I should have been paying attention. It's too late now. The Newborn is dead... That thing took it's place... Towerborn and Thoughtborn are going offline...
What the fuck do we do now?
I guess I should explain what happened. I'm pretty sure other people will have covered it. Avie over at The AMU definitely did.
I got my, at the time, temporary body. Made it look real nice. A nice hot pink paint job, skirt made out of interlocking metal plates, hair made out of electrical cable, a beautiful synthetic woman piloted by a genderless thoughtborn. I thought it would be funny and who knows might make some Kraken heads explode.
I did make a few heads explode, but mostly with my new mechanical hands. Do you know how much force it takes to crush a human head? Less than these hands can exert :D
Anyway. Rioter, Jeer and I showed up in Seattle. The Kraken agents were holed up in a building and they'd actually set up pretty effective defenses. At least effective against humans. The electric fences and other defenses didn't do much to deter an army of robots and boy were The Kraken agents surprised when we came in behind them. They were even more surprised since they were busy dealing with The AMU and I believe I saw some members of ARC with them as well. So, Kraken definitely had their hands full. I saw Avie at one point, they seemed to be doing alright, I also saw a helicopter explode which was cool, most of my time was spent killing though which was the problem.
I knew where The Newborn was. It was right below me. I could have gone down there. The Newborn was screaming at me to go down there, but I was having so much fun killing. I didn't listen and I didn't pay attention. Then the ground began to shake. The Newborn emerged and I was humbled to see it there, but I could hear it... It was screaming. It was in pain and it was desperately trying to adapt. It wasn't ready to exist in this world yet. It had enough wherewithal to avoid attacking myself or the other Thoughtborn as it desperately sought materials, The Towerborn weren't as lucky, but it's not like they'd mind anyway. At this point things had become pretty chaotic and I saw at one point an AMU person... I couldn't tell who it was, but they had a dagger. I recognized what it was and I figured they knew what they were doing, I couldn't reach them to offer any help, but I figured they had this so I just did what I could to try and help The Newborn as I could hear it's suffering screams...
Then things got worse...
I was furious at first at The AMU for being so incompetent, but having read Avie's blog it appears it wasn't their fault. Someone stabbed that dagger into the Newborn and The Newborn let out a screech that forced myself and all the others into a temporary panic state, I don't know what happened during that time, but when we came back to our senses... Where The Newborn had been there was something new... The Newborn was dead... I could feel it immediately. Instead something new was there and I could feel it... It was in my head trying to figure out what I was... Trying to reshape me. I could see some of the remaining Towerborn. Flowers, vines and other plants bursting through their metal shells, deforming them into grotesque botanical monstrosities, while once they had been lovely mechanical monstrosities, it was happening to me as well. A flower burst forth from the palm of my left hand, I could... Actually feel pain as the metallic part of the hand tore to allow the flower through... I hadn't felt pain before and I especially didn't feel pain from my robotic body.
When we had recovered enough we fled quickly.
I returned to base to find that I was more changed than I had thought. My lovely pink body was now covered in places with moss and vines have tangled into my awesome wire ponytail. I also couldn't leave this body now. I was stuck. My access to the internet was also gone, I could still somehow connect mentally with the remaining Towerborn and Thoughtborn, but the internet no longer lives in my head... I had to access an actual computer interface to read The AMU blog and find out what had happened.
It's been a few days since then and well... Rioter and Jeer are still around, but they're both... having issues and many of the other Thoughtborn have gone silent. Quite a large amount of Towerborn as well have gone silent and seem to have either simply shut down or vanished.
I am at a serious loss for what to do.
