Snek - Chocoro Session 2

[bluediligence]

Everything glitches.

You.

The world.

– fracturing fragmenting unravelling –

and everything is blue

✦

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[othellovonryan]

I had to ask.

[Groans, face on desk.]

....how about I call you songbird? That's just a personal nickname?

[Because there are clearly]

[Identity issues going on.]

[bluediligence]

What's life without a few (hundred) identity issues?

She stills.

Flickers. But stabilises back to what seems to be her baseline level of glitchiness, if not a little better. She lifts her head.

"i̷?̷ w̵e̵.̶ ̷w̸E̸ ̸c̵o̴U̶L̶d̷ ̵b̸e̷ ̶y̸o̴u̸r̵ songbird

[othellovonryan]

Exactly. [Offers her a small smile.] My songbird, who I love very much, past and present and in the future.

[bluediligence]

CHIRPS

Korone's name for him. The one that sounds, to his turtlebrain, so much like home.

The candle flares brighter.

[othellovonryan]

[Chirps back. That word for her, like sky and mate.]

[bluediligence]

"w̷̝̟͇̩̃eewww WE i S̶̻͉̎̿ͅh̴̢́̂È̵̤̯͈́ i

I

love y̷O̸u̷ t̵o̷o̷"

[othellovonryan]

There's my pretty songbird's delightful smile.

Feeling a little better?

[bluediligence]

"t̵h̸I̵S̸ hH has helped, w̷w̸w̸w̵W̷E̶,̶ ̴i̵,̶ ̶w̷e̴

think.

[othellovonryan]

We'll get you more help, okay? You're doing great.

[We are gonna give you ten times that praise kink by the end of this.]

...I remember the kanji. But it's a taboo. Should I write it or would it be dangerous?

[bluediligence]

There's a brief ~*~SPARKLE~*~ to the fragmenting pixels at the objective hit

"tOo daNGERous"

[othellovonryan]

Okay.

[A pause.]

[HMMM.]

Oh.

[Writing on the paper.]

[Your brother and your boyfriend know your name and won't forget it.]

[Will fold that up and tuck it under the lantern.]

[bluediligence]

The lantern flares BLUE, bright and warm enough that every other colour washes away ... but only for a moment.

"w̴e̴'̸l̵l̴ ̶r̴E̷m̷e̵m̴b̵e̸r̴"

[othellovonryan]

Good.

Okay.

So.

What can you tell me about the situation?

I'm guessing this has to do with 117?

[She's mentioned having SOMETHING to do with AI's.]

[bluediligence]

"c̶A̴N̴'̶t̸ ̷t̶E̵L̴L̷ ̶m̶u̶C̵H̵. wE, i, i'd

s̶h̷a̷t̴t̶e̷r̸

prr. probab. ly."

She smiles, though, and speaks in overlapping text and binary,

"00110001 00110001 00110111" - one one seven.

[othellovonryan]

Okay. Okay, so, that's something.

And there's Wash...

[And while he hasn't asked, he has noticed the ports on the back of his neck so]

[There is some context clues, he's sure there's SOMETHING in all that.]

What can you tell me about this room? [He is going to open the drawers.]

[bluediligence]

You find cell phones in the top drawer! In all sorts of different colours! Your purple is there, right near the top.

And in the second drawer you find a CD player.

"r̶e̷C̷E̵P̵t̶i̵o̵n̸,̶

interFacE

01100111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110111 01100001 01111001."

[othellovonryan]

So this is a way to talk to you and is a travel hub?

[Going to pick up the purple phone and the MP3 player.]

[bluediligence]

"TalK to w̵h̵o̴?̷"

Both are normal, every day objects, including the MP3 PLAYER THAT IS NOT A CD PLAYER, and also there are headphones. All nice and normal.

[othellovonryan]

Talk to you, my songbird.]

[Hmmm, will plug in the headphones and listen to some of the music.]

[bluediligence]

This song comes up first.

"O̵H̴H̴.̶ ̸O̵h̵.̶ ̶R̵i̵G̶H̷T̵.̶ KiNDa? Www. We'Re PaRT of ThE interfACe, s

so."

"y̴Y̴Y̶Y̸e̵s̶?̶"

[othellovonryan]

Is there more to the interface?

[Oh, this is a bop.]

Do you want to listen to the music? And can I borrow the headphones? There's been...

A lot of sensory nightmares in here.

[bluediligence]

"tWo MoRE. KKi. kinDOf."

She smiles a bit, though, and nods to both questions. "s̵U̶R̸e̵,̷ ̷a̵s̶ ̵L̸o̸N̴G̵ ̴a̶s̶ ̵y̷o̵u̵ ̵b̸r̴I̷n̸G̷ ̸t̵h̵e̷m̶ ̶B̷a̶C̵K̸.̵"

[othellovonryan]

I will.

[But yeah, he's keeping the headphones on for now, unplugging them for now.]

....no one else grabbed a phone, did they? [Checking the operations.]

[bluediligence]

"H̴u̵h̴?̶"

...

"U̸h̵ ̸.̷.̴.̴ ̴w̶e̷ ̷D̵o̵n̴'̶T̸ -"

Oh.

Fuck.

[othellovonryan]

Well.

They have to come back some time.

[He will grab three phones and set them out on the desk.] Can you call out to them when they come back?

[Also going to look at other things on the desk. Like the photos.]