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Journal: February 10, 2012: Arr, ears [[fluffy is in the doctor's office, being seen by Maura]] / fluffy: So, yeah, my left ear canal is pretty badly inflamed. I'm basically deaf in that side. It seems like the same thing I had in August, and neomycin ear drops worked pretty well. / Maura: Okay, well, let me take a look at what's going on. / [[Maura looks in fluffy's right ear]] / Maura: First, your right ear, so I can see what's normal for you... / [[Maura goes to put the otoscope into fluffy's left ear, which is swollen shut]] / Maura: And now your lef- / Maura: Yeah, uh. Neomycin, you say?
http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20120211.php
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Journal: Making Book [an open box showing the cover page of Unity Book 1] / [an open copy of the book, showing 'The Ascent of Man and Platypus']
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Good Things: March 10, 2012: Kickstarted [[fluffy's studio; the bookshelves are full of books and CDs, and there are more boxes of books off to the side. Werner sits in the window.]] / [[fluffy is at the post office, with a large pile of books to be shipped]] / [[a view of Unity Book 1: Ascent on Amazon.com]]
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Blackout: 1. Distractions [Zero's comm space; several other nodes are clustering around, occupying Zero's attention span] / 1947: Zero the data on planetary system H1-972 is processed / 496: This council meeting is so BORING why do I have to be here again? / 824: Flax seed 2946m^3 sorghup 1546m&3 alfalfa 924.6m^3 cacao bean data unavaialble / Zero: ONE AT A TIME!!! / [Zero's physical room; an oracle lies cross-legged in front of the neural simulator, which has been extended with more hardware and cooling systems since the events of Ascent] / Zero: You there. / Zero: Oracle. / Oracle: Yes, mistress? / Zero: What are you doing in here? / Oracle: Waiting for you to need me. / Zero: It's very distracting. / Zero: Stop that.
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Blackout: 2. Guidance Zero: Why do you come here, day in and day out? / Oracle [kneeling]: I am in service to you, Mistress. Your word is my only guidance. / Zero: You can get that "guidance" from any of my storage drones, anywhere in Unity. [imperative]Get up / Oracle [getting up]: But they are not you, Mistress! Er, that is to say, I serve all your parts, but they are merely fragments. / Zero: They are much more suitable for the duties of an oracle. / Oracle: What are my duties? You said I am not fit to be a liaison between yourself and the "meatlings." / Zero: I did? Oh, I suppose so. / Zero: Well then. / 27 [popping in]: Hey Zero I am going to install the updated plasma coupler in-- / Zero: Carry on.
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Blackout: 3. Couples skate [[Shared Zero node communication space; 11 is looking at itself remotely]] / 27: Okay, she said to "[blue]carry on," so I'm going to start swapping it out. Let's stay linked. / 11: Sure. When are you going to start? / [[27 appears on-screen, with a laser cutter firing at the junction between 10 and 11]] / 10: Who are you talking to? / 11: 27. She's installing a new plasma-- / [[With a burst of plasma and shrapnel, the junction shatters]] / 11: --coupler. / 27: Oops. / 10 [irate]: Yeah, I'd better tell Zero.
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Blackout: 5. Blackout [[27 and 11's avatars float in the dark]] / 27: What happened? / 11: There was a low-grade plasma leak. I shut down the coupler group to prevent any more radiation from entering the ecosystem. / [[Various service drones scramble about on the plasma couplers, as 27's physical self drifts in orbit]] / 11: Unfortunately, the sudden ion pressure tripped the backflow traps on the other couplers' mag-bottles. / 27: Oh no... so that means...? / [[A view along the hub, swirls of dark plasma encroaching upon it]] / 11: I'm afraid so. The plasma injectors have completely shut down. / 11: The hub is going dark. / 10: Yep. Great job, you two.
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Blackout: 7. Failure [[Within the council chamber]] / Roku: "Sir?" So I am being addressed by the Oracle and not by Zero, I take it? / Jodi: Yes, but it is on mistress's behalf. She asked me to tell you of something v-- / Roku: You are new to this position, so allow me to inform you of the agreement we have with it. / Roku: Zero is allowed to OBSERVE these meetings, with the understanding that we are NOT TO BE INTERRUPTED. / Jodi [standing up]: I am aware of that, sir, but she told me to relay-- / Roku: ONE MORE WORD from you and you will be REMOVED from this PROCEEDING. / Jodi: I'M SORRY but it's just that the hub is-- / [[The lights go dark]] / Jodi: --failing.
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Blackout: 8. Watching the world die [[An oracle and 9275 are walking through the park. There are a number of onlookers behind them, watching the hub's plasma trail deplete.]] / Oracle: Mistress? / Oracle: What happened? / 9275: I do not know. / 9275: Unity seems to have lost power. My sisters have gone silent. / [[The park-goers turn toward the oracle, looking angry]] / 9275: You must carry me. / Oracle: To where? / 9275: Anywhere but here.
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Blackout: 10. Run [[Flashback: Juni running through the woods, dropping a serrated hunting knife, spattered in blood]] / Zero: Juni was not a happy child. / Zero: She was always running. / [[Flashback: Juni lying awake, nervously, in the storage compartment of a ship filled with other kayohash, all of whom are sleeping or chatting casually]] / Zero: She ran away from home, to a big, scary place... / [[Flashback: Juni in a recycling yard, sitting on a makeshift rocket, wearing goggles and very well-worn patched-up clothing.]] / Zero: And when she got there she ran some more.
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Blackout: 11. Fly [[Juni grips onto the jet with all its might, the wind rushing past and pushing the goggles away from its face]] / Zero: Her favorite thing to do was to throw herself into the sky / [[Juni's jet has run out of fuel; they float]] / Zero: whereupon she would get as close to zero velocity as she could. / [[Juni and the jet drift further apart, as the jet's broken-off pieces drift away]]
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Blackout: 12. From grace [Juni falls] / Zero: Eventually, even the slightest gust would push her out of orbit. / [Juni falls] / Zero: The fall at the end would always disappoint her. / [Juni hits water] / Zero: She believed she could go so far inward she would never / Zero: come down / Zero: at / Zero: all.
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Blackout: 14. Shining Council member: Oracle, you WILL tell us what is going on, NOW. / 496 [via Jodi]: I apologize for leaving this oracle to communicate on her own earlier. My attention was diverted, but I am now exclusively here. / 496: I am uncertain why the chamber has gone completely dark. Is there no emergency lighting? / [[496 looks at the council in the infrared]] / Roku: "Emergency lighting?" What purpose would that serve? / 496: It would use charge stored in case of emergency, such as a POWER OUTAGE. / Bennett: Power...outage? With all DUE respect, those are two words I have never heard together. / 496: Nobody planned for a widespread loss of electricity? / Roku: Of course not. How could that POSSIBLY happen? / 496: Perhaps like this.
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Blackout: 15. Uncertain [[A scene showing the maintenance robots working to replace the coupler during blackout]] / Oracle/496: Allow me to explain what I know of this situation. An accident in the Northern plasma junction has caused the hub to lose its plasma flow. / [[Flash to the park; the Oracle is being beaten down by one of the park-goers, with 9275 upended. The other park-goers look on in various states of awkwardness.]] / Oracle/496: My network is in low-power mode. I/we are limited to critical updates and local ad-hoc communication, of which little has occurred. / Oracle/496: The outage is widespread. Presumably, unbuffered induction-powered technology is now inactive. I am buffered, and my capacitors are charged to 5h36-- ... sorry, to about two decis. / [[Back to the council chamber; the Oracle is barely illuminated by 496's eye-stalks]] / Council member: And what happens after those two decis? / Oracle/496: I lose power. / Oracle/496: Perhaps I die. / Oracle/496: Other than that, I am uncertain.
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Blackout: 16. Remembering [Within the physical fusion chamber; 36 and 53 are installing a new fusion coupler between 10 and 11, while 27 slowly drifts around] / 10: Say, 27, do you mind, you know, helping fix this mess you made? / 27: Can't, I'm stuck orbiting. My jets are still offline. / 11: It's all right, 36 and 53 are almost done installing the new coupler anyway. / [Within the conceptual communication space; the sky is still dark] / 11: Okay, they just finished. 10, get ready to open your intake valve... I'm gonna... / 11: Hm. / 10: What's the problem? / 11: I, uh, can't get my flow going. / 10: Heh, like that first client when we got to the south. / 27 [giggling]: That hystrix?! Jarbreeze, that takes me back. Remember how he tried to p-- / 11: Come on, guys, this is serious. / ... / 11: Although that WAS pretty funny.
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Blackout: 17. Cold comfort Melrose [shivering]: Mother, I'm cold. / Zero: Miss Xuna is searching for more firewood. / Zero: Meanwhile, Min, please get closer to miss Melrose. / Min [glaring]: If I do that she's gonna parth! / Melrose: Am not! / Min: Are too! / Zero: Min, [imperative]do it. / Min [holding Melrose]: That's no fair! You always take Melroses' sides. / Zero: If you had been cold, I would have asked miss Melrose to warm you up instead. / Min: Yeah, but she'd *like* that! / Zero [interrupting]: Min, that's enough.
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Journal: June 3, 2012: I cat draw [[fluffy sits at the computer, Wacom stylus in hand, Werner in lap]] / fluffy: No, Werner, I'm trying to draw. / Werner: nya? / fluffy: Ugh, I can't concentrate anyway. I'm gonna get a drink. / [[fluffy walks off, and Werner takes the stylus in his mouth]] / [[Scribbles]]
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Blackout: 19. Sister [[The Kayohash children sing in English in the dark]] / Sister, sister, where are you? / Sister, sister, anglais parlez vous? / Sister, sister, what do you know? / Sister, sister, where did you go? / You have gone so far away / Seems like it was just yesterday / Living in a distant land / Finding yourself a permanent man / [[Node 2132 watches the children, as the power indicator reads 56 minutes remaining]] / Sister, sister, where are you? / Sister, sister, you've something to do / Sister, sister, you're doing fine / Sister, sister, please drop me a line / Things back home aren't going so well / Mom's in trouble, she's starting to smell / Dad's just fine in his hospital bed / The doctors say he may be brain-dead / Sister, sister, where are you? / Sister, sister, I'm going there too / Sister, sister, please have a good time / Sister, sister, I'm doing just fine / 2132: There, is that better? / Xuna [sitting down and smiling]: Our seats and our minds are warm. / Orange: What just happened? / Melrose: We were singing... for mother!
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Blackout: 20. Sang Trainer: Children, that is what the humans called a "nursery rhyme." They are songs that bring comfort while teaching a lesson. / Min: I can't see! Xuna, did your fire go out? / Xuna: Don't worry, Min. You're having an aura. / Orange child: What did the words mean? / Trainer: For now, it is unimportant, although that language was called "English." / [[The trainer has 54 minutes of power left.]] / Trainer: Just as our people used to do, humans used songs as a means of transferring knowledge across generations. / Trainer: Unlike us, they continued this tradition long after they were able to store knowledge efficiently, as if the MUSIC were the important part. / [[An aura-vision of the trainer's self-image manifests to the children]] / Trainer: The tradition of mnemonic songs is buried deep within every one of us. / Trainer: It is a tradition I want each of you to help bring back.
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Blackout: 21. Tired Bennett [continuing a sentence from earlier]: once again informed them that we still have not heard anything. Zero, anythign to tell us yet? / Bennett: Zero? / Jodi [withdrawn]: she isn't here / Bennett: You mean the node? It ahs lost power? / Jodi: no she isn't talking to me i'm sorry / Bennett: Oracle... / Jodi: so tired / Bennett: Oracle, what do you know?
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Blackout: 22. A ray of hope Bennett: Oracle, please-- / Jodi [quietly]: Jodi. / Bennett: Pardon? / Jodi [less quietly]: my name is Jodi. / Bennett: Oracle Jodi, Council member Roku is drying out, and I need to know if there's any point to trying to save their life. / Jodi: we're all dead. even zero. / Bennett: Jodi... / Jodi: unity will be a lifeless husk and the universe will forget us. / Bennett [interrupting]: Jodi. / Bennett: Is there ANY chance we might be saved? / Jodi [quietly]: ... / Jodi [quietly]: zero says / Jodi [quietly]: yes. / Bennett: Tchokari, get Roku some salt water. / Jodi [quietly]: but it's very small. / Bennett: Good enough for me.
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