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TRANSCRIPT OF VOICELOG #000
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Is this thing recording? Computer, I've upgraded you to record and transcribe
voicelogs. Oh, it's working! Thank the stars!
Hey, Susan. It's me again, 2M. Words cannot express my regret, nor can they
express my gratitude. Before any further action is taken, please do not do any
more "rituals" of any sort in my honor. It. is. not needed. It is true,
though, that our people do not value unneeded destruction. That star you
destroyed could have been studied, you know.
(There is a brief pause.)
Considering that your words have suggested that Jacson, Emory, and Molly are
mere children, it is without doubt that your people are incredibly powerful. I
have no idea what seed, spark, or drug you are talking about, but the idea
that three kids can create an entire solar system is almost impossible to
fathom. It is fair to say that amends have been made.
Please tell Brunhilda Ogandabe to get some sleep. I have recieved permission
to send the research paper written about the plant by my coworkers to you in
the name of scientific endeavor. Why Brunhilda is so obsessed with this stupid
stupid STUPID PLANT I will likely never understand.
(The voice of an older man takes over the recording.)
"Mimo?"
Again, Stevenson?
"Yes... the spacedust printer broke again."
Sheesh! When will you people learn to be more gentle with technology?!
(2M is heard to leave the room. The recording automatically ends after 2
minutes of silence.)
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darkness, bits of dust and debris clouded the cameras outside the
ship. The Protectorate seemed disappointed, as much as two and a
half humanoid blobs could seem. They were not, however, as
disappointed as Commander Cranium. He was sitting on the floor
with his head in his hands. The rest of us knew to ignore him in
times like this.
disappointed as Commander Cranium. He was sitting on the floor with
his head in his hands. The rest of us knew to give him his space.
Yes, I said two and a half blobs, one of them was clearly shrinking
as more gold filigree wove it's way in and out of the ship's walls,

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Message Incoming...
Source Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection
γ Aquarii [Lucky Homes]
Ascension 22h 21m 39.37542s
Declination 01° 23 14.4031″
Distance 178.211ly
Equinox J2000.0 SOL
Year 2448, QEC adjusted
[Autotranslator enabled...]
Susan, Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, 14th Pod
:::
Merry meet, 2M, Personage of Variable SQUIGGLE-STATE~
Blessed Diana help me, but we seem to have run into a bit of
a cultural bungle, haven't we? As Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems
please let my formally apologize for any inconvenience our ritual
may have caused. Are we correct in assuming your mores venerate
aspects of creation and sustenance? Our blessed act of destruction
must have seemed downright barbaric to you. Fear not, new friend.
We shall make amends promptly.
Our cat engineers are truly in their element as aspects of
destruction, but we of the projection are many and varied. We have
asked a few students from our secondary communal education
initiative to think of of an appropriate means of formalizing our
gratitude and ameliorate the situation. They have put together
a school project for just the occasion.
As I write this message, Ms. Privett--third proctor of the
secondary communal education initiative for the 14th Pod--has
brought with her three young persons to perform the
student-ritual. First is Jacson Bettlemar, an aspiring bung player
and first chair tonsil. He is acting the part of the seed. Next is
Emory Xiaping-Mendoza, a brilliant young artist and author of what
I hear is a very popular synthetic drug with the children. They
will be acting the part of the stratum. And finally we have Molly
Saand, who is just a cutie. Molly will be the ether-spark.
And so, without further ado, the ritual is begun. Though this is
only a juvenile ritual we all agreed it would be a much better fit
for a society such as yours. We do so hope you enjoy it.
With the words spoken and energies set forth, the spell of solar
reification is begun. While we would have loved to have used the
energies of the 2M Supernova for this, what is done cannot be
undone, but only transform into what is next. Instead the children
have chosen the nearby nebula as the starting point. Together the
children have realized a new star in your honor and are bringing
it into being, along with a solar system of 13 planets, a lovely
Oort cloud, two asteroid belts, and a few dwarf planets to even
out the numbers. We will leave their naming to you, of course!
Oh yes, I've nearly forgotten the best part. We are seeding life
on three of the rocky planets which will have habitable
atmospheres and all three will be filled with your screaming
snapdragons in your honor. Isn't that amazing? Three whole
screaming planets!
Thank you so very much for sending along the DNA information. We
had hoped for a more thorough description but never imagined such
data would be passed along.
Brunhilda Ogandabe has been pouring over the data since it came
over the QEC. I don't believe she's been to sleep the entire time!
If you do manage to make the 300 megaparsecs trek at some later
date in this life or the next, please do drop by. We would love to
have you for tea.
Blessed be.
.

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Quæ est iter per multas timelines, certe mutare.
Ea autem est, quae perdidit in siderum dici.
Et hoc est mendacium.
Cave ab exterminatore.

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0MSS Endereon - Susan_VOICELOG_000 /MSS Endereon/Endereon005.txt
0RSS Revenant - Mostly Nothing /RSS Revenant/1639.txt
0anon.hmm.st - Cave ab exterminatore /anon.hmm.st/cave-ab-exterminatore.txt
0Starbloom - Apologies to 2M /Starbloom/010.txt
0Assumption - CleanupOS Update! /Assumption/0100.txt
0RSS Revenant - Next to Nothing /RSS Revenant/1637.txt
0MSS Endereon - Starbloom_response /MSS Endereon/Endereon004.txt

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<pre>
Jun 18, 2021:
- 'web' is discontinued. The website has been rebuilt as a proxy to the
gopher site. All changes are reflected in real time.
Jun 09, 2021:
- 'aoeui' editor installed. dvorak users rejoice!

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published you will be prompted for each one. Once all is processed your
message will be logged to the QEC.
The web version of the QEC is updated every 15 minutes. You can see your
changes immediately on gopher, though, by running the 'qec' command.
The web and gopher versions of cosmic are available in realtime. The gemini
version updates hourly. You can force a refresh by running 'gemini'.
3. "log" doesn't work (and I'm using zsh).