ATML,TOB,RS Conversation 1

## [LIVE BROADCAST] Local Group: (BOWLSOFCEREAL)

**RS:** If anyone is listening, I have an idea to help Gilded.

**TOB:** Has their condition worsened?

**ATML:** Have you been informed of the recent events?

**TOB:** No, my communication arrays have been shut off for a while. It helps me focus.

**ATML:** I see, allow me to explain…

**ATML:** Gilded Misfortune is in a critical state. Another iterator by the name Lasting Inheritance has been scavenging the cans of dead iterators in order to prolong its own life, and when unable to find any scraps… it took advantage of Gilded’s drunken state and held her hostage in order to find more information on where it could possibly find any other material.

**ATML:** Gilded is… wounded.

**RS:** …

**TOB:** Oh dear… Is it irreparable?

**RS:** I think it can be fixed.

**RS:** The damage was already there, however…

**ATML:** We’ll find a way. I’ll make sure of it.

**TOB:** That’s good. Best to keep hopes in these times!

**TOB:** Indeed, if it was possible to build us in the first place, surely we can repair things no matter the damage.

**TOB:** The things I have brought online here, you wouldn’t believe.

**RS:** I just hope it doesn’t end up being where we have to use this… thing.

**RS:** It has everything a puppet needs to survive, but in a more compact form than Yarn… or… Twisted, I should say…

**ATML:** RS, you don’t have to talk about it.

**ATML:** It wasn’t your fault.

**RS:** Debatable.

**TOB:** …Things will go alright this time, Revising.

**RS:** …Will it, though?

**TOB:** Our chances have greatly increased now that we aren’t working on a small portion of time.

**ATML:** Revising… We’re all working on this together. We’ll take every precaution.

**TOB:** Even drastic measures will at least be improved if we have time to think them through. But it won’t come to that.

**RS:** I will continue perfecting the suit.

**ATML:** If you need any help… I have my messengers, this project doesn’t have to be done by you alone. You’ve stressed enough.

**TOB:** Indeed.

**RS:** Adrift. Have you seen me through these last cycles, when have I not been stressed? This won’t be any different.

**ATML:** You need to take a break. This isn’t healthy.

**RS:** I can’t take a break. Iterators are dying all around me.

**TOB:** We can help you through this. Help you with the rescue efforts.

**ATML:** You aren’t the only one who’s worried about Gilded. Benevolence and I are here too, even Void. You need to remember that you’re just as important as all the others.

**TOB:** And, if it’s any consolation…

**TOB:** Never mind, my point is irrelevant to the situation. Putting the whole load on yourself will lead to your own self destruction.

**RS:** Perfect. Now I have the answer to the Great Problem as well, hehe…

**ATML:** …Revising.

**TOB:** Surely you aren’t considering… Revising, please.

**TOB:** I’ve lost enough to this “Great Problem”.

**RS:** If you’re truly that worried, no. That was me being sarcastic.

**TOB:** Oh…

**ATML:** I will say this once again.

**ATML:** Revising, I won’t allow you to continue taxing your systems and over working yourself. I will personally send my messengers over to ransack your memory conflux and take your project documents. You need to rest. **Now.**

**ATML:** Please, Revising.

**RS:** I willingly took a sample of rot into my own chambers to make a long shot solution that may not even work. What’s a little stress?

**TOB:** Revising… You need to help yourself if you wish to help Gilded.

**TOB:** Your methods of stress relief will be as damaging to your own systems as it has been to them!!

**TOB:** I guess I have no authority to speak…

**TOB:** But others need you. *We* need you.

**RS:** …

**RS:** …I am fine…

**ATML:** You are not well.

**ATML:** I don’t know how many times I have to say this to you.

**RS:** I am perfectly fine. Nothing is wrong with me. There isn’t anything you can do to stop me from trying to save a life.

**TOB:** You think we don’t want to??

**TOB:** That I don’t want to help you save the people you CARE about?!!

**ATML:** …

**ATML:** Revising, you are hiding behind a false pretense, in an attempt to decieve others and *yourself* that you are stable enough to continue working, all for the sake of another. Revising, while I admire your altruism and dedication, you are acting recklessly and imprudently. You can’t help people if you don’t allow yourself to rest and work at your upmost potential, and you **certainly** cannot keep turning away your peers and your senior.

**ATML:** You won’t save a life.

**ATML:** *We* will.

**TOB:** …It is true.

**TOB:** Whether we have to drag you screaming and crying through this or not.

**RS:** …

**ATML:** It’s your choice, Revising. Will you continue to reject our aid…

**ATML:** Or will you allow us to assist you in this endeavour?

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**TOB:** I… I don’t know what to do about him.

**TOB:** Perhaps it is best I stay out of his affairs anyways…

**ATML:** It’s fine, Benevolence. I appreciate your help and concern.

**TOB:** It’s not fine… nothing is, at this rate.

**TOB:** How many of us have died in the short time I had my communications turned off? Or before that?

**ATML:** These recent events have been stressful on all of us. It’s true many of us have died, but we need to do what we can to preserve our remaining kin. Your assistance is appreciated more than you can imagine.

**TOB:** …

### [USER REVISING\_SYNTHESIS HAS LOGGED ON]

**RS:** … I… th-thank you for… for your offers…

**ATML:** …Revising…

**ATML:** \*Cough\*

**ATML:** Though I may have been a bit harsh… I hope you can accept our offer to support you.

**RS:** I… I accept…

**ATML:** Thank you Revising. We’ll do all we can to help you, and we’ll make sure you never have to go through this alone again.

**TOB:** …I will do what I can to assist you, Revising.

**RS:** Thank you… thank you both…