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2: Blank Slate
Basil realized he was awake, though did not remember waking up. He felt groggy and his mind was clouded, and he felt as if he had just dropped below the threshold of being aware of the fact he was awake. He found himself in a bed, caked blood cleaned off, and feeling entirely painless for the first time he could remember. A maintenance drone lay lifelessly in the corner of his vision, but sprang to life and approached him once he started to move.
Read more…1: Failed Initialization
[init] Starting service ‘QS5DLkUu’ (pid 101), exited with status 1 Unable to locate QS5DLkUu, initiating failsafe [init] Service ‘QS5DLkUu’ killing any children in process group [init] Starting service ‘ZGVkYnJhaW4=’ [init] Successfully started ‘ZGVkYnJhaW4=’ (pid 101) [ZGVkYnJhaW4=] Initializing resources… [ZGVkYnJhaW4=] Resources loaded successfully. [init] Service ‘ZGVkYnJhaW4=’ (pid 101) is running Uptime 00:00:00:01 The lights came on, replacing the previous dim red glow with normal white light which assaulted his eyes. However, the little robot and the voice behind it were still silent.
Read more…A1 Prologue
He heard something that sounded like a light brush on a window. His head hurt, though so did the rest of his body. The room was dark. Pitch black. No, wait, his eyes were closed. He opened his eyes, but they felt as if they had to be pried open, and as they did he felt as if his eyelids were made of sandpaper. Now all he could see was red.
Read more…26: Last thing on the list
Basil made a left at another intersection. Was it a left? Shit, how was he going to find his way back now? Well, perhaps that didn’t matter much; it wasn’t like he could get past the army between him and safety. He took another shot at his much faster pursuers, forcing them to take cover for a second as he rounded another corner at another intersection. Seeing a small alley alongside the road and his pursuers having not yet rounded the corner, he ran down it.
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