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(Setting) Murphy's Ranch Pt 2.
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| >The AI doesn't resist as not only is it deleted, but its remaining code is thoroughly scrambled.
| >Engy reaches up and pulls the jack from her VR headset and hastily removes that. Her face is covered in tears and sweat- her eyes are bloodshot, and her hair is a mess. She stumbles to her feet.
"...It's done. Lis- the AI will not be troubling anyone else, now."
| >CN takes off of his own headset and grabs her by the shoulder, not out of anger, but concern
"Are you okay though?"
| >She stands up, eyes downcast. She raises her hood above her head.
"Let's go," >She whispers to CN.
| > Kazuki stands a bit shocked, looking back only just getting the entirety of danger/ai/ shutdown.
"A-Alright.. So, what.. What just happened there?"
> He looks between the two and Neon.
| >>121205 "It was... cascading...">Engy said, looking away from Kazuki.
"I believe another word for it is... running rampant. She... it... would have had to have been taken down. There was no other way."
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"I don't think they're going to let us leave without more of a detailed explanation..."
>CN whispers back as he follows along
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>As she takes your hand with her artificial left, you feel something familiarly metallic and cylindrical in her hoodie's sleeve.
"They don't have a choice," >She whispers.
| > Kazuki bites his cheek, all curious but nodding.
"Well.. Er.. I-It's over, then? That was it?"
| "Yes. It's over." >"For now," she says to herself.
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"..."
>He turns back to the group
"Remember how I mentioned before how Lisa had more dangerous programming in the past? She started exhibiting it in there so we were left with little choice... direct exposure to it has damaging effects so we didn't want to put you at risk... sorry but I'll explain in more detail at another time, we should get going."
| "Let's go Engy, there's some stuff I need to tell you on the way back."
| >Engy makes her way toward the entrance, with CN in tow...
| > Watching them leave, Kazuki sighs, looking to Neon before down at himself to process the passing scene.
"Yeah, alright. That works."
> He waits for them to get distance from the house before making way to the entrance, then leaving with his vehicle.
| ( I'll post as soon as I'm caught up, I guess. )
| "*Fsssht* I see..."
>Neon spoke to himself while disconnecting the cables from his helmet. In the insanity it seemed only he was able to widthstood the entire experience. He seemed completely unshaken...at least as far as one could guess. After all he'd kept his helmet on the entire time and simply looked on. He closed the recording application in his helmet afterward, ensuring that the data was saved.
"*Fsssht* Farewell Lisa...For now, I suppose."
| (Whelp, didn't mean for Murphy to disappear lol)
Honestly it happened so fast I'd say Murphy had about enough time to stand up before y'all exited. 7 seconds total)
| (I was looking at the other thread so I typed up a response to it, just as y'all were saying to shut it down. Didn't realize it maxed out.)
| "AWW HELL"
> IRL, Murphy hears the fans insisde the server start to spin up rapidly. He had only just reached up to take the headset off; a total of 3 seconds elapsing in real-time.
>It takes 5 additional seconds for Murphy to stand and reach the server controls.
>It takes Murphy 1.5 seconds to fumble for the off switch.
>It takes 340 milliseconds to depress the button.
>It takes 25 microseconds for the power supply to halt.
>It takes exactly one instant to transfer souls.
| "*Fsssht.* You okay Murphy?"> Neon questioned. Somehow he actually sounded concern despite the synthesized voice.
| "*Fsssht.* Believe it or not. I've had worse."
> Neon replied before looking toward the door where the group left.
"*Fsssht* How's your servers? Seems everyone but me has left even though they may have potentially broke your toys."
| > Murphy guffaws
" Ah'm gonna have to keep takin yer lines, Slick. Those all have had worse too -- and will have worse, now that ah think about it.
Whatcher plans fer now? The others sure got out inna hurry. They're all alright?
| >Neon shrugged his shoulders.
"*Fsssht* I have skill with server maintenance. Do you want help? Your...set up intrigues me. I feel that I could learn a lot by helping you repair this. Not to mention you allowed us to use this place...I would feel it unfair to not return the favor."
| "Well fry me up and call me a catfish, I got mself a ranch hand. Yews just the fella I'm lookin for."
| "*Fsssht* What?...Ranch hand?"
>Neon's helmet reflected Murphy's expression back at him.
"...*Fsssht* I simply said that I'd -assist-. I...don't understand how this became 'ranch hand' territory. What do you even mean ranch-hand?"
| "Shewt, you gotta lot to learn pal. Why don'tcha start by takin a look at this data Lisa left behind. It might make fer some good fertilizer"
>Murphy points at the rebooted server terminal.
| "*Fsssht* ..."
> Neon went on to log back in on his avatar. Suppose it wouldn't hurt to explore the aftermath....after all he'd seen some interesting things to begin with. Not to mention...some nostalgia inducing traumas.
"*Fsssht* How much of that did you see Murphy?"
| "Ah myself didn't see a lick of it. But I do know what it sounds like from the outside. She made quite the ruckus."
| >Neon wanders through the VR in his avatar. He notes the shards of the horrors from before and collects the data that could be useful. He murmured to himself as he worked...investigating and sifting through what was left over.
"...CyberDynamics, huh?"
>He stood and looked around again...Thinking. Planning...He was beginning to put the pieces together.
| >Murphy enters the space.
"Holy fuckn shit. It's worse than ah thought. Y'all're lucky she didn't try t'latch onto one of yer subconscious; you'da had a fate worse than death. "
>Murphy clicks his tongue and whistles.
"There's not even a sliver of Danger/ai/ left. Tore 'er limb from limb..."
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| >Neon gazed thoughtfully at the fragments.
"This is why CN and I chose to use avatars. Though I sense CN may have known more a reason why to do that to begin with. I'll need to speak with him later about this."
>After speaking Neon ran a data collection and processing application that appeared in the form of two black cubes beside him. The data collected would be absorbed into the first cube and processed by the other cube. It seemed his helmet was running as the processor.
| > Careful to separate the dangerous data from the safe, he quarantined the rest outside of the cubes and put that where Murphy could do what he pleased. Before long a white cube of clean and random garbage data remained before him.
| "What will I do with the corrupted data?"
| Whell I'll be darned, Slick, that was pretty quick of ya to get it all sep'rated out.
Just lookin at it, ah can tell it won't be too useful... Might fetch a penny er two online as a collector o' Lisa stuff... I reckon she was perty famous?
Ahll take a copy of course; Weebo likes entropy, an that don't look like no pseudo-random data.
| Err...
>Murphy stutters, trying to be thoughtful
Maybe that woman wants it as a keepsake... She was a little upset 'bout th whole thing
| "No. Make a fake."
>Neon replied with a surprising lack of hesitation.
"You can use that to do it, can't you? A baby pseudo-AI that makes emotes and cracks ciphers like it's a game. Even if its useless garbage that data can't be sold."
| "I'll see the residuals that I don't intend to keep make it to Engy."
| Well, t'come straight, ahm way aheada ya. Danger/ai/ logged er behaviour traits as soon as she joined the server. Time will tell ifn it's enough to imprint an ai seed though.
| Harhar, if ah'm being a hunerd percent honest, ah've got data on everyun who was here. Wouldja like an ai version of yerself?
| >Neon kind of stopped dead and stared at Murphy the way only Neon could. In Meatspace. Without a face visible enough to imply what kind of expression he might be making. His Avatar of course mimicked these movements.
"*Fsssht* How much?"
>Wait...What?
| Er, ahll just give it to ya Slick. Wasn't planning on doin anything with it myself, ah just like havin the archive. It'll take bout a week er two to grow it
| > Murphy is a little taken aback by the seriousness of Neon.
| "...Keep it dormant until we've both made an agreement and I've suggested some designs."
> Neon replied before turning back to his work of sorting...granted it was mostly done. He was just ensuring his software was clean and uncorrupted.
| Well Slick, good work t'day. I reckon Ah'll see ya round GC, er on the forums. Lemme know ifn ya need anythin, ya know where t find me.
>Murphy starts the process to back out to meatspace.
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| "Wrong," >Engy says as her avatar glows.