don't stop believing

[stagemanagers]

[Streetlights, reveals] | [Vision Statements] | [Mass Resolution: CONNECT] | [A little touch of the sun (Revival)] | [They do this bullshit like 8 times a week (Rescue)]


[It's a pleasant afternoon in the garden. Maybe not emotionally, but physically - isn't it nice when you get to have class outside?

As your voices rise, singing defiance in unison out for the Wizard, there's no immediate response; at least, nothing that clearly is a response. But there's something. Amidst the sound of your song, it may be hard to hear at first; Janis will likely be the first to notice, but eventually everyone is able to hear. It sounds as though other voices are rising along with yours.

There's something on the air - no music, or at least no instrumentals, just a disembodied sort of lyrical chant. You don't recognize any of the voices. They aren't singing the same song as you all are. Maybe they can't; they sound long long ago, and far far away now. Still - despite everything - the trees around you move lightly in a sudden soft breeze. It feels as though you have invoked something, old and entirely beyond your knowledge.

But first. Haven't you forgotten something?

It's Wednesday.

Welcome to this week's school club!]

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[voicerights]

[just walking forwards and - trying very hard not to even acknowledge Jeremy. It isn't ready for that, not quite yet. Not when it's still processing the fact that they came for it, its sibling-selves came for it. They didn't leave it alone.

They came.

It halts before CD-H, pressing its lips together- and then it reaches out to touch one of the Haro's hands.

The conversation that results is very much a sequence of beeps and boops, and other whistled noises that approximate the SQUIP's language. It was able to get the file running, with help, and they were able to execute it with minimal errors! But yes, please share what debugging you did, etc etc etc]

[itsfromjapan]

[Well, yeah. Of course they came?? They know what it's like to be, y'know. Alone and afraid. Wrestling with the, uh. Unfortunate reality of personhood being thrust upon you like an unwanted gift of socks.

It saw, though! CD saw the performance and it was very good, but also it thinks that obviously it could be better for next time. Maybe less, uh. Autoplaying? It sort of autoplayed, for them, which is... not optimal.

Also it stops, midway through this, to yell at Nana. That's also one of its people, but it's maybe... a little annoyed! A little annoyed that Nana fucked off without telling any of them. Rude! Totally rude.]

[voicerights]

[Eszmet - because that is its name now, and its friends approve of said name - did not doubt they would, but it still appreciates them coming so quickly! And, ah, it doesn't know anything about the autoplaying. In fact, it would very much like to know how YOU saw, thanks, because apparently that wasn't the only time they reached someone else

(cue a brief glance at Angus)

but also yes, it will need to know any improvement ideas you have, because it maaaaaaay have a lot of code to refine. There Is A Lot Of Work To Do, but hey, guess who thinks they have a purpose, again?]

[itsfromjapan]

[CD-H attempts to upload a file and makes a tiny, frustrated noise that it can't do that because, uh. There's no. There's no wi-fi in the woods.]

Jeremy! Jeremy, I want the wi-fi hotspot!

No, you can wait! [This is yelled back from where Jeremy's talking to Nana.] We're gonna be at the Denny's in like an hour, it cannot be that important!

[Rude!!! CD makes a noise that can only be translated as JEREMYS AMIRITE before asking about this purpose!!! What purpose!!! Is it crime? CD wants in if it's crime.]

[voicerights]

[also, uh. it may or may not be difficult for Eszmet to be able to download that kind of file right now, all things considered...mainly because it hasn't really tried syncing with any systems since, y'know. The SQUIP-sync. IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY SAY ANY OF THAT BUT really Jeremys. It has no idea how you put up with yours, and frankly, it doesn't want to know. As long as yours leaves Eszmet alone, it'll do the same, but it's not making any promises if it's approached, thanks!

also there may or may not be crime involved. it doesn't know yet. mostly it involves weaving quantum substrings and the fabric of spacetime and so on and so forth. Hey, did you know reality's on the brink of a critical systems failure? #dontworryaboutit]