War Week

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[A week has gone and past, as has the first of your number. The Researcher revealing himself, more or less, by punishing Patches, the Trusty, for pushing an unclear boundary.]

[And yet, routine seems to have returned. The Researcher makes morning and evening announcements as if nothing has happened. Meals are served in the dining hall. The copies of Oregon Trail in the computer lab now have a text-only mode for some reason? Penny has not been seen since Friday, and attempts to access the Security Room have been fruitless.]

[But overall, life in the Facility has remained unchanged. But the atmosphere is getting tenser - sooner or later something is going to break.]

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Comments

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[This paper looks to actually be something of a twofer. At a glance, one side is typeset and printed, the other's been covered in neat, dark handwriting that you may have noticed popping up in a few places before now.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Hm.

Let's start with the handwritten portion, then.]

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[Congrats, Michael! You found math.]

[And a few notes and sketches of what might be electrical systems? But mostly a whole lot of math.]

[Though Michael might be in a mostly unique position to understand this stuff. There's no good way to ask for an INT roll on this, so; would Michael be able to recognize calculations dealing with the soul, or self, or however you'd like to define the metaphysical side of someone's existence?]

[eudaimonikos]

[Well, the entire premise of The Good Place rests on a system using points values to calculate if people are good enough to go to said Good Place or not, so their whole afterlife is definitely based in some form of math?]

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[Seems legit!]

[It might take a little bit to decode, but this is definitely someone sciencing the soul, or at least something very soul-adjacent.]

[This seems to be a lot less about morality, though, and a whole lot about exchange or transference.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Well. Michael wonders if this would be familiar if he'd worked in making the human bodies for incoming demons to inhabit. But alas, he really only knows that process from the client side.

What's on the typewritten side, then?]

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[There is one more thing that might jump out a little about the handwritten side. A quick note added to the margins in the small space left from all the calculations.]

Tech from Project Equinox and Project P.E.N.N.Y. definitely useful. Look into integration w/ Flesh.

[eudaimonikos]

Charming.

[This seems important. He should show Janet.

Possibly everyone else, too.

Okay, what else?]

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[It's probably fine.]

[The typewritten page is- at least theoretically more transparent, in that it's written in English. Very dense, technical English.]

[Looks like someone was typing up notes on developing a learning AI.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Is there any indication what the AI was for? Maybe writing its own chapter of a Harry Potter book?]

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[That's a purpose far darker than even the mastermind of your current situation would consider, Michael.]

[No, looks like, as best you can make out, this AI was made to gather as much information and knowledge as possible and then pass it on to the world at large.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Oh good, it's Wikipedia.

Anything else here of interest?]

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[A small doodle designing what looks to be a toy robot. Or at least a little head on a stationary torso-base-thing that's made to look like a robot. Isn't it cute?]

[eudaimonikos]

[Adorable!]