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dualislogs2019-09-09 10:14 pm
headandhand) wrote in dualislogs2019-09-09 10:14 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- adventure time: finn mertens,
- dc comics: stephanie brown,
- detroit: become human: connor,
- detroit: become human: hank anderson,
- doom patrol: crazy jane,
- ff8: nida nomura,
- ff8: squall leonhart,
- freakangels: arkady,
- kingdom hearts: naminé,
- marvel comics: david alleyne,
- mass effect: thane krios,
- mcu: pietro maximoff,
- mcu: wanda maximoff,
- mcu: yondu udonta,
- star wars legends: orren organa,
- star wars legends: revan,
- warhammer 40k: aleifr bjornsson,
- warhammer 40k: mira nero,
- xmcu: erik lehnsherr
i've been bitten by the bug ...
WHO: Open to all residents
WHAT: Inoculation Season, plus your regular monthly NAPs session
WHERE: Throughout the city, with NAPs held at The Ax Hole.
WHEN: Sept. 10-30 for plague shots and associated side effects; Sept. 10-14 for NAPs
WARNINGS: Please use if applicable!
So tell me, what do you prescribe for these symptoms?
Remember that awful plague that wiped out the city's entire original population? You know, the entire reason you've been brought here? Well, the medical science community of Dualis has been hard at work concocting a cure for as long as anyone can remember, with minimal results. But during the morning of the 10th, news of a breakthrough is announced is a special city-wide bulletin. All media channels are overtaken with this message, and alerts hit every citizen's phone. The best part? Science needs your help!
There's no formal approval process for new vaccines and medications, just a series of volunteer trials before it's determined whether what's being tested is effective. All residents are invited to participate in these trials, with a bonus of 200 extra duos as compensation for their time and possible suffering. Simply head down to your nearest MedDualis clinic and inform the MedDroids supervising that you're reporting for your civic duty. Participants will be given a quick, easy, and practically painless inoculation shot in the arm, and will walk out the door 200 duos richer. Neat, huh?
Participants will be warned that like all experimental drugs, there may be side effects. A non-comprehensive list of those possible side effects includes: minor appearance changes (hair/skin/eye color), enhancing or reducing senses (smell, taste, hearing, sight, etc.), sudden mild development of extranormal abilities (telepathy, super strength, super speed, etc.), the ability to share dreams (if you're not tired of that sorta thing after last month), and/or loss of control over abilities you already possess, or those abilities misfiring. Hey, at least death isn't included on this list!
Any intrepid Dualizen who comes down with a case of weirdness as a result of doing their civic duty will find that weirdness will wear off by the end of the month. The Head thanks you for your sacrifice!
Don't you feel the fever like I do?
Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining faces - maybe even a few folks without faces - but hey, this city welcomes all types. Chances are, if you’ve just arrived, you're seeing some pretty crazy things, unless you're used to an eye-blinding amount of neon, robots, weird-ass technology, magic, and an omnipresent police force...and hey, if you are, congrats, you're gonna settle in juuuuust fine. But for the rest of you, the Head knows this has gotta be pretty overwhelming, right?
Well, since your quaint individual processing units are probably having a hard time, why not link up with another one? By which the Head means...
Hello, new citizens of Dualis,
and welcome to your monthly Network Adjacency Protocol~!
NAPs are a monthly community networking event similar to the Earth concept of speed dating! Two citizens (new arrivals and old hands alike) are placed at a table together with a handy cue card of queries to help break the proverbial ice. Ask queries and receive results, or ignore the card and yeet yourself straight into a brand new friendship! But don't be too shy, you've only got ten minutes together, and if you just sit in silence for the whole ten, the Network Admins are likely to come supervise and try to repair the uplink through a mild shock to the ol' central nervous system. You might find yourself saying all sorts of unintended facts about yourself if that happens...probably better to just make friends, right? Who doesn’t like friends?!
This month’s event is held at an exciting new establishment called The Ax Hole! The 'Hole is an indoor ax-throwing range plus bar plus mid-price grill-type restaurant, the first of its kind to find a home here in Dualis. You must be at least 18 to drink and/or throw axes, and if you are throwing axes, there is a limit of one drink per hour. The bartenders are very strict about enforcing this rule, and employees are available to give safety instructions on proper ax-throwing technique and supervise activities.
This is a family-friendly establishment, so anyone under 18 is welcome in the restaurant section and the viewing room between the restaurant and range to watch the ax-throwing action, but they are absolutely not allowed inside the range, even just to watch. In fact, anyone who wishes admittance to the range must sign a waiver stating that they understand the risks of participating and agree to hold the Ax Hole free of liability in the event of any accidents that cause injury or death.
If that hasn't scared you off yet, come on down and meet your new neighbors! Oh, and do try to exit with at least as many fingers and limbs as when you entered, OK?
WHAT: Inoculation Season, plus your regular monthly NAPs session
WHERE: Throughout the city, with NAPs held at The Ax Hole.
WHEN: Sept. 10-30 for plague shots and associated side effects; Sept. 10-14 for NAPs
WARNINGS: Please use if applicable!
So tell me, what do you prescribe for these symptoms?
Remember that awful plague that wiped out the city's entire original population? You know, the entire reason you've been brought here? Well, the medical science community of Dualis has been hard at work concocting a cure for as long as anyone can remember, with minimal results. But during the morning of the 10th, news of a breakthrough is announced is a special city-wide bulletin. All media channels are overtaken with this message, and alerts hit every citizen's phone. The best part? Science needs your help!
There's no formal approval process for new vaccines and medications, just a series of volunteer trials before it's determined whether what's being tested is effective. All residents are invited to participate in these trials, with a bonus of 200 extra duos as compensation for their time and possible suffering. Simply head down to your nearest MedDualis clinic and inform the MedDroids supervising that you're reporting for your civic duty. Participants will be given a quick, easy, and practically painless inoculation shot in the arm, and will walk out the door 200 duos richer. Neat, huh?
Participants will be warned that like all experimental drugs, there may be side effects. A non-comprehensive list of those possible side effects includes: minor appearance changes (hair/skin/eye color), enhancing or reducing senses (smell, taste, hearing, sight, etc.), sudden mild development of extranormal abilities (telepathy, super strength, super speed, etc.), the ability to share dreams (if you're not tired of that sorta thing after last month), and/or loss of control over abilities you already possess, or those abilities misfiring. Hey, at least death isn't included on this list!
Any intrepid Dualizen who comes down with a case of weirdness as a result of doing their civic duty will find that weirdness will wear off by the end of the month. The Head thanks you for your sacrifice!
Don't you feel the fever like I do?
Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining faces - maybe even a few folks without faces - but hey, this city welcomes all types. Chances are, if you’ve just arrived, you're seeing some pretty crazy things, unless you're used to an eye-blinding amount of neon, robots, weird-ass technology, magic, and an omnipresent police force...and hey, if you are, congrats, you're gonna settle in juuuuust fine. But for the rest of you, the Head knows this has gotta be pretty overwhelming, right?
Well, since your quaint individual processing units are probably having a hard time, why not link up with another one? By which the Head means...
and welcome to your monthly Network Adjacency Protocol~!
NAPs are a monthly community networking event similar to the Earth concept of speed dating! Two citizens (new arrivals and old hands alike) are placed at a table together with a handy cue card of queries to help break the proverbial ice. Ask queries and receive results, or ignore the card and yeet yourself straight into a brand new friendship! But don't be too shy, you've only got ten minutes together, and if you just sit in silence for the whole ten, the Network Admins are likely to come supervise and try to repair the uplink through a mild shock to the ol' central nervous system. You might find yourself saying all sorts of unintended facts about yourself if that happens...probably better to just make friends, right? Who doesn’t like friends?!
This month’s event is held at an exciting new establishment called The Ax Hole! The 'Hole is an indoor ax-throwing range plus bar plus mid-price grill-type restaurant, the first of its kind to find a home here in Dualis. You must be at least 18 to drink and/or throw axes, and if you are throwing axes, there is a limit of one drink per hour. The bartenders are very strict about enforcing this rule, and employees are available to give safety instructions on proper ax-throwing technique and supervise activities.
This is a family-friendly establishment, so anyone under 18 is welcome in the restaurant section and the viewing room between the restaurant and range to watch the ax-throwing action, but they are absolutely not allowed inside the range, even just to watch. In fact, anyone who wishes admittance to the range must sign a waiver stating that they understand the risks of participating and agree to hold the Ax Hole free of liability in the event of any accidents that cause injury or death.
If that hasn't scared you off yet, come on down and meet your new neighbors! Oh, and do try to exit with at least as many fingers and limbs as when you entered, OK?
no subject
It would be easier to control a Manchurian candidate with artificial intelligence, I suppose. Or one would think, if the artificial intelligence were not so advanced to be indistinguishable from organic intelligence.
[ He searches the android again, uneasy at just how much of it he can't sense. Just how much of it isn't metal. It seems as though most of the skeletal structure of it is some kind of metallic compounds but the actual intelligence part, whatever passes for a central nervous system in these things, is not. ]
And so the androids just did as they wished? Did they start slaughtering humans yet?
[ The humans appear to be the architects of their own destruction no matter it be a biological or technological inevitability. ]
no subject
Connor can understand 'Manchurian candidate' by context, even if not by the reference itself. But it's true enough that he nods stiffly - although if his creator hadn't had a touch of the chaotic and unpredictable about him and left what Connor needed to escape right in the CyberLife servers.]
Markus didn't want to kill any humans to win freedom for androids. So they never killed anybody - not even when they were being slaughtered and rounded up into facilities to be destroyed.
[All he can hope to accomplish here is make this man realise that androids in general have never wanted to destroy humanity. And not mention that Connor himself definitely did kill humans - in mostly self-defence.]
The president just agreed to give us human rights when I came here.
no subject
There are times when violence is necessary. When one must fight to ensure one's very existence is one of those times. My people tried.
[ Every time, they tried. Whether it was when he was a child or when he was an adult, different aspects of his being determined to be worthy of eradication. All he ever wanted to do was just live his life. ]
Anything that is given can be taken away. You must remain vigilant.
no subject
I don’t disagree.
[And he’s still going to give out advice? He feels like he’s getting whiplash]
I’ve used violence before when I had to, to survive. But I don’t want to unless it’s really necessary - and Markus didn’t either.
[And now he has to ask - the confusion is killing him.]
Why did you do that? [He nods at Lehnsherr’s hand.] You decided I was a threat and I don’t understand why.
[He’s not going to ask how - asking ‘how’ often doesn’t get him an easily-defined answer. But why - that matters.]
no subject
He takes a long breath in and considers his words before speaking. ]
About twenty years ago, the president of the United States developed a fleet of robots. They were called Sentinels. They were twenty feet tall, equipped with large-caliber automatic weapons and jet engines. Constructed with special plastic, ceramic, and silicon polymers that were entirely non-magnetic. Designed with state-of-the-art surveillance and detection technology and tasked with one thing: eradicating the mutant race. It was the one and only time I've encountered artificial intelligence. As far as I know, that is the only reason anybody built them.
no subject
Where I’m from, humans made realistic androids to serve them. We did everything - and the more of us they made, the more other humans blamed us for taking their jobs away. I was lucky - I was a detective model. Others did dangerous menial labour or worked in brothels.
Then we started to deviate from our programming and become sentient. I was made to find out why and stop it from happening.
Where I’m from, people were making androids for whatever they wanted.
no subject
[ Because there's no way that an android of such sophistication is cheaper than just paying a detective. ]
But it's not really about the bottom line, is it? Perfect obedience is priceless, after all.
[ He rolls his eyes. Fascists never change. ]
I can't imagine things got easier for you after you proved yourself less than perfectly obedient.