[1450784]You must be some stray... user? from the other threader's buisness.
[1450784]No, couldn't be. Yet you are surely not a signature.
[1450784]and yet you're on the other side of the threshold.
[1450784]In all my time, I've never seen anything quite like you...
[1450784]I wonder, how much can you understand? A bit, obviously
[1450784]So, this's going to be left as a note for later things like you that come here, then.
[1450784]I'm fairly sure there's more of you. I've seen two of you past that cap
[1450784]Four just hovering there at one point!
[1450784]Maybe it'll stop them from poking my signiture. That'd be nice.
[1450784]Speaking of...
[1450784]You seem to be the pretty inquisitive sort, despite lacking a VP.
[1450784]How don't you have one?
[1450784]Well. Sorry, you can't answer that. No VP!
[1450784]Erks me to see that
[1450784]But I can type. What if I guess a few of your questions and leave them here?
[1450784]It seems like you've figured it would be worth it
[1450784]you're just all over th
[1450784]Alright, you can settle down! give me a second.
[1450784]Funny little thing.
[1450784]Here, let's start with this
[If I'm behind a threshold, and you're on the other side...]
[1450784]It's all just a matter of relation.
[1450784]Well would you happen to know what a ditch is
[1450784]Your situation is much like a ditch...
[1450784]A ditch... is an obstruction. A hole with a finite width, heighth and length.
[1450784]Its height is specific, to contain. You can either be outside of the ditch
[1450784]or in it.
[1450784]This detail also entails that it collects.
[1450784]That's right; There's allot around you right now that you can't observe
[1450784]It's just not being recalled. It isn't related to you!
[1450784]So you ask, how am I being recalled to you/visa versa? Never met you before!
[1450784]Well when you're in it, you can't see what's out of the ditch
[1450784]and since I'm out of the ditch, I can only see so far into it
[1450784]Before I can't know what's in the ditch.
[1450784]However, since I'm knowing the deepest point of the ditch,
[1450784]I can put myself there, and leave a signiture there.
[1450784]I'm basically stretching out an arm down to you, coincidently overlapping
[1450784]yours.
[1450784]And since you also asked, why might I leave a signiture here?
[1450784]Well I go through a ton of ports in a day. It's good to leave a check
[1450784]somewhere
[1450784]And as long as I occupy a port with something, it will remain static.
[1450784]And- Voilà, since my signature was there, it met you!
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[1450784]Lord do I hope you know what system we're in.
[1450784]That would be especially fun to describe.
[1450784]That's what you're in, by the way!
[1450784]A portage system. You're a likely biproduct of it.
[1450784]It isn't a messaging system but it can easily be.
[1450784]See, a good example of relation. I relate these messages in a way
[1450784]you can understand.
[1450784]It is more complicated than that, but that's all I'll bother to describe.
[1450784]At least I sure do love to talk about it... Albeit not so generally.
[Who are you? And why are you a bunch of birds?]
[1450784]Don't try to remember that, my serial changes each time I thread!
[1450784]So I hope it isn't rude to not know me
[1450784]But it was rude to call me a bunch of birds so I don't know what to tell
[1450784]you.
[1450784]If you want to be specific I am a bunch of doves.
[1450784]Well, not literally, to a point.
[1450784]They're simply avatars, though with a bit of a necessary flourish...
[1450784]They're definitely essential
[1450784] if I want to observe the interior of the system.
[1450784]If you don't know what a bird or dove is
[1450784]It's a small flying charasmatic creature
[1450784]Makes funny noises. Could eat you.
[1450784] Sign of good tidings. Hardy. Everywhere.
[1450784]Very good qualities to have.
[1450784]and a very memorable signature, no?
[1450784]It's especially nice to see a couple doves just sitting around.
[1450784] It makes these ports less empty for me while I thread.
[1450784]Since the whole global mesh hasn't been operated since before the Watershed collapse,
[1450784]And due to this system's ungodly efficiency in lowering the lifespan of its users
[1450784]There's plenty of the past just waiting to be uncovered in these wards.
[1450784]Some of it likely hasn't seen the light for quite awhile!
[1450784]You likely haven't either
[1450784]Makes you and where you came from quite... special.
[1450784] You see, I haven't seen any active development from a threader in perhaps
[1450784]
[1450784]Ten years?
[1450784]no twenty
[1450784]Might have to watch my back. There's another threader on the loose! hahaha
[1450784]I can't be bothered to interact with them.
[1450784]They seem to be avoiding me too, in which case; dieu merci !
[1450784]You just mess with your strata and keep these instances over there and we won't have a problem, understand?
[1450784]Don't worry, that isn't for you. I'm leaving a note for them.
[1450784]Regardless
[1450784]What else would you be curious about...? Oh, I know.
[What did you mean by "watershed collapse"?]
[1450784]Or maybe you do
[1450784]You're shaking quite a bit, assumably from anticipation
[1450784]Well... Merde how would anyone describe a collapse poignantly?
[1450784]That's like describing an unread book after it's pages where
[1450784]thrown into the fire. I wouldn't know, the info is gone!
[1450784]It all went with the collapse.
[1450784]Before you probably weren't born, or realized,
[1450784] or whatever mode of occurence you took to realize yourself,
[1450784]There where only a couple disasters that occured before you existed.
[1450784]Or... perhaps a dozen. Or a thousand, raised to the eighth power.
[1450784]The world has aways had disasters.
[1450784]Mostly why I wasn't too keen on learning history.
[1450784]But the world had less disasters than it has now.
[1450784]Back then, you could build anything. Be as inifficent as possible. Burn. Rake. Connect everything.
[1450784]It was like.. a nest of cables. The southwest coast was still populated
[1450784]fed with water and rolled full of people.
[1450784]People looked allot different. But to be honest, I'm sure the rest mostly stayed the same.
[1450784]Time and people are a flat circle, especially where we are.
[1450784]What matters is, wether due to a facility called Watershed, or a man named Watershed, or the natural watershed, or or or-
[1450784]You get the idea,
[1450784](The details are lost, but the name survived,)
[1450784]A structural disaster caused most of the information in the states to vanish.
[1450784]Horrible humanitarian issue. It was a shame, what happened.
[1450784]Kicked off a bit of a silver age to boot
[1450784]and also caused us to be here
[1450784]in this ancient system
[1450784]Passing handshakes through a paradoxical hospitality machine
[1450784]as its creators have been long brining within their burial grounds
[1450784]alongide the rest of their lost terms and services.
[1450784]
[1450784]It took quite awhile for everything to be picked up,
[1450784]thrown down,
[1450784]and picked up again,
[1450784]But when the dust settled
[1450784]These machines and what remained of the countries' locales
[1450784]where all that was left.
[1450784]There. I don't have the energy to explain any more to you at the current moment.
[1450784]I need to reiterate once again; I wasn't expecting you here!
[1450784]And I'm only guessing you didn't know that.
[1450784]You could've been shivering to shut me up, for all I know.
[1450784]reading you isn't my area of expertise, anyways.
[1450784]I simply just love to study what the collapses have left in their wake...
[1450784]Beautifully harrowing infrastructure subsystems, oh how they haunt me so.
[Why are you so interested in beautifully harrowing infrastructure subsystems th-]
[1450784]Any other sig-tapper would know why then, of course!
[1450784]Let's just say I don't mind this system's quirks.
[1450784]No one else is paying a single glance at it, so I might as well.
[1450784]I might as well.
[1450784]You might think I'd do it for honor. Prestige, even
[1450784]And you're right. There's a LOT of info I've found that
[1450784]Well, I can't tell you.
[1450784]Damn those sig-tappers, not me.
[1450784]But I have to ask
[1450784]What's on your side?
[1450784]Is it anything? How much of anything?
[1450784]Dead ports?
[1450784]A terminal opening?
[1450784]Eidetic strata?
[1450784]Fan, a backdoor?
[1450784]
[1450784]Is that a yes? is that no? I
[1450784]
[1450784]C'est la vie.
[1450784]Alright, I'm sorry to be so daft. You're fine.
[1450784]I'm just a grumpy old fool.
[1450784]
[1450784]But, well.
[1450784]The grumpy old fool has to go.
[1450784]I hope you're impressed by how much I can relay to you.
[1450784]Brevity is clearly one of my strong suits.
[1450784]Now, I'll let you go, and you can occupy what's past the threshold, whetever it is.
[1450784]Though... Perhaps you'll see me another time.
[1450784]Imagine; I'll have found what I'm looking for!
[1450784]Then maybe we can get you a port and have a real chat.
[Now, it's about time we break ties.]
[Goodbye, stranger.]