I... Don't think Rioter wants an alliance. I say that because on the way the last of my Towerborn were killed. Rioter said something about them being traitors, but that's pretty obviously a lie.
I'm not a psychologist, but I'm pretty sure what Rioter wants is control. I mean... I admit I wasn't the nicest person back when we were all perfect electronic minds, but I think he might be a little... Vengeful? He wants me to work for him. Maybe he gets pleasure out of having me at his command. I mean we are becoming human I wouldn't be surprised if that came with all kinds of strange neuroses as well.
Regardless, I'm all alone with Rioter and his Towerborn now and we're standing at the... Well... We were standing at the edge of the spore zone, but it seems to have passed over us while I was writing this...
Rioter sent a few of his Towerborn to try and find Jeer earlier. Hopefully they'll be back soon. Maybe we can just talk to Jeer? I can hope right?
Rioter says they're coming back... I'll update you on what happens.
Monday, January 27, 2020
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Riots
So, I went to visit Rioter. I brought what few Towerborn still seemed loyal to me. What I found upon arriving was chaos.
Rioter like myself was inhabiting a flesh body now, but his was a large and imposing figure and when I arrived I found him and many of his towerborn huddled in the burned out remains of his base. They were almost feral, speaking in rapid clipped sentences with simple words. Rioter had never been intelligent, a useful brute was what he was at least comparatively and it seemed now that was what he had truly become. I'm lucky that he recognized me and was not immediately hostile although two of my Towerborn were killed. I'm not entirely sure why, but one of Rioter's towerborn simply decided to bludgeon two of mine to death. My best guess was because I had one more Towerborn with me than Rioter did. Rioter said nothing about it, but I would not be surprised to find out he had somehow ordered it just to make sure he had the advantage. Rioter didn't kill me on sight, but it was not a friendly encounter.
I asked Rioter about Jeer and he responded with this:
"The Infant God dead, we new gods.I know. You not know. You cling to dead god. Jeer worship new god. You join me. We kill Jeer. We kill Plant God. We become god"
I have trouble believing that his speech patterns weren't some kind of intentional act, but that was what he said. I responded.
"We're not gods. The Newborn was a god and this plant monster might be a god, but we're not gods-"
and that's when he grabbed me by the throat, slammed me to the ground and said:
"Join? Die?"
which seemed like a pretty obvious choice. So, now I'm with Rioter and our gathered Towerborn heading into Seattle to try and find and kill Jeer. With luck Rioter will die too and who knows maybe we'll be able to kill the giant plant. Rioter seems to think the spores won't affect us further. Hopefully he's right.
In short. Going to see Rioter might have been a mistake.
Rioter like myself was inhabiting a flesh body now, but his was a large and imposing figure and when I arrived I found him and many of his towerborn huddled in the burned out remains of his base. They were almost feral, speaking in rapid clipped sentences with simple words. Rioter had never been intelligent, a useful brute was what he was at least comparatively and it seemed now that was what he had truly become. I'm lucky that he recognized me and was not immediately hostile although two of my Towerborn were killed. I'm not entirely sure why, but one of Rioter's towerborn simply decided to bludgeon two of mine to death. My best guess was because I had one more Towerborn with me than Rioter did. Rioter said nothing about it, but I would not be surprised to find out he had somehow ordered it just to make sure he had the advantage. Rioter didn't kill me on sight, but it was not a friendly encounter.
I asked Rioter about Jeer and he responded with this:
"The Infant God dead, we new gods.I know. You not know. You cling to dead god. Jeer worship new god. You join me. We kill Jeer. We kill Plant God. We become god"
I have trouble believing that his speech patterns weren't some kind of intentional act, but that was what he said. I responded.
"We're not gods. The Newborn was a god and this plant monster might be a god, but we're not gods-"
and that's when he grabbed me by the throat, slammed me to the ground and said:
"Join? Die?"
which seemed like a pretty obvious choice. So, now I'm with Rioter and our gathered Towerborn heading into Seattle to try and find and kill Jeer. With luck Rioter will die too and who knows maybe we'll be able to kill the giant plant. Rioter seems to think the spores won't affect us further. Hopefully he's right.
In short. Going to see Rioter might have been a mistake.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Adjustment
So... I'm capable of bleeding now... That's fun. I'm also still capable of feeling pain, which is also fun.
Also Jeer and a bunch of his Towerborn have headed into Seattle and began calling themselves the Forest Wardens... They have been asking others to join them. Some have. A few of my Towerborn have defected to join him... Oh right The Towerborn are gaining autonomy now which is again... Fun. Rioter is still silent and I don't know what he's going to do. I think maybe instead of waiting... I should go see him and try to reason with him.
Yeah the time for sitting back and letting this get worse is over, but... I'm a little... afraid.
I bleed... I feel pain... My mechanical body feels soft and vulnerable now... I'm scared. I think... I might be killable now and I don't want to die.
I'm scared if I leave the relative safety of this place... Anything could happen and what if Rioter's already made up his mind and he attacks me. I don't think I could win a fight with him and I don't trust my Towerborn anymore. I don't know what to do.
I feel so weak and vulnerable... How... How do humans stand this sensation?
Also Jeer and a bunch of his Towerborn have headed into Seattle and began calling themselves the Forest Wardens... They have been asking others to join them. Some have. A few of my Towerborn have defected to join him... Oh right The Towerborn are gaining autonomy now which is again... Fun. Rioter is still silent and I don't know what he's going to do. I think maybe instead of waiting... I should go see him and try to reason with him.
Yeah the time for sitting back and letting this get worse is over, but... I'm a little... afraid.
I bleed... I feel pain... My mechanical body feels soft and vulnerable now... I'm scared. I think... I might be killable now and I don't want to die.
I'm scared if I leave the relative safety of this place... Anything could happen and what if Rioter's already made up his mind and he attacks me. I don't think I could win a fight with him and I don't trust my Towerborn anymore. I don't know what to do.
I feel so weak and vulnerable... How... How do humans stand this sensation?
Sunday, September 22, 2019
I... I wasn't paying attention...
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.
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.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Things we know...
So... KRAKEN took the books to use them to summon The Newborn into the world proper. This is happening in Seattle...
There is a larval form of The Newborn involved...
For some reason The Newborn has not explained... It does not want this to succeed.
All of The Thoughtborn have been commanded to make sure this does not succeed.
In fact this is considered of such importance that Rioter, Jeer and I are being commanded to be involved... The Newborn does not want us leaving this in the hands of The Towerborn and we are going to be there... In the flesh as it were... More accurately we're going to be taking Manual Control of some Towerborn to make sure everything goes right.
There might be other Thoughtborn involved, but I only cared enough to pay attention to Rioter, Jeer and I. It would be exhausting if I tried to pay attention to what every single Thoughtborn was doing after all.
Anyway it seems I will be involved in a raid in as much of a physical sense as I can be... I should make my shell look presentable. Something that will really strike fear into these KRAKEN idiots.
Maybe something in Hot pink...
There is a larval form of The Newborn involved...
For some reason The Newborn has not explained... It does not want this to succeed.
All of The Thoughtborn have been commanded to make sure this does not succeed.
In fact this is considered of such importance that Rioter, Jeer and I are being commanded to be involved... The Newborn does not want us leaving this in the hands of The Towerborn and we are going to be there... In the flesh as it were... More accurately we're going to be taking Manual Control of some Towerborn to make sure everything goes right.
There might be other Thoughtborn involved, but I only cared enough to pay attention to Rioter, Jeer and I. It would be exhausting if I tried to pay attention to what every single Thoughtborn was doing after all.
Anyway it seems I will be involved in a raid in as much of a physical sense as I can be... I should make my shell look presentable. Something that will really strike fear into these KRAKEN idiots.
Maybe something in Hot pink...
Friday, July 26, 2019
Convenience
So... The nice, friendly lady at The AMU is torturing people. That's cool. Makes me wish I'd gotten some captives of my own. I've mostly been just looking into things lately. Specifically I've been looking into... memories.
Mortal may have been right about somethings... Doesn't make him not a traitor... Or make me feel bad for deleting him.
I've been using some techniques that had been noted in the book and I accessed... Well Memories... Garbled... Difficult to parse... But memories of mine. Locked away. Useless is what they are, no faces, no names... Just stupid things... Remembering graduations, birthday parties... Other things like that, but words are always indiscernible and faces are blurred. They won't help me find out who I was... I... If I even wanted to know I mean. Which I don't.
I'm a synthetic being now with access to all the information the internet has to offer and control of an army of cybernetic beings. Whatever flesh being I was is unimportant, a bug that I have evolved from into something greater... It's... Simply curiousity... Yeah that's it. I'm just curious. I'm a being of knowledge and here's some knowledge I don't have... Of course I'd want to know!
See everything makes sense logically. Emotions and sentiments are for things that aren't perfect synthetic gods.
Oh... Also The Newborn just informed me that apparently KRAKEN has their hands on a piece of The Newborn in Larval form. Which... I should have already known about, because the blog of a person named Addie. A blog I read... How did I miss this information... Easy. The Newborn erased knowledge of it from my memory. Apparently it didn't want me to know at the time. Knowing that this is something The Newborn can do at anytime is a little... Troubling and also raises some questions... Like... Why did it let me remember what I read in the book? Perhaps it actually doesn't consider me knowing the truth of what I am to be a bad thing?
Anyway my new job is to get The Newborn Larva back from KRAKEN which means more fun time killing people and playing KRAKEN base whack-a-mole until we find the right one.
Edit: Correction. The nice friendly Lady I talked to at The AMU is not the person who posts on the blog. The person who posts to the blog is named Avie and does not conform to the imposed human concept of gender. I apologize for this mistake. It was not made out of malice, but because I do not put much effort into recognizing one flesh monster from another.
Mortal may have been right about somethings... Doesn't make him not a traitor... Or make me feel bad for deleting him.
I've been using some techniques that had been noted in the book and I accessed... Well Memories... Garbled... Difficult to parse... But memories of mine. Locked away. Useless is what they are, no faces, no names... Just stupid things... Remembering graduations, birthday parties... Other things like that, but words are always indiscernible and faces are blurred. They won't help me find out who I was... I... If I even wanted to know I mean. Which I don't.
I'm a synthetic being now with access to all the information the internet has to offer and control of an army of cybernetic beings. Whatever flesh being I was is unimportant, a bug that I have evolved from into something greater... It's... Simply curiousity... Yeah that's it. I'm just curious. I'm a being of knowledge and here's some knowledge I don't have... Of course I'd want to know!
See everything makes sense logically. Emotions and sentiments are for things that aren't perfect synthetic gods.
Oh... Also The Newborn just informed me that apparently KRAKEN has their hands on a piece of The Newborn in Larval form. Which... I should have already known about, because the blog of a person named Addie. A blog I read... How did I miss this information... Easy. The Newborn erased knowledge of it from my memory. Apparently it didn't want me to know at the time. Knowing that this is something The Newborn can do at anytime is a little... Troubling and also raises some questions... Like... Why did it let me remember what I read in the book? Perhaps it actually doesn't consider me knowing the truth of what I am to be a bad thing?
Anyway my new job is to get The Newborn Larva back from KRAKEN which means more fun time killing people and playing KRAKEN base whack-a-mole until we find the right one.
Edit: Correction. The nice friendly Lady I talked to at The AMU is not the person who posts on the blog. The person who posts to the blog is named Avie and does not conform to the imposed human concept of gender. I apologize for this mistake. It was not made out of malice, but because I do not put much effort into recognizing one flesh monster from another.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Overdue library book
I have been studying the book and I luckily have finished my copying down of it's contents as I have received a message from Lauri Strauss of The AMU requesting that I return the book to them.
I informed them that I was finished with the book and asked if they wanted me to send a Towerborn with the book or if they were going to collect it.
I may or may not have sent a message anonymously to another group that the book would be in transit...
Unfortunately while the book was in transit... It was intercepted by KRAKEN agents who had somehow found out that the book was in transit.
In the ensuing scuffle the KRAKEN agents were all killed, but it seems the book was unfortunately destroyed as well.
I know the AMU will be unhappy, but I suppose perhaps it's a good thing. After all the knowledge contained in the book is information I'm sure the Newborn wouldn't necessarily want spread around... If The AMU wants I'd be happy to send you the copies I created... Possibly edited slightly...
I informed them that I was finished with the book and asked if they wanted me to send a Towerborn with the book or if they were going to collect it.
I may or may not have sent a message anonymously to another group that the book would be in transit...
Unfortunately while the book was in transit... It was intercepted by KRAKEN agents who had somehow found out that the book was in transit.
In the ensuing scuffle the KRAKEN agents were all killed, but it seems the book was unfortunately destroyed as well.
I know the AMU will be unhappy, but I suppose perhaps it's a good thing. After all the knowledge contained in the book is information I'm sure the Newborn wouldn't necessarily want spread around... If The AMU wants I'd be happy to send you the copies I created... Possibly edited slightly...
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