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Lucy found something interesting yesterday, when I sent her back out to retrieve some of the things we lost in the gas leak. Only reason she didn’t grab it was because her jaws would have crumpled it even further. An article detailing a house fire accident. Is Sil involved in this? And where did he find this scrap of paper? Maybe the guy isn’t who we think he is.

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Would you look at this. I seemed to have stumbled upon some plans of some sort of those......soulless monstrosities of Liv's.....they seem to have a lot more functions than she lets on...

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Recording #2

Date: Unknown Time: 12:39am Location: S4, UA There are two voices in the background. Familiar in some ways, and strange in others. It’s from a time long passed.  ??: “We don’t get this often, do we?” ???: “Nope.” ??: “Is...that a good thing?” ???: “What? No! No! It makes it special, I promise.”

??: “Mom is gonna be pissed.” ???: “We’re not doin’ anything wrong, Evie.” ??: “Are...Are you sure? She doesn’t like it when we g-” ???: “Are we in any danger? Trouble?” ??: “No! We’re on th’ roof!” ???: “See? No danger. We’re just watchin’ the sky.” ??: “See anythin’ special?” ???: “No.” ??: “Look harder, Evie.” ???: “Hey! I am lookin’” ??: “Take a deep breath. Look again.” [Silence.]

???: “I see stars.” ??: “Good. Anythin’ else?” ???: “...City lights!” ??: “And?”

???: “Um....you!” ??: “Am I in th’ sky?” ???: “Noooo!” ??: “No?” ???: “But you’re my star!” [Silence.]

??: “Just like you’re mine, Evie...just like you’re mine.” ???: “I love you.” ??: “I love you too, kiddo.”

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So eh- I’m new here I guess? Tried to read back a bit but uh, what exactly is going on...? Sorry if it’s a- complicated question. But- you guys are from the future I guess? Just not /our/ future...? -Phantom

R squints at the words before her eyes widen, amused. She doesn't recognize the name.

"Holy crap!" She tugs on Liv's sleeve. "A newbie! The signal's spreadin' more, I guess!"

She turns her attention to the screen again and waves at the camera.

"Your username is pretty cool, Phantom. But new, you say? Welcome to the shitshow that is...well, us! What's going on is that some of our "friends" are goin' missing. We don't know why, and we don't know if we're next."

R. sighs, her long, teal bangs falling into her face. "We're spooked."

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What do you mean by me being a “Revanent”, Sil?

Sil is fiddling around with the machine and sees an older message he must’ve missed previously.

“Blasted thing.....oh! An old message.....Whoops. Sorry about that Birb. Um....yeah Revenants are what we call those against the council of Upper Amberdine and/or the survivors of Lower Amberdine who have plucked their chips out in defiance to that blasted city”

Sil pauses for a moment. “This message was before we figured out you guys aren’t from this time....space.....line.....or whatever. So I’m not actually sure if you’d be considered Revenants now or not......R?”

R shrugs.

“They can be whatever they wanna be, I guess.”

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Hm, yeah, that makes sense. Freaky technozombies. What's the procedure for--Heaven forbid--if someone who knows about your locations get Tagged? Do you have to move or will they forget what they know?

Sil jumps in, not quite making eye contact with the screen.

“....If our location gets leaked....we will have to move.....we are always on the run. We cannot risk being found by tagged, drone, or UA personnel alike...”

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So...they want a hivemind, huh? These Upper Amberdine dudes have taken the book 1984 as an instruction manual, huh? Also...that explains why Tagged are creating new ones - helping to spread the control, and such. I don’t remember if I’ve asked this before, but you seem like the right person to ask if I haven’t. What is the full scope of capabilities that a Tagged’s chip can do?

Liv continues speaking after Steel climbs his way back up onto her shoulder from her arm, seeming very comfortable in her presence. The woman agrees that he’s a good boy until you try to spook him, giving R a playful look before speaking again. She’s too interested to stop rambling.

“Here, I’ll answer two of you at once,” she starts, pushing her glasses up again. “The thing about the Tagged is that we always make a conscious effort to avoid them. All the time. They’re very dangerous, and sometimes if you go after one an entire horde of them will pop up out of nowhere and ambush you. It’s too much of a gamble to make regularly,” she explains. “Which is why we’ve never acquired a chip from a dead Tagged, and why we aren’t entirely sure what the chips do to the human brain. It almost seems to ‘brick’ them, making them into a kind of mindless hivemind like our friend Shadow here says,” she continues. “As much as I would enjoy getting my hands on one so I could analyze it and hopefully figure out what it really does, this is a case where we would have to put someone’s safety on the line in order to get one. However, assuming the chip wouldn’t self-destruct or brick upon being detached from a host, it could very much be possible!”

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That's amazing!! That's the kind of AI technology people can only dream of creating here. A lot of people are working on it, and making progress, but it's nowhere near that level of sophistication yet. Please tell Steel that he is a good boy and I love him

R has been spinning on her chair for the past few minutes, trying to occupy her time while Liv rambles on. She smirks, her features alight in amusement.

"Ah, so you're gang is the reason we even get to this point," She drawls. "Well, progress is a...relative term. Some of us want freaky deaky cars and pets, and others want it just...be ancient. With actual wheels and shit. Bring back the classics like CDs and...discs, I think is what they're called."

She looks at Liv again and her smile widens.

"Steel is a great boy until you try and scare him."

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Oh wow, Steel's super advanced, then, huh? Is he not a risk with whatever's up with how the Upper Ameribiandans (that's not even close, I can't spell) communicate...? broadcast? however they get their stuff into the Tagged?

“He definitely is! And I designed the code specifically so only people with knowledge of advanced bio-tech would be able to even begin to understand what I’ve developed, seeing as it’s entirely my creation and I do not want the Upper Amberdine engineers cracking my code,” she says. “Their broadcast signals aren’t compatable with his transmission software. They couldn’t touch him unless they figured out how exactly to desipher his incredibly complex code— which only I hold the key to.”

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This might be a bit of a weird question, but could the tags be hypothetically... pinged by an outside force? Like, could someone set up a program to ping the chips? Let's say it's just a connection check ping for sake of argument.

“Yes, potentially! It only depends on whether or not they have radio wave receivers embedded into their chips, and I would need to actually get my hands on one in order to find out for sure. And setting up a program like that would require deciphering of the code, which again requires me getting my hands on one. Good question!”