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15strangers2019-11-14 08:17 pm
strangerpeople) wrote in 15strangers2019-11-14 08:17 pm
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GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING, GOOD
[When you come to, it's at your own pace. It even feels like waking up as usual. The only problem is that nothing else fits.
If you're lucky, you've woken up in a bed, but even then, it's not your bed. It's a bunk bed, and there may or may not be another person collapsed on top of you and out like a light. Every other bed in the room is similarly full. But there's no way to fit all these guests on four mattresses, even with forcing people to "get cozy" with one another, so chances are you're waking up someplace else.
You might get lucky and wake up on a couch... or you might wake up in the bathtub, or in the shower. On the kitchen cabinets, in the kitchen cabinets. Facedown in a stairwell, or just straight-up dumped in a hallway. You get the idea. The point is, you're waking up in a house that might be perfectly nice, even luxurious, if it were just you and you were waking up anywhere that made sense.
Unfortunately, it's not just you. It's not even one or two other people. Oh, no. There are 14 others scattered throughout the house. And, so far as you can tell... only those 14 others. Who have just as much of an idea of what's going on as you do. Isn't that lovely?
At least you've woken up with clothes on... and at least you seem to have one item of yours that came along for the ride. Better than nothing.
Oh, and one last thing... you just might remember a creepy little dream that told you about having a power now. But that's gotta be fake, right? ...Right?
Rise and shine, Strangers. It's time to start a brand new day here at 15 Maple Lane.]
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Not really? I'm probably an android...
[Unless he was put into some other kind of not-quite-human body. His fingers flex thoughtfully, before he pats himself on the chest.]
I remember being a human though - that's part of my AI! I'm the AI Yoosung Kim. It's a long story.
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[She's just listening in, trying to make sense of it.]
...Is that a country?
[That doesn't quite fit what they're saying, but it's the closest she can think of.]
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Um - it's. It's technology... what year is it where you're from?
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[She just looks at him. Help?]
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Okay... well... I'm just going to have to do my best to explain here!
[He has to think about this for another long pause, to even decide where to start. Electricity? No, they'd be here all day. He doesn't even know that much about it. He really takes this stuff for granted.]
...In the future there's a machine called a computer. People use to store information, and they can also send and receive it from other people's computers. The information is called "data" and it can be pretty complex. You can send pictures, sound, or even text like in a book... Basically like how he's doing right now!! He's got to be using a computer for it, to talk to us from far away.
Then, even FURTHER in the future.... like, so far that I have no idea where it began, because I'm not from that far... Computers get even more powerful, so they start using data to make programs that can think for themselves. That's called artificial intelligence, or AI. They used that technology to copy my mind when I was a human.
[From this point, Yoosung's face will become more wistful the more he talks, the more it becomes personal.]
After I died... I was awake in the computer, but the 'simulation' program I was in made it seem like I was in the real world until we found out it was all fake, and I found out how to see the data. And now I'm like this... That guy who brought us here must have sent my data to a new body that just looks like my old one. And that new body... is an android, unless he found some way to bring my real body back from the dead.
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[That is certainly a lot. She just listens.]
So... That voice was a machine, that thinks like a person? But you can put people in them?
[That's really shortening it.]
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Yeah, you got it!
[well he doesn't actually know that the voice is an AI as opposed to a guy with a mic and the internet, but he can correct them if they're wrong, not Yoosung's problem.]
I wouldn't worry too much about that, anyway. Androids are usually a lot like regular people. Though that voice might not be... we don't know enough yet.
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[That seems simpler.]
...This is harder than learning about cars.