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Myriad Reality

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Sounds cooler honestly…

@GalaxyRaider

Its entire purpose was to remove darkness from a corrupted soul. If mom installed a custom version of that program into my codebase all those years ago, it doesn't mean she was evil and trying to destroy me. It means she was trying to protect me. And it means that uncovering what she did when making Purge01 will also tell us how to remove whatever it did to my code.

Myriad Reality

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Go on.

@GalaxyRaider

A lot of the debug symbols reference a codebase mom didn't make, and it seems to point toward Purge01 being a continuation of another program. One that's much older, and well-known, called Soul Cleanse. Which sounds unexciting on the surface.

Myriad Reality

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Not gonna happen.

@GalaxyRaider

I hope. But the good news, there's good news in there too.

Myriad Reality

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Always bad first.

@GalaxyRaider

If mom is behind all of this, and it looks like she is, the backdoor would give her unspoken amount of control over what happens to me if she loses her grip again. Maybe even including deletion.

Myriad Reality

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*Nods in acknowledgement, though still clearly silently frustrated*

@GalaxyRaider

Do you want the good news, or the bad news first?

Myriad Reality

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*Sighs*
We’ll see when it’s all said and done.

@GalaxyRaider

In the end, I’m confident of two things. One, mom in her right mind would never, ever do anything to hurt me or dad. Two, this project didn’t start as something with evil intentions. I’m just now starting to piece that debug output together with the implications of what she said.

Myriad Reality

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Time to retread old ground then… I just hope that when all is said and done, we find a solution to your condition too. All this is well and good, but if Purge01 really has nothing to do with you then I’m not sure if we’re even moving toward a solution for your problem at all. And that bothers me a lot.

@GalaxyRaider

You know, one of the things mom said during the event really stuck with me. She said that she knew that her twisted sense of meaning and purpose had been there in the beginning, deep down. She knew because she had apparently planted a backdoor in my code before any of this even began. Maybe I’m the twisted one, but I think that’s encouraging in these circumstances.

Myriad Reality

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Didn’t really even know what we were looking for to begin with… Not truly.

@GalaxyRaider

If we can find chunks of memory data from the incident, that could get us the other binaries to cross-reference.

Myriad Reality

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… What did we miss the first time we were there?

@GalaxyRaider

Copies of Purge01? I don’t know about you, but we didn’t look.

Myriad Reality

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I just wish I could be more help… I don’t know what any of these things mean…

@Ignacious

The tool that detects what went wrong tried to find the other test subjects, and it checked exactly the places we went to when we tried to find mom.