07-31-2022, 09:14 PM
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From: Exarch Israfel
Location: New Tokyo, planet New Tokyo
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Hello again.
The transcription is attached below. Oracles' techniques come in handy for recording and transcribing Nomads' psychic messages. Sure glad that migraine was not the only gift I obtained from my abilities. I will use this channel for communication from now on.
If I can get you another piece of the puzzle somehow I will do so.
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From: Exarch Israfel
Location: New Tokyo, planet New Tokyo
Signal: 100%
Video feed open
Hello again.
The transcription is attached below. Oracles' techniques come in handy for recording and transcribing Nomads' psychic messages. Sure glad that migraine was not the only gift I obtained from my abilities. I will use this channel for communication from now on.
If I can get you another piece of the puzzle somehow I will do so.
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[24.07.2022 19:29:32] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Hello there...
[24.07.2022 19:30:00] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Who are you?
[24.07.2022 19:30:27] Entity: ***A little -guest- wanders into the old remants...
[24.07.2022 19:30:58] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Well, I guess I was invited
[24.07.2022 19:31:01] Entity: ***~here~ to take... or to give.
[24.07.2022 19:31:53] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Well, I don't see anything free for the taking
[24.07.2022 19:32:56] Entity: ***Nothing among the remnants is ~free~. Every -step- has a price.
[24.07.2022 19:33:27] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: What's the currency? Sanity? Life expectancy?
[24.07.2022 19:34:42] Entity: ***What -little-guest- seeks?
[24.07.2022 19:35:30] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Anything to sate the curiosity. In a way I got what I wanted. There's plenty more that you have, yes?
[24.07.2022 19:36:54] Entity: ***Depends... The 'name' one wishes to ~associate~(?) with, what does -it- mean for the bearer?
[24.07.2022 19:38:33] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Israfel? I cannot even remember if I was the one who chose it. He is the angel that blows the trumpet two times...
[24.07.2022 19:38:43] Entity: ***Are you a -new spark- or a -fading memory- of thoughts long gone?
[24.07.2022 19:39:22] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I am the light that shines in the darkness waiting.
[24.07.2022 19:40:19] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: So the first sound shall kill all creatures... The second will revive them all for divine judgement.
[24.07.2022 19:40:26] Entity: ***The -light- is dim here... Are ~you~ feeling being a relic of a -bygone- times. Much like this -site-...
[24.07.2022 19:40:34] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Oh, I definitely am.
[24.07.2022 19:40:56] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: And yet I persevere with a heart that will carry me on for long years.
[24.07.2022 19:42:47] Entity: ***Confine -us- then... is there any -relics- left alive among your... (?) society.
[24.07.2022 19:43:27] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Among the Oracles?
[24.07.2022 19:43:47] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I am not aware about any other active members.
[24.07.2022 19:44:21] Entity: ***A lone one then... the last bearer to arrive.
[24.07.2022 19:44:46] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I am the only one active, not the only one who remembers.
[24.07.2022 19:45:02] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Alas, there is no place for us among the stars. Not yet.
[24.07.2022 19:47:27] Entity: ***Perhaps... a different purpose would be found.
[24.07.2022 19:48:35] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I will only lead them if I know where the path goes.
[24.07.2022 19:48:54] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Otherwise I'd rather let them have some peace and quiet.
[24.07.2022 19:49:56] Entity: ***The -destination-. Others may see it... ~unconventional~. Risky even. A solution too... ~harsh~(?)
[24.07.2022 19:50:31] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Then I will only take the select few with me if I move at all.
[24.07.2022 19:52:29] Entity: ***It is a -resting ground-, and one remains asleep there, waiting to be awakened like the ~rest~ of us had.
[24.07.2022 19:53:06] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: And Annabelle McAllister who raises up the dead...
[24.07.2022 19:53:16] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Clever little Annabelle with her clever head...
[24.07.2022 19:53:40] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Why were you put to rest like this?
[24.07.2022 19:53:55] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Why even K'Hara is wary of you?
[24.07.2022 19:54:44] Entity: ***Other tribes... lost in -difference- they have unintentionally produced.
[24.07.2022 19:55:09] Entity: ***Lost to -difference- and losing ~sight~ of path ahead.
[24.07.2022 19:55:23] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Yeah, their arguments are straight up legendary
[24.07.2022 19:56:06] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: So where are we all headed? I sure hope it's not the goddamn end of the world.
[24.07.2022 19:56:18] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I like existing, you know.
[24.07.2022 19:56:28] Entity: ***(amusingly) It is... at the very edge of the -world-.
[24.07.2022 19:57:21] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Is it the mysterious Vault thing that everyone was so obsessed with?
[24.07.2022 19:58:17] Entity: ***A different -matter-. There are ~others~ attending it.
[24.07.2022 19:59:12] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Raven, right? The Vagrants. Maybe someone else. So what do you need me to do?
[24.07.2022 20:01:59] Entity: ***Unlike the -other matter- this had a clear ~destination~, it is of an old dream...
[24.07.2022 20:03:15] Entity: ***The resting ground of a ~star builder~... Albeit others may call it very differently.
[24.07.2022 20:03:50] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: A star builder?.. That would be a sight to behold.
[24.07.2022 20:06:08] Entity: ***A sight to behold -indeed-... To witness it pierce the star and the worlds around torn asunder and washed away.
[24.07.2022 20:06:41] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: That sounds like a misuse.
[24.07.2022 20:07:39] Entity: ***(almost a laugh) One has to level the old for a new foundation to be laid.
[24.07.2022 20:08:33] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Mmm, I suppose I can understand that
[24.07.2022 20:09:11] Entity: ***-Us-... our kind are not warriors(?), in the end all we were... builders. Labor for the Makers.
[24.07.2022 20:09:50] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: And look where the Nomads of Sirius ended up
[24.07.2022 20:11:00] Entity: ***Guardians of our -own- ruins...
[24.07.2022 20:11:06] Death: [RM]RNC-Oste was put out of action by Wendy.Black (Gun).
[24.07.2022 20:11:45] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Guess you'd like to see your kin as builders if not architects once more.
[24.07.2022 20:12:49] CONSOLE: Possible cheating detected: RHC-Ian.Maskim
[24.07.2022 20:13:41] Entity: ***Architects we were... at the behest. The ~past~ need not to be protected... no more.
[24.07.2022 20:14:37] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Hahah. Am I supposed to convince Sho'zak and the others that their duty is long over?..
[24.07.2022 20:14:51] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Probably not, eh?
[24.07.2022 20:15:19] Entity: ***Their mindset remains rigid. They need not to be... 'convinced'. For now.
[24.07.2022 20:15:49] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Alright then. You provided some context. What else do I need to know?
[24.07.2022 20:17:42] Entity: ***The -destination-, the resting ground, remains elusive. But others' mistake prove... worthwhile endavour.
[24.07.2022 20:18:14] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Do I need to investigate some of their findings?
[24.07.2022 20:19:55] Entity: ***Old gates and a pathway torn into an old world of emerald distances.
[24.07.2022 20:20:22] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Mhm
[24.07.2022 20:21:49] Entity: ***Acquiring resources to contruct gate into -resting grounds-, like emerald world it rests outside the -grid-.
[24.07.2022 20:23:01] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Ambitious
[24.07.2022 20:24:55] Entity: ***Costly endavour (affirmation) but ~necessary~.
[24.07.2022 20:25:34] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I've seen a certain convoy intercepted... Perhaps it was part of their plan.
[24.07.2022 20:25:54] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Alas, can't win them all.
[24.07.2022 20:28:12] Entity: ***Not many left with -clear sight-. Dwindling resources and... too few options left
[24.07.2022 20:31:02] Entity: ***The choice is ~yours~, a little -dimming-light-.
[24.07.2022 20:31:43] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I still do not know what I'm choosing but I lose nothing listening to your offer.
[24.07.2022 20:32:09] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Also KNOCK KNOCK STOP WATCHING US FOR JOVE'S SAKE!
[24.07.2022 20:33:00] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I'm the asshole with unlimited cloaking capacity here and I can smell a fellow rat a mile away
[24.07.2022 20:33:22] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Correction, no more cloaks for me, we lost the capability to maintain them...
[24.07.2022 20:33:34] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I wish I still had that tool
[24.07.2022 20:34:33] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Wait a second
[24.07.2022 20:34:39] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: That's not what I ex
[24.07.2022 20:34:56] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: OI, the hell do you need in Omicrons?
[24.07.2022 20:35:15] ED-8: Hostile contacts dead ahead.
[24.07.2022 20:35:30] ED-8: Sir.
[24.07.2022 20:35:37] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: They probably won't shoot you unless you do something dumb.
[24.07.2022 20:35:54] Caliban: I was going to give you a sales pitch, but I will abstain in that case.
[24.07.2022 20:36:05] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: So be smart cookies, please. I don't wanna drag you to the Freeport.
[24.07.2022 20:36:38] Caliban: I'm considering my options.
[24.07.2022 20:36:40] Caliban: Eight?
[24.07.2022 20:36:49] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Please, don't shoot them.
[24.07.2022 20:36:58] ED-8: Yes?
[24.07.2022 20:37:03] Caliban: Any ideas?
[24.07.2022 20:37:06] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: We were having such a nice little conversation
[24.07.2022 20:37:11] ED-8: Non sir.
[24.07.2022 20:37:49] Entity: ***It would be... highly -unwise- to approach.
[24.07.2022 20:38:05] Caliban: Since when did I update you with the Gallic Language Pack?
[24.07.2022 20:38:29] ED-8: Since last time you visited that... Gallic B..base sir.
[24.07.2022 20:38:34] Entity: [several smaller orbs formed around the being, for now remaining inert]
[24.07.2022 20:38:38] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Oh, you have an AI helping you? That's neat.
[24.07.2022 20:38:53] Caliban: Can't have anyone else I can trust but my own creations.
[24.07.2022 20:38:58] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Fair
[24.07.2022 20:39:37] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: So, uh, could you please be a smart cookie? I can carry you to the Freeport if you get shot but I'd rather not go through that
[24.07.2022 20:39:59] ED-8: Sir, I think this man is fascinated with cookies.
[24.07.2022 20:40:01] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Plus you'll need to recover the ships...
[24.07.2022 20:40:11] Caliban: I was going to offer that big ball of light an offer.
[24.07.2022 20:40:20] Caliban: Since I so happened to run into Him.
[24.07.2022 20:40:29] Entity: ***(playfully intrigued) An offer...
[24.07.2022 20:41:13] Caliban: Revenant. What do you need her for? What part does she play in your schemes?
[24.07.2022 20:41:26] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Oh my
[24.07.2022 20:41:43] Entity: ***Endulge -us- then. Make -your- offer.
[24.07.2022 20:41:59] Caliban: I will go with it, then.
[24.07.2022 20:42:19] Entity: ***Questions... alone they portray no offer.
[24.07.2022 20:42:52] Caliban: Tell me all that you know about the Vault. Tell me what do you want to do with her. What you wanted to do with her friend.
[24.07.2022 20:43:16] Caliban: Or. Revenant will get to see the day that Vault opens. Because both her eyes might be missing.
[24.07.2022 20:43:34] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: What the fuck, man?
[24.07.2022 20:43:36] Caliban: Among a few other organs.
[24.07.2022 20:44:28] Entity: ***(slightly irritated at the barrage of questions) What do -you- offer for the answers.
[24.07.2022 20:45:46] Caliban: Revenant doesn't die with a bullet in her head. That's what I'm offering.
[24.07.2022 20:46:53] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: *sigh* You really make me want to mess your mind up in so many ways now.
[24.07.2022 20:47:04] Caliban: What else is there to mess up?
[24.07.2022 20:47:27] Caliban: I invite you to try making it worse.
[24.07.2022 20:47:56] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Out of nowhere, able to threaten one of the most dangerous women I know, demanding answers from an eldritch psy blob
[24.07.2022 20:48:06] Entity: ***The answers are worth (?) -more-.
[24.07.2022 20:48:37] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Who lets you get away with this much bullcrap? I want a job from them.
[24.07.2022 20:48:57] Caliban: You might be already talking with Him.
[24.07.2022 20:49:05] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Oh well
[24.07.2022 20:49:16] Entity: ***-we- repeat then. What ~you~ can offer. (the emphasis made it clear it expect something from 'Vincent')
[24.07.2022 20:50:48] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I'll just have a quick look around, alright?
[24.07.2022 20:50:59] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: The talk isn't about me anyway
[24.07.2022 20:51:16] Entity: ***Do not -not- know... (?) Forgotten amidst other voices.
[24.07.2022 20:51:27] Caliban: ...no.
[24.07.2022 20:52:23] Caliban: All I want to know is why.
[24.07.2022 20:52:36] Caliban: You took me for a fool. You took /him/ for a fool.
[24.07.2022 20:52:58] Caliban: You're acting as if Revenant means nothing to you. But she does, doesn't she?
[24.07.2022 20:53:27] Caliban: You're close to opening the Vault. You wouldn't want to start all over again, would you?
[24.07.2022 20:54:11] Entity: ***Hush, -little- one. These ravenous thoughts will tear your mind apart. Fractured already.
[24.07.2022 20:54:32] Caliban: I'm not little.
[24.07.2022 20:54:45] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: We sure as hell are
[24.07.2022 20:54:45] Caliban: I'm- I'm not. By any means. Little.
[24.07.2022 20:57:38] Entity: ***You and -others- will make it to the Vault. It is irreversible. The other path abruptly ends the existence.
[24.07.2022 20:57:58] Caliban: What other path? Who are the others?
[24.07.2022 20:59:34] Entity: ***The other path of inaction, indecisiveness, unwillingness and refusal.
[24.07.2022 21:00:32] Caliban: Revenant is unwilling to help you, then.
[24.07.2022 21:00:42] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I wouldn't like those gravekeeper Nomads crawling all over the corpse of Sirius...
[24.07.2022 21:00:50] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: You okay with that?
[24.07.2022 21:01:16] Caliban: I'm considering it.
[24.07.2022 21:02:06] Caliban: I want Sirius to end. Start over again. But hostile takeover by aliens is a blade with two edges.
[24.07.2022 21:02:08] Entity: ***Inquire -her- then, is it her... thoughts, or merely your echo.
[24.07.2022 21:03:08] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Then you need acceleration, not a complete wipeout...
[24.07.2022 21:03:10] Caliban: Her thoughts are as empty as her own will.
[24.07.2022 21:03:54] Caliban: She's looping around a puzzle she can not solve.
[24.07.2022 21:03:58] Entity: ***Then ~we~ offer this...
[24.07.2022 21:05:38] Entity: ***Three questions permitted. Once answers delieved... no questions permitted at all.
[24.07.2022 21:06:01] Caliban: Ever?
[24.07.2022 21:07:12] Entity: ***Survive the journey alongside the others - second chance will emerge.
[24.07.2022 21:07:56] Caliban: A second chance can mean anything.
[24.07.2022 21:09:52] Caliban: Here comes my first question. How do I align the Triage to send me to the Vault's door?
[24.07.2022 21:10:41] Caliban: Eight, you should go. Report back to The Wayfarer. Make sure you're not followed.
[24.07.2022 21:10:52] ED-8: Undertsood sir.
[24.07.2022 21:10:57] Caliban: And check in on Revenant's...check on her condition.
[24.07.2022 21:11:09] Caliban: Make sure she isn't dead. For now.
[24.07.2022 21:11:15] ED-8: Roger.
[24.07.2022 21:12:06] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: I simply hate when people come out of nowhere with trump cards in hand...
[24.07.2022 21:13:31] Entity: ***(thinking) The piece from the ~great sphere~ and attunement of the mind.
[24.07.2022 21:14:20] Entity: ***Disjointed mind reaches any place but intended destination.
[24.07.2022 21:15:12] Caliban: A piece of the "great sphere"...I love puzzles.
[24.07.2022 21:16:05] Entity: ***(a fragment of memory flashes in Vincent's mind, a certain sense of wonder and excitement of the unknown ahead)
[24.07.2022 21:16:59] Caliban: ...th-...no. That isn't me. That /isn't/ me. It. Is. Not.
[24.07.2022 21:17:28] Entity: ***(varying ideas once he saw the anomaly responding to his actions, a connection of sorts to the pathway)
[24.07.2022 21:18:48] Caliban: [Orange fumes escaped Ego's trenchcoat with a hiss. Hands clasped in front as he laid down his head.]
[24.07.2022 21:18:56] Caliban: Madness...all of them.
[24.07.2022 21:19:34] Entity: ***And ~always~ knew how to reach it...
[24.07.2022 21:20:22] Caliban: I- ...he was downright insane.
[24.07.2022 21:20:58] Caliban: Risking over and over. Experimenting like that with no expectation for it to work.
[24.07.2022 21:21:40] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Exactly the thing I would do, but with psionics.
[24.07.2022 21:21:53] Entity: ***Unsuitable mind for the -imprint- attained from the -great sphere-.
[24.07.2022 21:22:05] Entity: ***Stress unavoidable.
[24.07.2022 21:23:14] Caliban: [His breathing becomes heavy, scratching at the helmet like an itch building up under it. As if it was under his skin.]
[24.07.2022 21:23:27] Entity: ***Two questions left.
[24.07.2022 21:24:19] Caliban: [He slowly regains composure, resting his head against the seat to breathe for a moment. Let the thoughts flow away.]
[24.07.2022 21:25:11] Caliban: And when everything falls into place. You will simply disappear? I don't think so.
[24.07.2022 21:25:43] Entity: ***A second question?
[24.07.2022 21:25:52] Caliban: It is a question.
[24.07.2022 21:26:32] Entity: ***(affirmation) -our- form will 'disappear' from your existence.
[24.07.2022 21:26:53] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Hey, don't go away. You're pretty chill.
[24.07.2022 21:28:23] Caliban: ...no. You wouldn't go through all this trouble just to disappear.
[24.07.2022 21:28:56] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Will you stay if I ask you to? Just to fuel his paranoia.
[24.07.2022 21:30:53] Entity: ***A disbelief.
[24.07.2022 21:31:17] Caliban: ...fine. One question left.
[24.07.2022 21:31:28] Caliban: A question I will use another time.
[24.07.2022 21:31:46] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Aww, but I love spoilers!
[24.07.2022 21:31:52] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Hate telling them to anyone, though
[24.07.2022 21:31:57] Entity: ***Ask now or forfeit...
[24.07.2022 21:32:40] Caliban: Hmm.
[24.07.2022 21:33:26] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Yes, the forbidden knowledge...
[24.07.2022 21:33:42] Caliban: Tell me-...tell, me...tell me how to cure illnesses like Revenant's.
[24.07.2022 21:34:06] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Oh hell naw
[24.07.2022 21:34:24] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Don't tell me you're in the same boat
[24.07.2022 21:34:30] Caliban: I'm not.
[24.07.2022 21:34:35] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Alright then
[24.07.2022 21:34:49] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Still wish untold suffering and grief upon you
[24.07.2022 21:34:56] Entity: ***Cure... No *cure* exist.
[24.07.2022 21:34:58] Caliban: Get in line.
[24.07.2022 21:35:09] Caliban: There is a cure. I know there is.
[24.07.2022 21:35:28] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Number two hundred eighty six, I've seen worse
[24.07.2022 21:36:04] Caliban: Fine. That was my last question.
[24.07.2022 21:36:09] Entity: ***Solution permitting the ~mind~ can be... rescued/'salvaged'.
[24.07.2022 21:36:16] Caliban: How?
[24.07.2022 21:37:09] Entity: ***Already ~administered~... within -her-, accumulating memories, thoughts, wishes and dreams.
[24.07.2022 21:37:19] Caliban: What did you implant?
[24.07.2022 21:37:26] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: OH HELL NAW
[24.07.2022 21:37:35] Caliban: What did you administer?
[24.07.2022 21:37:37] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: That's some major spoilers right here!
[24.07.2022 21:38:29] Entity: ***Where one mind inevetably crumbles another 'steps in'...
[24.07.2022 21:39:01] Oracle|Israfel-Alep: Well, this is worrying now
[24.07.2022 21:39:52] Caliban: ...I don't want to hear it anymore. I'm done.
[24.07.2022 21:39:55] Caliban: You're sickening.