Rebecca Scoble
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So many ASCII dicks. SO MANY. I assume that about 250 years in, some extremely bored software tech recreated one of those massive classical battle paintings in ASCII, and then 100 years after that, someone else found it and replaced every character’s head with a dick.
This stuff goes on outside the code, too–there have been a lot of very bored crew members who want to spend their free time creating something time-consumingly elaborate and detailed–and a lot of frustrated crew members who can’t take their anger out on anything but the walls of the ship. This hasn’t come up in the story yet, but ship graffiti is a big thing, and the same thing always happens–someone saves up their synthetics allotment and spends it all on paint to create this massive mural that fills an entire hallway, but as months go by and it isn’t new anymore (or when the artist pisses someone off), the taggers can’t resist messing with it–someone turns the adorable little girl into a zombie or gives the puppy a ring of blood on its mouth, then two people have an angry sharpie conversation over what used to be a playground full of happy children, and eventually someone writes “FUCK YOU KEVIN” in 3-foot high letters over the whole thing and all that’s left is a little patch of birds and sky that was too high up for anyone to reach easily. 80 years later it’s just a mess of peeling profanity, and some new crew member who never knew the original artist or Kevin decides it would be a great spot for a mural and starts all over again.
Ack! I should really chime in here–I did spend the last week recording chapters 3 through 5 of Awake, though, so I feel like I have a pretty good excuse for being antisocial online…right?
Hinelle, also Tranelle as a sort of love-hate thing
I have nothing to say about this that wouldn’t be a massive spoiler…except that I’m extremely honored that you’re shipping our characters! If the characters in Awake are interesting enough to ship, I consider that a really good sign!
What is “Status 444″? I know http uses that for no response errors, but that doesn’t seem to make sense here.
Lianne pretty much covered as much about this as I’m willing to disclose, but I’m assuming that by this time in the future technology will have moved on enough that codes and errors are almost entirely different from our current ones, with a few callbacks to things that were invented in the early days of computers (i.e. now, from their perspective). Plus, this isn’t the normal internet–one software tech at a time, with varying degrees of skill depending on the person, no contact with other computer and AI-savvy people, and way too much time on their collective hands, means that Persephone has a ton of personalized commands and weird quirks of programming that wouldn’t exist on earth computers.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for listening! New chapter goes up in about a week and a half!
Sooo…I am extremely curious who you’re shipping! You know, if you feel like sharing :D
“There were really only two things that irked me. One was the voice of Persephone, in that she sounds so familiar but I cannot guess her name.”
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I dunno, I’m sure it’s just some kind of robot or something.
Her voice WAS pretty amazing and sexy, though.(The GLaDOS thing is on purpose, though. I thought using autotune as one of the elements of the robot voice a la Portal was a really cool idea. I’ve tried to making everything about Persephone sort of musical–even her alarms are musical tones, albeit dissonant ones).
I’m really glad you like it! A lot of people aren’t used to the format yet, but I’m hoping we can get more people to give it a try, because I think it’s a really fun and interesting way to tell a story. I’ve been having a great time working on this project, and the whole staff is only made up of awesome people, so hopefully we can keep it up!
