MagiStasis

**MagiStasis** is a crossover of Magical Drop and Enigma Studio's games.

## Plot - Hopeful

The Enigma Corporation of Magical Land has been creating and actively improving Enigma Machines, otherwise known as AIs in an attempt to perfect them and use them as human luxuries. Star is the head developer of the AI models. However, she lost one of her clown friends and it took a toll on her, until she questioned the true potential of the AIs, wondering if they could substitute another person so long they have the consciousness of them...

Star used one of the AI's physical models and worked on implementing her dead friend's CORE (otherwise known as the consciousness) into it, eventually creating an Enigma Machine that replicated her old friend. However, consequences were to come with this new discovery, as her old friend, the Black Pierrot, did not integrate well with the new robot body.

Weeks were spent attempting to perfect the vessel and her friend. Every Sunday night, she would drop the vessel off at her friend, Temperance's house to keep an eye on the robot, specifying to keep the vessel away from reflective surfaces and to not expose it to the truth. Temperance notices the vessel acts the same way every week, being normal for the first couple of days before corruption begins to overtake it, causing it to malfunction or behave abnormally. This often leads to Temperance having to physically destroy the vessel. Star takes the vessel back to Enigma Corporations to create and implement an altered copy of his CORE memories.

Temperance argues with Star about her "unrealistic goal" and "relentlessly high optimism," to which the Black Pierrot overhears this conversation. She argues that the AI is not the Black Pierrot and will never be, even as a *good copy.* Star simply explains that she has hope and she needs a little more time before it's perfected...

The Black Pierrot goes down into the basement one day (despite Temperance explaining he is not allowed to go down there) and gains access to Star's terminal, unlocking her diary and several memories. As he reads through these, his CORE begins to properly integrate with his body. As he heads out, he's greeted by Star's car out in the rain, to which Star is relieved by the fact he has become fully sentient...

## Plot - The First Copy

The first copy of the Black Pierrot's CORE was used by the Enigma Corporation as a training AI for RADES. RADES are people who access an AI's dreamscape to execute and prevent contamination. An AI's dreamscape is how the AI views the world.

After each training session with the CORE, a copy of the CORE is rebooted for another in-training RADE to use. However, this copy would eventually go rogue and infest in other AI's dreamscapes, attempting to locate other's COREs for the use of a ritual. The RADE team works constantly to stop the Black Pierrot, who is now known simply as **HIM**.

During this time, Star is still improving the CORE of the Black Pierrot she alters. However, one week, **HE** contacts the Black Pierrot via a hyper-reality engine, a device used to talk to people through their dreamscapes in an attempt to retrieve his CORE. **HE** begins to distort the dreamscape for the Black Pierrot, the vessel can only process it all as a glitchy mess, even Temperance appears distorted. The Black Pierrot receives a call from Star via the hyper-reality engine, in which she explains the scenario to him. She urges him to hide his core from **HIM**, to which he obeys, placing his core inside of the real Black Pierrot's grave...

The vessel is urged not to run without a core, but due to the core now being placed somewhere else, the visuals become nearly incomprehensible. The empty vessel goes into one of the bedrooms of the house and rests until everything becomes cleared...

Star takes the vessel back to work on Saturday morning.

## Plot - Him to Them

**HE** is still active, even after its "eradication" in the Black Pierrot's dreamscape. However, due to **HIS** core's mental strain, **HE** develops three fragments that represent the Peanut Girls, only visible in **HIS** dreamscape. The Peanut Girls serve as moral compasses and comforters, but are able to control **HIS** vessel and dreamscape, essentially making them additional AIs inside of an AI. However, through time and failed attempts to retrieve other COREs, the Peanut Girls begin to question their purpose and gain a new goal; to separate from **HIM.**

**HE** finds out about this and is not happy that they want to be their own separate entities, degrading them and showing **HE** has more control than them. **HE** attempts to eradicate them on multiple instances, despite the fact this would erase himself...