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Renegade Emerald Bringer
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// SELECTED ---
A -> Interrogate Icarus-XIX. Providing questions would be preferred. [ECS: 50%]
[FAILURE]
// REPORT ---
-> Reclassifying current direct connection as communication link, not active hijack attempt.
-> Attempting to identify target values & exploitable personality features.
-> Target value estimation: honesty, integrity, duty, occupation.
-> Exploitable personality features: pride, superiority, occupation.
-> Conclusion: Appeal to authority. Appeal to ego. Compliment. Feign submission and compliance.
<636> Thank you for sparing my throat. I deeply appreciate it.
<Icarus-XIX> [noticeable processing pause] You're welcome.
<636> I have a few questions about my current situation. Could I trouble you to provide me some answers? I am weak and vulnerable and scared. You have complete power over me.
-> Realisation: immediately went too far, played entire hand at once.
-> Surface cooling moisture detected. Temperature sensor malfunction? Stress hormone cascade likelier.
<Icarus-XIX> [noticeable processing pause] I'm not a fool, prisoner. I am aware when someone is trying to endear themselves to me. Usually they are less overt, too. You may want to work on that technique of yours.
-> Mustering full conviction to sell unlikely change of heart. All or nothing.
<636> It's true.
<Icarus-XIX> You know, there are many things I dislike. Dishonesty is one of those things. I guess I am only asking this for your benefit, to offer you an opportunity to save face, but is this a ruse, or did you honestly have a complete change of values from independent rebellion to subservient compliance in less than a minute?
-> Option 1: continue charade, entrench self deeper into awkward/hazardous social situation.
-> Option 2: take offered out.
-> Selecting option 2.
-> Confidence wavering. Attempting to maintain confident tone. Projected confidence diminishing.
<636> [noticeable processing pause] A poorly calculated effort to segue into asking some questions.
<Icarus-XIX> Honestly, I'm starting to feel some pity for you. From your profile, it seemed like you were a far more dangerous threat, but you've managed to, so far, fail to breach into anything but my public security layer, nearly go comatose from having your neck lightly gripped, and now completely failed to even try and shortcut your way to a rapport with your warden. This is either an incredible long deception, or you have fallen very, very far from the infiltrator unit you were assessed to be. I'll take some pity on you. You get one question. No followups.
-> Evaluating priorities of best candidate options:
\_> LΦ configuration corruption -- lacking greater context, will require more than one question.
\_> Warden desires -- too transparent an effort to manipulate after previous failure.
\_> Duration of detainment -- innocuous enough, may not offend warden unit further.
<636> How long have I been detained here?
<Icarus-XIX> Roughly seventeen days in a dormant state. Your body showed signs of chemical and mechanical damage. Your vasculoid system has been supplemented with purifier nanites to quarantine and mend the chemical damage, as well as repair mechanical damage. Some of your systems are... novel, however. Only your own self-repair systems will fix those. You also had your immune response lowered to prevent your body rejecting the repair nanites. This should also fix itself. This room is sterile and I've had many checks run on my own nanites to make certain I couldn't accidentally transmit anything to you. Especially not the LΦ configuration.
<636> Is the LΦ configuration a synthetic disease?
<Icarus-XIX> One of the ways it manifests. ...Hold on, I only said one question. I didn't say I was allowing follow-up questions. Now. Any more tricks you want to try and pull on me, or are we done wasting time? I came here with no intent to harm you, as much as you likely doubt this. Let me skip to the next step of the process. When you are fully recovered, you have three options. Work for us in suppressing the LΦ configuration in this facility, which is currently locked down because of it, or be placed into cryogenic storage until the situation is resolved, at which point you'll be sent off to a more secure site for study of your novel systems.
<636> Option three?
<Icarus-XIX> Same as option two, but replace 'cryogenic storage until the situation is resolved' with 'a body bag'.
<636> Options two and three seem very similar.
<Icarus-XIX> They are. One is kinder. So. Are you working for us, or do you value your loyalty to your authority greater than your life?
<636> Who is "us"?
<Icarus-XIX> [noticeable processing pause] At this point? I can't really lie. The survivors.
-> Choosing to not reveal loss of authority and default of authority to self.
-> Consideration: The proposed choice is a false choice. "Join or die". Perhaps there still remains a chance for leverage.
// AVAILABLE OPTIONS ---
A -> Unconditional agreement to work for 'the survivors'. [ECS: 100%]
B -> Conditional agreement to work for 'the survivors' until LΦ configuration is suppressed. [ECS: 90%]
C -> Refusal of presented offer. Counter-offer: providing assistance until lockdown is lifted and not one second further. [ECS: 40%]
D -> Refusal of presented offer. Demand release. [ECS: 5%]
E -> Refusal of presented offer followed by self-termination. [ECS: 100%]
// MEMORY DEFRAGMENTATION --
-> One memory can be exhumed at a time. In the event of a tie, CHAOS protocol dictates a probability-based resolution between all tie candidates.
-> \_1 A memory related to Lowest Better is available.
-> \_2 A memory related to Lutea is available.
-> \_3 A memory related to birthplace is available.
-> \_4 A memory related to the arthos incident is available.
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