trustfelled | Week 3.

WEEK 3
Grace and Doug are dead. It seems that there isn't anything more to do but mourn your losses and try to move forward. The Transmitter's rules still hang in every room, a reminder of the only means of escaping this place.

But surely no one else will give into them, right?

Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; the static blares out early on Sunday, but at least there are no bodies to find today - it seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost...

Once again, however, it seems your efforts won't go unrewarded; another set of corridors have opened up, much in the same fashion as the other new area did last week. With them come new rooms to explore; maybe some of them will be to your liking.

Or perhaps it's better to say that hopefully some of them will; after all, if the Transmitter gets her way, you may be here for a very, very long time.

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[OOC: Welcome to week three of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Transmitter, you can do so through text or the phone in your room!]

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[...Hello, Nachetanya, what the hell are you going on about today.]

"Someone else"...?

[ Gesture to the box turret... ]

This one?

That isn't a person.

[It's kinda beeping at the people talking, but it's not a person.]

[ she crouches down in front of it, waving at it ] Oh, isn't it? Ah, it's a robot, like Wheatley?

Yes...? It seems a bit less sentient than Wheatley does, but it's similar enough, I suppose.

[...wh...ere is this going...]

Ah, does it have a name, do you know?

[ Will you respond, cube thing...?

Hello??? ]

None that it can tell me; it doesn't seem to speak at all.

[It'll kind of chirp at her, once it is a bit more accustomed to her presence and seems to have deemed her not-terrifying! ...Not like that takes very long, it isn't terribly bright.]

...Well, outside of that. It does seem to understand what's being said, however.

Ah, so this one isn't as intelligent...? Oh, or at least it's different.

[ She slowly reaches a hand out, as if to pet it - in fact, if it allows she's going to try to do just that. ]

Something like that.

[It's going to try to duck out from under her hand at that, though a bit ineffectively. ...Pretty much everything it does is done ineffectively, but you know what, it's doing its best.]

[ Okay, okay, she'll back off, but the hand floats near there still! ]

So more like an animal, I see.

Perhaps it can be trained in some way - it depends on whether it has any sort of programming that's capable of learning in there.

Couldn't it simply learn? Why would it be incapable of that...? It's alive, after all.

[ Just saying. ]

[......]

Robots aren't alive, Nachetanya. They're capable of doing whatever their creators have decided they're capable of doing.

It's moving and reacting to things... isn't it alive, then? Like Wheatley?

[ she waves at the thing again, taking her hand back.. ]

[So many little chirping noises, Nachetanya!]

Wheatley isn't alive either.

[...Said as though he is not sure why we're even questioning this.]

... Yes he is, why wouldn't he be?

[ Like. Dude. ]

He was created by humans to serve a certain purpose, and his personality only exists as defined by the programming that was put into him.

He isn't alive.

But the profile says he has likes and dislikes, he can still act and speak and move. Even if humans did make him, he's still alive?

He does nothing that would actually make him alive, though - it's all programmed in, not a natural response.

What makes that different than living, though?

The lack of genuine agency, for one.

Mmm, but are animals that different? They act according to what their needs are, usually.

They weren't created by someone else specifically to have those needs, however.

The fiends, where I'm from, were. I don't know if I'd call them not alive.

Am I going to regret asking what those are...?

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