That Time They All Met in the CQ

[chiseler]

[Let's be honest, nobody had time to info-share Monday what with motives going live after they came down from the top-level deck and also…you know. The whole awkward thing with the corpse. That happened.

Arrangements are made, the whiteboard's been moved and…there's a wedding.

What the fuck, Cradle.

Either way, assume that Luke found your character in person, sent a message via Furry Passing or contacted them via some other means to inform them about a group meeting up in the Captain's Quarters after the wedding to talk about their findings from the day before.

He's not a leader, and it's probably clear from the way he's leaning against the wall next to the whiteboard and dumping handfuls of space-brand Skittles into his mouth.]

All right…so this happened. [This, of course, being the top deck.] We were all up here yesterday and so we should probably start figuring stuff out. It weirds me out that Alice let us up here now after all this time. [He shrugs.] Who wants to go first?

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[baptizer]

[ LOOKS AT HER WORLD INFO. ]

...Why - why are they turned on?!

[antietam]

They must have really wanted you. Percy would have been easier to get. There's no way they took you from wherever and revived you without intending it.

[todorable]

Did a crap job on that front, then. Most people die when they're killed. I'm sure she thought she was helping someone, but I don't think that someone was us.

[chiseler]

Not all of us are unstable, thanks. [A short nudge to the ribs with his elbow.] What if she's learning from us but making herself better? Is that possible?

[chiseler]

How would they be surviving in something so cold and cramped? Like being put to sleep like we were?

[chiseler]

I dunno about that. I have a feeling Percy's probably really busy after everything. [Cleaning up after Luke's mess, mostly.] It does raise the question of why they found me and went through everything to revive me if Percy had been their goal. Who screwed up?

[He snorts though.] And at least they have a little bit of a sense of humor to appreciate the irony of all this.

[chiseler]

[Sorry he's just...snickering. SORRY LIZ....]

Some guys like women with power. What do you expect?

[baptizer]

[ LEAVE HER ALONE... ]

I expect some tact! If you're going to do research, leave you perversion out of it.

[antietam]

[ Raising his eyebrows like Really? ] Yeah, I mean, that's probably the point of AI. To be like humans but better.

You know I'm going entirely off of science fiction knowledge, right?

[baptizer]

Thank you again, Totty. I don't think it would be quite as easy to explain without the video...

[ But rewatching she picks up on it: ]

River... Alice isn't her name, but - is it River? [ But, she thinks for a moment, wanting to choose her words carefully. ]

She said to ask River to connect the Cloud - I wonder if we got all of the information from those machines... [ The terminals. ]

[antietam]

No matter how busy, it's definitely easier to grab someone who's already alive than someone who's dead and needs to be revived. [ He looks really serious about this. ]

They could have gotten someone more fitting like a child of—Aphrodite, right? But they still wanted you more.

[chiseler]

...oh. [WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM HIM.]

You think we could find any science fiction down in the archives? That might help us figure some stuff out, too. I don't know much about science but we've gotta be missing something.

[chiseler]

[lol no]

That might be expecting too much. Gentlemen from the 2000s aren't really known for their tact. [He's enjoying this a little too much.] Is it really perversion for someone to find something like that attractive?

[antietam]

I'd think so. They have plenty of genres. Besides, whatever the people on here collected to read must show what's important to them. They easily could have gotten ideas from those sorts of books.

[tevinteriscoming]

[Well. That's alarming.]

Replicate the Fade? Impossible. If they were going to break the fabric of reality, can't they have broken it about 60% more?

[todorable]

...Yeah, come to think of it. The internet was down, so we couldn't sign in. I wonder if Alice--River, whatever--would hook it up so we could check it out.

[chiseler]

[A short pause, and then a murmur:] Yeah, well, I helped get the head counselor of Cabin 10 killed so I'm not sure they'd go after a child of Aphrodite either. [Ughhhh. But Adam has a point (as usual.)]

...do you think they did it just to see if they could? We know Furry Passing is used to help people communicate with the dead, but maybe they wanted to see how far they could take it.

[chiseler]

I'm gonna need an extra set of eyes then, maybe hands to write notes. You're coming with me later to look for stuff in the archives. Deal?

[antietam]

Maybe. A child of Hades would be more interesting in that sense, though. You mentioned zombies.

It's just a hunch, but I think they wanted you for something different. If you were trying to save your planet or your ship or whatever, wouldn't you want the hero?

[refactor]

...Wait, seriously?

[ Jack interrupts at this point, since there's a part of this that he takes some issue with. ]

Uhhh, I mean, maybe where you're from? But AI can absolutely have emotion. Least, if you design it right.

[baptizer]

When they write it like that? Absolutely.

[ Little weirded out by arousal by power. ]

[baptizer]

[ This is why Yuno is bae. ]

[antietam]

Yeah, yeah. Guess I don't have anything better to do.

[antietam]

... How do you install emotion? I mean, how can you compile that into data?

[baptizer]

Can an AI disobey a command from a superior? We could show the video as proof - she'd have to give us access, right?

[ WHAT IS THE INTERNET? ]