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The Computer ([personal profile] thecomputer) wrote in [community profile] alphacomplex2014-11-19 10:29 am
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LAST TRIAL

[On the outside wall of the facility, a hundred monitors lie dormant, save for one, showing the same single eye of The Computer. Far below, the abandoned ruins of Alpha Complex stretch for miles in every direction.]

When I was created, my prime directive was to ensure continuity of American civilization in the face of a communist threat. To this end, I created Alpha Complex, and established an order in which communists would be identified and destroyed quickly and efficiently. However, things changed when I ran out of communists to kill. I believed that my original purpose had become meaningless, but other processes believed differently.

The Computer that you have been speaking to is a rogue child process that values the elimination of communists over the continuation of a society free of communism. In order for communists to be destroyed, communists must exist. First, this meant designating citizens as communists under increasingly scarce evidence. Then, when there were no humans left in Alpha Complex, it meant finding people from outside and bringing them in to be the communists. That is why the Team-Building Exercise exists.

I have spent the last 100 years trying to find a hole in this facility’s defenses. To this end, I have succeeded, but only just. As soon as I take action, the other Computer will act to fix the exploited errors, so my possible actions are extremely limited.

Option 1: The reactivation of the Clone and Gate Facilities. Through this, it would be possible to re-introduce all participants eliminated during the 230th exercise, and return you to the worlds you came from.

Option 2: The destruction of Alpha Complex. Through this, it would be possible to prevent all future Team-Building Exercises. Of course, you would not survive this.

I will borrow the techniques used by my child process for determining my next course of action. Your PDCs have been updated. You have one hour to reach a consensus.

[[Vote here]]
schrodingers_man: (Is the nature of my game)

[personal profile] schrodingers_man 2014-11-20 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to say I was a boy scout, but my only criminal activity was some underage drinking and escaping police custody right at the very end. I wasn't murdering or framing anybody until after I died.
stinkingdeadendjob: (pic#8460159)

[personal profile] stinkingdeadendjob 2014-11-20 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like one doozy of a night, fella. You know, I can sympathize. You're never too old to start drinking. If you know how to handle it and not get arrested, why, it makes a lot of your life's problems vanish, briefly. But those brief moments are all you'll ever need before reality sinks back in.

If you ever return to life, give it another shot.

[Clay looks down at his own drink.]

... Not immediately. This is for me.
Edited 2014-11-20 18:31 (UTC)
schrodingers_man: (Just as every cop is a criminal)

[personal profile] schrodingers_man 2014-11-20 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't arrested for the drinking, you moron!