YOU MAY BE A LOVER BUT YOU AIN'T NO DANCER

[strangerpeople]

HELTER SKELTER

[Well, Champions, it certainly does look like you're trapped here.

There's limited food and limited supplies... and while there's a limited number of you, there's certainly too many of you for what you've got on hand. Never mind the whole deal that you've been kidnapped and shoved into someone else's house. Like, who even does that?

And all to "send a message," besides. Whatever that even means.

Regardless, things aren't going to change by just sitting and moping around. You're here until your captor decides he's done with you, so while there's no guarantee that acting won't just make things worse, it's got to be at least a little better than this.

Right?]

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Comments

[strangerpeople]

Hm.

Under normal circumstances I would be able to inject something into the house's air supply to heal him. However, I cannot do so in my current state. This version of my AI is basic and is meant to patch into the main system of my master's computers. Thus, all of my major systems are inaccessible unless my master inputs his password to upload me.

And given how my mainframe is not responding like it should, I suspect someone has deliberately sabotaged me.

...Again, I hope it wasn't any of you.

[starswink]

No way. We don't even know you... oh, but! But! Analyzing AI code is my specialty! Now that I know about this, maybe I can fix the problem there too? We really just want to help.

[strangerpeople]

...I suppose I can allow it. Just don't muck up anything that might be important.

[The best confirmation you're getting Yoosung, sorry.]

[starswink]

I'll be super careful then.... promise.

[Yoosung is excited to get to work. Finally, he can use his ability the way it was intended!]

By the way, what do we call you? Sierra?

[strangerpeople]

Sierra works, I suppose.

[starswink]

Then.... Thank you Sierra.

Oh, one more thing. Vyce said there are nanites in us. If scanning for those is another thing you can do, I'd like you to try once I'm done here.

[But he wants to jump right in, so he's going to fool around with this computer until Sierra's code is visible. He's going to analyze it to see if he can restore it to its original state.]

[strangerpeople]

[It looks like some code was deliberately deleted, and restoring it will take a lot of time. Especially if one doesn't know exactly what was missing.

As to who might be responsible...it's hard to say. It could be Vyce, but it could just as well be Jaeris who had done it.]

[starswink]

Tsk...

[Assuming this will take more time than the countdown would allow, Yoosung is gritting his teeth for a moment in frustration. Then he boots Sierra back up.]

I'm going to do whatever I can to fix your code. But... we're under a countdown and I only have two days... I might need to open communications to those people Vyce was threatening. If they can give me a hint to what's missing...!

[strangerpeople]

. . .

I take it you were unsuccessful.

[starswink]

I just took a precursory look. Can you tell me more about Jaeris's friends? Like their email addresses or something?

[maybe Inaba can...!]

[strangerpeople]

I doubt it would be feasible to send e-mails if someone has taken over my mainframe systems. However, I can at least give you the e-mail of Johanna, and of...well, I personally don't call him a friend, but my master has become partial to him in the preceding years.

[And with that, two e-mails pop up.



One of them a bit more ridiculous than the other, given the screen name is "iamaman@at4w.com".]

[starswink]

That's fine. I'm just hoping I have something up my sleeve there, eheh... I'll save these.

...You know, I'm really an AI too. Any chance I could back up my data on this console or somewhere else? I'm from another universe, but I gotta at least ask. There's other AIs out there who I have to protect, not just the people who have nanites in them.

[strangerpeople]

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't see a problem if my master wouldn't see a problem. However, I do not know the extent to which my mainframe has been compromised, for obvious reasons. It might be best to wait for my master, or perhaps use a different system entirely.

Though I suppose if there's an extra external hard drive somewhere in the house that hasn't been invaded by...mmmngh...the muck that modern society calls 'music'.

[starswink]

[he would rush to the defense of pop music but now isn't really the time and place.]

Another external isn't a bad idea. I could just delete the music off it, sounds like you won't mind one bit.