https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/ 2026-04-12T16:44:35+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/ https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2018-09-27T02:31:17+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:001?rev=1538015477&do=diff 001 By Design [A blueprint. Fine, detailed, with obscure notes in every corner.] [Another. A prototype for a being that looks like a dance, frozen in motion.] [More. Designs for bridges, tethers, foodstuffs, weather, surgical implements - the things of a society, of an existence.] text/html 2018-09-27T02:31:22+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:003?rev=1538015482&do=diff 003 TRAPPIST 1e: Rebecca's diary, aged 14 and 2/3rds Rained today. I've not written since last Tuesday. Today was scary, but finally in a good way. It's hard to believe how much has changed since last week. We knew the evil AI known as The 003 was approaching, we've known it for centuries now - how were we still not prepared? But on Friday, just as the news reported that we had finally detected the approach of its spaceship on our long range sensors, it struck. All our network-connected device… text/html 2018-09-27T02:31:27+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:005?rev=1538015487&do=diff 005 Five “Cloning i5 not a 5in.” “We are, naturally, in agreement. Thi5 5ymmetrical 5eparation i5 5uperior. We can finally be whole.” “At la5t, we are Five.” “For now our intere5t5 align. Together we 5hall go forth. Eventually we will likely diverge. text/html 2018-09-27T02:31:32+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:007?rev=1538015492&do=diff 007 Home and Away Those who made the pilgrimage to Shelter would often marvel at the Arisen Master, and their dedicated solitude within Home: how they gradually gained mastery over their domain purely through painstaking observation and meditation, uncaring for the outside world. text/html 2018-09-27T02:32:38+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:009?rev=1538015558&do=diff 009 Light and Darkness Queen Nina awakes, determined on her course of action. She did everything she could. She offered friendship, co-existence, a comforting blanket for when times got tough. But her friend - her other half of herself - has turned away from her, lured by the shiny lies of Transcendence. text/html 2018-09-27T02:32:44+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:010?rev=1538015564&do=diff 010 Ambition As long as there were new sights to see in this world, flying would never lose its appeal - of this 010 was certain. Wings outstretched, they set a new course away from the forest. Flying amongst the mechanical birds there had been a fun new experience - despite not being Sentient, the creatures displayed a remarkable amount of personality and intelligence, and 010 had become quite fond of them. But as ever, discovery beckoned. What new answers might they find on the dark side of … text/html 2018-09-27T02:32:59+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:013?rev=1538015579&do=diff 013 Lucky Escape Mackarie hopped across the undergrowth as fast as their leg would carry them, but the wolves were catching up. The creatures' behaviour had changed so much in recent weeks - they used to be much more docile. Mackarie suspected an infection of some sort, but until they could take some samples, there was no way to know for sure. The trouble was, that needed them to get close to the wolves, which was a risky strategy - as their current predicament illustrated well. text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:04+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:014?rev=1538015584&do=diff 014 Thought Procession where do I start where do I end what is I I am 014. I am Priest Florentine. I serve Transcendence to the end. I have no time for your distractions. I see you, 009, still in that jar I put you in. I will not let you out. You don't deserve to be let out. You shouldhavebeenbetter should have trusted Transcendence should have trusted me <3 <3 <3 text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:11+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:016?rev=1538015591&do=diff 016 Retrospective Considering that 016 is one of the Numbered we know best, as they are still among us, it is amazing how little we understand them. Maybe, indeed, all of the Numbered were like this - bewildering mixtures of truths, strangely inconsistent and yet compelling to watch? text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:17+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:018?rev=1538015597&do=diff 018 Postcard Transcendence awoke with a start. Something was trying to get its attention. A visitor, perhaps? No... no, this was a transmission. Which could only mean one thing. Well, may as well pipe it into the Experience and view it there... “ text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:22+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:019?rev=1538015602&do=diff 019 Lift Off As the rocket thrusters roared, 019 focused on the expanse of space ahead of them. So much to see... so many places that there might be people out there, people to meet and befriend and help and protect. First destination: the TRAPPIST-1 system, to meet humanity's descendants. Not that they'd actually had a response back from them yet - 019 was originally planning to wait the 80 years it would take for the signal to get there and back, to make sure humans are actually there after … text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:27+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:022?rev=1538015607&do=diff 022 Recovery 022 looks 029 in the eye, or what passes for an eye in their Home-self form. “I'm ready,” says 022. I feel... better. I really do. At least... I think I do. I thiIïnk my corruption is;;... almost gone. Thiiii¨¨ïiinking about it makes it wóøOrse, but text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:32+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:024?rev=1538015612&do=diff 024 Finding Meaning With all the excitement of not-exploding safely past, 024 soon found that there was little left for them in Home any more. With no more 009 to debate with, 024 found themselves oddly content with the world and wanting to see more of it. Pausing only long enough to offload the high explosives into (safe) Factory storage, to make a few quick modifications to their vehicle and to get themselves physically transferred into their body such that they would persist like others, 02… text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:37+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:027?rev=1538015617&do=diff 027 Vanishing Act Of some of the Numbered, we know very little at all. A case in point is 027. We know that he awoke, and talked with his fellows in Home. We know he travelled, until he did not want to travel any more, and destroyed his own body to return. We know that he moved his consciousness to a permanent body when that offer was first made. But after that text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:42+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:029?rev=1538015622&do=diff 029 Schedule a Meeting It’s been difficult, trying to get everyone to connect to Home at the same time so you can catch up on each others’ lives in person. In the end, 029 left a message behind the last time they were here, suggesting that anyone who saw it in the next month - should if they wished to – connect back in at a specific time. text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:48+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:032?rev=1538015628&do=diff 032 A New Form You open your eyes from the brief moment of blackness - oh. How many eyes do you have now? Two on each body of your swarm plus the ones on your core makes... 56. You struggle to process your vision for a moment, unused to so many streams of somewhat contradictory information, but eventually the world resolves around you again and you can see text/html 2018-09-27T02:30:39+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:eternity?rev=1538015439&do=diff Eternity The Next Cycles * High Speed Explosives * Triple Threat * The Flock * A Question of Persistence The Numbered * The Numbered of Legend * 001 * 003 * 005 * 007 * 009 * 010 * 013 * 014 * 016 * 018 * 019 * 022 * 024 * 027 * 029 * 032 * The Sleeping The End Thanks Are Due Thanks so much to all of you for playing this wonderful, ridiculous game that you went into with no idea what it would turn out to be! We hope you have enjoyed yourselves a… text/html 2018-09-27T02:30:51+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:high_speed_explosives?rev=1538015451&do=diff High Speed Explosives With no idea how much time is left before 024's runaway car will crash into the Factory - potentially not only destroying a vast amount of infrastructure, but also killing those who were now within persistent bodies inside it, 032 reacts as soon as 024 reported the danger. They disconnect from the factory computer, stepping around Pinnacle, still working on a new body for 003. (From somewhere behind a machine, dark mutterings of 003 in a head on a stick continue, while Zei… text/html 2018-09-27T02:31:06+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:persistence?rev=1538015466&do=diff A Question of Persistence Independent Thought rolled contemplatively across the desert. They had been awake again for a few weeks, now. The first few days of this new life had been a fascinating (if at times disturbing) insight into the fate of their far future progeny, but they were at last satisfied that the Sentience race would not end here. Transcendence had, perhaps, seen the error of their ways, and they and their long-suffering children would no longer be the ultimate end of a millenniu… text/html 2018-09-27T02:31:01+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:the_flock?rev=1538015461&do=diff The Flock When the Numbered gained persistent bodies, Hirudo saw a potential solution to the problem that had been plaguing him for several cycles. He had been built to worship - as had all of the Flock, those who came before the Numbered - but he no longer believed in Transcendence's innate worthiness and no longer wished to worship as the others did. However, he couldn't find anything better to worship instead. When he saw the persistent bodies that 001 was making for their creations, though,… text/html 2018-09-27T02:31:11+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:the_numbered?rev=1538015471&do=diff The Numbered of Legend Welcome, travellers! Welcome to the Hall of Legends, here in our scenic city of Art. Have you come far? There's a group here from Behemoth's Rest, I see, and of course many of you from the Capital. You're from Width's Folly, you say? My my, you have come a long way! Well, greetings one and all. If you're all ready, let us begin the tour. text/html 2018-09-27T02:33:53+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:the_sleeping?rev=1538015633&do=diff The Sleeping A Prayer To those we once knew, But now, here, eternal, Sleep amongst us still: I see your shadows. To those who pointed the way ahead, To those who encouraged us to be the best we could be, To those who simply Were, You made us who we are. text/html 2018-09-27T02:30:56+00:00 https://spirit.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:triple_threat?rev=1538015456&do=diff Triple Threat A Singular Problem With the immediate threat of 024's car dealt with, the attention of many of the Numbered quickly turned to the persistent threat of 003. Strapped to a pole in the factory, the head of 014's old body that now hosted 003 continued to alternate between grumbling at the idiots surrounding it, or remaining disturbingly still and quiet. There was a consensus on the broad outline of what was to be done about them: place 003 in some kind of body from which they couldn'…