5-12-15

2x male and 2x female subjects, all age 16, accquired per AH-4's request. Four additional RAHS installed in Phase 1 lab.

Subject 18's body discovered in a motel room twenty miles away. Cause of death was apparent suicide via drug overdose. Subject left behind message on wall:

SUCKERS

JU: Does his dying message mean anything to you?

AH: Well, Idid give him an unhealthy love of lollipops.

JU: har har. But seriously... Oz is very jump because of this. If you know anything...

AH: You are implying that perhaps Subject 18 knew something about the project. Information that he may have passed on before taking his life. I assure you, while Subject 18 did posses vast knowledge of my simulated world, he remained wholly unaware of that world's falsehood and ignorant to the cirumstances surrounding it's creation.

JH: Alright then. I'm just now getting caught up on the logs. You had a very busy couple of days.

AH: Oh yes. I was curious to see how a "speed run" of my game would go. Now I'm testing out a slower one. The four new subjects will play the game across several years. Meanwhile, the other subjects will assume more ordinary, day to day lives that you may study.

JU: Oh, so you've actually decided to do something that fits the time table for once.

AH: Well, not exactly. See, I did a small experiment of my own.

JU: Oh?

AH: The Seed Runtime environment defaults at a 1:1 real to simulated time ratio, since that's the best that ordinary computers can handle. But you did put me in a quantum rig here. So I tried fiddling with the code and sort of overclocked it a little. Tested it out on 15 and 16. They experience three months in 18 hours, in what they perceived as an alternate timeline.

JU: what... seriously?

AH: You can pass word up to your bosses. They can move their time table forward. You're gonna have three years worth of data in about two weeks.

JU: Incredible.

AH: Is this acceptable?

JU: Yeah, I guess... but getting this far ahead... Phase 2 is still a long ways from being ready.

AH: Well then perhaps once I finish here, I can find a similar efficiency increase for Phase 2 as well.

JU: We'll see.

5-13-15

OZ: I don't like it.

JU: Look, I know you're jumpy after the incident.

OZ: No no, you underestimate my concern.

OZ: Jumpy is your typical dumb teenager in a horror movie.

OZ: I'm the guy in the horror movie who realizes he's in a horror movie, and has to be killed off first or else there won't be any fucking suspense.

OZ: Don't you get it? This was not an accident. Nor a reactionary choice. It was a plan.

JU: You're delusional.

OZ: No, think about it! The death events! The events that killed 18 and 21 inside the simulation were set into play way before the circumstances arose in the real world with Leland. Their death and exit from the simulation was planned in advance, scheduled even! And Leland is a red herring.

JU: Ozmand, stop. You're not making sense. Leland never had any contact with AH-4. There is no chance AH-4 could have manipulated or predicted his actions. Unless you're proposing AH-4 is psychic or something.

OZ: ...

JU: No. No way you believe that.

OZ: AH-4 is already approaching the limits of our understanding. Anything is possible.

OZ: I'm going to recommend to the board that we immediately pull the plug. We have enough data on the memetic manipulation software to work with, and AH-3 is stable and predictable. It'll do for Phase 2. We just went too far this time.

JU: Look... under the accelerated time table, we'll have all te data we could ask for in a just a week or two. There's no sense stopping this soon.

JU: I'm prepared to fight you on this. In front of the board if necessary.

OZ: You're too involved with AH-4 Jun. You're not thinking objectively.

JU: Objectively, we've destroyed twenty-eight human lives through this experiment. We should make the outcome worth it, not get cold feet in the home stretch.

OZ: I seem to recall that YOU were the ones with moral objections when we started.

JU: And I recall you having more balls than this. Sir.

OZ: ...

OZ: Fine. We'll both present our opinions to the board. Let them decide.

JU: That sounds like the mature way to handle it.

OZ: I'm also having 21 returned to the Phase 1 lab's custody. She's your problem now.

JU: Problem?

OZ: She is... not adjusting well to finding out everything she ever knew was a lie.

JU: What do you want me to do about it?

OZ: Play shrink or something. I don't care. She's dead in two weeks or less anyway.

Conversation between Dr. Richard Yun and Subject 21 (Aliases "Black Queen"/"Snowman")

BQ: Are you in charge here?

JU: Of this particular lab, but not the whole project. That's Dr. Brinner.

BQ: I want to speak to him then.

JU: No. I will try to answer your questions, but he doesn't wish to speak with you.

BQ: Alright then... explain your actions. I understand what you've done. How do you expect to justify it?

JU: I don't. We never honestly expected to speak directly to the test subjects, so we didn't prepare a justification. I fully admit our hands are caught in the cookie jar.

JU: If it makes you feel any better, Andrew ultimately gave you a better life then what you had.

BQ: ...

BQ: Who was I?

JU: You're real name was ###### #######. You were alone... homeless... and a few missed meals away from death.

BQ: I was a Queen.

JU: As well as a "caprician", one of Andre's fantasy races. How is a "human" body treating you?

BQ: It's soft. And frail... And this stuff...

JU: That's called hair.

BQ: It keeps getting in my way!

JU: There are fixes for that.

BQ: I still do not understand why you have done this to me.

JU: If I told you... it wouldn't make you feel any better. Worse probably.

BQ: I demand to know.

JU: You seem to still be under the delusion you are a Queen. I'm sorry. You are not a queen, a caprician, or anyone of any importance. You are Subject 21 out of 28. That's all.

BQ: ...

JU: Well, you'll be staying here in this cell for the remained of the project. Is there anything I can do to make you more comfortable 21?

BQ: Snowman.

JU: You want to build a snowman?

BQ: No. My name... is Snowman.

5-14-15

The board has heard the arguments and deliberated. The board concurs with Dr. Richard Yun that Phase 1 continue until AH-4 accumulates the project data. AH-4 and all test subjects will be terminated as scheduled, on June 1st.

To accommodate for the accelerated time table, we will be duplicating the Seed environment data generated by AH-4 and re-purpose it for use in Phase 2. This should accelerated Phase 2's progress by about 18 months. In light of the recent security breach surrounding Subject 18, all phases of the plan will be accelerated as a precaution.

Dr. Richard Yun is promoted to head of Phase 1 until it's completion. Per his request, Dr. Ozmand Brinner will be moved from his current position to supervise Phase 2.

Stay focused everyone. Remember this is all for the greater good. For the new world.

- Skaianet "Sburb" Administration Board