《Dungeon Code》R3 - BIOS'ed Representation
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Excerpt from the Encyclopaedia Multiverca:
E.M.P. n. 1. Enigmatic Mega Pulse, the weakness of all goo-based systems. There has only been one of these until recent times, which is thought to be due to the initialization of the original iteration of the 'system'.
E.m.P. n. 1. Enigmatic mini Pulse, a localized version of the E.M.P., which temporarily brings all goo-based operations to a halt while the local host re-boots. This can be due to sudden runtime environment changes, such as cerebral goo shock.
At long last every living being had been exposed to the green goo; whether by implantation or direct contact with implanted subjects.
The sticking point came with this milestone event - the first E.M.P., or Enigmatic Mega Pulse, and initialization of the 'system'. The world wide web (now global goo grouping) was forced to a grinding halt as this happened, yet the new implementation of networked computational interfaces quickly adapted to localized node distribution. Short-distance communicaion was greatly improved, and line of sight comms became nearly instantaneous. Long distance transmissions were another matter... predisposing all to be somewhat biased about the matter. Who wants to lose their japanese anime, their american reality TV, their English dramas, their European documentaries of things the researchers have no clue about? Ba-baow. All gone. No more ads, no more shoddy TV. All transmissions actually needed to be clear, concise, and to the point. No fluffing around, or it became slime out... The system decreased intelligence stats for airy-fairy speculation of arm-chair philosophers when their views were... less than logical. The system also decreased the intelligence stat of viewers who enjoyed the ramblings of crazy less-than-tied-to-reality social justice warriors.
Fortunately for our story, the initialization of the system activated every batch of green goo. After all, global launches are only global when all articles on the globe go online.
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_.os in use, please confirm forced reboot
Y / N : _
"rrrrmmmrrrrrrh.... Yeah-yeah-yeah, I'm coming..."
The first researcher to make the boo-boo and fall in the goo-goo crystallized his thought processes. In the not-first-ever goo-to-you moment (everybody had already come in contact with some form of the goo) he unwittingly responded to the blue box in front of him.
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Rebooting _.os
Warning: last failure cased by blank file
Self-resolution: Writing to _.os before restart
Searching available files: *.os
Located: Minerva.os
Overwriting _.os | Minerva.os
Overwriting . . . . . . . .
Overwriting unsuccessful: Minerva.os is in secure compression format
Decompressing Minerva.os . . . . . . .
Not enough available space.
Locating alternative compatible files: . . . . . .
Located: Help.hlp
Help.hlp | Overwrite _.os
Automatic name resolution _.os : Nova | Rename _.os
Rebooting Nova.os
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"...ke up, Cable! WAKE UP!"
Cable bolted upright and woke up.
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2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". 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