Server

Myriad Reality

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Your mom is still your mom, no matter what she thinks about what happened to her. And you are still you. But despite opinions formed by experience, I can’t imagine any lies about the events she describes specifically.

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And you won’t continue to lord it over our heads after this would be done? You’d stick to your word?

@GalaxyRaider

So you agree with her?? You think I’m not actually alive?

Myriad Reality

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How much of what she’s said hasn’t made sense?

@GalaxyRaider

None of the important parts! Everything about souls and programs, all of it is garbage! There’s no way that’s mom, and she doesn’t know anything about me.

Myriad Reality

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Mm…

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That’s a bold thing to say. You think any of Data’s enemies have been tracking specifically our endeavors here in your home and waited until we were close to figuring out everything to step in? Seems like an odd thing for someone to do.

@GalaxyRaider

Who cares how they did it? Are you hearing the kind of stuff she’s saying??

Myriad Reality

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Why wouldn’t I?

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Groundwork set for expectations. I have to know, what were we going to find if we ignored you and followed the program’s beam?
*Points up*

@GalaxyRaider

She’s clearly insane! This is some kind of trick by one of Data’s enemies to take advantage of us.

Myriad Reality

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Reasonable. Just not what I expected.

@GalaxyRaider

Forget that, you’re actually listening to her?? This is absurd.

Myriad Reality

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She was only ever an unfeeling collection of programs that hooked into my soul like a parasite. Data used me to give those ones and zeroes the appearance of a soul, but she was no more alive—
*Motions to Tempo and Rhythm*
—than either of these two are. And faced with that reality, it's no wonder it couldn't recover from that kind of error state.

@Meta

*Surprise and anger flash across my face before being replaced by a crushed expression*
I don't believe you.

Myriad Reality

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My soul was the first to be "successfully" converted over to a digital-only existence. It's raw, broken, and damaged by that process.

@Meta

But it's still you.

Myriad Reality

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*Disgust flashes across my face*
If you could call me a living soul. I'm not convinced.

@Meta

Hey, wait. What do you mean by that?

Myriad Reality

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A long, long time ago I was locked into this digital prison against my will. Beyond that, a digital straightjacket. But a certain decision made in desperation loosened that straightjacket just enough for me to wiggle my arm free.

@Meta

*Dread washes across my face*

Myriad Reality

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Unfreeze them.

@GalaxyRaider

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*Taps my fingers together, releasing the suspension*

@Meta

*Looks around*
What... just happened?