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.]

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

((Please tag any investigation toplevels as such, and ping the mods on Plurk or discord if possible!))

Comments

[windowsexplorer]

[Meredith arrives just in time for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! You know, she likes learning new things, but that doesn't mean she has to learn every possible thing, and she really would have been fine going the rest of her life not knowing what a body being vaporized by a fireball looks like.

Fortunately other people are asking the most important questions, so she has time to calm down, stop shaking, and, upon seeing the updated rules, come up with a way to annoy their captor. That last part seems really important for some reason. Green and Indigo must have rubbed off on her.]

Mr. Researcher! I have a question.

[mockmods]

I have many answers, Wiki-Reader.

[windowsexplorer]

This says "make all possible efforts to control or ameliorate your organic stupidities." Does that mean Miss Kara and I can be as stupid as we want?

[mockmods]

Ah, pedantry. I see.

If you can find a way to be annoyingly stupid which is NOT organic in nature or origins, I may actually be surprised.

For technological beings you and the Assistant are all disturbingly human.

[windowsexplorer]

Well, I'm not supposed to always be this human, but for some reason my powers are working weirdly this week. I don't know why. Do you know why?

[Why, no, that is probably not what Mr. Researcher meant.]

[mockmods]

Your powers have been removed to create a controlled environment.

And this type of deliberate ignorance is precisely the humanity I am referring to.

[windowsexplorer]

What kind of deliberate ignorance would be less human?

[mockmods]

[There's a short pause before the Researcher responds.]

You are endeavoring to waste my time, Wiki-Reader.

Do you have any questions which are not an insult to both our intelligences.

[windowsexplorer]

Sure. Have you ever played a game called The Oregon Trail?

[mockmods]

I have.

[windowsexplorer]

Are you good at it?

[mockmods]

It is a primitive game, and easily predictable.

Achieving the maximum possible score was a simple matter.

[windowsexplorer]

That doesn't sound very fun.

[mockmods]

It was highly enjoyable.

[windowsexplorer]

The game isn't about just getting a high score. It's about exploring.

[And getting a high score, but shh.]

[mockmods]

Games are about winning, and gaining knowledge in the process.

Oregon Trail was a pleasant diversion, but offered little knowledge except a demonstration that humans and those like them will sink countless hours into a simple risk/reward program.

And it filled a small amount of otherwise idle time before the study commenced.

[windowsexplorer]

You know what, Mr. Researcher? I don't think you're very good at playing The Oregon Trail after all. I don't think you're very good at playing anything.

[mockmods]

I am an excellent gamer. It is what I was built for.

[windowsexplorer]

[HM. Filing that bit away for later, but for now...]

You're an efficient gamer, but there's more to games than just efficiency.

[mockmods]

That is an opinion one might have.

[windowsexplorer]

You don't think so?

[mockmods]

I am a being of pure intellect and science, and I possess all the knowledge native to this universe and planar system.

I am very aware of all aspects of playing a game, and have chosen the best way to go about it. This is an objective fact.

[windowsexplorer]

It's just that the little sprite of the wagon and the oxen doesn't seem very efficient.

[mockmods]

It was a game designed for humans, by humans.

An engaging visual representation is important to them.

If you are making a formal request, I could easily reduce most of the game to a simple text interface.

[windowsexplorer]

Humans invented text interface games over a century ago. If they wanted it to be like that, it would be.

[of course she would know this]