DIAF, mun. DIAF.

[programsuperior]

I do not appreciate these "forty cakes" you keep mentioning in conjunction with me. I have no use for cake, let alone forty of them, and I don't see what advantage stealing them would have.

Still... I have to thank you for the environment you're planning on placing me in. I think we will have a fruitful time helping my brothers and sisters see the light, don't you? I may even have to send a thank-you note to that glitch. Thanks to his foolish disobedience of the User's will, I won't even have to lie about how I derezzed.

Seriously, though, the forty cakes jokes need to stop. Have some dignity. You are typing for me.

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[anewbeginning]

[programsuperior]

[An ISO.. and an unfamiliar face. Giles actually looks.. a lot less disgusted by life all of a sudden.]

Well hello, sweetling.

[Shush it's been forever since there were beta ISOs and she has to be one because surely he's met every ISO ever.]

[anewbeginning]

[She continues to give him a rather unimpressed look, but she has never not returned a greeting before, and she is not going to start now.]

Hi.

[You will have to excuse her for being short not physically - though she is that, too. She is having a bit of a bad, uh, week.]

[preamble]

[All the confusion!]

...??

[programsuperior]

[Oh look. Another glitchy Basic.

At least this one appears to be unable to give stupid speeches about how everyone should get along.]

Can I help you?

[preamble]

[Hey. Hey. "Glitchy"? No. "Basic"? No. Best recognize a system monitor when you see one, program.]

[Anon tilts his head in confusion.]

"See the light"? "Foolish disobedience"? Odd talk for an ISO. Is everything well?

[trollmaster_gibson]

[Oh Anon. Anon, buddy, no.]

Just walk away now, buddy. This guy's a real piece of work. Trust me, it takes one to know one, and I know 'em all. [Hi Giles ILU]

[preamble]

[Gibsooooon!]

...Is he a glitch, then? Like- [Not gonna say the name, since Jaden's right over yonder. But yeah. You know the one.]

[evolving_unaware]

[Universe why do you insist on making poor Jalen's life more complicated? Integration between ISOs and Basics on the Free Grid was going so well.]

[Still, Jalen supposes it could be worse. He'd always tried to get along with Giles--he was Radia's advisor and friend, after all, even if he did give Jalen all the side-eye every time he'd spent time around her]

Greetings, Giles. It's been a while.

[Have a small, friendly-like smile?]

[programsuperior]

[Giles' smile is almost plastic, and just barely enough to cover dismay.

The traitor... He can't help a quick glance around in case Clu's hovering somewhere nearby. No desire to get derezzed his first millicycle back.]

Jalen. Greetings.

[It's a puzzling anomaly that Jalen hasn't tried a disk himself. The Alpha ISO had certainly sworn revenge with what little of his strength was left when he refused the only rational choice... There again, this could be an example of the glitched-up system his mun is considering.]

[evolving_unaware]

[Jalen's smile slips a notch at Giles's subtle change in expression, especially the way his eyes dart about quickly as if looking for either another intruder or an exit. Users, does everyone know, then?]

...I'm not going to hurt you, you know. I promise. Why would I?

[a_perfect_end]

...Since when do you care about User riddles?

[programsuperior]

Since when did you have the processing capacity for actual complex concepts?

[Nope. Not bitter about that derezzing thing at all.]

[a_perfect_end]

Right around the time I drove all the miraculous unicorns into the Sea.

[Sorry, never not going to be pleased with himself for that one.]

[trollmaster_gibson]

[Hey Giles how's that crush on Radia going? Made it to first base yet? Or is she still going steady with the captain of the basketball team?]

<3

[programsuperior]

Less than three?

Real mature, Gibson.

[trollmaster_gibson]

Oh come on, learn to relax. Besides, aren't we the same age?

Yay, I get to use Clu's side-eye icon! XD

[tanks4thememory]

[Clu also has no idea what cakes have to to with any of this, but that's not important right now.]

Yeah... you might have more trouble than you think in the whole 'seeing the light' department.

woot!

[programsuperior]

When the system itself demands our return? I think not.

[krypticfactor]

Helping us see the light? [He snorts.] Light's what you see with. Looking right into it will only blind you.

Look, I don't need your 'help', okay? I'm happy where I am.

[programsuperior]

I would expect nothing less from a Bostrumite.

[Poor misguided brother. Still.. the merely misguided will come around eventually. Even self-evident truths need a while to save to memory.]

[lifes_short_pop]

"The reference is escaping me, I'm afraid. And don't..."

[TRY not to be obvious, Jethro...It'll probably never work, and you sure know how to dig yourself into a hole, but one can try...]

"Doesn't everyone in the system live on energy, anyway?"


[The "see the light" part is disturbing, and he'll want to ask about that, especially since the Z-Lots were a cross of religious fanatic and zombie horde. This guy doesn't look like Thorne 2.0, but who knows?]

[programsuperior]

And you are?

[Curious eyebrow-raises are curious. By color, this should be a Basic, but he seems to have some idea about User riddles.]

[sysadmin]

[ Oh. It's you. ]

"See the light"? You mean the light of all of your kind derezzing at the same nano?

[programsuperior]

[Well aren't you just coming out of the woodwork this milli?]

Jealous doesn't become you very well. Administrator.

[Sure, the title is pronounced more like it should be icky-thing-on-my-shoe, but surely it's the form that counts.]

You may wish to get your time calculations adjusted. Such an error.

[Giles tsks disdainfully.]