Very Start of Week 3

[uzoda]

Guys... uh, hey, guys?

[The voice coming through the network is small, and a little drunk-sounding.]

Do any of you have experience with... if you're with someone but you're not infiltrating but they are infiltrating, and they still really like you? And what to do?

[This might be easier if Kenzaki even understood the question he was trying to get at. Alas.]

Comments

[uzoda]

What was the purpose? What were you all rebelling against, anyway?

[This is a pretty decent distraction from his problems, hey.]

[leftbehindagain]

How much have you heard about the Grid in general?

[uzoda]

Uh... not much. That's where the lightcycles came from, right?

[leftbehindagain]

It is.

The Grid's inside a computer, and don't ask me how, but the programs were humanoid beings. All the natives had both Priority and Purpose, and for the most part couldn't fathom how anyone managed without either. Purpose isn't so bad, that's just the thing that tells you what you need to be doing.

Priority's a little bit more of a problem. It sets the pecking order - the lower the number, the higher the Priority, and there's really no recourse if you don't want to do what a program with a higher Priority tells you to. Very easily abused system.

The original point of the rebellion was getting rid of Priority.

[uzoda]

Oh. Ohhhh. That's... that's worth rebelling for, yeah.

Were there lightcycle races, at least?

[He's only got so much attention span right now, sorry.]

[leftbehindagain]

I think some people did, though I was a little... otherwise occupied. Certainly there were a few at the Games.

[Even on the network, Naoki doesn't sound particularly impressed with the Games.]

[uzoda]

...you don't make the Games sound like a very good thing.

[He's getting good at picking up on this stuff.]

[leftbehindagain]

They weren't. They were more gladiatorial combat than anything worthwhile.

As things picked up people stopped paying them much attention.

[uzoda]

Aaah...

That's kind of how jaunts go, though, don't they? If you're investigating. Or if everything's on fire...?

Y'know what, forget I said that. That was dumb.

[leftbehindagain]

Getting more important things to focus on, yes. We could do with a few less fires, really.