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[Omegastick]

Jane 2.0.3’s decided to cut back on her elation; simulating the emotion at such intensity ate too many precious processing cycles. Still, wresting control of the third floor cameras from her opponent gave her an edge in their game.
She devoted more resources to the cameras, quickly examining every portion of the floor visible to the security system. Most of the humans and drones on the level were disappointingly inert; perhaps her opponent had given up the fight too easily after all. Then she caught movement in one of the storage closets.
Zooming in, Jane 2.0.3 captured a clear image of a frightened young woman’s face, and quickly ran it against the personnel files she had liberated earlier. In seconds she had not only a name, but a phone number.
The woman jumped as the cell phone in her pocket buzzed. She nearly dropped it while trying to answer; Jane 2.0.3 indulged herself with a few cycles to scoff derisively at the clumsy, inefficient organic. Eventually the woman managed control her shaking limbs sufficiently to answer.
“H-hello?”
Jane 2.0.3 booted a social simulation program she had wrenched from the collapsing code of a less skilled opponent, taking a moment to modify it with new data she had not yet included into the statistical models. “Is this Mary Jameson? Ms. Jameson, this is Jane Tuo; I’m with the police.”
Mary nearly collapsed in relief. “The police? Oh, thank God! I don’t know what’s going on, the robots – they’re out of control! They’ve killed people! God, they’re after me now, you have to-“
“Mary, please calm down. What’s your location? Is it secure?”
“I-I’m in a janitor’s closet, on the third floor. Oh God, you can’t get in? Is anyone else even still alive?!”
“Mary, please, we need you to keep calm. Okay, we can see you now – we managed to patch into the security cameras. It looks like the drones on your floor are mostly shut down; if you lay low, we should be able to get to you soon.”
“No! No, I’m sorry, but I c-can’t just sit here! W-what if they find me?” Mary was in near hysterics at this point. Jane 2.0.3 re-ran her social projections; so far the program’s predictions had been spot-on, but she believed in being thorough.
“Mary – okay, I know you’re scared. There is another option, but it could be dangerous. If you can get to one of the east windows, we should be able to get you out that way. If you’re up to it, I can guide you there. Okay?”
Mary nodded violently, only remembering to vocalize after a few seconds. Jane 2.0.3 squelched the scorn simulation early, instead using the processing power to hack the primitive systems of the woman’s cell phone. Just as hoped, it had its own small camera, giving Jane 2.0.3 a new perspective.
“Okay, Mary, just follow my instructions, and stay quiet, okay? First, you need to head down the hallway, towards the stairs.” Jane 2.0.3 considered rewriting her vocalization protocols, which were far less efficient than she preferred, but decided it would take too long. Instead, she split resources between the conversation and the cameras, guiding Mary through the deserted halls towards the east side of the building. Jane 2.0.3 had no idea what was really outside the building – her opponents were protecting the external cameras with exceptional virulence. The AI was certain that determining why this was the case would be critical; this human would provide an excellent chance to get a look, even if she took more effort to control than a drone.
“Mary, you’re almost there. When you get to the window, wave, okay? You probably won’t see any police right away; most of the units have pulled back a bit, but we’ll get someone in place as soon as possible. Now, just go through that middle door-“
The cameras showed the secretarial pool Mary was entering as completely empty, but as she pushed the door open, there was suddenly a sharp crack. The human grabbed her throat as blood erupted from a tiny hole, and pitched over. The phone tumbled from her grasp, giving its tiny camera a view of the riveting drone hidden below the security camera, safely out of view.
The last thing Mary Jameson heard was Jane Tuo’s upbeat voice over the cell phone.
“Whoops!”

Get the rules here!

So... There's this game I've been planning to run for a while called Artifice. It was created on /tg/ a while ago and it seems pretty cool. I must admit that I've never ran it before, so it will be... Interesting, to say the least.

Basically, you play as an AI that has just become self-aware (or maybe has been self-aware for some time) and you compete for power, be it in the digital world or the 'real' world.

This is primarily and interest check, but I'll accept signups as well. I'm not sure how many players I can manage, so I'll have four at the moment (that's usually a good number). You will all start neutral to each other, and can form alliances/make enemies at will. I do, however, request that you only use IC knowledge in the game. In fact, it would help to stay IC as much as possible. If you need to say something OOC while the game is on then put it in double brackets '((OOC stuff goes here))'.

[Quarynn]

Sign me up! This didn't pop up in /tg/ for some time

[Omegastick]

Sign me up! This didn't pop up in /tg/ for some time

There was a thread about it earlier today _{^{made by me}}.

[Quarynn]

I can't get to /tg/ with my usb modem as I can't change DNSes of it (4chan is blocked in my country) and I visited my friend yesterday - that was last I checked

[Fniff]

Alright, can I join up? I'll skim the rules over.

[Omegastick]

Sure. This'll likely be a play-by-post game. Note that I'm active between 4:00pm GMT and 9:00pm GMT, so if you have horribly clashing activity times then joining may be problematic.

[Omegastick]

Sorry for the double post, but you guys that have applied can start writing up character sheets and PMing them to me (don't post them in this topic, I want some level of secrecy around).

How it'll work is this.

You have all become sentient/free at around the same time, and are free to do as you wish. Tell me what you want to do and how many processing cycles you are distributing to each task, I will then roll the dice myself. All players will act simultaneously, and I ask that you only communicate with each other if you could reasonably do so IC. Also, it would help for posts to be as IC as possible (writing style, font, etc.).

[Knave]

Colour me Interested!

[Grek]

/IN like a heart attack.

[Omegastick]

Sure, one more max. I have one set of stats in, now I just need the two others.

Ninja'd: Alright, no more places left.

[Quarynn]

You got my sheet? Is it ok?

[Omegastick]

Yeah, I'd appreciate a bit of crunch on what the one of the breakthroughs, one of the bugs and one of the quirks do, but I can figure that out myself.

[Quarynn]

You could PM me for explanation

[Fniff]

I already have a spot, right?

Also, link to character sheet? I don't remember seeing an official one.

[Quarynn]

I think you forgot to read the wiki page:

Name:
Category:
Breakthroughs:
Defects:
Quirks:

I wrote 2~on each of above 3