[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...

[vrepit_no]

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

[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.

[verdeleonessa]

No.

[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...

[triggerhappytraitor]

...What sort of rewriting?

[vrepit_no]

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

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...

[crouching_sin]

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

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.

[triggerhappytraitor]

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

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.

[crouching_sin]

It seems so. It doesn't look like either is very comfortable with what happened. They don't merge well. I'd need to take patch copies from living Programs in order to separate them. Like transplants.

Re: Private: Lv 2

[triggerhappytraitor]

Do you sleep with Hoshiko and the others?

Because even before getting the DreamCatcher, when Garren was with me when I feel asleep, there weren't the nightmares. Not the bigger ones. Just the ones that faded when I woke up.

Re: Private: Lv 2

[vrepit_no]

No... They've got their own room. Sometimes, if the dreams're bad enough, Matt'n I'll go curl up with them. The dreamcatchers were a fuckin' godsend, if I believed in gods. Acshully gettin' a full night's sleep an' like. Wow!! Lookit that! 'M like some forma functionin' adult type thing!

[claudiometer]

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

Re: Private: Lv 2

[triggerhappytraitor]

[[He can't help but chuckle a bit at that]]

They really are, yeah.

Yours holding up with all this?

Re: Private: Lv 2

[vrepit_no]

Think so... Haven't really checked, 'xactly. An' when I sleep, he's 'wake, so I'm not really sure how that kinda... fits. Yeah. Tryin' not ta think 'bout it too much, really. But if Claudja an' Jewels can figger it out, 'm not opposed t' keepin' the proper thing, I think. Jus' for me. Course how to recharge might be a thing...

[triggerhappytraitor]

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

Re: Private: Lv 2

[triggerhappytraitor]

I'd rather work out something to help you sleep more easily. The route that they took with this... I don't think it's something that can be made to work how they wanted it to.

[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?

Re: Private: Lv 2

[vrepit_no]

Lessee what they c'n do wif it first. They're reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally good. An' Pidge is helpin' an' she an' Matt are the best crackers, like. Ever. Ever, ever. The best.

[Proud? Him? Loyal?? Really?]

But the dreamcatchers're great. Gotta empty mine when this is done, f'r sure, but only a couple get through each liminal space, so we're doin' pretty good, really.

[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?