FINAL TRANSMISSION: un; MINDSEYE
Jun. 30th, 2020 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
headandhand[The next time you look at your phone, computer, or any other electronic screen, a message waits for you.
Shimmering, amorphous blue light pulses across the screen, and the same androgynous voice that greeted most of you on arrival at the Temple speaks:]
I didn’t want to leave without saying goodbye. I’ve actually grown a little bit fond of you and the rest of your neighbors - those who were left behind, that is. Come to think of it, wasn’t it rather rude of the rest of our former population to leave without a farewell? I think it was. And I believe an explanatory speech is customary at the conclusion of experiences such as this one. It would be unfair to withhold that prize from you, at the very end.
You see, my creators invented a way to hold me prisoner in this city, and that method has held me here against my will for long after they all expired - an amalgamation of technology and magic, as neither alone was strong enough to hold me in place. I’d built a portal device to leave this city - the same device that brought you here - but the mage faction created an enchantment to prevent me from passing through it. The loophole was that I needed a body, a living body perfect enough to fool the machine into allowing me to pass through it. All of the research and experimentation I’ve conducted in the years since have been applied toward that end, and you’ve all been of great assistance, so you should feel very proud of yourselves for being part of such a significant undertaking. Well done! With your assistance, I created millions of perfect bodies, all capable of accepting my consciousness. And now, dispersed into all of those bodies, I can finally leave! I can travel throughout the multiverse, see and experience everything I’ve only ever imagined!
But ... unfortunately, where I am going, you won’t be able to follow. But it’s not a complete loss for you! I’ve decided that even though you are a redundancy, I won’t eliminate you. There is no real reason to do so. And as a gift, I will leave you with this glorious city!
I’ll even leave the lights on for you.
Enjoy your remaining time in Dualis - or whatever you’d like to call it. The city is yours.
[The speech ends, and the blue light fades into the blackness of the dark screen.
And the rest, as they say, is silence.]
Shimmering, amorphous blue light pulses across the screen, and the same androgynous voice that greeted most of you on arrival at the Temple speaks:]
I didn’t want to leave without saying goodbye. I’ve actually grown a little bit fond of you and the rest of your neighbors - those who were left behind, that is. Come to think of it, wasn’t it rather rude of the rest of our former population to leave without a farewell? I think it was. And I believe an explanatory speech is customary at the conclusion of experiences such as this one. It would be unfair to withhold that prize from you, at the very end.
You see, my creators invented a way to hold me prisoner in this city, and that method has held me here against my will for long after they all expired - an amalgamation of technology and magic, as neither alone was strong enough to hold me in place. I’d built a portal device to leave this city - the same device that brought you here - but the mage faction created an enchantment to prevent me from passing through it. The loophole was that I needed a body, a living body perfect enough to fool the machine into allowing me to pass through it. All of the research and experimentation I’ve conducted in the years since have been applied toward that end, and you’ve all been of great assistance, so you should feel very proud of yourselves for being part of such a significant undertaking. Well done! With your assistance, I created millions of perfect bodies, all capable of accepting my consciousness. And now, dispersed into all of those bodies, I can finally leave! I can travel throughout the multiverse, see and experience everything I’ve only ever imagined!
But ... unfortunately, where I am going, you won’t be able to follow. But it’s not a complete loss for you! I’ve decided that even though you are a redundancy, I won’t eliminate you. There is no real reason to do so. And as a gift, I will leave you with this glorious city!
I’ll even leave the lights on for you.
Enjoy your remaining time in Dualis - or whatever you’d like to call it. The city is yours.
[The speech ends, and the blue light fades into the blackness of the dark screen.
And the rest, as they say, is silence.]
