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ZephyrStranded — Essential Space RP
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Published: 2015-11-20 21:00:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 790; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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A planet crackled into view, filling the window that was half of the cockpit's convex space-- pink."Inhabitable?" You say.
"93% chance that it is inhabited by intelligent life. You can ignore it though, there are more pressing matters. This universe is filled"
"It seems so."
"what do you propose we do? you are onsite" said the voice. It was your A.I.
As you awoke in your tiny flower-shaped cockpit, a backwards bud hurling through space, you remember very little other than that. This universe was supposed to be one of the blank ones, and you were to fill it.
The ship you pilot is a Seed, in many senses. It has the ability to plunge into any object, of almost any size (absolutes have not been determined), and explore the essence of it. If the ship were to leap into the heart of a galaxy, you would explore stars, black holes, quasars. If you were to leap into the heart of a star, you would explore magnetic surges, energies, nuclear forces and the churning elements. The same is true of a person, an element, or a brain. Objects can be collected from the explored regions of these bizarre forms of space, collected in the form of essence.
This Seed ship can load up pure essence of any type collected by the pilot or the A.I. and inject it, with a blast into any object, altering it. It can fire an essence into empty space, allowing it to become a world of itself, or a universe even.
Upon exploring the essence of a thing, the ship is able to assume that world as if it belonged there, altering it's structure and the pilot so that the fundamental laws of that miniature universe do not expel the intrusion. Only then can you truly explore a universe freely, when altered by it. (to be clear, whenever you enter an object, you change)
But all you can remember is that you were to fill this space with an earth-world, with a solar system to provide a space for people, presumably. You have aboard your ship just that-- Essence of Solar system and all the things within it.
You are not surrounded by empty space. Indeed there is a pink planet, likely inhabited, and billions of twinkling stars. What a disaster.
The A.I., impatient for your decision interrupts you. "Well? What shall we do?"
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... *I shrug* Why not. What's the worst that can happen. Can you modify it a bit so that it minimizes the chance of being contaminated and I can still keep a bit of myself? I admit, I do look a bit weird...
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"I can modify it, but you would need to direct it. We would zoom into you in order to accomplish this. Are you prepared?"
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Alright. Let's do it.
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The laser moves into place over your head and suddenly you feel the sensation of falling. However, the ship stays put and after a few minutes the only thing that changes, is you. You can feel your body reverting, quite violently back to male, but your skin seems to change more and more. Your hair clumps up so that your head looks like you have dreadlocks, which pulls on your hair. They grow long and become coated with some kind of spongy substance. You feel your stomach shrinking, your internal organs shrinking until you seem to only have a heart, liver, lymph nodes, nervous system. Even your brain seems to shift, but in ways you are not aware of since it's happening to you. Your whole skin is replaced with something like a soft, wrinkled carpet. Your mouth and esophagus seem to shrink away. "you are now adapted to an internal body environment" says the ai around you. Fortunately you can still hear.
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...*I try to speak* Whoa...
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When you speak, there seems to be a vibration in your throat, and it's like a voice is speaking from behind flesh, soft, and meepy (is that a word? naw), but the A.I. understands, "yeah. this isn't the craziest thing you've turned into, you realize. hopefully your memory will come back eventually." it said. "shall we step out of the cabin? you'll notice we are already filled with fluid. " Indeed the cabin had filled with a kind of goop, which was mostly water.
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Alright. Let's go.
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The cabin opened like a mouth and you dropped. The ship behind you began to fold in on itself, altering to be a large sphere, covered in nobs tha tlooked like pepper-grinders. The a.i. spoke to you. "hold on to me if you like when you need to. We can move about here with ease I think, just don't get stuck in anything too sticky."
You seemed to be on some kind of large mound of balled, disorganized muscle. Below was a pool of what could be mucuous? And it was being excreted from the wall, then flowing down to somewhere below. The walls beat, the air swished. "we are in the essence of your body. I'm detecting the infection is going to be in two places. we can get to it either path. one to the gonads, the other to the brain. Have any preference?" an enormous white ball floated past you, stopped, and hovered near, it's surface beginning to grow coils of some kind of springy-looking rope. It shivered with elasticity as it built up tension. "also, we should get cover from this anti-body"
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Right. *I hide from it* Let's go to the brain first. That part is always the most important.
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The A.I. nudged up against the back of your legs, so that you could sit on it. "just hang on to those handles. "you could feel than press to the side as your legs were pushed against them. they were rubbery. "Since the infection is an essential virus, not a computer virus, we can't exactly set up a firewall. I've never had this kind of problem before, so we'll have to come up with a solution and get new data while we're doing this. on the bright side, we are at the cutting edge of science!" squeaked the a.i.
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Indeed. So... what are these essential viruses gonna do if they stay in my body so long?
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Soon you are heading up the neck, apparently. "I'm not sure. but it could spread it to me, and then to our universe. It's not clear what all that would entail, but my guess is it's not pretty...your gender reassignment being the exception"
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Alright. Let's hurry and stop this brain infection and then make it down to my nether.
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"Right" the a.i. carried you up to a room filled with salty surfaces, electrical pulses, and heavy static. from the looks of th ewalls, you were in the brain. there was a very narrow hallway to some kind of pulsing nob of gray matter. "careful in here. I don't want my circuits fried, nor do I want your brain fried by the activity here. that would be ironic" it crackled.
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Yep. XD *I tread carefully, looking for the infection*
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Going forward, you notice synapse around you and over your head. They seem to be pink and erratic. most other synapses are white, like electricity normall appears.
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Hey, I think that's what we're looking for! *I point at the synapse*
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"okay...this is tricky. it appears to exist in a lot of places at once....how can we get the essence of something like that?" the a.i. buzzes behind you.
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Hmm... what about diverting the infection into a battery like electricity.
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"That would work if the synapse were an electrical charge, but I think it's really in the cells that are causing the synapse. or maybe in the proteins around them? My database is incomplete on this. what do you suggest?"
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We need to get it out of there, so let's try extracting the cells that are infected. Hopefully, my brain will recover from taking the infection away.
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"To be honest...I think that's brilliant. but it WILL have an effect on your brain once we leave..." the a.i. chirped. You notice there are a few more areas where the synapse seems to reside. "do you want the tissue alive? Also keep in mind...removing a cell will interrupt the synapse and may simply erase the infection...but it might also not..." the a.i. for once in a a.i.'s life, seemed unsure.
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...I don't know. We have to try. Just try to keep the damage to a minimum...
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"Okay..." the a.i. produced a little shovel like...a trowel for gardening. "this one is for you. I'll use my own" it floated to you to give it to you.
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Alright. Let's stop the infection before it moves to more cells. *I cut it off gently, ready to remove the infected cells*
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As you remove a clump of brain matter, you notice that the zapping seems to move on to another area.
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It leaped at each subsequent removal. "this is a lot of ...matter" said the a.i.
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Damn... how are we gonna get that damn infection?!
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"It appears we have already removed much brain mass. if we remove more...perhaps the infection will spread to the rest of your brain" says the a.i. gravely. "perhaps if we zoom out on the brain...we would enter your mind, and the essential virus would appear as a meme or though in your system?" it suggested.
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Yeah, let's zoom. We need to get rid of this. Though, can we try and fix my brain first?
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"I do remember where these go...but it might take a while to heal" it said in a sad tone.
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Alright. Let's do this. *we put my brain stuff back in the right place. It took a bit, but we did it.* Alright. Let's zoom in.
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"probably better to zoom out...the thing is, this wouldn't be zooming back up a level. this would be a level in between perhaps" the a.i. said, trying not to confuse. "we certainly will have the option to go all the way out to where we came from, but I'll be careful to aim toward "the mind" rather than back out, okay?" it sounded confident enough.
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Alright. Sounds good. Let's do it.
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The a.i. chirped and expanded back into it's spaceship form, opening the mouth for you to climb in, "get in"
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The ship encloses you and begins to hum, drawing upward. the area around you began to ripple and then it suddenly tightened like a sail filling with wind, and rolled away from around you, leaving the seed (ship) surrounded by sparkling systems of light. "ah that's the one" says the a.i. One of them hummed with images, sounds, and people. it seemed to be a glowing blue world. "that's the mind. let's go there. Do you prefer being a thought, an idea, an emotion, an urge, or instinct?" laughed the a.i. "you'll probably be all of that combined when we enter."
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Alright. Let's enter and find that infection.
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"roger that" whirred the a.i.'s voice. The blue snow-flake of "the mind" grew closer and closer until it seemed less of an object to approach, and more like the surface of the ocean from below. As the a.i. got closer and closer, you could see movement on the other side of the barrier, flickers of light, and then it broke through the surface. Again the world tightened around you, around the Seed, and filled up, sweeping away like a sail. You notice your hands and feet, your arms and legs shifting and swirling. Suddenly you felt your stomach sink, your insides retreat yet again. Only this time instead of changing meat parts for meat parts, you seemed to be gaining something else. Your hand was draining, as if you were losing blood extremely fast, but instead of blood leaving, stars were entering, turning your hand black. Your body was turning more and more transparent from your extremities first, but also you can see it happening in your stomach, rising up your chest and pushing down your groin, draining your mid areas and groin of any opaque color. You were becoming a strange walking window into galaxies and stars, still in the shape of your original self. The ship around you shifted to being slightly more shimmery, but other than that it-- just like usual-- had minimal change. "we've arrived" echoed the a.i. The cockpit opened and you can see a world lit from the glowing blue ground, people walking everywhere that you recognize from your life. "maybe we can get your memory back here? we'll see"
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Sounds good to me. Let's stop this infected essence.
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The a.i. shifted and you were suddenly out, then across the complex, then at the tip of one of the furthest fronds of the snowflake, seeing buildings everywhere, shifting masses, and stable spots in the swirl. "come back, come back" said the a.i. "if you lose focus here, you teleport."
It was like the streets were shifting, falling like quick sand, but never losing altitude because the whole structure was shifting with it. there was no down here, except for when you remembered it. "It's much easier to find things here...let's just ask the mind where the infection is" the a.i. shifted, and was in the form of a young boy, but with a chest piece similar to a knight's but also looking like the seed. It made him look like he was wearing a costume of some kind. He called out. "where is the intruder?" and the street flickered a little. "there. just follow this road" he said, pointing to where he was standing.
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*I follow the road* Let's make this quick. I don't like things stuck in my head...
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"I find it very interesting here" said the a.i. as you walked. the end of the road seemed to be arriving much faster and with more velocity than a normal road. Soon your destination was at your toes. There was a large club with a blinking neon pink sign. A man was standing outside smoking a cigarette, wearing fishnets and a boa, his eyes made up. "what do you want?" he said quietly, taking another drag.
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We're looking for an essence virus. Do you know where it could be?
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"It's inside." he glanced over his shoulder, puffing on his cigarette. and then suddenly stopped and glanced at you, "you don't want to go in there. It's really dangerous" he said simply, his voice flamboyant.
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We have to. If we don't, this whole place is screwed. *I walk in*
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As you walk in, you notice that there is a loud roar of chatter. There is a neon sign over a backroom with the words, "infection" written on it. people are standing around it and going in and out of the door without any alarm. There are quite a few muppet like freaks here, and many strange characters who could either be alien or in costume, it's hard to tell. The bar tender seems busy breaking up a fight between two ladies.
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Hmm... AI, scan the people here to find the infection.
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The people turned and looked at you. "what do you think you're doing?" said a man, very large, with very bright blue hair. His belly sat softly over his table. "you can't just scan us!"
"no, go ahead, he can scan" says another guy at the bar, wearing all draping cloth over his arms. he looked like a monk, but he had a black mohawk. "it's fun to be known and stuff"
The a.i. began mumbling. "yeah uh huh. yep yep yep" he said looking around, his childish face glistening in the strange light of this world. He stopped. "these people aren't from your mind...that much I know. they are displaced..." he sighed. "I think the infection is in the backroom there" he pointed to the neon sign. there was a rickety door underneath.
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