor]

More of a side effect than the actual intent, yeah.

[claudiometer]

We're working on getting its priorities straight, so to speak. Possibly untangling the anonymizer too, and definitely patching in a need for authorisation before uploading the code to a new host.

Which will only help with the future spread, not what's already out there, but it's better than nothing. The rest should help everybody.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Yeah.

Is there anything I should ask S3NT0 next we speak that might help you and Jules further?

[claudiometer]

If he knows a good place to start getting the patch out there.

I might go find the guy myself. I mean, how many orange Programs are out there at the moment?

[scarsolderthanyou]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Who wouldn't want to sleep?

[Stone is boggled. Stone loves to sleep. Raksura, particularly the flying kind, actually need quite a bit of sleep.]

[triggerhappytraitor]

People with more projects than time or with a looming deadline.

[[answers the man who near routinely needed to be bullied into going home and not pulling an all nighter in the labs]]

[scarsolderthanyou]

That sounds like a problem for the idiots who set impossible deadlines. Sleep is important.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Most of the times the people who set the deadlines aren't the ones who have to meet them.

And sometimes it's a deadline that hasn't been set so much as it's just unavoidable.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Then you get more people to help, or you catch up on sleep afterwards. You don't just find a way to stop sleeping. That's not healthy. Or, as these people apparently found out, a good idea in general.