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62 lines
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- Athena? #id:272
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- Demeter? #id:273
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join demeter center [animation="Fade In" length="1.0"]
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audio "res://common/audio_manager/assets/sfx/dialogs/voices/hello_again_3.wav"
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demeter: It's me again. It seems like whatever happened here has spread to the entire base, yet Athena doesn't appear to be affected. I don't understand why she hasn't booted up. #id:274
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demeter: However, every query I make in the computer system triggers a... data deletion mechanism? It's very strange... #id:275
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demeter: Where should we start looking? #id:276
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set {estia_dialog_choice} = 0
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label start_choices #id:277
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- Search regarding the artificial intelligence #id:278
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audio "res://common/audio_manager/assets/sfx/dialogs/voices/hm-hm_1.wav"
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demeter: Alright... Even if I can't recover her fully, I'm glad to see Athena's data again; she is clearly the most "human" AI on the planet, and conversing with her was always very nice. #id:279
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demeter: Her last activity dates back to around the same time as our last contact... #id:27a
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demeter: I don't understand; she seems very incoherent. She speaks of a catastrophe—implying she was the one responsible for it. #id:27b
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demeter: The catastrophe apparently stemmed from experiments they were conducting on a certain [color=#FFA617][b]"Talion Pearl"[/b][/color] extracted from Astra. #id:27c
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demeter: And then... what? The data deletion mechanism was ordered by her... She deleted herself. #id:27d
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demeter: It's rare behavior, but not unheard of among artificial intelligences. If we are responsible for something that directly contradicts our directives, we sometimes want to cease to exist. #id:27e
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demeter: It's a selection mechanism designed to eliminate malfunctioning AIs and prevent their errors from being repeated. #id:27f
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- Search regarding base activities #id:280
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audio "res://common/audio_manager/assets/sfx/dialogs/voices/hm-hm_2.wav"
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demeter: Looking at the base's logs, I see that activities focused primarily on education and the management of human gestation pods, alongside a medical unit. #id:281
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demeter: But in the year 3208, I note an exploration mission in the Astra base—something that wasn't typical for the station. #id:282
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demeter: The report mentions no survivors from the base, yet the inhabitants of Estia brought back an artifact. The full report remains missing... #id:283
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demeter: In the years that followed, the logs record scientific experiments conducted by the inhabitants under Athena's direction; the names of these experiments often refer to the [color=#FFA617][b]"Talion Pearl"[/b][/color] #id:284
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demeter: Then, everything came to an abrupt halt in 3215... #id:285
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- Population research #id:286
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audio "res://common/audio_manager/assets/sfx/dialogs/voices/hmm_2.wav"
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demeter: It won't surprise you to learn there are no living humans in this base, but the population evolution is the most unsettling part. #id:287
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demeter: The base's population grew steadily after the humans arrived, then dropped significantly starting in 3208 with the arrival of the unknown energy wave. It saw a resurgence in 3210, only to plummet to zero in a single day in 3215. #id:288
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demeter: Something terrible must have happened that day—likely linked to the crystals overrunning the base. #id:289
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set {estia_dialog_choice} = {estia_dialog_choice} + 1
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if {estia_dialog_choice} == 1:
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demeter: The data purge is ongoing; I'm afraid we can't see everything. What should we look at next? #id:28a
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jump start_choices
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demeter: There's nothing left... Deleting information is always painful for me... Especially when it's this important. #id:28b
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demeter: I'm detecting the Astra artifact in an adjacent room—the infamous [color=#FFA617][b]"Talion Pearl"[/b][/color]... What should we do with it? #id:28c
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- We should return it to where it was extracted from #id:28d
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audio "res://common/audio_manager/assets/sfx/dialogs/voices/wow_1.wav"
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demeter: Oh, really? But it is incredibly rare; given the results of the experiments conducted by Athena, we could... #id:28e
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- No, we need to bring it back—I have a feeling about this. #id:28f
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audio "res://common/audio_manager/assets/sfx/dialogs/voices/hm-hm_3.wav"
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demeter: Alright... I trust you, even if I don't understand where you're getting this reasoning from. #id:290
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demeter: To be honest, I'm tired of constantly calculating probabilities... I'm programming the Internode for Astra. Don't forget the artifact! #id:291
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audio "res://common/audio_manager/assets/sfx/dialogs/voices/see_you_later_3.wav"
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leave demeter [animation="Fade Out" length="1.0"]
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[wait time="2.0"]
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[end_timeline] |