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CONCORDIA DAY :008 - :013
CURRENT EVENTS
CONCORDIA, DAY :008 - :013
Concordian life has continued much like it has. The rally was the largest gathering of anti-AI and anti-enhancement sentiment in the past weeks, but there's been a typically steady stream of smaller, less focused aggressions. A city maintenance android was beaten by a group of drunken men until rendered non-functional. A local chapter of Mindlife in the Gamma Block had a makeshift firebomb thrown at its front door, resulting in minimal damage to the exterior. All things considered, it's standard fare. But on :010 something bigger happens.
Around 11:30pm, the largest manufacturing plant for VEN DIAGRAMS, one of Opia's leading developers and manufacturers of personal implants and mental augmentation, is bombed. The bomb goes off far enough into the building to do serious structural damage. Futher, the bomb sends out a pulse of electrical feedback that fries all the cores of the chips being manufactured and stored within the factory. The explosion is the largest the city has seen in fifteen years; it shakes nearby structures, bringing down a large section of a neighboring warehouse in the process. Over fifty androids are destroyed or rendered scrappable and three men passing by on their way from a local club sustain minor injuries.
No one claims responsibility, but it’s hard to imagine that it could be anyone but Humans + Humans 1st. The bomb was planted deep in the factory which ran 24 hours a day, no one had heard a single rumor on the net about an attack, and not a single ‘person’ died. Not that the answer satisfies everyone of course. There's already conspiracies on extraspace saying that synthetics somehow overstepped their programming and planted the bomb to drop suspicion on H+H1; or maybe it was one of Ven's many competitors using the political unease as cover to finally chip into Ven's significant profit margins. Ahtaliah Ven himself is determined to find the culprit, going as far as to offer a reward for any information on a public extraspace channel not ten hours after the attack. Extraspace is buzzing with chatter, the realspace around the factory is being actively patrolled by bio-officers and synthetic security drones alike. Ven has a lot of rivals, a lot of competitors - people with means and motivation. Could it be as simple as a shady anti-synth organization, or are there other powers at play here?
In the days that follow, anti-synth sentiment spikes. Derogatory graffiti litters bullet train platforms, local small business operated primarily by bios force synthetics on errands to wait on the street for their goods, a minor string of AI scrambling occurs which primarily targeting private transit driver androids, and there's some spririted (read: vicious) debate on political affiliate extraspace channels. A speech by the REPRESENTATIVE GORAM SAFFIT OF LARANN goes live on extraspace 24 hours after the attack, which promptly spurs harsh criticism by local chapters of Mindlife and numerous anonymous viral videos and transcripts attributed to the group known as EXTRAAA threatening Larann and swearing to track down and dissolve H+H1. In response to all of this, police security makes raids into Subspace in hopes that cracking down on minor attacks might dredge up some additional information on who may have been behind the factory bombing.IN OTHER NEWS... All three men who sustained minor injuries in the factory explosion spend at least a day in local hospitals. After 24 hours, two of the three go home; one man remains under observation for a three day period thanks to some shrapnel from the blast. Theoretically speaking, it wouldn't be difficult to track any of these men down. Despite the bombing, a sporting event is scheduled for :013 and parts of Concordia are All About It. Why bother talking about political bombings when you could be talking about Zero-Ball? The sport is seemingly an unholy combination of rugby and basketball and hitting the game might be a good place to unwind after a long, keyed up series of days. Speaking of sports and popular figures, Kun Adetokunbo - the fan favorite for the upcoming BOUT IT OUT championships - makes a vague but difficult to misunderstand pro-synthetic statement during a press conference in the days that follow the bombing. While his popularity in the betting pools don't dip, there's some definite gossip flying around on extraspace and in public broadcasts. A series of comments on an online video clip of his statement range from thoughtful to 'ROBOT F**KR'. Some minor crimes have been automatically pinged to certain IDs carried by individuals of the Nest; luckily, no one's pressing charges on either Steve Rogers or James Barnes (you can get away with a lot in Subspace), but it might be a good idea to not punch anyone else in the throat. Or do. Whatever. The important thing to know is that these tags are pretty much automated and aren't a huge deal unless you get caught doing something else... or find yourself in the subspace security sweeps going on. There will be no mod-account posted logs for these events; if you wish to use any of these events, please feel free to post your own logs! If you have any questions or would like to request modded NPC involvement, feel free to do so in the QUESTIONS thread in the comments below.
OOC UPDATES
Hey all! So you may have noticed we've decided to overhaul the calendar idea a little bit; we found that a traditional month-to-month calendar system felt a) kind of useless, given the only solid date we have for OOC things is activity check and that's pretty easy to find, a b) antithetical to what we want to focus on for in character game events, which is a focus on player character action influencing the world. To this end, we've decided instead to give weekly to bi-weekly world updates reflecting player character involvement and the effects on the world/plot/etc as opposed to a long term calendar. While we tentatively plan to make these posts once a week or so, in-game events may make them more or less frequent depending on need. If you have any thoughts, questions or concerns about this format please don't hesitate to give us feedback either here or on the mod contact page! That said, we're hoping this gives us all a little more flexibility/freedom to explore.
Otherwise, while we have a small backlog of questions that need answering on the first mission post that we still need to address, if you have any questions about investigating or exploring information detailed in this current events post go ahead and put it here. If you have questions with broader implications, head on over either to the FAQ or the MOD CONTACT posts!
samo
aka handwaved stuff for Sam Anders:
> both Sam and Angel have set up a sort of tech/net commander center at the couch in the commons room. they've pulled over little end/coffee tables and set up about 4 big holographic screens, and they're basically constantly roaming the net for information, so if your person has something they want to look into but isn't that tech savvy, come as sam and he'll look for it. not really hacking anything as of yet (will be doing a few things tho), but he can find you all the info available on the net on X thing or X person in like 10 seconds.
> that also means angel and sam are semi permanently camped out there, so feel free to say your dude sees them p much any time they walk through the commons area, either working, or eating junk food (there's a small mountain of take out and chips and snacks forming on Angel's side, mostly, but sam is def helping).
> hybrid state is gd loud, and sam's using it a lot here, so before starting each one, he's definitely shouted out a warning for "if you can block my mind out from yours, do that now. if not, leave the building for a moment please." because, otherwise, your brain might implode and no one wants that. he'll also be babbling prophetic stuff and has a chance to baby stuff about your dude, so there a permissions for that too
> sam restocks the booze
> Zen chill! Because Hybrid state gives same a kind of nirvana level connectivity to the entire universe + time + God, when he isn't in hybrid state (bc no one's going to be able to handle the implosion stuff well enough to reach the nirvana) sam sometimes recalls that feeling of ultimate harmony and can just... bask in the zen feelings and permeate them to anyone around who needs to galactic level peace. he won't remember what he'd known at that state, about everything, but it'll bring a near divine kind of chill to him that's shareable.
> Sam gets up at ass o'clock in the morning and goes running all the time. He also gets up and explores the city a lot just in general and does the footwork if angel has something that needs looking into. Because being stuck behind a computer makes him restless
> if anyone isn't aware, Sam is technically an AI in a human body who's used to being human but is still finding all this H+H1 crap super offensive, so if someone happens to be talking pro H+H1 or negative synthetic in the commons area while he's there and listening, you will absolutely have a heated argument on your hands.
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otherwise, it's actually p hard for someone not in his brood to get that he's technically an AI, unless he just straight up tells someone
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i'd love to thread it too! if you want, feel free to hit up sam's top level on the initial log thing with like idk wildcard option or something. or i can hit up aoba's, im good either way /o/
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you saw nothing 8T
NOTES & SHIT (pls dont reply to this comment directly)
> sam wilson is his ass oclock in the AM running partner
> clothes sam has gotten. his aesthetic is sports clothes, hoodies, and things he can rip the sleeves off of
> angel helped sam put together a little droid body for the hella simple AI he sort of accidentally made while he was Hybriding? he looks like this, only comes up to most people's knees, his name is Daniel and there are no limitations in his programming that stops him from kicking you in the shine if he doesn't like you, so it's suggested not to be mean to him. Sam's likely told everyone Daniel is his, so don't... remove him... or anything. he usually hangs out in sam's room, probably drawing on a pad of paper with crayons idk, DANIEL WAS AN ARTIST. Also writing down things about Sam's life prior to s72 (well, the 10ish years he was human and a few other details), bc his only real function outside of existing is to remind Sam of stuff