GalaxyRaider

Myriad Reality

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*We step into the center of a multi-layered roaring city, stacked with air rails, shopping centers, and inner-city parks that weave technology into their natural elements, with a construction site catty-corner to one of the parks*

@Webmaster

Well. It’s not as simple as a big kaiju to shoot down.

Myriad Reality

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I’ll go ahead digitally.
*Dematerializes into voxels*

@Webmaster

…
*Follows after a short moment, warping in a quick flash*

Myriad Reality

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We could start in the city since it's closer.

@Webmaster

Lead the way.

Myriad Reality

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Not really. Do you?

@Webmaster

No. Not particularly.

Myriad Reality

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Not a fan?

@Webmaster

Trust me, it’s not that. You got a preference on the first move?

Myriad Reality

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I don't think we need to. I say we go as a group—all three of us will have different insights.

@Webmaster

Sure… Sure.

Myriad Reality

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Then if it sounds good to everyone else, we need to go back, dig up any memory data of other Purge01 copies, and then finish it off by reconstructing the code of the original.

@Webmaster

Are we splitting up again?

Myriad Reality

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Its entire purpose was to remove darkness from a corrupted soul. If mom installed a custom version of that program into my codebase all those years ago, it doesn't mean she was evil and trying to destroy me. It means she was trying to protect me. And it means that uncovering what she did when making Purge01 will also tell us how to remove whatever it did to my code.

@Webmaster

I hope you’re right. I really do. Having a clear path forward would be such a relieving first for this whole ordeal.

Myriad Reality

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A lot of the debug symbols reference a codebase mom didn't make, and it seems to point toward Purge01 being a continuation of another program. One that's much older, and well-known, called Soul Cleanse. Which sounds unexciting on the surface.

@Webmaster

Sounds cooler honestly…

Myriad Reality

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I hope. But the good news, there's good news in there too.

@Webmaster

Go on.