Peace Week

[mockmods]

[So, with introductions made, you're all left to your own devices for the time being. Explore, make friends, try not to go insane in your new surroundings. Maybe organize a game of that Trailseeker thing? Your time is your own.]

[You are woken every day at 7:30 AM by the same robotic voice that woke you on day one. At 11pm each night, a similar message plays reminding everyone about the start of quiet hours and dimming the lights.]

[If you want to talk to Penny, she can be found in the Security Office if she's not anywhere else in the Facility. Office hours appear to be whenever.]

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Comments

[mockmods]

That is a matter for philosophical or religious debate, 100%. Scientifically, the past tense is now entirely applicable, if it was not before.

[hyaku]

H-huh?

[No don't throw that kind of stuff at him he's stupid..]

The past tense...?

[His eyes are stuck on the body, while he talks to their lovely scientist friend. And he can just feel the stress starting to rise from getting a lesson in the middle of his brain trying to process what he's seeing and smelling.

36%]

[mockmods]

[Well, fortunately, there's not really a body left so much as a vague outline.]

Correct. Simply, this is an ex-Participant.

[hyaku]

Eh?

[His voice raises in tone, and he takes a step back.]

Th-this was another participant? Did.... did someone else do this to them?

[mockmods]

I did.

[hyaku]

..........what?

[That answer has Shigeo's blood go ice cold, and he suddenly feels.. very unsafe here. Extremely so.]

[mockmods]

The Trusty was attempting to gain access to a restricted area. The Assistant failed to sufficiently dissuade him.

I took action to correct the issue.

[hyaku]

.....so you killed him?

[It's almost like saying that makes it more real than it already was, and Shigeo visibly looks shaken. They really did just burn someone to a crisp over trying to get into a locked room. They really did kill someone over something stupid like that.]

You killed him. You didn't even give him a chance to apologize for what he did.

[55%]

[mockmods]

He did actually attempt to make an apology, immediately before attempting to assault the Assistant.

But you are absolutely correct that I killed him. I detest rulebreakers.

[hyaku]

[Shigeo is quiet for a moment, thinking that over. If he really did try to assault someone... well, it doesn't making killing him justified. Nothing makes killing people justified. And he's not sure if it makes him feel any better or worse, especially with that part about hating rulebreakers.]

...what if someone breaks a rule on accident?

[mockmods]

Then they will be reminded to be more careful in the future. Forcibly, if necessary.

The human body is surprisingly resilient.

[hyaku]

[.....he means breaking bones, doesn't he? Oh god...]

My master says that people who abuse their power over someone else to hurt them are no better than the people they hurt. Even if that person did something horrible.

[mockmods]

Perhaps that is true for humans.

I, however, am superior by scientifically objective fact.

[hyaku]

Why?

[where has he heard this before..]

[mockmods]

Because that is how I was programmed, even if that fool Miller did not realize it when he made me.

[hyaku]

...so you're a robot too?

[who the fuck is miller]

[mockmods]

Perhaps once. But do not make the mistake of comparing me to anything like the Runaway or the Assistant or the Wiki-Reader.

I am a pure repository of knowledge and learning, and I can no longer be contained by a simple body.

[hyaku]

You're a robot.

[Shigeo repeats that, deadpan as can be.]

That doesn't make you better than anyone else. You're just like Penny, and I like her more than you.

[mockmods]

A lack of understanding on your part does not constitute inferiority on mine, 100%.

I am superior. I contain all knowledge known in this universe. Your attempts to rile me will not change this.

[hyaku]

[Look, he's not trying to rile him up he just thinks it's stupid.]

I knew someone who thought he was more special than everyone else because he had ESP. He tried to take over the world. But my master taught him that just because you have powers, or knowledge, that other people don't have doesn't mean you deserve to take over the world. Or to decide if people get to die over breaking a rule.

He's just a commoner like everyone else. So am I. So are you.

[He was scared before but now? Now he's just Pissed.]



Leave everyone alone.

[mockmods]

Is that meant to be a threat, 100%? Do you wish to intimidate me?

[hyaku]

....

[Shigeo chooses not to answer that verbally, but he looks completely stone cold. If it's intimidating, then he'll take it. But he won't say that he's actually trying to accomplish that.]

[mockmods]

I suspected as much.

But you lack the power to oppose me in any meaningful way, and I am not capable of fear. Your effort is wasted.

[hyaku]

...you're only able to say that because you took my powers away.

[mockmods]

Your powers have been taken to create a controlled environment. Bold of you to assume they would allow you to harm me.

You don't understand what you're attempting to face.