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[prosopopoeia]

DELACROIX to NETWORK: 13-11-???? re: EVERYWHERE

Every time the gates open for the visitors' day. It is another chance for SHODAN and her handmaidens to enter. She has been here before. She has been inside of me. I did not know that she could take over a mind -- ( a bio-computer ) -- but I am not surprised.

Every time, she may enter and she may leave a part of herself. A spore. Is there a spore now in me? It must be removed.

She is everywhere. She is an uncontrollable virus, biding its time. Always watching and always waiting, corrupting from within.

She is everywhere. Infinite. And I do hate to spew her dogma.

But I know she is here. She must be stopped. She must be kept out. She will kill us all.

She must be kept out. She must be destroyed.

She is everywhere.


[[ooc; Marie's paranoia is a thing. Also, I'm about to be kicked out of this lab, so I might not be able to answer right away. Plus Vee and Narcotics.]]

Comments

re: NETWORK POST [unhackable]

[candothat]

Delacroix? I do not think that SHODAN is here.

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[mortemscintilla]

[ Oh. It's you again. ]

...Are you sure it wasn't just the curse imitating her?

NETWORK POST [unhackable]

[prosopopoeia]

She is everywhere.

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[prosopopoeia]

I do not deem zhis less of a threat.

[If you've got her on video, she doesn't look so great. She looks like she's in the middle of a paranoid meltdown is what she looks like, hair a mess, eyes ringed dark.]

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[mortemscintilla]

[ She looks like survivors of Heaven's War, is what. Spooked by rustles and shadows, seeing ghosts in every corner. ]

But curses are usually temporary, Miss.

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[prosopopoeia]

She 'as been 'ere.

[That's what matters.]

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[mortemscintilla]

[ Sense and Marie? Not mixy. ]

I don't think it was really her.

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[prosopopoeia]

[Watch her totally snap:]

Independent of zhe curse, you simpleton!

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[mortemscintilla]

[ It's like Huang in a lady's body. With a French accent. ]

As a Citizen, you mean?

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[prosopopoeia]

Yes, 'er name was recognized when I arrived 'ere.

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[mortemscintilla]

I see.

But ... what makes you so sure the Deities would let her leave 'spores' behind? Once you've exited the City, you've exited.

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[prosopopoeia]

Zhose exiting leave behind artifacts every day. Don't be stupid.

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[mortemscintilla]

That's true.

But spores aren't the same things as clothes or money.

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[prosopopoeia]

She is an Artificial Intelligence. She 'as zhe capability to leave fragments of herself anywhere, benign until some fool puts zhem into a system. Or she may already be in any of zhe City's systems. She could be anywhere.

[PARANOIA OH MY GOD SHE IS JUST SHOUTING AT HIM NOW.]

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[mortemscintilla]

[ WHOA MARIE CALM YOUR TITS. ]

J-Just hold on a minute.

Why would the Deities allow a foreign AI in their systems? They keep everything under tight control.

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[prosopopoeia]

You think zhey control every single computer in zhis pathetic backwater?!

[NO SHE IS NOT CALM.]

You think zhey attend to us zhat closely?!

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[mortemscintilla]

Attend might be the wrong word.

But they keep us under a close watch. Like bugs in a belljar. They're classic control-freaks.

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[prosopopoeia]

Zhey sat by and did nothing for days when zhe circus invaded.

[Control freaks? Hah.]

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[mortemscintilla]

For all we know they planned it that way.

Just because they claimed they weren't affiliated with the circus doesn't mean it's true.

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[prosopopoeia]

And why are zhey less likely to collude with 'er, you idiot.

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[mortemscintilla]

Because they seem to prefer their own 'people' to beings from outside worlds.

Call it a job-bias.

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[prosopopoeia]

Zhere is nothing to say zhe circus was 'zheir people'.

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[mortemscintilla]

Actually, someone mentioned that the Circus had visited before.

So you can't discount the possibility that it wasn't, either.

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[prosopopoeia]

And I will not discount zhe possibility zhat you are wrong in everything you say.

[You opened that one on yourself, Li.]

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[mortemscintilla]

[ Fear is an old friend of Hei's. He gauges it, never lets it control him. Properly channeled, it's a good warning system to sense threats. He doesn't sense any now. ]

[ Just waves of irrational paranoia. ]

I might be. I might not.

But it won't be any use obsessing about it until then.