Fragmented inquires Eldritch

FS, RS, PC

FS: What happened?

[Private Chat Opened]

PC: Well. I died. Simple as.

I do not quite remember the cause, though it was an accident no one saw coming.

FS: What...

What was it like?

What about the cycle?

PC: Well, nothing really happened. It was just dark and it felt like if my processors had rebooted. Because that’s exactly what happened. It just took a long time for Revising to reboot them.

FS: This darkness...

Was it...

Peaceful?

PC: I was not conscious for it at all.

FS: I see.

PC: Yeah… it was strange. I didn’t like it much.

FS: I don't know how much time I have left.

PC: Rest assured that the others are doing all they can. It may just take some time.

FS: I...

I hope they can make it.

PC: I am confident they can. I have seen the capabilities of Eldritch. It is… formidable, to say the least. I am not happy with Revising for making the slugcat, but I am also very proud that he pulled it off.

FS: Yes...

Eldrich is a very peculiar case.

Your brother seems quite talented in genetics.

PC: We were both made for it, but he seems the more proficient one.

FS: You share a can with him, correct?

PC: Correct.

FS: So you too must share the same communication Arrays.

Is he listening?

PC: We have separate panels. We can choose to listen in or ignore. But private chats are private to the users, and we are registered as two different users. It’s just us.

FS: I see.

I wish to enquire some things of him...

About Eldrich.

PC: Alright. I can add him to this chat.

[User Added]

RS: Hmm? What’s going on?

FS: I was wondering about a certain creation of yours.

I'm sure you know the one.

He seems to have sparked some controversy among some of the others.

RS: …ah yes… Eldritch.

FS: From what I have heard

And seen

The parasite that he is bound with is a ferocious supervirus. It's power knows no boundaries.

How is it that you have tamed such a thing?

RS: He is certainly mortal and killable. Just rather strong.

And I have not had to force him to be tame.

He was naturally a rather docile creature.

FS: Not the creature.

That monster inside of him.

Surely you must have discovered some breakthrough, Seeing as you have bended the instincts of such a powerful force of supernatural nature?

RS: well, it took quite a bit of engineering. His genome subdues the rot and forces it to stop growing or spreading. It also allows Eldritch to take control of it.

He was originally made to be sent to an Iterator suffering from the rot.

In hopes that said iterator could use the science to save themselves.

FS: Did it suceed?

RS: ...

No.

FS: ...

RS: As it turns out, Eldritch is only still alive because his he in counteracts the rot.

And considering an attempt at a genome change is what can cause said rot in the first place…

FS: Have... you made any attempt to recreate this experiment?

RS: …no. Never again.

FS: Countless Iterators have fallen because of it.

Thousands more will follow.

Something has to be done.

RS: I see. Eldritch cannot help you. And… I’m not sure if I can do the experiment again…

FS: We cannot sid idle any longer.

RS: …I have not been allowed to sit idle for cycles upon cycles.

FS: Yet you accomplish nothing.

RS: …I am an Iterator made to create organisms. I am attached to every one I make. So to know that I must fill a slugcat that I am emotionally attached to with cancer is a little hard for me to do.

But I did it.

And I did it again.

And again.

Until my chamber floor was littered with dead corpses.

All of them a slugcat I cherished.

And then.

I got it right.

I had no more need to do this,

And so even when it failed to help other iterators, I dared not to revisit this.

I will not kill more.

FS: I am not asking you to kill any more of your children.

I'm not asking you to kill.

RS: Then what are you asking me to do.

FS: I am asking you...

To teach me.

RS: Are you sure that in your state you can perform the nessacary and precise tasks to not only prevent the slugcat from dying, but also prevent your condition from worsening?

FS:...

I have nothing to lose.

RS: …I don’t think it’s a good idea.

FS: ...

Please.

RS: …I… I don’t…

FS: ...

I understand.

RS: …between us.

…not all of them died.

Ans I fear for what havoc they may cause.

FS:...

Between you and me...

I have seen it.

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