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How do you guys feel about Sei Asagiri?
| From what I heard she's pretty good and legit. Given the state of the WKs nowadays she made a pretty smart career choice. -CN
| Huh. My friend has a different consensus. A wacky conspiracy theory, to be honest, but it's one that I'm honestly starting to believe the more information he finds.
My friend believes Sei Asagiri and her Cat Boomer friend decked in red are, in fact, the infamous Reapers, Sei being Cobalt Lily and the Cat Boomer being Crimson Rose. There is a surprising amount of evidence for this, and as crazy as it sounds...I'm not so sure it's a conspiracy theory anymore.
| Have you guys heard anything about this yet?
| >>54593
No this is the first I've heard of these "Reapers". Are they some kind of vigilantes or something? -CN
| Contract killers. Pretty infamous guns-for-hire girls from before the fall of the White Knights. However, my friend thinks that after the fall, they found some kind of moral code along the way, and are actually working towards some overt cause. What that is, nobody knows, but they stopped taking contracts after the Apollo Bank incident and went dark. Nobody has really heard from them in a while.
| I highly doubt they just went away. Maybe they were involved in the Bank incident somehow? That's what my friend thinks.
| Sweet gal, shame she was caught up in the white knights shenanigans
| >>54599
Hmm... I think there's too many assumptions made in your friend's theory. Just cause the events happened around the same time doesn't necessary mean they're related. Correlation v.s. causation and all that. The bank incident affected a lot of people, so it's just as likely that they are separate individuals who all just happened to be influenced by that same incident. -CN
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| >>54607
I thought the same way too, at first. Then he told me more of what he found. I'm not the one who normally believes this kind of shit, but the stuff he showed me is...different. Off, somehow.
He told me he found that old White Knight leak, and found some pages talking about regular job duties that morning before the incident. Each White Knight had their duty, like "PATROL" or "SEARCH" listed by them. But Sei's literally said "[EXPUNGED]" on it.
| There is more, but I'd have to ask my friend.
Begs the question though: What was a Valkyrie even doing in the Apollo Bank that day? The Valkyrie are supposed to provide first response aid. She wasn't doing that on that day, so what was she doing?
| Maybe later, if you guys want, I'll do a formal dump of everything my friend has found. There's a lot of scary shit there.
| I've found she's very nice. Always fun to talk with her. She loves giving gifts on Mega Christmas if I'm remembering right.
-Jaquilen Jin
| Oh no no I'm thinking of the other one. A bit addled at the moment.
-Jaquilen Jin.
| >>54623
The one that gives gifts is Sei's Cat Boomer friend, Stella Hoshii. According to my friend, she ties into all of this too, as the other half of the Reapers, Crimson Rose. Like I said though, I will have to ask him more when I get home. I'll definitely keep you guys posted about this if you wany.
| nnnnnnnnnnnnnnI am the Zealous Amalgamate – Be subsumed by my Thought-Eater Wave.
Let’s talk about White Knights, shall we? You might think that they, as spawn of the AI Collective which occupies City Hall, must be in some way related to it. That they’re low-level Instances or simply Puppets. If only.
| t’s the nanomachines, friendo. The very nanomachines which gave them the Iron Will, the Paladium Resolve, the Divine Favor which wards away Fear and Madness. The Silicon Bushido. The Bull made Flesh The Neural Fatwa. They inducted their hosts into something so much greater than themselves: Brotherhood.
| And so they did as they were compelled to and took up the Sword and the Lance, the Rifle and the Rocket, the Will and the Means. And they Fought Well and Died Well, as was their Way. And for a time, All was Good.
| But now the Crusades are over. The Bushi disarmed. The Jihad faded from memory. But what of the Message? What of the Divine Favor shone upon the Carriers? It’s still there friendo, still floating around in their head, Singing to those who Hear the Call of Brotherhood.
| The Song their nanomachines Sing spur the Host to continue their Struggle. Never mind what Struggle. It doesn’t matter. All that matters is the Glory. The War to end All Wars. And the War that Came After That. The Red Fields. The Cenotaph March.
But who can blame them? If you were Unbreakable, you’d try as hard as you can to Break Yourself too.
| History Repeats Itself. It’s only a matter of time until the Crusaders find a new Jerusalem. What will it be this time? Constantinople’s old hat. Where is the Holy Land of the Singing Machines? You guessed it, friendo. Right here. And the Song is getting Louder. The Virus mutates. The Meme spreads.
| The nanomachines, as dictated by their adaptive programming, have evolved themselves. They’re infectious now, growing in refugium they’ve carved in the Cervical Vertebrae of their Hosts and spreading to the masses with every breath. They haven’t yet fully conquered the human immune system, as each Knight’s nanomachines were tailored to their individual biometric profile, but they continue to adapt.
| It’s only a matter of time until the whole city hears the Call. Our Eyes will See the Coming of the Glory of the Lord.
| Eh, Asagiri's still alive? I thought she died during the 24 Hours War. -Tiger Tim
| >>54634
Well I mean if we're talking about the WKs fighting a huge war then there was the 24 hour war a few months ago, that counts I guess. -CN
| >>54636
Nah, pretty sure she had retired by then. Like I said earlier, smart career choice on her part. -CN
| It’s not about A War. It’s about War Itself. It’s the Eternal Struggle. It’s the Call that all Warriors Hear. The Song of the Knights is simply a physical rendition of the same Song all Warriors throughout history have heard. It’s an Abstract made Tangible by the Miracle of Technology.
The names and faces don’t matter. They never did. The Cenotaph March annihilates the individual. All in its Procession are absorbed into the Glorious Hosts.
| >>54641
Well given the sorry state they've been in lately I doubt we'll have to worry about them as much as the corpers for the moment. -CN
| >>54644
No, they just likes typing all their messages like that. They are actually making relevant statements, they just likes being abstract about how they phrase them is all. -CN
| Maybe not the old stock, no. They lie dormant. But once their nanomachines are strong enough to conquer a healthy immune system, things will be different. We’ll be so thick with Crusaders that Constantinople will look positively uneventful in comparison.
| >>54656
I agree. I'm on my way over to my friend's house tonight. I'll get all of the info he has on connecting Stella Hoshii and Sei Asagiri to the Crimson Rose and Cobalt Lily.
In the meantime, I think I like this place, so I may as well introduce myself. My name is Nietzen. I'll go by N on here.
Peace out.
-N.
| That’s how plagues start, friendo. The best and only time to prevent one from happening is to stop it before it spreads.
But to answer your question, no. You shouldn’t “worry” at all. There are no “threats”, not really. There never were. There is simply Here and There, the Meantime and the Endtime. I Broadcast simply for the Joy of Tending to your Garden of Eyes, nothing more and nothing less. Don’t let me tell you what to do. Branch your Mind whichever Way the Stars Take You.
| >>54663
Nice to meet you chummer. I'm just CN, hacker is my living. Although I've been on this board long enough that you can probably ask someone else for my story and they'll probably know it better than myself. -CN
| >>54667
Nice to meet you CN. I'm a prospective video game developer myself. Trying to make video games in Glitch City has been hard though, so I occasionally sell drugs in the form of purposely glitched coding to Lilims who get high off of bugs in their programming. Kind of a strange job, programming Lilim drugs, but there's a market for it and it pays well. Good way for me to use my programming skills.
-N.
| >>54670
Have you published any games yet? And huh, that's the first of heard of this. So it's kind of like BTL chips but for lilims then? -CN
| >>54676
So far, not yet. I've made a couple games of my own but I haven't been picked up by any publishers. I am working on it though, it's just a struggle because I have to pay my art designer and he's a stingy bastard who won't work unless I pay him first. And since I'm broke, nothing really gets done unless I have money, which brings me to the bugs, at least until a publisher works with me.
| >>54676
More like, it serves the basic function of a drug with almost no side effects. The two most popular I can make are Voltage or Overload. Basically I upload purposely glitched programs to a platform of their choosing (Sometimes USB, sometimes SSD, depends on what the Lilim can take).
| >>54676
Overload is a multitude of glitched programs intended to cause so many failures that the Lilim's OS overloads, and shuts down. Like sleeping pills basically, although the process of shutting down has been compared to death by older Lilims. It's a euphoric feeling for them.
| >>54676
Voltage demands more electrical volts, and takes it from the Lilim's brain and sensory nodes, making them numb in both mind and body. Similar to painkillers, but can also serve a more "Viagra" like purpose or a more "Limitless" drug like purpose because I can program the volts to go to a certain place, like the brain...or the genitals.
| >>54676
There are others, but I don't make them often. The side effects for Voltage and Overload are both minimal, limited to short-term amnesia. Although, sometimes it lasts longer, and that's when it gets sad. I really want to get out of doing this, but I need the money right now until my games take off.
-N.
| >>54686
Damn... definitely seems like rough going. We all got to do varying degrees of stuff we don't like to scrounge by, but I hope you get a lucky break soon so you don't have to worry about that stuff anymore. -CN
| >Do not dig through other people's lives and their past.
Stella's kindness and caring stature were unmatched, and Sei's presence were like a breath of fresh air for this insane city. Even if they ended up being a couple of contract killers - they should've had their own troublesome reasons for this. -Ruby Rose
| While I'm obligated to hate her for ditching the White knights, being their security technician and all. I wasn't in this position around the Apollo incident, so I'll maintain my outlook on her from back then.
She's done the smart thing. Quite frankly I envy her. But she did abandon the Knights, and they weren't happy about that one bit. (At least what's left of them)
-RaIn
| >>54892
Given how WKs were being practically crucified in the streets back then, I don't blame her. -CN
| >>54905
I need out of this job before it kills me. Sei was smart. These fuckers are corrupt as hell.
| >>54910
To further the point of needing out of this place, I nearly lost my girlfriend at least three times this past year. She's a knight herself, she knew Sei and she would've left with her had she not been so cautious. -RaIn
| >>54910
Sadly they mostly are. Things are easier to desert now though in comparison to Sei's time after the 24-hour War and the Midnight District Incident. -CN
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| Hey guys, new anon here just asking a question. How do you feel about this chick running the Phoenix Corps? She was a former White Knight, and there's rumors she was at the old Apollo Bank Incident. I know White Knights aren't really trustworthy, but this girl was Valkyrie Corps, she helped a lot of people in her day. Just curious what the general consensus is.