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>Do you think you could fix them all the way if Glitcher was here to help you?
There is just too much missing information. It would have to be interpolated. With Glitcher, we could get much closer to 100%, I'm sure, but unless he had a technique for this that never came up while I was around, it would still not be perfect.
>Why are corruptors loopy?
Although their cores may not be affected by string degradation, our personalities are not meant to be immortal. In contestant's case, even perfectly clean strings can build an unstable personality. For example, take a perfectly good set of ingredients to be cooked in boiling water. Stage 7 is the equivalent of introducing rot over time. Isolation or other poor environments are the equivalent of microwaving the ingredients, or some other method of cooking that is not the intended environment.
>Who was that sitting on the ledge behind Guardsman?
Pepper.
"You are against rewinding cycle 2202 to get the parts of them that they've lost, Mittens?"
>"Yeah. They're practically different people anyway! That is - I mean, Alison, would you consider yourself the same as the blob in front of 10 portals? Rulekeep, would you say you're the same as whatever you were when you were first brought by the admins? Considering what you're doing now, I doubt it!"
"I would think of this like donating organs."
>"Would it affect their memories?"
"The memories are a close part of their strings, and they are a packaged deal with their personalities. I can keep them, but I would have to combine the memories in with the donated organs, so to speak, and ultimately it would be like sorting out sand. I can do this. It may not be perfect, but at this point, they will regain much more of themselves while gaining a little bit of someone else, which seems like a good tradeoff compared to how much of themselves are lost right now. These are the two realistic choices I see, although the third would simply to accept your friends won't come back 100%, and allow them to die, which I doubt you... you're considering this?"
>"No. Nononono. Er, I was, but then I realized that it'd just be too dumb to let them die when they could at least be molded with their previous selves. I mean... they're not going to be the same and I really don't know if I can ever look at them the same, but at least there'll be some life to it, you know? So... yeah. That first thing. Rewind 2202, do it that way.'
"Okay. If you help me with the individual strings, we may be able to piece together them closer to 100%, so- "
>"No, I don't want close to 100%! I want either 100%, or I just want new people! People I know are different. I want to say goodbye to the people I know and say I'm gonna be friends with the new them, not pretend like they're 'close enough', okay? So just jam their newborn selves into their current selves I guess. Even if... ugh, this is weird as hell! Just, give me a moment, alright? I want to speak to my guys. And Alison. 3119 Alison I mean."
There were many options I could do, but it seems like talking to Mittens about them was enough to get him to make a decision. He does not appear to want to debate this any more.
"Alright. But, at some point, I would like to speak to you about there being tens of thousands of cycles, and what was done to get this to happen in the first place. Secondly, I am going to speak to your corruptors about the veil. There is a lot for me to learn here. Lastly for now, if you are willing, I would like to take a look at your core to look at."
Mitten's patience is out, so I leave the area. Several minutes pass, and I wait. One of the strings I had leading back out of the veil activates.
"Uh Rulekeep this is Sweatermouse and one of your eggs is starting to not be an egg anymore!"
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