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[animusnpcs]

[The network has rebooted, and with it the translation systems--everything is in working order once more.

The following files have appeared, apparently by accident, on the network:]

security037-055
experiment037-009

[These files will be available for two hours before being deleted, although those with particularly good computer skills will be able to find the deleted files again.]

Comments

[warriorscribe]

"Walking"? When you say that, you do not mean walking using your legs, do you?

[animusnpcs]

anyone can walk with their legs

unless they're tied up

or broken

or cut off

so i guess only most people

[video]

[warriorscribe]

*For a moment, Enoch considers clarifying. But not in text. Not in such an impersonal way. The experiments seem benign, but it also looks like she's avoiding him. He turns the video feed back on, his features showing a soft hesitance, that he has reservations about what he's going to say. His voice is soft to match.*

I meant...in your case, Ruana. If you weren't walking, how did you move, back then?

[animusnpcs]

psionics

[warriorscribe]

Is that the noise...

*He pauses, and does something at the terminal. There's a tinny playback of Zelda's conversation from his end, before he returns his attention to the video feed. Apparently, he was just looking for the pronunciation.*

Psi-onics make? It sounded like there were other living things...

[animusnpcs]

psionics don't make noise

well not directly

there were scientists there

[warriorscribe]

The noises that were captured don't sound human.

[animusnpcs]

some of them were

some of them weren't

[warriorscribe]

May I ask what the ones that weren't were, and where they came from?

[animusnpcs]

my psionics are dangerous

especially walking

[warriorscribe]

You created them? What were they?

[warriorscribe]

*NO WAIT NO THAT SOUL THING JUST HAPPENED. His response is immediate, meaning on the video feed instead of the text thread.*

No, forget the creatures. Ruana, I must know...are we here in body or spirit?

[animusnpcs]

you have bodies and spirits

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch visibly relaxes. His material body would be kind of important if they ever managed to put everything back to normal.*

Do you have any idea why this place might be called a "tower of souls"?

[animusnpcs]

i didn't name it

maybe that's what it was researching

[warriorscribe]

Souls? A soul within the body, of course, or they wouldn't need our bodies at all...

*Enoch sighs.*

"Was" researching, you said...what does it research now? The destruction of our worlds?

[animusnpcs]

dax really wants to fix it

he's not lying you know

[warriorscribe]

I know. *A bit of a smile, shaky in the middle of this chaos that was contact with their hosts.* I never did take him for a liar.

Would you...happen to have any better idea of what caused the destruction, since you're older than he is?

[animusnpcs]

yes

no

maybe

[warriorscribe]

You are uncertain? What is your best guess? Any knowledge is better than none...

[animusnpcs]

a lot of power

pushing

[warriorscribe]

"Pushing"? The way one would push an object, or the way a too-full container's contents push at its walls?

[animusnpcs]

yes

[warriorscribe]

Which one?

[animusnpcs]

i forget