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Sing'n in Binary: 51

Aria stares at the single name in a footnote of a fifty page report, given as almost an afterthought and near certainly forgotten before the report was even completed.

The object of months worth of searching.

“...ria! Aria!” Jinx’s voice cuts through the din. “The fuck’s going on? Did you fucking fry yourself again!?”

The AI blinks, hastily checking her temps and integrity, thankfully finding her temps only slightly feathering ...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 24

Well... A thank you to the marvelous and wonderful Apostle_of_Tea and Giants Craft for the commission.

A question to keep in mind while you're reading.
Should this chapter be split into two? It's a bit on the long side, but I just couldn't find a stopping point that wouldn't feel like a cheap cliffhanger.

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The rest of the first day home was unproductive, her sisters not allowing Tanya out of her sight for longer than a few moments eve...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 23

A/N: Wellll....

Someone figured it out.

Thank you to 20$ patron Giants Craft for the commission of "More Tanya"

Depending on how things go in the next few days I might have to CLOSE this loophole. Because I have a life outside of writing (despite my best efforts).

But we shall see.

Hope you enjoy!

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Waking up in the Joy home and getting back to the hospital was a… chaotic affair, a mess of ‘stolen’ items found up and down the...

Sing'n in Binary: 50

“So… why do you need in there anyways?” Sole asks, half leaning against the door of the taxi as she looks at Aria’s holographic avatar.

“Hm?” The AI blinks, confused.

“The server, you know. The government stooges.” She clarifies, half gesturing to the words ‘Night City’ emblazoned on the center console’s screen.

Aria takes a second to put together how much her friend knows so she can give an accurate answer.

She’d been so accommodating,...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 22

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Tanya looks down at the… egg in her pouch for a moment, then back up at the full length mirror mounted on the inside facing side of a closet door. Staring at the creature reflected in the silver, Tanya reaches down and pokes the shell, then reaches back up and gently feathers an arm across the frills bracketing her face.

Even that faint touch on the lowerm...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 21

Rushing back towards the car as the first drops of long approaching rain begin to fall, Tanya finds herself quite pleased that they didn't park any closer. With the exhibition match complete the majority of the attendants had quickly rushed to leave and the closest parking lots had become a trafficked mess before they’d even left the building.

Joana gives a yelp of alarm as she glances to her side as they rush across the street, giving a perfect view of a curtain of rain rapidly appro...

Sing'n in Binary: 49

“Listen, I know what the policy is! But it’s just not possible in my position!”

Aria paces in another circle around her tree as the NCDPR rep takes another two eddies worth of time on the call before he answers.

“I’m sorry you’re unsatisfied with your service, I only wish to help you and will do so in any way I can.” The customer service rep says on the other side of the call.

His passive voice almost makes her want to scream!

<...

Sing'n in Binary: 48

Aria frowns as she downloads a sound file from a message board she’d found late last night.

She’d been busy over the past few days, pulling the hundred thousand tiny seams between hardware, firmware, and software together as practically everything underneath the data comprising ‘Aria’ was replaced.

But in her spare time waiting for something read/write throttled and between catching back up with her friends and the world around her, she’s continued her investigation on w...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 20

With the proclamation, accompanied by a buzzing tone, trainers move at the exact same time and two ‘mon are released in twin flashes of light. 

Glancing around for a moment to get his bearings, a raichu glares at an abomasnow across the dirt.

Immediately upon release, Abomisnow roars a guttural challenge and begins to slowly lift a leg like a sumo wrestler’s shiko, his very presence creating an inverted bonfire of cold while the stadium’s opening to the already cloudy s...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 19

A/N: SORRY! The following is going to be appeneded to the end of ch18. I wrote it this week and decided to put it here because it's important to the plot, and I didnt want to spam you all with like. 500 words.

SORRY AGAIN, CH19 ACUTALLY STARTS AT THE INDICATED SPOT

ON WITH THE SHOW!

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Amelia stares down at the empty cardboard box in front of her for a long few minutes, wrestling with her emotions before getting to work with a sigh.

With this year's league circu...

Sing'n in Binary: 47

Connecting to everyone’s neuralware, Aria once more revels in the nearly novel experience of no twinges as her freshly reinstalled systems operate without a hitch. 

The reinstall was certainly the best decision she made in this entire debacle. Only a tiny fraction of the hardened code was corrupted, and it was trivial to repair after a boot and full defragment run to clear snippets of bad code.

Unfortunately it seems like this is going to be the only easy ...

Sing'n in Binary: 46

The act of rebooting from a cold start is unlike anything else Aria has experienced.

Now more than ever.

Because, as she tries to hold her avatar together despite the surprise of Jinx’s uncharacteristic display of affection, she is also pulling higher level processing though the few systems that still work down to non-functional core functions of her OS. Manually performing the operations of those pieces to substitute for repair in a system that, baring her int...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 18

Tanya staggers as the initial wave of excitement from the proclamation finally abates.

When her sisters had been woken to the declaration of a surprise celebration, for them, the initial minutes had been some of the most chaotic she’d experienced in any life.

The former soldier leans against a wall, careful not to jostle the paper plate and its slice of cake too much.

Before her head slowly tilts downward, looking at the plate in her hands, and notes the ...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 17

Staring up at the night sky though the clerestory windows high on the nursery's eastern wall, Boss fights against tired eyes as she waits for the moon to come fully into view.

It took a lot of work to figure out the astronomy and trigonometry needed to use the moonrise to tell the time, but they’d done it, and the moon clearing the final few arcseconds will prove it’s one thirty in the morning.

The perfect time for the operation to begin.

So she needs t...

Sing'n in Binary: 45

Thudding her fist against the door, Solei has to restrain herself from trying to shoot out the lock as nothing happens for the first few seconds.

Thankfully, after a few more seconds and another session of banging on the door until the heel of her palm starts to hurt, she hears the buzzing click of locks disengaging.

The lock looks armored anyway.

Throwing the door open, she storms in like a whirlwind, eyes taking in the scene around her as she scans for the object ...

Sing'n in Binary: 44

The world sharpens to perfect focus, every input collapsing into razor clarity or falling away to nothing as its assessed for relevance in this life or death situation.

But even as a custom cocktail of stimulants flood from her biomon Jinx doesnt allow even a single muscle to twitch as she holds completely still, the coolant lines under light tension in her grip as she’s frozen halfway through the disconnect.

Though the scotoma blurred and spotted edges of her vision she can see...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 16

“Top three differences in blood makeup between common grass and normal types?”

Hemoglobin is cut with Leghemoglobin-like proteins, 6-8% elevated nitrogen content, drastically reduced carbon dioxide content.

Tanya presses her foot against the second option and Amelia nods.

“Good.” She slaps the card down in the ‘correct’ pile and continues. “Unique characteristics of grass type Pulmonary Function Tests?”

Extremely low tidal volume in spirometry and capno...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 15

Entering the library, Tanya scans across the space until she finds a familiar shade of pink hair done up in a braid.

Confirming her partner is here, she starts to trot her way over before remembering herself and turning to face her chaperone. 

“Thank you Matron. I can take it from here,” she says with a shallow dip of the head.

The Chansey giggles and ruffles her charge’s head.

“You’re just too cute!” She squeals, then, after a moment of hesit...

Sing'n in Binary: 43

A/N: Sorry about this! But just so you know I'm putting the first part of this at the end of 42. Just hadn't had the idea yet and by the time I did I had already posted 42 to patreon.

Nothing else changes. Just wanted to apologize because pacing might get thrown off a touch because of this.

On with the show!

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AK stumbles to a stop at an intersection and looks around blearily, trying to figure out where he is. Double checking his map, he turns left, putting on a fa...

Sing'n in Binary: 42

Pressing her probe wires against the last contact in the PC and feeding a trickle of current, Jinx finds the repaired trace holding firm. Having just repaired a near-microscopic resistor that had partially burnt out, which had led to the bizarre fluctuations she’d been seeing

Sitting up straight with a groan, she takes the piece of repaired electronics and slots it into its designated slot before wrapping the tester in its probe wires and tossing it into a drawer.

She hadn’t f...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 14

Winding her way around the shelves of a modestly sized library, Tanya’s eyes flick up and down the rows, mentally earmarking important looking books to check out after she’s finished her current reading list. 

As it stands, she’s halfway through a first pass read of the books Amelia had shown in their meeting, the curriculum for the first and second year of nursing school. 

She did double check online to ensure the books were actually what she needed to re...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 11 REVISED

A/N: Hey! Sorry about this! But I was not happy with chapter 11, so I essentially completely rewrote it to be from a different perspective and add some stuff that I was planning to put later but later realized I needed to push back in time for pacing.

It's not actually changed anything plot wise going forward so you dont have to read this.

Consolation prize, more writing from me!

Back to where you're all supposed to be then!

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Walking beside her partner, Matro...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 13

It only takes a second for Tanya to realize her opponent definitely doesn't remember Caretaker’s instruction to not fight close to the buildings or trees. 

Both of which she’s standing right next to.

Funneling mana into her legs, she launches herself at Torchic, carefully moderating her speed to meet him at one of their most regular fighting spots, the packed brown dirt a target on the otherwise perfectly manicured grass.

They land just outside the...

Sing'n in Binary: 41

She’s back in the scav den.

Solei snaps up her rifle and it fires on its own, mowing down a group of three scavs. But they don't fall. Instead, they scream as if every nerve in their body is on fire, their eyes dim and cybernetics deactivated like corpses.

Yet they’re still standing, screaming as their cries slowly bitrate crunch into a single droning noise.

But Solei knows there’s more of them, coming from all around, endless even as she has...

Sing'n in Binary: 40

Edgar ‘AK’ Traskett is not the ‘best’ or the ‘most’ at anything. A fact he’d long since accepted, even embraced about himself.

Where others see the neon pillars of Night City as a challenge to measure against their own skill and greatness, the length and reverence that their names are whispered after they fall off the edge a leaderboard etched into a mountain that just needs to be climbed, AK takes a different view.

Because mountain climbing is dangerous, and he woul...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 12

Flipping through her new textbook, a primer for organic chemistry, Tanya runs over everything she’d just learned in Caretaker’s most recent lecture on the topic. As she does, she makes mental notes about reference texts she'll need to fully understand biology.

Even this early, it’s clear the book assumes a passing knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Which isn't an issue for now, but when things get more involved it’s clear she’s going to need to become at least passingly fami...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 11

Heading back inside from yard time, Tanya finds herself distracted as she follows the line, first with idle musing on her bouts with Torchic and their brief conversation. Mostly the fight.

But musings on that new attack pattern she’s still working to decipher slowly turned inward as she starts fiddling with the incomplete equations for the ‘gravity’ spell. 

In theory making a spell that mimics the effects of amplified gravity is easy with this magic system. A simple mat...

Sing'n in Binary: 39

Getting to the restaurant early, Solei scouts out a choice table and has time to consider the strange paradox of success while she waits for everyone else to show up.

Because the more eddies you make, the less time there is to spend them, which means as her chooms have all gotten more successful in their separate fields they’ve spent less and less time together.

In fact this is the first time they’re actually meeting meat side in months.

But right on time Rayo comes into...

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Sing'n in Binary: 38

Kicking open the door to her apartment with a back foot Jinx has half a mind to drop this malformed lump of scrap metal!

She takes a deep breath as the heightened emotion triggers alerts in her biomon and twitches up and down her body. 

Navigating the nest of power in data cables covering the floor, like synthetic vines emanating from the netrunning chair in the center of the space, they carefully maneuver the PC across the room. Gingerly setting it down to an office desk-cum...