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[undyingcrow]

In light of recent events, I believe we're past due for more information gathering.

First, I'd like to discuss the tower we encountered last month. There were... interesting messages scrawled across its surface, which I thankfully wrote down before its destruction.

They read:

"This remnant-

Carved from [...] First Impact Remains [...]

Meant to be left alone. The Tears used it in their ritual-

Now it's out of control, changing everything it can"

The Convoy Database regards the Silver Tears as effectively the antithesis of the Steel Wardens. Reverent to the moon and its "blessings" (the transformations). I've no doubt they're the ones behind the scattered shrines we encountered some months prior...

And, obviously, we're well acquainted with those wretched Wardens, with their hypocritical obsession with "purging" this world of monsters.

The words "First Impact" stick out to me as significant. I actually spoke with Blake-san about it as well, and she encountered similar mentions of an impact in scavenged books that had a great deal of information scrubbed clean.

There is clearly something that one of the factions does not want us to discover. Given my previous findings, we know that something of significance was broken in two, that the moon goddess suffers in anguish, and a ritual failed, with us as replacement participants to "share her pain" and "put the ritual right."

But now, thanks to that sagebrush, some of us have been gifted with visions, and I believe that if we share our findings, we can come closer to the truth.

In my case, I witnessed a woman dispatching a monster before turning to panicked civilians and murdering one of them in cold blood. Presumably, she went on to kill the rest of them, but the vision ended there.

For the sake of this post, I believe the most pertinent information is:

• Where you had the vision.
• The description of the vision...

An optional detail:

• The object that sparked the vision.

Mine was in the battleground, and the vision came as I tried ripping the sword from a fallen cyborg's hand.

Comments

[undyingcrow]

Repulsive ideology.

They think they're so righteous, so "pure" in their intentions, yet they cull the masses indiscriminately.

Still, "those who remain" implies unchanged humans could exist... assuming they didn't force assimilation upon them.

[solitarysoul]

i don't get whats the big deal about remaining pure. nobody's really pure anything.

it sounds like a cult.

[undyingcrow]

Ironic. They oppose the Silver Tears, yet they themselves are just as cultish.

Their hypocrisy truly should be studied.

[solitarysoul]

people are just like that a lot. convinced they know what's right.

[undyingcrow]

Many people prefer to have a more powerful authority guide them. It removes the element of choice, allowing them to merely follow along without a care.

It's a truly dangerous state of mind.

[solitarysoul]

it is a lot easier to follow orders than to figure out things yourself.

[Self agency was hard, especially if you never had much before.

i guess its easy to just do that without question, but you still have to think. some orders you shouldn't take.

[Like that last mission...]

[undyingcrow]

A mistake I know all too well.

But I suppose it's ultimately too late for those Wardens. Their single-minded obsession seems baked into their code.

[solitarysoul]

[He'd assumed the raiders weren't really the Wardens, just more weapons like the metal dogs were. They looked kind of like people but...well he doesn't know what a robot or a cyborg is.]

their code?

[undyingcrow]

The Steel Wardens replaced most of their bodies with machinery.

However, they're extremely single-minded in their goals. That may be by design.

[solitarysoul]

[That doesn't really help.]

i don't know much about machinery or whatever those things are. how do codes fit in?

[undyingcrow]

Many modern machines require programming to operate. This is especially true for robots.

[solitarysoul]

[What?]

do machines need codes? why would they?

[He is thinking of secret codes to hide messages.]

i don't think i've heard of robots

[undyingcrow]

Do you know of computers? It's a similar principle.

[solitarysoul]

i've seen that word...but i don't know what one is.

[undyingcrow]

They're machines that typically function with a screen and keyboard and contain vast amounts of data. In order to operate, they require programming, which is heavily code-based and provides a framework of instructions for the computer to carry out its functions.

[solitarysoul]

a keyboard? like a type writer?

[Machines that contain vast amounts of data...that's what Logic was about, wasn't it? Data and connecting people or something. He didn't get it so he hadn't paid much attention. But the only place he'd seen screens and keyboards were in her bunker, and the others attached to it.]

we don't really have that where i come from.

[undyingcrow]

Somewhat like a type writer, except your inputs create words and letters on a screen, rather than on paper.

[Hopefully that's at least easier to grasp. Some common idea, a concept to anchor Akechi's description.]

Perhaps they've yet to be invented in your world, or are less accessible to the masses.

[solitarysoul]

no...they didn't have those where i'm from. at least not in places people could just get to.

[undyingcrow]

Well, I wouldn't fret. I'm sure there are others from strikingly different worlds and times.

I'd recommend the hospital for an example, but frankly, those computers seem to register us as a threat. It wouldn't be wise to intrude without a clear escape plan.

[solitarysoul]

i know there are. some people have traveled to different planets.

[His world hasn't even been to the moon yet! Not counting the time the Moon came down to fuck with Prehevil.]

i think i can probably just let other people deal with things like computers and that complicated stuff.

[undyingcrow]

That may be for the best.

Your own experiences may serve you in ways that others are lacking.

[solitarysoul]

[Boy they sure do. It was too bad he had to learn to fight, but at least he could protect people now.]

yeah. i know what i'm good at.