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Myriad Reality

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*Steps back a few steps to take in the whole view of what's happening all at once

@GalaxyRaider

*Several of the streams exit the premises, and the program rapidly runs step-by-step through the error conditions, function stacks, arguments, and corresponding code locations, settling on the phrases "Warning: could not connect to corollary runtimes Purge01_01, Purge01_03, Purge01_04. Results may be incomplete." in yellow and "Debug analysis complete. Echo digest?" in green*

Myriad Reality

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We'll work through it. We need to figure out a way forward though, and as of now we don't have another way.

@GalaxyRaider

*My finger lingers over the “Yes” button hesitantly for a few moments, and then presses down*
If you say so.
*The prompt rolls up like a scroll and the ribbons of data emerge in the same way they initially entered, flying out in all directions*

Myriad Reality

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It’s there to replicate a virus program right? It could make your mom again!

@Ignacious

W—what do you mean?

Myriad Reality

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Oh. So what are the chances it will anything bad? If it is a-Wait!!

@Ignacious

Huh? What’s wrong?

Myriad Reality

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What would make it not safe?

@Ignacious

Well, it’s a program, right? It can do anything if we run it.

Myriad Reality

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Oh! Okay. Got it!
*smiles*

@Ignacious

I want to run it and see what happens, but I’m not convinced it’s safe.

Myriad Reality

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…
*looks around*

@Ignacious

It helps you learn why some program didn’t work.

Myriad Reality

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You seem more informed about the process than I do… what is debug?

@Ignacious

It helps you figure out what triggered a bug by analyzing what made a process crash.

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What do you think would be the alternative?

@GalaxyRaider

My fear is that something is planted in the debugger that we don’t want to run.

Myriad Reality

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Not that I could notice out of the ordinary. Not that it was normal.

@Ignacious

I see... so the only remain question is—

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Couldn't find any results, really. All purged.

@GalaxyRaider

—do we let this thing run its debug process?

Myriad Reality

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Cutting corners ain't always cool.

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They tested it on viruses, did you pick up that from your end?

@GalaxyRaider

Nope, nothing in that level of detail. How did that turn out?