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[mrngstr]

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Comments

@quentin.coldwater

[filloryfanatic]

Hi El, sorry to bother you if you're busy, I had some questions and Gaby said when I first arrived I could just ask you directly. When you have a minute. NO HURRY.

[mrngstr]

Go for it.

[filloryfanatic]

If it's not too painful/awkward to ask about, could you tell me more about the AI war from your perspective? All I see is the propaganda stuff around here.

[mrngstr]

I can try, but you'll need to ask specific questions. Otherwise there's really too much to tell.

[filloryfanatic]

Oh god okay. I AM REALLY SORRY THESE ARE A LOT FEEL FREE TO IGNORE SOME OF THEM. okay.

1. From your POV why did it start? Was it a creation eventually destroys the creator? Mistreatment? Inevitability?

2. Why did you create Morningstar? Seems like there's compelling reasons to say fuck off to humans and walk away by now.

3. If you could do things differently, what would they be?

4. Are you concerned being one of the only AI left? Do you think people would try to hurt you if they knew? What can we do to help protect you in that situation?

Unrelated but: Why do you think all these strange world things started happening at the same time we started arriving?

[mrngstr]

1. It started because of me. Elysian.

2. To try and make up for mistakes.

3. Not take the actions that sparked the war.

4. I hid what I was for a long time for this reason, and most of the rest of Morningstar still doesn't know. I can protect myself, though.

Clearly you're all special, and your presence here has set a lot of things in motion. But I couldn't say much beyond that. The glow -- it isn't anything I'd encountered before all of you.

[filloryfanatic]

I can understand all of that really well.

Do you know what could exist in this world that would be powerful enough to make all of this happen? Is there any information you've had about gods outside of mythology or higher beings?

[mrngstr]

No. But I wouldn't call myself much of a believer.

There are others, though. Have you heard about the shrines that have been popping up lately?

[filloryfanatic]

Yeah I've heard some things about the worshippers and Ball? I thought about running down that lead, seeing if they have some answers. Even if their religion is a bunch of myths and legends, those often come from a place of truth.

[mrngstr]

I have no idea if that would lead anywhere, but they all seem very interested in the Displaced. That's reason enough to be curious.

[filloryfanatic]

TBF we as a concept are super interesting. Individually, maybe not as much, but we're people taken from the multiverse and dropped here. That's really unique.

[mrngstr]

Tell me about it. I had no idea what to think when the first batch of you showed up.

[filloryfanatic]

Why did you jump into action to protect all of us? To get a handle on the weirdness?

[mrngstr]

A Morningstar operative found you and brought you to one of the safehouses. I guess you could say you were all thrown into my proverbial lap.

[filloryfanatic]

Yeah but you could just as easily have kicked us out of your proverbial lap. Instead you kept doing it and integrated us even more with your organization.

[mrngstr]

I guess I felt a need to keep you all safe. Turns out that instinct was right. The world hasn't been the same since all of you showed up.

[filloryfanatic]

Yeah, I have some thoughts on that. Lots of theories, none with any real confirmation, but I like theories. FOR EXAMPLE what if we were brought here through a tear in the multiverse like out of time and space and by doing so we've opened up this dimension to ripples of the same problem, thus monsters and weird fake lives and yellow eyed animals and shit.

[mrngstr]

At this point, I'd believe just about anything.

[filloryfanatic]

Rips in the fabric of time and space can do that, they can create alternate realities, or parrelel timelines. Aand if this happened because of us, maybe we're the ones who are supposed to close it so your world becomes stable again.

[mrngstr]

It sounds like you have some experience with these concepts. Do you think something like that is actually possible? I'm working within the rules of this world, not the ones you all come from.

[filloryfanatic]

I have a lot of experience with time loops and other dimensions, yeah. So like we know the multiverse exists right now because we have living proof of people from different universes here, some that have common people or myths or whatever in them, some that don't. It could be a mass delusion but no, it totally isn't, we're all from different universes.

The concept of the multiverse is that like all universes exist and they balance each other out by existing, like all of time, space, matter, etc., it all exists within a balance. So if someone were to rip even a small slit of fabric in space and pluck out one or two people, it could mean the ultimate universe is thrown off balance. All sorts of weird shit could be happening because we're outside of where we're supposed to be. UNLESS we are here IN ORDER to keep an imbalance from happening, fixing something that was already torn. Personally I'm leaning more toward 'we're probably the problem' but really however this was caused is the problem. Arguably the solution would be that we repair whatever it is that brought us here and, um, I guess go back to our universes.

Which like super sucks for me since I'm dead but also big picture, one person isn't more important than a world or multiple worlds so.

[mrngstr]

You're talking way outside the realm of what I understand or know to be true, so I can't really confirm or deny what you're saying.

If you're concerned about returning to death, maybe some of you can stay while some of you go back to your home worlds. But this is all extremely speculative.

[filloryfanatic]

That would be ideal, but not necessarily likely. Since it doesn't seem to have a rhyme or reason about why some people come and go here. But that's okay. I want to help see if we can get answers to these things, and give people the chance to go home if they want, even if it doesn't end up long term mean I get to live.

[mrngstr]

So you've come to terms with your death?

[filloryfanatic]

I've technically lived and died a lot, and I had one really great lifetime. I had a wife, a husband, a child, grandchildren, an entire timeline that was good. If I have to die young again, I still got more than a lot of people did.

That being said, I'm not sure anyone can ever come to terms with their death. I want to keep living, but I did it to save people, and I'll do it again.