after the Waking World log

[claudiometer]

Hoo boy. I realise this phrasing may be treading on thin ice right now, but strange things are afoot at the Aratta Skyhook.

First things first. Leah took the news that she was chosen to be the first Conductor deliberately... about as well as we figured she would. She has a theory as to why and asked me to run it by you guys. [And so she does, letting the memory play out from the linked point until Leah says she'd like to talk to the Oracle who uncovered this.]

So yeah, Thace, if she hasn't found you already, find her.

Second. I made sure to get a planetside view while I was out and about. Alexandra had never bothered before, and apparently wouldn't have understood what she was looking at anyway, and for an uninhabitable planet there's a shitton happening on the surface. And, uh, I found the source of the mysterious ticking noise, probably.

They're building a computer chip the size of fucking WYOMING.

Comments

[truerevelation]

[And he thought that he was off base with the Grid stuff.]

A what? The hell?

...You think you could give us a look?

[youandyoualone]

... are we sure they do not wish the Conductors to become the Programs to inhabit such a chip and make it work?

[Forgive him. All he knows of the internal working of computers comes from the Grid/ZODIAC.]

[eldritchwheelies]

Just to translate Leah's theory from meme to something effing understandable if you aren't knee-deep in the weeb, like me:

"Doofenschmirtz" is referring to a mad scientist that's gonna science madly, with a nasty habit of building doomsday devices like the Disintegrator, Decaffinator, Otakunator, or, as Leah guesses, a device that makes people into Conductors that she calls the Conductorator.

She thinks she was specifically targeted because she had anxiety or depression, walking it back from another problem she had that's her and Deedee Yeowoo's business to tell you about. Cause that would mean taking away her fear and sorrow is kind of a life-changing deal, one she'd want to talk about because of how lifechanging it was.

Cause for people who need that in their lives, it really is lifechanging, you know? I can't claim to have personal experience with it, but the difference between Addison Waite off pills and Addison Waite on them is the difference between being unable to do school and excelling.

From there, she thinks it's an idea that spreads like a virus. Or like a really good youtube video, or say, My Little Pony. First you send a clip to someone saying "this rules," then you get people asking to see the show, then you get fans... then you get Bronycon.

For the record, we have definitely gone Full Bronycon at this point.

[levelthreehooligan]

Well.

Uh.

I don't know one thing from the next about Computer Chips...

But Pic0 does. If you need Emulator again, just let me know.

[insidegalra]

I'm moving toward that contact with her

[After that, Thace starts musing aloud.]

As with others here, I may be able to help with the hacking and retrieving information from whatever they're making. It was my primary function back in my world. I would be happy to go down as part of a team, or as backup.

However, if it's well guarded, I suspect I'll need something more robust than an illusion and even well-faked documentation. Does anyone know how to fake biometrics?

An unoccupied synthetic body that I could control remotely might also be an option, but I don't know if any are given clearance into the areas we'd need to enter.

[okanetendo]

Technically, that thing is the size of Spain.

What? Ah, yeah, and Portugal. Here is your payment of scritchies, Rouge.




Hey, don't they have software that can dream, now? Doesn't your ride have it installed?

[fearinahandfulof]

Scientists.

What's a Wyoming?

[Oh hey, it's a completely new voice on the network.]

[bite_the_hand]

So her having the perfect Archetype to see who fits the role and make sure they really want it was just a coincidence. Of course it was.

[He just sounds tired at this point.]

...I'm guessing Wyoming is too big for even my Titan to break it?