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<tenaciousTheseus> Ahaha
<OJ> So
<OJ> What's the world /outside/ the game like?
<wrimoMnem|11160> I admit, I've found I've had plenty to concentrate on in the game.  I may have Violet drop a few things about outside-the-game things, but.
<OJ> ...
<OJ> is it cyberpunk
<OJ> pls say yes
<wrimoMnem|11160> Well, considering you've got people fully immersed in games...
<mislaidLullaby> To be fair, though, I wouldn't put money on Vi being a reliable narrator
<tenaciousTheseus> Ehe
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<OJ> Because if you make this an AU I want to see what the world outside looks like
<OJ> because it is quite likely absolute shit
<OJ> I meant, like
<OJ> ICly
<OJ> not OOCly
<OJ> OOCly it's perfectly legitimate not to put too much thought into it
* wrimoMnem|11160 nods!
<mislaidLullaby> Generally speaking, if we have people being absorbed by a computer game and it requires people hacking the mainframe to to get them out? I imagine things have gone to shit a bit
<wrimoMnem|11160> I figured that's what you meant.
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<OJ> The concept of "mainframe" itself is cyberpunk because of the centralization it implies in the resulting infrastructure, IMO
<mislaidLullaby> Hm. Mind re-wording that? I don't think I grasp what you're trying to convey, I'm afraid
<OJ> One person is controlling all the data and all that happens with the data
<OJ> Or one organization, as it usually is
<mislaidLullaby> That'd be one /hell/ of a system admin if they were able to maintain an MMO that complex on their own
<OJ> Yeah I figured
<OJ> It's probably a corporation
<OJ> Do you have a name for it?
<mislaidLullaby> Stryker Corp
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<OJ> So
<OJ> So what if the reason Epi's gone into the Hacking Thing is because he used to know someone and then they got sucked into the murdergame?
* wrimoMnem|11410 nods!
<wrimoMnem|11410> Entirely possible!
<OJ> Another question: where are the /bodies/ being kept while the brains are being used for this thing?
<OJ> What if there /are/ no bodies anymore?
<wrimoMnem|11410> Usually, wherever they dropped.  There are still bodies, and that's part of what Violet's been doing.
<wrimoMnem|11410> She tries to find the people in the real world to take care of their bodies.
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<OJ> Hmm. You could buy /some/ time by having the VR things that they use have some sort of water or food administration ability, because otherwise the bodies would pretty uniformly die within a month
<OJ> Water being the more critical
<OJ> And the people who are tapped for NPCing usually being obsessive enough to want a waterhose in their mouths for long playsessions
<OJ> so the 'corp doesn't have to constantly be recruiting as people drop from dehydration
<mislaidLullaby> Or might be told that they'd get upgraded machines in return for signing up
<mislaidLullaby> And they do! It's no good if your NPCs start dropping like flies after all
<wrimoMnem|11410> ^
<OJ> So Myra probably got iced, old-fashioned style, for thinking/hacking her way out...
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<OJ> Epi's not going to show up. He literally /cannot/ play the game or it will fry him.
<OJ> That adds to the desperation just a tad, doesn't it?
<wrimoMnem|11410> Yep!
<mislaidLullaby> At this point I'm imagining Vi having a collection of people-in-bottles rather than her ships-in-bottles like she does in RV!Canon
* wrimoMnem|11410 imagines the peoplebottles from the Matrix
<OJ> ^
<OJ> Exactly
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<mislaidLullaby> Except it's violet
<mislaidLullaby> they're the peoplebottles with stickers on them
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* wrimoMnem|11410 cackles
<wrimoMnem|11410> So Skye gets to worry because "oh no what about her body aaaaa"
<mislaidLullaby> "Look, Jenny! I found stickers with your name on them! This one has a cat on it!"
<mislaidLullaby> "Tomorrow I'll plait your beard for you and then we can figure out where to put them for you to enjoy."
<OJ> ohgod
<Rave> dfasf
<OJ> So /that's/ why Violet doesn't do much of the hacking work anymore.
<OJ> She's busy breaking into people's apartments to keep them alive
<wrimoMnem|11410> Yep!
<mislaidLullaby> After a while she figures out how to get the tubes mobile
<wrimoMnem|11410> That and, sorry Vi, Epi may just be a better hacker'n you.
<mislaidLullaby> Oh, there's no question about /that/
<mislaidLullaby> I've always considered her to be better at hardware than software, after all
<OJ> Well
<OJ> He /was/ taught by the best
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<OJ> So
<OJ> If the Founderfolk were all in an adventuring group together
<OJ> and Myra had managed to get out
<OJ> is /that/ why the rest of them have been scattered to the four winds?
<OJ> and why Skye has no memory anymore?
<mislaidLullaby> ...Oh god, did Vitt get re-scripted into an NPC cloud
<OJ> ..............
<OJ> I am tempted to say he has been turned into a Genius Loci.
<wrimoMnem|11410> ...
<OJ> With, yes. cloud control.
<wrimoMnem|11410> Ooooh yes
<wrimoMnem|11410> yes yes yes
<OJ> And /locations/ don't need to have all that much consciousness, and /certainly/ can't be added to parties!
<wrimoMnem|11410> (hey guys)
<OJ> At least, until the coders shake him loose and the Spirit of the City rises as it was once foretold to.
<mislaidLullaby> (i'm sad)
<mislaidLullaby> (we keep making this worse)
<wrimoMnem|11410> uwu
<wrimoMnem|11410> Why do you think people caught wind of Skye?
<mislaidLullaby> (we just turned vitt into that nightmare dungeon run)
<wrimoMnem|11410> Epi tossed a virus in there that shook up the NPCs and she started going off the rails.
<mislaidLullaby> (god only knows what happened to /cole/)
<OJ> So
<OJ> Founders were an adventuring party
<tenaciousTheseus> Oh god
<OJ> They got NPCd together at first and then Myra very nearly thought/hacked her way out, freeing Violet as a test in the process
<OJ> Then the devs caught wind and iced her, old-fashioned style. Flatline an' everything. And "redistributed" everyone else.
<mislaidLullaby> Vi doesn't come online anymore and didn't exactly come out all in one piece (because when do /any/ of my characters come out in one piece)
<wrimoMnem|11410> uwu
<mislaidLullaby> (oops sorry mnem i should not dictate ur book sorry)
<OJ> Yeah, Violet can't enter the game anymore
<OJ> Neither c'n Epi
<wrimoMnem|11410> No, it's neat seeing your theories.
<wrimoMnem|11410> I'm not telling you if they're right or wrong~
<mislaidLullaby> Vi would probably turn into a goddamn rock or something if she re-entered the game
<mislaidLullaby> ...Is Epi Mr Rock
<wrimoMnem|11410> But Vi you'd be the /prettiest/ statue~
<OJ> ..............
<OJ> Cole, I think, keeps straight the material properties of all the metals across the realm.
<OJ> This could end /catastrophically/.
<OJ> Wait they probably wouldn't put someone like that in that kind of position it stinks of Villain Arrogance.
<OJ> Hmm
<OJ> Shopkeeper?
<OJ> In some of the most dangerous areas of the game
<OJ> Thus there is a natural progression of who to free
<mislaidLullaby> So he's like that one miner in the middle of the endgame dungeon who just stands there selling people things
<OJ> yyyyep
<mislaidLullaby> Which...Would also make it nightmarishly hard to get him out
<OJ> Exactly!\
<wrimoMnem|11410> (hey guys)
<mislaidLullaby> (oops)
<wrimoMnem|11410> (what would you do if I killed Skye?)
<OJ> Unless the hackers manage to cheat the party some weapons The Matrix-style
<OJ> OH GOD
<mislaidLullaby> (nO)
<mislaidLullaby> ...
<mislaidLullaby> wait
<mislaidLullaby> won't she just respawn?
<wrimoMnem|11410> :3
<OJ> Mnem are you /trying/ to break our hearts
<OJ> oh wait stupid question
<mislaidLullaby> yes
<mislaidLullaby> :c
<OJ> So
<OJ> The reason the Founders haven't been stabilized/found/etc. by Vi is /because/ they're
<OJ> like any good group of Internet friends
<OJ> scattered across the planet
<OJ> They're trying to arrange for search parties in other cities and it's going about as well as you can expect an underground resistance to go in fiction
<OJ> but getting to Skye /too/ /late/
<OJ> at least they will have a body
<Rave> ;n;
<mislaidLullaby> It'll be hard to move those bodies around too, I imagine, and financing looking after them will be a /hell/ of a job
<OJ> That's all right!
<OJ> All Epi needs to do is
<OJ> set someone on hacking a major banking institution...
<OJ> ohhhh shit
<OJ> I'm /certain/ Epi's got plenty of misdirections to make sure other people get caught
<OJ> but as soon as his stooges start getting picked off one at a time...
<wrimoMnem|11410> Welp.
<OJ> There! Sense of urgency!
<OJ> I know those are important for keeping plot moving.
* wrimoMnem|11410 chuckles
<OJ> Do you /know/ how much guilt he's going to end up with for endangering volunteers - and/or innocent people - in order to keep himself safe so he can hopefully maybe get the job done?
<wrimoMnem|11410> Not specifically, but I can imagine!
<OJ> Yeah, I figured
<OJ> oops give me an AU and I plan the corresponding mental breakdown
* wrimoMnem|11410 snorts
<wrimoMnem|11410> "She couldn’t ever remember having such a busy day.  She was handing out lists and medicine left and right.  Some people commented on how glad they were to see her back, which was odd - Skye hadn’t gone anywhere!  She, of all people, would know.  Wouldn’t she?"
<Rave> oh dear
<mislaidLullaby> oh dear
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<wrimoMnem|11704> uwu
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<wrimoMnem|11704>  20:33  Timmy prepares the summoning circle required to bring the god of distraction into the world... 20:33  Timmy completes the ritual, drawing the god of distraction through, but something goes wrong and they fade away after just a few moments.
<wrimoMnem|11704> timmy
<wrimoMnem|11704> what
<mislaidLullaby> look out!
<mislaidLullaby> he's trying to distract you!"
<Rave> a distraction appears
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<stalwartEscalation> Kel you missed me turning my novel into a full AU I think
<Keleviel> I thought that was already happening
<stalwartEscalation> Other people hopped in.  OJ had some great insights!
<mislaidLullaby> I implied somebody was a rock
<OJ> Well
<OJ> I pulled back the curtain a little
<OJ> and help Mnem's story is also cyberpunk now
<mislaidLullaby> And then we implied people were rocks
<stalwartEscalation> And Violet has peoplejars!
<mislaidLullaby> Peoplejars with stickers on them