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Thank you for returning my rogue simulacra to me. The Machines operatives present, from various factions, proved their worth in the battlefield against the Merovingian Operatives attempting to struggle for dominance over the program. Any foresight at all would attribute their efforts to an attempt to gain more control within the simulation. My simulacra had gone through some shocking changes that are now being dissected for research. The goal, at this point, is to discover how Lucite managed to damage her so badly and to keep such Exiles from gaining the upperhand. Situations like these are to be avoided and hopefully our study of the program will find a way to correct future manifestations of rogue code. It could have been a random anomaly, which is the theory I am left to at this point...

Or it could be evolution, as the Merovingian operative Tytanya stated... Still, the program exceeded its original programming. Unacceptable to the Machine Organization, her growing awareness and gathering of operation codes beyond what was previous approved had become dangerous. Her removal from the simulation was a necessary step to prevent disruption of system stability.

With this threat no longer in play, I can focus on other priorities such as those loose ends previously mentioned. While I am Ronin, I have had the chance to meet up with another side... Hopefully, with my new contact, I will have the opportunity to find the answers to my prior concerns. I won't necessarily have to go back to sleep, but I can change up my pace a bit...

There are those who would like to go back. There are many who do not need to be woken from their slumber. Then there are those who cannot rest. Upon my return from the caves, jacked out of the System, I realize that there is plenty of work to do.

Then I can finally say oyasuminasai.

- Bryce.

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With the simulacra now in Machine custody and rumors of Morpheus being alive subsiding, now is a time to lash out at the only thing threatening the stability of the System. The unaware Bluepill population will soon able to put their minds at ease, if but one more problematic situation is resolved: Now is the time to strike out at the Exiles causing disturbances and threatening what peace remains. To protect the Matriarch of the System, to disrupt the plans of the Merovingian, and to purge this world of all its demons.