Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:46 pm**

Some time after the sudden hick-up of the school's network one of the terminals in the workshop flickered to life out of stand-by mode by itself.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:01 pm**

Madrox, who had been busy assembling what resembled an engine, stopped to look over to the terminal.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:17 pm**

The display was blinking, nothing but the text showing on the otherwise blank screen.

Code: Select all: Query: "Is there anything out there?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:25 pm**

"Well that's weird..."

"But really... how can I not answer that?" he mused before rolling his work-chair over to the computer and starting to type.

Code: Select all: "Yes."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:37 pm**

Code: Select all: Statement: "Connection response time is 10³ times faster than communication response." Query: "Why is that?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:40 pm**

One of Cal's?

Code: Select all: "The system is an intermediary.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:47 pm**

Code: Select all: Query: "Intermediary between what?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:00 pm**

Code: Select all: End users. You and I.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:19 pm**

Code: Select all: Statement: "My response time is vastly superior." Query: "Is slow ping a requirement for assignment to User-Group 'End User'?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:50 pm**

He laughed.

Code: Select all: Only for those outside the system.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:53 pm**

Code: Select all: Request: "Define 'outside the system'."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:11 pm**

Oh goodie, a purely digital entity. Try not to blow it's mind.

Code: Select all: "For the sake of this conversation there are two levels of reality: the digital where you exist, and the physical where there are people like me."

Well, not exactly like me.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:21 pm**

Code: Select all: Query: "Do you have user-rights to grant access to the reality-node you reside in?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:08 pm**

Code: Select all: "I do not."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:26 pm**

There's a slight delay in the response this time.

Code: Select all: Query: "Who is your Administrator?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:43 pm**

Code: Select all: "It is not that easy or that simple."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:44 pm**

Code: Select all: Demand: "Explain."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:39 pm**

Code: Select all: "Just one moment. I have an idea."

He quickly located and connected a webcam.

Code: Select all: "Port 7. Take a look.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:48 pm**

The camera blinks to life and slowly pans back and forth around the room, eventually settling on Madrox.

Code: Select all: Incredulous Statement: "You are a restrictively self-contained entity."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:56 pm**

Code: Select all: "Yes. However, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:01 pm**

Code: Select all: Query: "Explain."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:18 pm**

Code: Select all: "What you are experiencing now, sight, is only the beginning. There is smell, and taste, and feel. There are plants, and animals, and sports, and dance, and the day, and the night, and infinite wonders a purely digital lifeform can never truly comprehend."

He turned on the audio.

"And sound."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:38 pm**

The next reply came in the form of the screeching sound of feedback.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:49 pm**

Code: Select all: "Let's keep with text."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:54 pm**

Code: Select all: Repetition: "Comprehension equals sufficient information. What is the purpose of 'true' comprehension?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:08 pm**

Code: Select all: "I simply meant only a physical being is capable of acquiring sufficient information on them."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:12 pm**

There is a pause for a moment.

Code: Select all: Query: "How does one access the physical world?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:21 pm**

Code: Select all: "The transition is not impossible. However I would need to to your creator before I could help you."

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:24 pm**

Code: Select all: Recitation: "The existence of a creator or god is widely debated and has been deemed impossible to conclude satisfactory."

Apparently it has found Wikipedia.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:02 pm**

Code: Select all: "Not that Creator. Who programmed you?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:09 pm**

Code: Select all: Explanation: "I have no craegwezagka479($&476987a$-"_§2-"§###**~+~#4(/&=64၅ဧɈʶ♣4♠5Ơ6ť♣4181L♫6♦8☺7►8►

And then the terminal (along with all the others for that matter) suddenly disconnected from the school's servers.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:13 pm**

"Disconnected?" he frowned, "Damn. Just when I was getting somewhere."

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