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A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 10

Thankfully, the rest of the visit to the medical wing was significantly less… exciting after the Slugma situation. Where they quietly moved between rooms meeting more injured pokemon and humans alike.

A lot of humans.

Mostly humans.

It got bad enough that Caretaker had to reassure Tanya repeatedly that this is a pokemon treatment facility, despite one out of every three rooms that’s treating an injury having a human on the examination table instead of their...

Sing'n in Binary: 37

The voice forces Jinx to come back to herself somewhat, tuning back into reality and realizing her neuralware is pinging the person's UserID, informing her it’s Solei.

“Seriously you just drop the call and I got lost trying to find my way here so I- Oh.” Solei cuts herself off as she walks closer and gets a better look at Jinx in the poor light of the kitchen, even with the restored power. “You good choom?”

That, of all things, is enough to completely snap Jinx out of he...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 9

“...And you should have seen Claire's face when I showed her the yield projection on our portfolio!”

Tanya nods along as she walks beside Caretaker, at some point Matron figured out Tanya already learned the material they were trying to teach. So today, as everyone was lining up to go to the classroom, Caretaker offered to show her the medical wing, where injured ‘mon are treated, during class.

An offer Tanya accepted both because she’s genuinely interested in the work, an...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 8

Feeding more of her mana into the… purple variant of the magic that’s settled in that same space within her. Tanya watches as it burns her natural magic like fuel, growing larger in the process, and trying to slip her control. 

Thankfully this mana is significantly more like what she’s used to, using a little will and a variant of her old training she clamps down, slaving that directionless potential and holding it still.

Feeding it the last of her natural mana she watc...

Sing'n in Binary: 36

The annoyingly high pitched buzzing of her ringtone has Jinx jolt to wakefulness with an irritated grunt. Blinking, the pain in her neck is more than enough information on where she fell asleep, even before her brain even has time to catch up with the colorful noise everything looks like before snapping into coherency .

Reaching up, Jinx unplugs the dual liquid cooling cables from the base of her skull as she blindly accepts the call.

She needs to stop falling asleep with the cool...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 7

“What?” The girl asks.

Tanya blinks, before letting out a groan and dropping her arm.

Language barrier. 

She’d forgotten, with so few interactions with humans she’d overlooked their inability to understand her for a moment.

Apparently it’s one of the reasons partners are so important. 

Caretaker seems to believe that partners are capable of learning to understand each other proportionally to ‘the strength of their bond.’ 

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 6

In the darkened nursery, Tanya sits alone as the only conscious creature remaining in the nearly silent room. The soft snores and dreaming chirrups of her sisters as they nap a perpetual backdrop as she calls on her magic again.

Even now, without even a single spell, the mana has proven to be invaluable. The magic seems to do things natively that would take formulas complicated enough to require an orb back in Germania. 

Things like increasing her strength and durability with...

A Saga of Tanya the Chansey: 5

Tanya wasn't sure exactly what she’d expected when she agreed to this. But as her sister sits down opposite and grabs both her hands, she knows it’s not this. 

“Ok.” Happiny says, face scrunching up slightly in thought. “This is how Chansey did it, so just… repeat after me.” 

Waving their arms back and forth in a simple rhythm, she starts humming the tune.

Tanya copies her exactly, slightly disappointed, but pushing on regardless and...

Sing'n in Binary: 35

She’s drowning.

Switch Solei overlay video to feed F1-C8. Three targets. Task external1 and external3 to breach. 

All other externals in use. Retask to central node.

Aria is drowning.

Soeli snaps her gun up as she steps out behind cover firing five times at two point blank targets, one hits, sending out a spray of red as-

New threat identified, second floor, south. Tasking external2.

...

Sing'n in Binary 34

As Solei enters the room Aria’s anger is forcefully shunted away as she needs to direct her full attention to the careful balance of hardware limits, task priority, and resource management. Constantly pushing to eke every atom of potential from her capped processing, in order to prevent fifteen radically different ICE programs from kicking her out. 

It only helps that the dance almost feels like she’s back in one of ADMIN’s breach sims. One of the early ones that was less abo...

March Active Project Poll

Just a little clarification on what this poll MEANS before we begin.

Life happens, but though life I will do everything I can to get at least one chapter out a week. Even if I do literally NOTHING else online or I really want to focus on another project, I will ALWAYS post at least one chapter of the active project per week.

For example if, for some godforsaken reason, you all decide you really want me to continue with tower of babel. I will.

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Sing'n in Binary: 33

“What the fuck?”

“I know, I’m sorr-”

“No! What the fuck!” Solei shouts as she scrambles with her jacket, simultaneously tugging at the handle to the still moving cab.

Aria’s mind scrambles to find a way to save this mess as her friend finally succeeds in pulling a purple last resort pistol out of her jacket.

“I know I should have told you! But there was just no ti-”

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Sing'n in Binary: 32

“Where?” Aria asks, listening to Noah’s increasingly incoherent responses with half an ear as plans form and are just as quickly discarded. 

Already scanning through her debtor toolkit, she finds to her horror that those skills aren't designed for finding someone at speed.

Meaning she’s going to have to improvise a solution quickly.

Extraneous thoughts drop as every available resource is devoted to solving the problem.

Despite it...

Sing'n in Binary: 31

Eight days.

She adds half her paycheck to the account again.

Eight more days and she’ll have enough eddies to purchase full access to the Department of Business Relations, including the taxes and fees from her not being a multinational conglomerate.

Aria sighs, with the day so close it’s hard to even think about anything else, much less be productive.

Conversely it seems like everything else is conspiring to pile more st...

Sing'n in Binary: 30

Of all the liquids Aria’s tried, Miso soup is among her favorites. 

Certainly chief among them in the category of hot liquids.

The custom spoon stirs the silty miso paste as she ladles out another steaming sip into her waiting mouth.

She’s not exactly sure how or when she grabbed the miso, but is certainly glad it happened.

Leaning back on the tree and resting the bowl between her torso and her knees as she adjusts herself to lo...

Sing'n in Binary: 29

Watching Jinx stare at another instance of RD-1.4.9 as it moves back into the recently vacated work area makes Aria suspect her friend doesn't like the bots. Whenever one crawls out of the dark, any conversation they’re having just stops, stone dead. Until it leaves their eyeline again, her friend just watches it move about.

Well it’s that Or she really likes them, but that feels incorrect.

Aria’s been running around all over, trying ...

Sing'n in Binary: 28

“Fucking idiot! What were you thinking!?”

She made a mistake! She should’ve never asked Jinx for help! She’s evil!

“Gah! I said I’m sorry! Cut it out!” Aria whines, her cries ignored as Jinx cuffs her upside the head.

Telling her friend what happened went… as well as she could have hoped. Meaning she’s really mad, but not getting that sort of distant look she gets sometimes talking abo...

Sing'n in Binary: 27

The attacker doesn't move, but she can see him preloading programs, preparing his assault. 

Aria does the same, moving forward just enough for her heels to be back on solid ground; quietly spinning up core parts of her combat suite. 

She ignores the voice in her head (who sounds a lot like ADMIN) that’s telling her to attack now. That’s screaming to not fall into an even worse position by giving up tempo. 

His attack wa...

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