Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 2:36:27 GMT
I decided to converse with Minerva, as I could always learn something from a woman of infinite knowledge.
She sat by herself on a log, arms folded on her lap, still as a statue. To call her current state stoic could perhaps be called an understatement.
"So, know who I am?" I asked jokingly, sitting next to her.
"Of course, Akira Inoue. I saw you seeing me and coming towards me." She explained, still not moving.
"So... can you see out of everyone's eyes?" I asked, since it had been a long time since I had spoken to her.
"No. Only yours. This power requires a lot of data and as the most active member within the datascape, you were the candidate I chose. I had to sacrifice my eyesight as a result. But another consequence of this is that I have accumulated all the knowledge within the capacity of the datascape. To be frank I don't even need eyesight, I already have the layout of this place memorized, and as things change, you will inevitably learn them, leading me to do the same. With your duplication and red eye I may sometimes know what you know before you yourself know it." She answered.
"I wouldn't expect less from someone of your position. But I thought you were cut off from the server." I responded, chuckling.
"Your red eye still works does it not? Something must be keeping our powers intact." She explained.
"So, I guess you don't know why we're here."
Finally moving, she shook her head.
"I do have an inkling... but I cannot see into the future. Only predict it. I suppose we all have predictive abilities, given our lifespan..." She muttered.
We were silent for a few moments.
"I wonder how blind I truly am, to be unable to see the future unfold before my own eyes..." She muttered.
Before I could respond to or think about her last sentence, a rumbling was heard and Carim came running up to us.
"A server square just crashed down. Seems to be fully intact, and it's inviting us in! Come on!" He yelled at us, motioning for us to follow.
We reached the server square and indeed, a message reading 'step inside' was written on it in large, capitalized lettering.
"Can we really just step inside? It feels like we're being railroaded." I immediately put out as we all assembled in front of it.
"Well we've got to go inside, right? What else are we going to do!" Rain encouraged, standing in front of us.
"Indeed. We are God. Nothing here can oppose us." Said Deus, walking up to it.
"Agreed. Lets move." Said Adam authoritatively. He was the first to step inside, and Deus and Rain soon followed. Stepping inside as an action which looked similar to stepping into a pool of water, it sent out ripples and had a very magical feeling to it, even when I was watching.
"I do not like where this is going... I'll stay here and let you guys do whatever needs to be done, alright?" Said Sin, turning around and walking in the other direction.
Virtue however grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt.
"I implore you to reconsider. Is this course of action acceptable?" She asked, looking at us.
"Give me a break you oh so perfect bitch..." Sin mumbled, true hatred and disgust lacing his voice.
"You're too easy on him." I spat.
We dragged him to the server, and stood in front of it for a brief few moments.
"Lets drag the sucker in." I continued, and we all stepped made our way through.
In stark contrast to the underworld, the world we found ourselves in seemed like heaven. The grass was a bright green, the sky a deep blue, and the flowers busting with colour and smells which nearly knocked me out. In fact, the smells were so divine and potent that Sin, who had previously been struggling within our grasp, found himself peacefully asleep on the natural, earthy ground in the span of a minuet.
"Where are we?" I asked as we walked into a circular clearing with a stream of crystalline water running through.
Adam stood mesmerized as he looked around, as though he were about to cry.
"This looks like... Eden." He breathed to himself.
"Don't get so choked up, this place is nice but you've seen it before?" I asked him.
"Of course. Eden was Adam's birthplace, and the first server. One might say that Eden birthed the datascape." Minerva interjected.
"So why was it deleted?" Asked Carim, smelling a flower.
"It served its purpose, correct?" Minerva responded, looking at Adam.
"Yes... this place is nostalgic but I had to give it up. It cost too much data. It doesn't look like this place would be too hard to render, but this place has special coding... it stimulates the senses more so than any other server. All sensual and even emotional responses are as a result heightened by the mere act of being here. responses err on the positive side given the scenery and as a result Eden can send whoever enters it into a comatose bliss... almost like poor old sin there." Adam explained.
We wondered around Eden for a little while afterwards. The place was rather small. There was the clearing, lots of pathways, a lake, and a giant tree, upon which juicy apples grew.
"I wonder why we were brought here..." I asked myself offhandedly when we were all back in the clearing.
As if in response, a mass of shadows grew next to the lake.
The shadows merged together to form a slightly larger than average virus, although this one grew giant, bat like wings. In the center of its face, a giant red eye opened, darting around erratically.
"Lucifer." Said Minerva simply.
"Indeed. It is I, the one who was cast out of your society in the haven of God."
"Explain yourself, fallen one." I immediately spat out. I didn't want to hear anything too long winded.
"You have been brought here for evaluation. Specifically, I want revenge. However to do so I will need to have God destroy itself. There is an exit to Eden, however one of you must sacrifice yourself in order for the rest of you to escape."
"Ignorance. I'll break out of here myself!" Deus roared, punching Lucifer. However the fist went straight through the being's body.
"It is quite impossible to harm me. In time you may come to understand why. So yes, if one of you is to perish here, you will be forever annihilated, and your data will be spread to your murderer."
"You never said anything about murder!" Rain cried.
"Yes. It is of course quite impossible for beings such as yourselves to commit suicide. It would be like a planet trying to destroy itself using natural disasters, or a sun trying to destroy itself by burning brighter. Certainly possible but pointless and incredibly difficult, and luck based. It was coded in our very data to never allow ourselves to die, thus we cannot take our own lives. To murder is a sin, and that goes for taking one's own life. However the code never accounted for a being of equal power taking your life. To murder God is to sin, to suicide is to sin. However if you were to murder each other, there would be a contradiction. You are not killing God wholey, and you all exist outside the realms of ordinary humans. Thus, to die, you must all kill each other. But murder is still sin, and sins are punished, am I correct enforcer?" He asked.
"I would not stand for murder, not matter what bullshit you tell us." I responded.
"It is in your very nature. Thus, the killer cannot make it known that they were the killer. This is a game of all of you vs the enforcer of justice, who has spent an eternity condemning criminals for all manner of crimes. I shall now leave you to your slaughter."
Lucifer split into the shadows, and slithered away to whence he had came.
Part 1 end.
(Some chapters will be split into parts. Part 1 simply means part 1 of chapter 3, in this case. I'll employ parts for long chapters where there are long stretches of time without choices to make, since this part is about the length of chapters 1 and 2 anyway and I'm really tired. Feel free to post, discuss, and make suggestions at these points as usual, and I'll try to get the next part up in this thread as soon as possible, hopefully with a choice.)
She sat by herself on a log, arms folded on her lap, still as a statue. To call her current state stoic could perhaps be called an understatement.
"So, know who I am?" I asked jokingly, sitting next to her.
"Of course, Akira Inoue. I saw you seeing me and coming towards me." She explained, still not moving.
"So... can you see out of everyone's eyes?" I asked, since it had been a long time since I had spoken to her.
"No. Only yours. This power requires a lot of data and as the most active member within the datascape, you were the candidate I chose. I had to sacrifice my eyesight as a result. But another consequence of this is that I have accumulated all the knowledge within the capacity of the datascape. To be frank I don't even need eyesight, I already have the layout of this place memorized, and as things change, you will inevitably learn them, leading me to do the same. With your duplication and red eye I may sometimes know what you know before you yourself know it." She answered.
"I wouldn't expect less from someone of your position. But I thought you were cut off from the server." I responded, chuckling.
"Your red eye still works does it not? Something must be keeping our powers intact." She explained.
"So, I guess you don't know why we're here."
Finally moving, she shook her head.
"I do have an inkling... but I cannot see into the future. Only predict it. I suppose we all have predictive abilities, given our lifespan..." She muttered.
We were silent for a few moments.
"I wonder how blind I truly am, to be unable to see the future unfold before my own eyes..." She muttered.
Before I could respond to or think about her last sentence, a rumbling was heard and Carim came running up to us.
"A server square just crashed down. Seems to be fully intact, and it's inviting us in! Come on!" He yelled at us, motioning for us to follow.
We reached the server square and indeed, a message reading 'step inside' was written on it in large, capitalized lettering.
"Can we really just step inside? It feels like we're being railroaded." I immediately put out as we all assembled in front of it.
"Well we've got to go inside, right? What else are we going to do!" Rain encouraged, standing in front of us.
"Indeed. We are God. Nothing here can oppose us." Said Deus, walking up to it.
"Agreed. Lets move." Said Adam authoritatively. He was the first to step inside, and Deus and Rain soon followed. Stepping inside as an action which looked similar to stepping into a pool of water, it sent out ripples and had a very magical feeling to it, even when I was watching.
"I do not like where this is going... I'll stay here and let you guys do whatever needs to be done, alright?" Said Sin, turning around and walking in the other direction.
Virtue however grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt.
"I implore you to reconsider. Is this course of action acceptable?" She asked, looking at us.
"Give me a break you oh so perfect bitch..." Sin mumbled, true hatred and disgust lacing his voice.
"You're too easy on him." I spat.
We dragged him to the server, and stood in front of it for a brief few moments.
"Lets drag the sucker in." I continued, and we all stepped made our way through.
In stark contrast to the underworld, the world we found ourselves in seemed like heaven. The grass was a bright green, the sky a deep blue, and the flowers busting with colour and smells which nearly knocked me out. In fact, the smells were so divine and potent that Sin, who had previously been struggling within our grasp, found himself peacefully asleep on the natural, earthy ground in the span of a minuet.
"Where are we?" I asked as we walked into a circular clearing with a stream of crystalline water running through.
Adam stood mesmerized as he looked around, as though he were about to cry.
"This looks like... Eden." He breathed to himself.
"Don't get so choked up, this place is nice but you've seen it before?" I asked him.
"Of course. Eden was Adam's birthplace, and the first server. One might say that Eden birthed the datascape." Minerva interjected.
"So why was it deleted?" Asked Carim, smelling a flower.
"It served its purpose, correct?" Minerva responded, looking at Adam.
"Yes... this place is nostalgic but I had to give it up. It cost too much data. It doesn't look like this place would be too hard to render, but this place has special coding... it stimulates the senses more so than any other server. All sensual and even emotional responses are as a result heightened by the mere act of being here. responses err on the positive side given the scenery and as a result Eden can send whoever enters it into a comatose bliss... almost like poor old sin there." Adam explained.
We wondered around Eden for a little while afterwards. The place was rather small. There was the clearing, lots of pathways, a lake, and a giant tree, upon which juicy apples grew.
"I wonder why we were brought here..." I asked myself offhandedly when we were all back in the clearing.
As if in response, a mass of shadows grew next to the lake.
The shadows merged together to form a slightly larger than average virus, although this one grew giant, bat like wings. In the center of its face, a giant red eye opened, darting around erratically.
"Lucifer." Said Minerva simply.
"Indeed. It is I, the one who was cast out of your society in the haven of God."
"Explain yourself, fallen one." I immediately spat out. I didn't want to hear anything too long winded.
"You have been brought here for evaluation. Specifically, I want revenge. However to do so I will need to have God destroy itself. There is an exit to Eden, however one of you must sacrifice yourself in order for the rest of you to escape."
"Ignorance. I'll break out of here myself!" Deus roared, punching Lucifer. However the fist went straight through the being's body.
"It is quite impossible to harm me. In time you may come to understand why. So yes, if one of you is to perish here, you will be forever annihilated, and your data will be spread to your murderer."
"You never said anything about murder!" Rain cried.
"Yes. It is of course quite impossible for beings such as yourselves to commit suicide. It would be like a planet trying to destroy itself using natural disasters, or a sun trying to destroy itself by burning brighter. Certainly possible but pointless and incredibly difficult, and luck based. It was coded in our very data to never allow ourselves to die, thus we cannot take our own lives. To murder is a sin, and that goes for taking one's own life. However the code never accounted for a being of equal power taking your life. To murder God is to sin, to suicide is to sin. However if you were to murder each other, there would be a contradiction. You are not killing God wholey, and you all exist outside the realms of ordinary humans. Thus, to die, you must all kill each other. But murder is still sin, and sins are punished, am I correct enforcer?" He asked.
"I would not stand for murder, not matter what bullshit you tell us." I responded.
"It is in your very nature. Thus, the killer cannot make it known that they were the killer. This is a game of all of you vs the enforcer of justice, who has spent an eternity condemning criminals for all manner of crimes. I shall now leave you to your slaughter."
Lucifer split into the shadows, and slithered away to whence he had came.
Part 1 end.
(Some chapters will be split into parts. Part 1 simply means part 1 of chapter 3, in this case. I'll employ parts for long chapters where there are long stretches of time without choices to make, since this part is about the length of chapters 1 and 2 anyway and I'm really tired. Feel free to post, discuss, and make suggestions at these points as usual, and I'll try to get the next part up in this thread as soon as possible, hopefully with a choice.)