Video, Annie and Max

[spherenpc]

[The camera turns on and shows Annie standing on the table in front of the crowd at the dinner line. She is joined by Max at one point. ]

You’ve seen what has happened now, you know how bad it is and how bad it is going to get. I don’t know if the people I’d sent to the power station and the air filtration station have accomplished what they’re supposed to. I don’t know if they will. But what I do know is that if you don’t try and do something about this, you’re all going to die here, and I will be surrounded by nothing by your corpses for the rest of time.

I can open the door to the Sphere. I can take you there. I realize you have no reason to trust me…

[Max’s voice busts in, sharp, harsh and angry.]

You’re fucking damn right we have no reason to trust you! You tried to destroy us all before. You killed how many of us in your plan? You turned the population against us and tried to raise them in an insurgency….

[ Annie’s voice is just calm. ]

You’re right, Max. I did. I did try and do that, but I was infected with moss that was sentient and took over my circuits. I am trying to make up for that! I didn’t choose to do that. I’m choosing to do this.

Well ain’t that great. But all we got is your word! And Annie your fucking word ain’t worth shit.

Your opinion doesn’t need to be theirs, Max. I know that you still are angry and resentful about the reason I was made to look like your dead daughter. I know that was wrong of my creator, to try and make me in order to replace her. But that doesn’t mean that I’m trying to hurt you now. I’m trying to save you! All of you!
 

You can chose to fucking trust her if you want to, but I ain’t gonna. She killed us repeatedly. She wanted to destroy what we have. And if you wanna go with her to your fucking deaths, on your own head be it!

If you don’t go, you are all going to die. Even with those who have vanished, your air supply is only going to last you three more days if those who went to turn things on don’t work. I can open the door once and once only. It’s up to you whether you want to go through it or not. I can’t make you choose to save yourselves. All I can do is hope you do.

I'll open the doorway tomorrow at six am.

[OOC: Responses will come from one or both of them.]

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[harrythelizard]

[Harry's eyebrows are reaching for his hairline, but here he is.]

...Hells Bells, talking about airing dirty laundry in public.

[Because there's a lot to unpack here. A lot.]

Did...you say something about circuits and being made to look like someone's daughter? Are you a robot?

[spherenpc]

I am. I was created after Max's daughter was sent home to her probable death. Max was acting out after that happened, and tried to get the Sphere to send him by any means necessary.

Including using a nuclear bomb on it. It had no affect. But my creator was worried about Max, she loved him in her own way even if she didn't actually understand human emotion. She knew that one of the things that made him so angry was because he didn't get a chance to see her grow up.

So she made me using the DNA samples of Jane's on file. Max couldn't handle it and has hated me ever since.

[harrythelizard]

Uh huh.

[It was weird, thinking about it, but not really understanding it actually explained more to him than words could have: the Sphere wasn't a machine, or at the very least, it wasn't just a machine. It was sentient, but completely alien.

That meant something really important.

Really really important.

And a lot easier to think about than how insanely torturous just looking at her must be for Max.]

So, assuming you're not still infested with the mind-controlly moss stuff you mentioned, you think the Sphere can be reasoned with?

[spherenpc]

No I am not. After it was discovered that I had been I requested my own deactivation to make certain it did not happen again.

I could not have been reactivated unless the Sphere found that it was no longer present, and yet I was when the ghosts were present here.

video; un: littlebird

[toivory]

I will be there.

[Sansa turns to Max.] I don't know if we can trust her. But if we don't trust her, then we have no chance at all. So long as there is a sliver of hope that we may come through this, I will take it.

I do not intend to sit idly by and wait for my death. I've done enough of that.

[spherenpc]

So you would rather march your way to it wearing a pretty fucking dress as if you were going for tea?

Did she mention how she ripped the communication device from our brains? Mine, Laurie's, Alex's and others who are gone. She did it all to kill us to take over the Sphere.

At least we didn't end up fucking asking her to kill us.

[toivory]

[She doesn't take the bait. He doesn't know her life. He's just another rude man. He doesn't know what she's capable of, dress or no.]

No, my lord. I would rather take a chance at life than simply accept death here. You may stay here and slowly suffocate, but it would be a grave mistake to simply accept our end.

And I shall wear trousers.

[spherenpc]

Well, ya sure better hope that what she's leading ya into ain't worse. Ya remember nightmares? Ya remember your memories being shared? That's what she's takin' ya into see. The thing that let all that shit happen. The thing that made all that shit happen.

God, I don't know how you can be so fucking stupid even after all your fucking memories were just splashed all over the fucking network for people to live through.

[harrythelizard]

Hey, easy. [He's not even going to try to comprehend the pain this guy's been through...but he also has no idea the circumstances around what Annie did.

Does he trust her? No. He's just met her, never met an android before, but...you know, sometimes you just have to go all Churchill and Stalin on a situation.]

She'll be with me.

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[badimpression]

[Richie has no idea what to make of what he just heard. It's bizarre and stressful and apparently lives are in danger, so he reacts to that knowledge the best way he knows how.]

Anyone got some soap for all the dirty laundry in here?

[Here come the impressions. One overly deep and gruff:] Your word ain't worth shit, Annie! [and the other, exaggeratedly high:] Come with me or die!

Man, I've been missing TV the whole time I've been here, but the Max and Annie show is some prime time shit.

[spherenpc]

Well hey, I'm sure they get a hell of a lot of channels once you're dead, so at least you'll be able to find yourself a fucking Transformer cartoon or something!

Lucky fucking you.

[badimpression]

Fuck dude, forget Transformers! If it's heaven, they'll have porn and Alien on a back to back 24 hour loop!

Did this chick really kill you? Or try to kill you or something? I'm really not clear on that. She killed you but you got better?

Re: voice; un: TheStrandInstitute

[nobasisinfact]

I see we've become 'hell frozen over' desperate.

[Richard doesn't use theological commentary often, but this is Annie we're talking about.]

[spherenpc]

Only if you're stupid enough to believe her! You know more than almost anyone else the shit she's done, Richard. Talk some sense into these idiots!

[nobasisinfact]

I'm busy enough with trying to talk my own idiot out of going.

Audio: Maresh

[unbreakable_king]

I'll be waiting to meet you Annie.

[What, not even a witty argument or prying into details here? No. It seems frivolous to try. Max won't approve of Rhy's decision, quite clearly. Annie just seems to want to give them the chance to end this. So while he holds out hope for the air and the power, that doesn't solve the whole root of the thing, does it.]

Max, is there anything you desire passed on to the power that is?

[spherenpc]

Good. Perhaps you will be the best from the council to go.

[unbreakable_king]

I do not know that. But it's still something.

[spherenpc]

Well, when you die, you can tell it to fuck off, but I'll be able to do that soon enough if shit doesn't get done.

[unbreakable_king]

I don't believe I could tell it to fuck off after I died. It strikes me as an impossibility. Or improbability. And I say that as someone very talented at the skill of death not taking.

[But a more serious tone replaces the almost light and playful one for the first part of his response.]

I'm serious, Max. I have to try. And if it's an exchange, if there is something I can do by risking myself that will help the people here, it is a cost I will gladly bear.

audio; un. angel

[unknownmoirai]

Max... [Her voice is soft, pained and sweet.] I was controlled by the moss as well. It was terrifying. I know... it's hard but please.

We need all the help we can get. We don't know what's going on and... the people who live here depend on you. You don't have to trust her. I'll trust her for you but please... please try and think about those here. They deserve a chance, don't they?

[She hesitates and then continues in her usual soft voice.] I'll go with Annie. I don't like fighting but... I'll protect you. Okay. It'll be okay.

I promise.

[spherenpc]

Inesa you can't promise shit. Especially when it comes to this place and her. You of all people should know better!

[unknownmoirai]

I know. I know... Maybe I can't promise that things will be okay but I can promise to try.

I-

You aren't alone Max.

[spherenpc]

[Annie, for her part, looks down sadly, and her brow twists in pain before she responds.]

I'm sorry. It wasn't me, it was the Moss. I didn't... I just...

The reasoning doesn't matter. How it happened doesn't matter. The only thing that does is that I did it.

[unknownmoirai]

I know.

[Her voice softens.]

I do not blame you. Bad things happen and its what we do next that matters. I believe that we can make up for the past. No matter what, I don't think you're a bad person and reaching out like this, even when its hard, proves that.

Don't give up.