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Goro Akechi ([personal profile] undyingcrow) wrote in [community profile] route666radio2025-02-20 08:38 pm

[Voice]

[In the middle of a restless night, Akechi addresses the radio.]

One thing has become abundantly clear since my arrival: the vast majority of us hail from different times, if not different worlds.

[He pauses, letting that sink in.]

For instance, I'm from Japan in the year 2017. However, it is specifically the same version of Japan shared by Akihiko Sanada and Naoto Shirogane... in the future. That places the three of us in a shared reality, but not the same point in time.

However, our version of Japan has endured a number of odd, even supernatural occurrences, such as a "Dark Hour" and, more recently, the vigilante work of a group of "Phantom Thieves" who quite literally changed the hearts of wicked adults through the use of a parallel, cognitive world.

[His voice remains calm, if tinged with a subtle weariness.]

But that is far from universal. In my time here, I have encountered a talking turtle from a world where yokai and mutants are real. I've spoken with someone who had been sent into a digital world, like an isekai protagonist. I even had to explain the concept of religion to Serph-san, as well what a horse is.

[...]

All this to say, it may be worthwhile to cross reference the worlds and time periods we hail from. If nothing else, it may help us discern patterns that could in turn heighten our understanding of our present circumstances.
serialmurderbot: (this is stupid)

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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-02-23 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's spent enough time listening to this to drop a full five percentage points in performance reliability. It's been wanting to classify all these as corporate colonist humans being uninformed, but the more it listens, the more it sounds like a plot point from one of its extremely unrealistic adventure shows, where the protagonist gets scooped into another world or sent back in time, or turned into something else entirely to learn a lesson about humility or love or something.

The kind that definitely aren't fucking real. Its education modules are shit but they're not that shit. So, when it finally speaks up, it's without introduction or sharing its own information.]


If you really think it's multiverse bullshit comparison of names and dates won't mean much. Especially when we don't know fuck-all about where or when we are, compared to what we're used to.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-02-24 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You think it's targeted.

[It's not as sure that Akechi thinks that as the way it states the question implies, nor that Akechi actually thinks that, but it's had to take this tactic with humans making assumptions before (and had that tactic infuriatingly turned right back on it by ART), so it continues.]

If it's about how and why we ended up here, you should collect information about what was happening before while you're at it.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-02-26 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Now see, that just gives Murderbot even more reason for stubborn denial, because it immediately retorts.]

Or maybe you felt drawn to it because you noticed the crow decals. There were plenty of vehicles. That doesn't mean there were specific targets.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-02-28 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, that might stymie its attempts to rationalize this, mostly because it's once again thinking about alien remnants and compulsions and feeling just about ready to crawl out of its skin with horror.

Some of that has to come across in its voice when it says;]


Supernatural how? Caused by what?
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-01 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, so: still existential horror. It has to start playing an episode of Sanctuary Moon in the background just to stop its performance reliability from tanking. Because combination highly affective alien technology with what sounds like the plots of one of its shows isn't helping it keep its cool.]

So you think the same thing, or something similar, is happening here.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-04 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow that's a lot of jargon, all at once.

Also;]


Why would eating food heal wounds, that's stupid. [Okay, not stupid, but that sounds like how it works in some of the interactive media, not real actual life. Whatever this "cognitive world" is, it doesn't sound like a real thing. Is this like one of those stories where the protagonist ends up in a virtual world?

Well, there's at least one similarity to those usual tropes. They're all fucking trapped here.]


Fine. For your dataset, I've never heard of Japan, and I'm guessing you've never heard of the Corporation Rim.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-04 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure.

It's not a world, it's a collection of planets and stations in loose alliance and marked by corporate control and treaties.

[Akechi's not wrong about the capitalization though.]
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-07 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Personally SecUnit still suspects that most of these people are from seeded colonies that have been abandoned but survived for just long enough that their arrival on their home planet has become a matter of fable, rather than of direct personal memory - but the evidence is mounting up against that theory in a way it doesn't want to sit down and quantify just yet.

But that second point is by far the more immediate concern.]


What else did Roger say about it.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-08 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah that definitely sounds like the plot of some show.]

Doesn't sound familiar. As far as I know no one's had a war about cloning.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-09 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[It thinks, but doesn't say, that the only part of that the Corporation Rim would fight over would be whether they could make cloning proprietary.]

Anything else you need for your dataset?
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-12 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Share it when it's done.

[And that's... more or less what counts as a sign-off for SecUnit, it seems.]