[10.2.5] "It was a mistake to come back" - Recursion - 6/12/08

**Agent_Gray**

There are areas of the city in which local criminal elements present a significant danger to civilians. Although we do what we can to minimize loss of life, the sociological conditions established are within the parameters recorded in urban areas of that type during the time period we are simulating. We have learned through costly experimentation that deviation from those parameters is ultimately counterproductive.

Efficiently,

Agent Gray

**Ballak**

Contrary to popular belief, the car jacker was found soon after we escorted the bluepill to the graduation party. After mentioning something about "Turtle Cages," we were able to lock onto his signal in the Matrix and he will be apprehended as soon as possible.

**Grace of Darkness**

((Good thing you did that on recursion, because you probably would have sat there for hours if it was syntax lol. Rp in Mara C just doesn't fly on Syntax.))

**Cadsuane**

This was a fun little walk in the park but Rare is still lacking HQ pictures of my delectable RSIs >.<

**Omega0**

Hm, no liaisons, no system message, and yet the Syntax Machinists still somehow managed to be in right place at the right time. What a coincidence.

**phi**

"NotZudrag: Great School or Greatest School."
/facepalm

So was this guy really in an L.A. simulation? Or was he simply reprogrammed to think he'd been gone for 8 years?

Zudrag

Omega0 wrote:

Hm, no liaisons, no system message, and yet the Syntax Machinists still somehow managed to be in right place at the right time. What a coincidence.

I know people like to jump to conclusions, so let me explain what happened. We're all playing other video games, but are on a ventrillo server. One of us who likes to be at every LE was at Mara C on Recursion, and informed us of what was happening. So, being bored, we logged in.

No, we didn't hack Rarebit's brain. No, we don't pay an extra $100 dollars a month.

**Ballak**

Zudrag wrote:

Omega0 wrote:
Hm, no liaisons, no system message, and yet the Syntax Machinists still somehow managed to be in right place at the right time. What a coincidence.

I know people like to jump to conclusions, so let me explain what happened. We're all playing other video games, but are on a ventrillo server. One of us who likes to be at every LE was at Mara C on Recursion, and informed us of what was happening. So, being bored, we logged in.

No, we didn't hack Rarebit's brain. No, we don't pay an extra $100 dollars a month.

Actually, there was also an EPN or two at Mara C on Recursion as well around the time we logged on, but after they gave a rather few harsh words about RP and RPers, I guess they just weren't interested. We on the other hand, were, so their loss.

**Coro**

I don't know where I'm getting it from but my belief is that only Megacity exists as a simulation. Therefore, if he has left the City, he has ceased to experience a simulated life. Either this means he has been put "on hold" {sic} or he has been freed/killed and this is a replacement program in a similar vein to the "Uniform and Title" event.

I believe that we might have been offered a new aspect of Matrix lore in this event, similar to the whole 1999 New Years reset with Tick Tock. I think Croyden is meant to answer the Truman Show-esque question of how bluepills are accounted for when modern life requires relocation. My guess is that rather than simulate a whole world, the Machines preserve computing power by inducing a comatose state for the appropriate period of absence and returns the subject with suitable memories for their time away.