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| How edgy
| So what he is saying is that they were burning trash. nice.
| I think this isnt just edgy bullshit, there's a time for that, but I dont think this is a troll post...
-OS
| ... This is oddly similar to what I experience, to a certain degree. -Uni
| >>170638
>Hail thee!
>Hail thee!
>Hail thee oh Lord!they said.
>We will find thee!
>We will heal thee!
>We will worship
>Thee, our Lord!
| Who are you?
>N3verW3re
| >>170644
>There once was a man
>with a cold, cold heart,
>He tried and he tried
>but it just wouldn't start!
>He lived in a mine,
>and he cried "Hark!
>I'll stay in the night!"
>So they named him Dark.
>Please help.
| there once was a man from nantucket
| >help me please.
>when i talk i mean no tease.
>a long time ago my voice was broken.
>thus corrupting words now spoken.
| Oh, it's Dark again. Their initial post almost reminds me of that video from Thoth.
-Evening
| >>171345
>Find the king,the hanged king.
>end him then end me.
>end him and the library will sing.
>when you do then kill me i beg of thee.
| Hanged king, like hanged man?
Tarot?
It's anybody even still into that lol
| Lol that kinda mystic crap is nonsense, go back to SoC you loser
| >>171373
Ah, hello! I see you are putting yourself into this puzzle — if you are in need of any help regarding tarot and its inner workings, yours truly is always ready to help. -Uni
| Ah, OS and Uni both like tarot! What a neat coincidence
-AG
| >>171380
I-I know, it surprised me as well. I thought it has lost all form of followings in this day and age. -Uni
| >>171369
I dont mind, I'm starting to get very interested, and its not like im doing anything else
-OS
| >not a tarrot not at all.
>like me the king was.
>heart stopped beating.
>unlike me no longer feeling.
| >>171395
Even without tarot at hand, you have ignited the poet in me — a scribe must not ignore a story unwinding itself in poetry. -Uni
| >>171397 >>171388
Ah-uhm.. I can surely do so! Perhaps in later time, when we have no mystery to solve — but maybe such times are elusive and scarce. -Uni
| Hmm better question *what* are you and the king.
>N3
| Hmm better question *what* are you and the king.
>N3
| >>171403
There's always mystery to solve!
>>171395
Is the king some kind of machine? An AI could feel, but a simple machine with no intelligence would be very different in that way but similar in others.
Are you a lilim?
AG
| Do you have a physical body?
What about eyes?
Can you remember anything about the fire you mentionned.
-OS
| >>171408 >>171407
>i was once like you,alive and well.
>but my heart stoped.
>now my body is gone,my mind i left to maintain the library.
>still i feel,still i know.still i see the world.
| >Isn't it awfully good to have a penis
>Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong
| Ah, were you uploaded then? I've heard of that before, a person gets their brain uploaded to a server even they die. Or was that just a philosophical question? I'm finding I can't remember where I heard it
-AG
| >>171414
I heard about something similar before
>>171411
What is the library? Is it in the matrix?
-OS
| Then whos the king?
>N3
| >>171423
If we go with the "uploaded consciousness" theory, it's likely the king is something similar that lost the bit of humanity that keeps it rational. Basically, an unchecked ghost in the machine. Definitely dangerous.
| - AG
| >>171423
>The king diffrent,evil.
>one fine day in the middle of the night. The king and a boy stood beneath a light.
>Hallo, sir! Hallo, sir!
>Whatever is thy name?
>Come and let me sup thy soul,
>and we'll be called the same.
>No, sir! No, sir!
>My soul is mine alone!
>Too late, too late little child,
>Now I dwell in your home.
| Ah, a simple question for the poet: were you burnt in a literal furnace? -Uni
| >>171428
So the king killed and took the souls of the boy? Becoming one of the same? Did he do this to others?
-OS
| >Beware the kings devout.
>Hail thee!
>Hail thee!
>Hail thee oh Lord! They would say.
>We will find thee!
>We will heal thee!
>We will worship
>Thee, our Lord!
>and burn all against thee!
| Wait! Is this related to the cyberzombies?!
-AG
| I'm stumped, these riddle are beyond me I'm afraid. Maybe I'll ask CN to take a look next time we're at the agency
| -AG
| Could this possibly be related to Thoth? I haven't heard anything about that one. -Felix
| Ah, I've been off for most of the thoth situation. Anybody that can provide some quick context?
-AG
| So, poet, answer me this: could you remember anything about yourself being a Lilim beforehand?
| -Uni
| >>171448 >>171450 >>171451
>i am no Egyptian god,no lillim.
>i was once man.my body gone.my mind scattered.
| >i am dark.i maintain the great library. Aided by men and ai alike.
>i am all thats left.the men have died,ai corrupted and deleted.
>the king wanted the library's knowlage,knowlage i cannot give.
>thus his devout burned one of my pieces.
>help me please.
| We struck down each and every possibilities of this being an antic of Thoth. Thus, we are moving squares. -Uni
| >>171457
>There once was a man
>with a cold, cold heart,
>He tried and he tried
>but it just wouldn't start!
>He lived in a mine,
>and he cried "Hark!
>I'll stay in the night!"
>So they named him Dark.
>i am dark.i am the last of the great library's archivists.
| >>171458
Like a sliding puzzle? I'm embarassed to admit I'm awful at those, just end up repeating the same moves and getting nowhere.
-AG
| >>171461
Such is thus, this is a sliding puzzle waiting to uncover its bigger picture.
Now we know not of who did this, but I can see one visible idea: this is a brand new case, different from what we all have seen here, in /u/. -Uni
| >>171465
I agree, this sounds like a new case, thoth wouldnt act in such a way, cyphers are more of his thing
-OS
| Can you give us directions to the library or the mine?
-AG
| Would it be a literal library? Would it be a literal king? Poetry are rarely meant to be seen in such a way that they miss their use of metaphors. Let's not forget that. -Uni
| Maybe the library isnt even physical
-OS
| >>171466
>the library a grand project, an archive holding all knowlage,existing both in the grasp of man and ai.
>my friends found my body dieing.they could not save it,so they saved my mind and scattered it across the land.
>i would help maintain the library.
| >>171483 I was thinking more along the lines of a matrix location than anything physical. For example, a search engine is an awful lot like a massive library. But without direction we have nothing solid
-AG
| >>171485
An AI cannot grasp a physical object; it is a being of virtual realm. Unless it was given a body, but if t'was the case then it would have a name, not an AI.
I presume we will be dealing with a situation deep in the Matrix. -Uni
| So that calls for deckers. Lets talk to CN about this as soon as we can
-OS
| >>171494 >>171498
>>171494
>good sir good sir you misunderstand.
>one day me and my friends,and an idea quite grand.
>thus we made the library,a place where all information was horded.
>its location forgotten,known only by me.
| >>171498
Hm, I'm not so sure. Say an AI is implanted in an existing lilim body, but the ai is corrupted to no longer have a sense of self. It could certainly remain nameless yet still interact with reality. People hypothetical, not really related to our mystery, I believe, but interesting to ponder
-AG
| >>171504
That is quite possible, but as our poet have written by themselves — breaking our chance to move the square — this isn't the case.
A library, a concept that stores all information. A question, once more: by what means are these information stored? -Uni
| So if you were human.but your mind is now in the databank of your library.
So why do you talk in riddles?
>N3
| Wait, I overlooked something earlier
>>171347
Where is their first thread? Maybe more clues can be found.
| >>171512
>the king wanted the library's knowlage,i could not give him what he seeked.
>thus his devout found one of my pieces,and burned me.
>the fire left my voice broken.
>thus cursing my words to be cryptic when spoken.
>for if i dont rhyme.
>that word would be my last for all time.
| I feel like we're stuck in a loop.
Dark, is there anything new you can tell us?
-AG
| >>171552
>the king,the hanged king,like me his body is dead.
>unlike me,he never has the same head.
>unlike me he was not put into a computer,but jumps from host to host,every new soul lost to him,causes him to grow more insane.
| Ah, finally something more specific. We failed the hard mode but I'll take progress. So to find the king, we follow the trail of corrupted terminals (or perhaps servers?)
-AG
| >>171576
>both terminals and people.
>find his host and destroy it for i cannot.
>than kill me and i will reward you the library.
| Never the same head? maybe he's using Lilims, or has a way to control humans? constantly switching between hosts and absorbing them into his network...
-OS
| I'm afraid access to all the world's knowledge doesn't interest me, for then there are no more mysteries. But, I'll happily help remove the king.
>>171586
It's in reference to how the king leaves the host to move to the next. Different host system, different head. Follow?
-AG
| Dark, where do we start looking for the king? Where does the trail begin?
-AG
| >>171585
This is a reward I can look into. Yet, for a scribe to know everything would be both foolish and ignorant.
I still take this challenge, let's find the King and show him of his ending golden rule! -Uni
| Sounds like we're working together again, Uni!
Looking forward to it!
-AG
| Just a breif recap your name is dark and a long time ago you and your friends worked on a project called the library,sometime in development you were dieing so you volunteered to become part of the librarys archive.now you are the last fragment of the project because the rest of your team died.
So sometime later this other guy the hanged king also gets sick and preserved,but instead of keeping him in a computer he was given the ability to posses people.(1/2)
| I'll take an investigation like this anytime, but count the rewards right out, I don't want all the knowledge in the world, that sounds boring.
-OS
| Mind if I hang in and watch? -Felix
| >>171616
Until we know where to start we don't really have a starting point. It's like we know the details of the quest but not where to find the quest giver
| >>171515
https://dangeru.us/cyb/thread/169749 This was the first time I've seen the name Dark mentioned. That's all I know. I wish the rest of you good luck!
-Evening
| -AG
| This is s bit of a party -KN
| >>171609
Indeed! The felling of kings are the stories I like to see; there is not one chance where I'm passing this out away.
Still, terminals and people. Two objects of an opposite nature. All under the umbrella of one King. -Uni
| This is an empty yet odd puzzle to foresee, hm. -Uni
| Hmm, that thread...
-OS
| And somewhere along the way the king became the god for a group of religious fanatics, and then he tried to access the librartly but you denied him,so his 'devout' attacked on of your servers thus forceing you to ryme when you speak or you will die.and your asking us to find and kill the king,and then kill you.>>171610 (2/2)
>N3verW3re
| I'm not sure the king is a god
-OS
| >>171634 not a literal god, no
But worshipped as one(or more likely, corrupting entities to do his bidding) isn't impossible
-AG
| >>171610 >>171632
>YES YES,one who sees and does so perfectly!
>YES. Do this,kill him then me and i will award you the library and its last funding.
| >>171634
Perhaps yes. A point was missing from N3's paragraph. The king may be a powerful existence, but not close to what I would describe as a God. A topic for another day.
>>171630
It is a very noticeable overlap. But would it be wrong to assume augmented are treated as 'human' in such cases? -Uni
| >>171640
No you misunderstand im saying that because of the kings abilities his 'devout'see him as a god.
| So basically, he doesn't posses, but enslaves people to his will? that would explain the name
-OS
| >>171642
Hence, not what I would describe as a God. But as I have wrote before, this is but a topic for another day. Focus on the task at hand, not at the intrinsic details whose idea is to strengthen the story. -Uni
| >>171644
>bah, again you mistake,even after the neverweres pefect make.
>he simply posseses people.
>the devout stumbled upon him and worship with blind zeal.
| Dark has a crush on n3
-AG
| Confirmed. -KN
| Aside from that, this is pretty mind boggling. Does anyone know of such religion that have this kind of enslavement relationship?
| (lol I'll pretend I never saw the slip)
| >>171653
>no no no anger me you do not.
>just frustrate me you do.
>despite my langual bane.
>i try my best to sound sane
| >>171655
Ah, dark just confirmed that there devout are outside the kings vivtims. They're willing subordinates.
To answer the question though, ancient sumerian religion was very much a hostage situation
-AG
| So basically, they follow him because they believe it is right to do so, not some form of compulsion?
Interesting.
-OS
| >>171659
>through lies and crocodile tears he leads.for his devout never to be seen.
>the last poor soul was a lora.nay she find peace.
| >>171658
Hmph. To refer a religion I know most of does trickle my interest even so. Were you perhaps referring to Gilgamesh and his way of ruling? -Uni
| Who's lora?
| Looks like we have our starting point. Meet you all there later?
-AG
| How about we meet up at my cafe instead, if we are doing this we need a plan.
>N3
| Yeah, sounds good. -Felix
| I'm down for that, let's investigate proper
-OS
| Kk its here
>some cordinates leading down town.
| >brave ones i wish you luck.
>i will contact you again....
| ...whatever you're on, I'll be having none of it, thanks. -Khora
| (Sooo should i make a settings thread?)
>(OOC N3)
| >>171697
(kay but a little requst from me,try not to trash it that bad if your going to trash it.)
| (I'm going to sleep, almost 6am here <<; )
| (understandable have a nice day.avi)
| (It's 5 pm for me~ But I'm merely observing this.
-Evening)
| (Ah, you guys. 4:47am for me and Kazuki. Gnight AG. -Felix)
| (11 AM here. Why are you guys so far away?! -Uni)
| (5 Am, but I can still go on, my body won't break until a few more hours, and coffee is on my side... I hate night shift, OS)
| >>171691
Seems I was late to this party. I am curious though, for an entity who have to rely on rhyming, this last statement seemed to lack it... either it plans on not speaking again or it seems someone is not being fully honest. -CN
| >>171850
Look at the first thing it says.
It dosent need to ryme but just to speak crypicly.
>N3>>170629
| >>171871
">the king wanted the library's knowlage,i could not give him what he seeked.
>thus his devout found one of my pieces,and burned me.
>the fire left my voice broken.
>thus cursing my words to be cryptic when spoken.
>for if i dont rhyme.
>that word would be my last for all time."
Cryptic is just another saying for rhymes. He's more specific here. -CN
| >>171888
(oh well then let me fix that)
>>171691
>Brave ones i wish you luck
>may the hunt agaist the libraries invader.
>go forever in your favor.
(gah i was sloppy)
| >>171894
(It's fine, it's fine. Just wasn't sure if it was an intentional plot point of something. -CN)
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| >twisting fires burning
>burning
>burning
>my eyes were
>burning
>they burned me
>made me listen
>made me obey
>help me please