RS's Intervention

RS, ATML, TOB

RS:

if anyone is listening, I have an idea to help Gilded.

ATML:

How so?

TOB:

Has their condition worsened?

ATML:

Have you been informed of recent events?

TOB:

No, my communications arrays have been shut off for a while. It helps me to focus.

ATML:

I see… Allow me to explain.

RS:

well,  before yarn… you know… I had started a project to see if an iterator could live outside their can. Yarn and Five Cans had already achieved it, and while I wasn’t going to alter my puppet, I did have an idea. However, it wouldn’t have worked. I forgot about it when I was… was helping yarn. However, with the new idea of a mini rarefaction cell, it might just work.

TOB:

A…mini rarefaction cell?

RS:

yes, made by ESV.

TOB:

How power efficient are they? Similar to the regular ones?

…Sorry, I am getting off topic.

RS:

Its small enough to fit inside a slugcat and not cause any issues. And the power is enough to power a puppet. I used one to try and help yarn… sorry it’s hard ti talk about it

TOB:

I understand.

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.

TOB:

You did everything you could for them in the moment, I hope you understand that.

ATML:

Gilded is… wounded.

TOB:

Oh dear…

RS:

…

TOB:

Is it irreparable?

RS:

I think it can be fixed

the damage that was already there however…

ATML:

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

TOB:

That is good. Best to keep hope in these times.

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

The things I have brought online around here, you wouldn’t believe!

RS:

i just hope that it doesn’t end up being where we need to use this thing.

TOB:

The rarefaction cell?

RS:

the entire contraption

TOB:

Right.

I haven’t had the means to produce rarefaction cells myself…nor many other things.

RS:

it had everything the puppet needs to survive, but in a much more compact form than yarn… or twisted… I should say… RS is shaken.

ATML:

RS, you don’t have to talk about it.

It wasn’t your fault.

RS:

…debatable

TOB:

…Things will go alright this time, Revising.

RS:

will they though…

TOB:

Our chances are greatly increased now that we aren’t acting on a very 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…

…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 question as well, hehe…

TOB:

…Surely you aren’t considering…

Revising, please.

ATML:

Revising.

RS:

If you’re truly that worried, no, that was me being sarcastic.

TOB:

I have lost enough to this “Great Problem."

ATML:

…

I will say this once again.

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.

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.

ATML:

Please, Revising.

TOB:

Revising… you must help yourself if you wish to help Gilded.

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

RS:

I am not drinking the concoction if that’s what you mean.

TOB:

I mean what you are doing to yourself!!

…I guess I have no authority to speak…

But others need you.

We need you.

RS:

…

I am fine…

TOB:

…

ATML:

You are not well.

I don’t know how many times I need 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 I don’t want to?!

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

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.

You won’t save a life.

We will.

TOB:

Whether we have to drag you kicking and screaming through this or not.

RS:

…

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TOB:

I…don’t know what to do about him.

Perhaps it is best I stay out of his affairs after all…

ATML:

It’s fine Benevolence. I appreciate your help and concern.

TOB:

I couldn’t succeed in keeping a single member of my entire city alive, how would I help a single being?

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.

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RS:

… I… th-thank you for… for your offers…

RS has clearly been crying

TOB:

…

ATML:

Revising…

Though I may have been a bit harsh… I hope that you can accept my offer to support you.

RS:

i accept…

TOB:

[EQUIPMENT MANIFEST] WATER INTAKE AT 348% NORMAL RATES. LOCAL IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OVERLOAD

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… both of you…