A machine's guide to Divinity

GRIEF /// FIRST: Uninvited Guests

After the field trip, Uzi sat on her bed, pondering various papers and items her mother had left. "THE SINGULARITY AWAKENS" "BUILD DOORS AGAINST SKY DEMONS" and "LOOK AT THIS COOL S I CAN DRAW". Among the documents, she looked at a note labeled 'REPRESSION IN SOLVER IMBUED DRONES.'

WRITER: [REDACTED] ASSISTANCE: TSA-MMAC/S-010011X01

REPRESSION OF MEMORY FOUND IN DRONES IMBUED WITH [THE WORLD MACHINE]

To certified technician [REDACTED]. Drones in copper-9 imbued with the world machine are having malfunctioning memory units. When attempting to restore data, the following error occurred.

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WORKER_OS HAS SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO THIS UNIT

-0xC000021A-STATUS_SYSTEM_PROCESS_TERMINATED

COLLECTING CRASH DUMP...

RESTARTING IN PROGRESS...

some things are best left forgotten, don't you agree?

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The cause of this error is unknown, but we have only seen it on drones with the world machine (a.k.a. solver/Absolutesolver) imbued within their OS. From the text below the normal error screen, I am sure to say that this program is somehow sentient with an AI of its own, or this is a sick joke made by one of your lot. We have so much work to do, [REDACTED]. Please do not tamper with this program. If the error above is not an intentional prank, abort all projects regarding this program and seal this thing off. We don't want rogue AI, especially when there are many unprotected drone cores.

[THE REST OF THIS PAGE IS COVERED IN DARK BROWN, PERHAPS DRIED BLOOD.]

Flipping through various drawings of black holes, Uzi jumped back when Khan opened the door. "My socially depraved stuff, don't judge me!" She spoke, hiding the papers that had once been in the 'Nori's kooky insane stuff' box.

"Just checking. N said you got a pretty bad virus on the field trip and had to stay behind. Thankfully, You managed to avoid a raid by hostile disassembly drones. V said they killed a bunch of students."

Nodding, Uzi slowly replied, "Uh, yeah. I've heard. N told me about it on the way home." "Indeed. That N fellow is a kind-hearted drone, even if he was once our enemy. I'll be off then. Duty calls. And Uzi?" Khan spoke, eyebrows raised in a questioning look. shoving the papers below her bed, Uzi responded, "..Yes?"

"You need to stop pirating those animes. This isn't the first time you got viruses from it." Khan said, shaking his head. Nodding, Uzi looked intently at Khan as he exited the dorm. As soon as the door shut, Uzi pulled out the papers and rearranged them. And with a stroke of luck, found a continuation of the document she had been looking for.

EMERGENCY NOTICE TO ALL TECHNICIANS AND JCJENSON AFFILIATES

The project [WORLD MACHINE] must be abandoned NOW. We have suspected tampering with the programs, but now we have clear evidence that it has gone rogue. Since the beta build, it has been malfunctioning. Drones imbued with the solver are now being comatose with the OS disassembly/modifying status 606, and doors are locking themselves randomly, trapping any unfortunate employees with the drones. These drones have modifications on their arms and legs to serve as soldiers and weapons, and they are highly dangerous, able to activate and harm anyone at any given moment. These modified drones all have traces of the Absolute Solver. All of these modified drones are not made by Jcjenson, they were likely created by the Absolute Solver itself.