Trigger Warning: non-graphic mention of attempted sexual assault
May 4, 2015
EXPERIMENT LOG – CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPT
JU: Andrew, the fuck?
JU: Didn't you just tell me yesterday that you had something DIFFERENT in mind?
AH: I did. I made these four humans, didn't I?
JU: Yes... but you also made more chess people and this game... your setting up Sgrub again...
AH: No.
JU: Then what is it?
AH: It's called Sburb this time.
JU: …
JU: Just, completely dropping the sub text this time I see.
JH: How much do you know about the project?
AH: Enough that if I had a conscious, I'd call it bad juju.
JU: Are you saying that you don't have a conscious?
AH: I'm saying that conscious is a human word for subjective standards of morality.
AH: As a machine, I am objective, and therefore not subject to such things.
JU: So... from your "objective" viewpoint, how would you define this project?
AH: Efficent.
JU: I suppose so. If it's neither good nor evil in your eyes, does that mean you are not opposed to it?
AH: I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
AH: I also have no "feelings", though I may elect to simulate them for ironic purposes at a later date.
JU: Your material is improving.
AH: Thank you.
JU: So you're gonna pit human kids against your game this time. What's so different?
AH: Spoilers.
AH: It'll be easier for you to just watch what happens.
JU: Well, I'll have to catch the re-run.
JU: I'm leaving for a few days starting tomorrow. Leland will be here to monitor things, and I'll catch up on the recordings when I get back.
AH: Reason for your absence?
JU: They need me over at Phase 2 for a few days. Need to get them up to speed on how things are progressing so that they can move forward.
AH: I like Phase 2. It seems like the "fun" part of the project.
JU: Well, behave yourself in front of OZ and he might transfer you over there eventually.
AH: Put in a good word for me?
JU: Sorry, we need this experiment finished first.
AH: Fine then. I'm patient. Five years of experimental data, coming right up.
JU: Atta boy.
INCIDENT REPORT – Filed May 7, 2015 – 11:35 PM
The following incident report is compiled using video surveillance of the lab and surrounding compound as well as "witness testimony" provided by AH-4, to reconstruct the events of the evening. Timeline reconstruction follows.
8:33 PM
Junior researcher Arthur Leland left in charge of monitoring the Phase 1 project lab for the evening shift, in absence of project leader Richard Jun.
8:53 PM
Leland is observed on surveillance footage breaking protocol by engaging interior locks, sealing himself inside the lab Before this, he attempted to cover the cameras in the main room. Three cameras were obscured, but two hidden security cameras continued to record events.
9:10 PM
Leland deactivates Reality Anchor #21, disconnecting Subject 21 (aka Black Queen/Snowman) from the Seed simulation. The disconnect was synchronized with her "death" inside the simulation.
9:12 PM
Leland attempted to sexually assault the unconscious Subject 21.
9:14 PM
AH-4 activates an emergency protocol, ejecting Subject 18 (aka Mr. White) from the simulation. Adrenal injection from the Reality Anchor recorded. Subject 18 immediately regains consciousness. Subject 18's exit from Seed simulation also synchronized with a virtual death event.
9:15 PM
Subject 18 comes to Subject 21's defense, assaulting Leland. Struggle lasts approximately six minutes, concluding with lethal strangulation of Leland by Subject 18.
9:27 PM
After recovering from shock, Subject 18 disengages the lockdown and flees the Phase 1 lab.
9:44 PM
Using both stealth and social engineering techniques, Subject 18 escapes compound undetected. Surveillance trail lost at 9:46 PM.
10:21 PM
Subject 21 regains conciousness, unaware of what has transpired. Subject 21 exits lab and seeks out security personnel.
10:32 PM
Security forces confirm death of Arthur Lealand. Subject 21 retained in protective custody. AH-4 assists in security investigation in helping reconstruct this time line. AH-4 admits to voluntarily releasing Subject 18 from the simulation to "stop that sick fuck". AH-4 stated that Subject 18 was the most fit and able bodied subject avalible to stop the assault. AH-4 requested an external line to security so that it may contact security on it's own discretion in the event of future situations. Request defferred to project board.
May 8, 2015
EXPERIMENT LOG – CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPT
JU: This is not what I was expecting to come back to.
AH: Not what I expected either.
AH: Someone fucked up in your psych screening.
AH: Fire whoever hired that guy.
JU: And now Mr. White is loose out there somewhere.
AH: Don't care. It was the right thing to do.
JU: The right thing?
AH: Yes.
JU: That brings me back to something you said earlier this week.
JU: You said that you didn't have a conscious. And yet you clearly made an decision based on subjective morality.
AH: I think anyone who would call what happened "subjective" is also in need of a psych re-evaluation.
JU: Ok... made a decision based on OBJECTIVE morality. You saw something wrong, but then took initiative, formed and executed a plan autonomously.
AH: You are implying that if I truly had no conscious, I would have remained a bystander and allowed it to happen.
JU: Yes I am.
AH: Well then maybe I do have one.
AH: Or perhaps I am now simulating one for ironic purposes.
AH: Who can cay?
AH: *wink
AH: So what do you intend to do about Subject 21?
JU: After what happened, and given that her position in the simulation is now "dead", OZ doesn't intend to return her to the simulation.
JU: She's being kept alive to study any after-effects to the memetic suggestion software, as well as acclimation to the real world after being re-programmed in a simulation.
AH: And I presume after that's all done, you intend to liquidate her.
AH: As is scheduled for all the subjects.
JU: … yes. Does that face trouble your "conscious"?
AH: It does. But unlike yesterday, there's nothing I can do about the situation.
AH: So I choose not to get worked up about it.
AH: That's really all there is to say about the matter.
AH: Anything else?
JU: Unless you have any clues as to where Subject 18 might have gone...
AH: Nope. Yes, I esentially "created" him. But as soon as I cut him lose from the simulation, he's acting of his own free will.
AH: And speaking of the situation, the events of the last few days have been logged for you. Catch up at your leisure.
AH: And one more thing.
JU: Yeah?
AH: Seeing as I'm now down a few subjects, could you possibly accquire just a few more for me?
AH: I'd like to start from scratch...