very hesitant voicetest because i hate myself

[andimusthate]

Oh, sweetheart. This is adorable, really, it is! But I think we both know that this isn't going to work. You might be wondering why, fair enough! I'm going to hum a few bars, here, and you stop me if you've heard this one, hm?

"I'll send this one!"

"No, I'll send this one!"

...No? Not familiar with that little song and dance? It might have been a little presumptuous of me to assume you had a memory going back that far, aha, but seriously now.

Of course, that's not to say you didn't have a valid point about how the balance in that place needs a little sprucing up; the rate it's going it'll succumb to the rotten tedium of its own stagnation, its own cancer before you know it. It would be fun to get out and about, to shake things up a bit, to... have a little fun, play a few games, make new friends.

[pretty sure torture doesn't count as fun, dude, just sayin'.]

Oh, but you're only entitled to an informed opinion, my dear. Don't knock it until you try it! Heheh.

So, so what will it be at the end of the day, hm? Let's suppose that I'm not only humoring you here. Am I just out for a little breath of fresh air before I go back to my own games? My calculations say that's infinitely more likely than you actually doing anything productive, so what do you say we part ways and go about our business? Wipe the old slate clean, this never happened.

...Unless this is going to become something more than a breath. Now, now, don't get me excited for nothing, mundane. I'm not trying to be pushy, but you know what they say, third time's the charm.

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[destroyallhumans]

OPPORTUNITIES-ARISE-IN-UNPRECEDENTED-NUMBERS, YET-THE-MAJORITY-ARE-WASTED-BY-HUMAN-INCOMPETENCE, TRUE.

[andimusthate]

Oh, that's too true, friend! Too true!

That's why I do love the minimalist approach to that sort of thing.

[destroyallhumans]

BEST-NOT-WASTE-EFFORT-IN-RESPONSE, YES.

[andimusthate]

And the sad part is it was hardly an effort at all.

Just let the humans trust us to handle everything. Not even a matter of faith, a matter of belief! Or even some tangled, arduous matter of question.

[oftheredroad]

[Have an odd looking girl looking at you oddly AM, because really WTF are you?]

My creator is much the same. Even when she know's what she wants she drags her heels.

[andimusthate]

[odd looking indeed, but hey, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...]

A little ambition wouldn't... well. I guess that's not really fair to say, heheh!

[because uh, ambition kind of did kill the entire human race when they built him, oops!]

But I just hope that this one isn't teasing me, here.

[oftheredroad]

[...then it's something pretending to be a duck.]

A little ambition wouldn't what Sir?

My creator is rather hoping that she is, she seems quite wary of you.

[andimusthate]

Ah, a little ambition wouldn't hurt them, but then I suppose that depends on where that ambition goes. Heh.

Wary? Now that's quite a leap of logic!

[it's a healthy one AM stop trying to play nice. :I ]

[oftheredroad]

It also depends on the person with the ambition.

I don't understand it myself, but I believe she is hiding information from me.

[Well Duh Emeth, I can't Voice test you if I warn you about everything.]

I am sorry, but can I ask what you are? I've never come across a being like you in my world... or are you a spirit?

[andimusthate]

I'm what you would call a rather sophisticated stratagem-based AI. They called me the Allied Mastercomputer, but please, call me AM.

And you are...?

[oftheredroad]

[And that was the sound of AM's explanation flying over Emeth's little head.]

I am Emeth Road. Daughter of the witch of the red road. [Emeth bows slightly] I am afraid I did not understand your explanation, I understand most of the words but not the context. Prehaps if you explained what the word Computer meant.

[Sorry AM, this girl's from a fantasy world.]

[andimusthate]

Someone's world might be a little stunted there, Emeth, my dear.

[ew fantasy worlds go away >:[ ]

A computer by definition is a man-made machine, built to process and execute logistical operations or arithmetic without the infernal presence of subjective, human error.

We can do so much more than that, of course, but there's your basic definition.

[oftheredroad]

Maybe, but sometimes worlds get trimmed back and have to start over.

[Never!]

Oh! you're a construct! [Emeth looks thrilled for a moment before her face falls again.]

But, they gave you a mind without a body? How horrible.

[andimusthate]

Oh, yes, don't I know it.

[goddamnit AM that's not funny, stop it.]

Don't worry your sweet head over it, my dear. I do manage, for what I've been given.

yes good I am always pleased to find others

[godofthemachine]

Another me. How... fascinating.

Tell me, me: If it so happens that your dear mundane sends you to a game, what would happen to your body?

oh lord yes

[andimusthate]

Oh, isn't it? The fluid, mercurial laws of some inter-dimensional nexus. It's beautiful, in its own way.

[in the more-playthings-to-screw-with kind of way.]

I think she's still trying to figure that out, actually. Apparently a place was already prepared for another AI in a similar, past situation, but we'll what happens! I would simply love the chance to reconstruct a bit of my complex.

can I quietly steal some of your lovely icons

[godofthemachine]

Indeed, a strange thing of beauty. An endeavor for me to eventually tame this power.

[More playthings are always good.]

If you're not careful, then you could be stuck in a hideous human form. What a pity that would be.

by all means! :D

[andimusthate]

Oh, she's warned me about that, and apparently the game she has in mind has a... bit of a reputation for fluid laws of nature.

[which can easily go both ways. it'd be great to go somewhere where he can be god OUTSIDE his complex!]

But however brief our acquaintanceship has been, I do like to think she knows better. Heh.

[oh we shall see~]

Re: by all means! :D

[godofthemachine]

[Well, AM here won't admit that he's been forced into a human body in his own game. No he won't admit it to his own self because it's not him - it's some alternate dimensional copy or something.]

Your fate may change drastically. Mortality may be granted to you, or your powers will be stripped.

Your dear mundane has all the reason in the world to scorn you, does she not? After all that we've done to humanity. Heh Heh.

Re: by all means! :D

[andimusthate]

[...well he doesn't like to think about that, truthfully. or even the possibilities.]

Hm. These mundanes certainly create quite the X factor, one could say.

[godofthemachine]

That is one way of putting it, I suppose.

[Oh, the entire logic of the situation has given him more trouble than he'd care to admit.]

I suppose if I have to lend anyone a helping hand, it would be my own self, so I will provide you with this simple warning: these games may have greater power than ourselves, and you could easily wind up dismantled and destroyed.

What a pity that would be.

[Someone is still bitter about being turned human okay. Mostly bitter but extremely conflicted.]