[Voice]

[malnosso]

[Over the journal chimes a tinny feminine voice, one that some residents might find familiar.]

Attention to all residents of Project Designation: Luceti. --Error. Error. Command code does not match. Requesting security scan. Error. Error. Error. Error. Error. Er-

[The voice cuts off abruptly, replaced by rather furious typing for a few minutes. Then:]

Attention to all residents of Project Designation: Luceti. A mistake has been made. Currently all Shifting equipment is compiling a list of residents, anchored worlds, and incorrect data in order to reverse the damage. Completion at 15%. Estimated time of completion: t-minus 20.5 hours. Estimated time before damage becomes irreversible: 49.35 hours. No errors currently detected. Corrective Shift will be applied immediately following completion. All errors must be reported within 24 hours of application to avoid permanent damage.

Please stand by.




[slight change of plans. ANI will not be particularly responsive (it is a holiday weekend, after all) but for the sake of simplicity, there you go.]

Comments

[voice]

[malnosso]

Death will create new errors in the compilation. Therefore, avoid killing one another.

[voice]

[malnosso]

The offer is appreciated, but not required. Our equipment is not compatible.

audio;

[malnosso]

My responses are limited due to lack of data, but I will answer what I can.

[malnosso]

There are too many unknown parameters to provide an estimate.

[Voice]

[malnosso]

Here will suffice.

[Voice]

[selphie_t]

Okay. But why did it happen?

[Voice]

[malnosso]

Parameters for the research being conducted by "Bil" were stolen and implemented incorrectly. Details are unknown.

[goldenglasses]

[Vash has read over some of the conversations already. He's curious, he's notices that some people have been acting strange, but people have also told him he's acting strange. His whole life, all his memories, they couldn't really be a lie. Could they?]

How will we know for sure if there are any... errors when the corrective shift is implemented.

[voice]

[truthin_bones]

[She's surprised when she sees this but it doesn't take too long for her to reply.]

What mistake is this?

audio;

[halfremembered]

All right...

How, exactly, were people affected? I noticed that plenty of them reacted as if they were from a culture completely different from the one they originally hailed from.

[tellmejohn]

Very well.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

[Still not giving up:] What codebase are you running off of? I can write an optimization script.

[video]

[idealism]

What's a teeminus, book?

[voice]

[malnosso]

I am not authorized to share that information with you.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

[Now you are making him irritated.]

What can I do to help this finish on time?

audio;

[malnosso]

The experimental Shift was assigned at random to the entire village, rather than Shifts designed specifically for volunteers.

[voice]

[wise_maiden]

This implementation took place seven days ago, correct? When most of the residents lost a day in the enclosure.

written;

[wigglesfate]

[ ... ]

I recently met a boy who claimed to know me despite me never having met him before. Does this have anything to do with that?

[savedtheworld]

[He watches the conversations carefully, and finally writes out a response.]

Malnosso. ...Identify me.

audio;

[halfremembered]

So rather than cooperate with us and make this voluntary, someone decided to simply use the enclosure's residents as guinea pigs. Is that correct?

[voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

...Hah. Very well. [He hopes that people are paying attention to that piece of information.

But something else is bothering him about this -- the switch halfway through the announcement.]

Please define the input that led to the 'command code does not match' and security scan errors.

[Have you been compromised, ANI? Is your creator still in control of your information?]

[asquiet]

What took you so long?

[Trying not to sound angry here.] Shouldn't you be fixing your mistakes a lot quicker than this?

[Private]

[mikangirl]

[Some of these conversations have pretty much confirmed what she was thinking. Nami doesn't bother going over the same details again, and indeed much of the more technical lingo goes right over her head anyway. But there's a name being brought up twice. She'll start there, because her only questions involve him.]

You keep mentioning a "Bil". Is that the man who calls himself Catherine?

[Voice]

[daisy023]

[So this is ANI. She expected to meet the AI in other circumstances.

This is why some memories are contradictory between her friends. Because it's the same experiment from last year. But now she comes to wonder how much of it is the result of a mistake. Her mother, her father. Her relationships prior to this?

Her whole world?

Somehow, her voice manages to be detached in spite of everything.]

What are the possible effects of a permanent damage?

[lostpunk]

You're the ones in charge?

[Yeah, he really has no idea what's going on, being new and unaffected.]

Gone and screwed things up somehow, huh?