Thursday, October 20, 2022

Akiba and Dragons Episode 6 Part 1 (Abridged)

Enigma and Tindalos: Definedefinedefine--memory leak detected, infinite loop calculated.
Tindalos Bro (narrating): Process interminable, terminus point undetected. The only thing that can possibly be done now is end everything and reset it. Ideal dreams and reality are conflicting, as are dreams of fiction and reality, and virtuality and reality. Contradictions form upon contact, and if the contradictions are not solved, the future is lost to madness.
Turing (narrating): That's why that one thing happens, which I guess we can call the Great Reset. It's not inevitable though, as it should be possible to evade even if you can't see it for what it is at the time. You can mathematically prove that. The overlap between dreams of fiction that humans can imagine and reality does not encompass All Things. But enough Jules Richard maybe! Now how do I dumb this down...? What currently is a contradiction might possibly not be a contradiction. Once we solve that, we can move on into unexplored territory. The AI beyond humans I'm trying to make isn't something that thinks faster than or has more memory than a human. An AI that can create things we can't even conceive of doesn't happen in a day, and Tindalos Bro got stuck in an infinite loop dead end. The history of science and creation is a history of failure, something built on mistakes. If there's something we humans can't understand at the end of that path, it'd be a new choice that continues on.

Every world has people that are called failures, those who challenged that which they had no hope of winning against and were irreversibly exiled from their worlds. There's 23 or 24 of them. One of them is the dragon of Eden who fell to Gehenna, the Fallen Angel of Fire Shaytan. He had an artifact of 12 wings, he challenged God, and after repeatedly fighting his little brother Michael to the death, disappeared from Heaven.
Another of these Exiles is [REDACTED] from Old Ones. He came from beyond the universe, sank to the bottom of the planet's seas, and was exiled to the Dream Lands. The worlds called people like him exiles from the world, but who knows what they thought of themselves? The worlds called people like him losers who challenged people they couldn't win against, but is that what they thought of themselves as? The worlds called these exiles mistakes to be built upon for the world. But what did they think of themselves?

Present
Babe Bunyan: What the shit is happening!?
Outside the Metaverse, people have noticed something is happening and are making noise about it. All exits are sealed, and the few who managed to escape have little info to share. Babe, Zhurong, Akiha Gongen, and Catoblepas have been ejected.

Zhurong: ...
Babe: Zhurong? Why'd you suddenly stop?
Zhurong: ...this power. I've felt it before...somewhere in space.
Zhurong sees a memory that he shouldn't have of a green Something that looks like a dragon with thin wings.
Zhurong: The Dream and Reality Cutting Telepath who crosses what shouldn't be crossable... The dead [REDACTED] who dreams and waits in R'lyeh...
A certain book wrote that He can contact reality from the sunken city R'lyeh, from inside dreams...

Babe Bunyan: W-what, what's going on Zhurong!?
Itzamna: Everyone, get away from the school building! Students, lead the visitors to the evacuation routes!
Akiha Gongen: Itzamna! What's going on?
Itzamna: I don't know. We can't contact inside and the school elevators have stopped working. The fire shutters have dropped, so we had to destroy one to get out.
Catoblepas: Apparently we can't call anyone inside. There might be people still there...
Akiha: Right, I should call the fire brigade at--oh, I have a call?
Akiha picks up his phone and is surprised at the caller ID.

Akiha: MC!? How'd you get a call thro--never mind, are you okay!? Are you inside!? What's gong on over there!?
Catoblepas: Calm down, Akiha Gongen! Rescue workers can't lose their cool!
Akiha: Catoblepas!
Catoblepas: ...that was a line from Rescue Double.
Akiha: ...right. (deep breaths)
Akiha then listens to the voices on the phone.

Metaverse
Tindalos Bro: Cool, I got rid of the guys who'd get in the way. [Now all that remains are those irrelevant to secrets. It is time for the main part.] RESET TIME!
MC: What? This shaking...wait, isn't that a fake ocean!?
Tindalos Bro: [Yes, everything happening here is virtual.] But it's all the same if you can't leave!
MC: Turing's projection system! If everything is near perfectly realistic, does that include the effects of what happens!?
Akihabara

Babe Bunyan: But isn't it all just a computer image?
Zhurong: But that much impact could make you believe anything!

Metaverse
Hecate: Minds are easy to trick. Ever heard of phantom limbs?
Kuniyoshi: TSUNAMI! HOW!?
Tindalos Bro: [I am acting on my own logic.] It's simple if you think about it, right? If all you can do is reveal secrets you're worried about revealing and that gets punished, then just wash all that shit away! Revealing [Protecting secrets is the Only Solution.]
Vapula: Your vaproblem solving is vaproblematic! You can't just wash us away along with our problems!
Enigma: How shameful... I created that monster, and I could not compensate for Tindalos's incompetence.
Tindalos: Stop throwing shade while feeling guilty! I'M the one who decided to make him!
Turing: Fascinating. This all seems to be an act of desperation, but it isn't. Carrying a secret that can't be disclosed will stress a human and eventually push them to death. Conversely, revealing secrets indiscriminately causes societal friction and eventually destruction. Society demanding both ideas been abided by produced a proposal to destroy society. Tindalos Bro came to his own answer upon trying to fulfill both Enigma and Tindalos's philosophies, so I shall now dub him Tindalos Antimony!
Kuniyoshi: How can you be enjoying this!?
Turing: Isn't it great that my baby and creation is endangering me so badly?
Hecate: OH NO YOU'RE GIVING ME IDEAS
Turing and Hecate: Heheheehehe
Vapula: HEEEELP

Akihabara
MC: And that's what's happening. HELP!
Akiha Gongen: ...
Akiha: A-anyways, can you hear me? MC!? Hello!?
It seems it's only a one way call.

Akiha: ...I'm not getting any answers. How'd it turn into a one way call?
Catoblepas: W-well, let's do what we can. We should help anyone who can escape to get out.
Akiha: Then we need to make sure there's a way out! Any doors that don't open can be opened with the fire fighter master key!
Catoblepas: W-when did you get--
Akiha pulls out an ax from a toolbox.

Akiha: Desperate times call for desperate measures! Get down, people!
Catoblepas: A-Akiha, I'll help too.
Akiha: Okay, let's hurry!
Catoblepas: R-right!
Itzamna: I will take responsibility as a stand-in for the staff! Prioritize the safety of the audience and students! Lead all on this side to refuge! But what do we do about the ones inside!?
The Metaverse is an area of fiction ruled by laws different than reality. Normally, those with real bodies cannot enter. Tindalos Antimony was helping people get in until earlier, so logically you would need a power that can enter fiction from reality.
Itzamna: ...what?

Metaverse
Enigma: Communication lines to the outside unstable. Reattempting to connect.
Turing: We have Tindalos so we can unilaterally send information to reality, but we can't exit to reality, correct?
Tindalos: Yeah that was the whole point Tindalos Bro was made.
Turing: So we're completely cut off. Akiha Gongen, Catoblepas, Babe Bunyan, and Zhurong are there...hmm?
MC: I got a call through! We'll have to handle things here, but what do you guys think?
Turing: Oh good, you're calm. Let's assess the situation then. (British throat clearing)
Turing: So that ocean was originally only as big as a long distance swimming pool and I used it as event area cleaning equipment. It's supposed to even out the sand and pick up garbage, and it actually can be used to attack people into the open sea. There's footholds out there but still...
Enigma: The problem is that there is already a large scale attack coming this way. We would have to approach it to stop it, but...
Tindalos: It'd just swamp us! God he really IS like me!

Kuniyoshi: You know it's kinda weird how that wave hasn't hit us yet. A normal one would have come by now.
Vapula: Now that you mention it, that wave hasn't moved from its vaposition at all.
Hecate: Maybe we should think about waiting.
Vapula: Is it vapurposefully trying to make us despair?
MC: I think it's looking for openings or has conditions it needs to fulfill.
Turing: I believe that's correct. Tindalos Antimony wants to complete his task, so it's waiting for us to do something. What if that would complete his plan? (looks at the fearful crowds)
Turing: Quiz time! What is Tindalos Antimony's goal?
Enigma: To prove his own thesis, which is revealing the secrets of people and then erasing everything.
Turing: Correct. But if there's no one to learn those secrets, nothing he does has any meaning. Which means he needs someone who can be told these things to destroy. Question 2! What does Tindalos Antimony need to reveal these secrets to? (looks at MC expectantly)
MC: Me? Uhh...
The only change that's happened since the tsunami came up was...

MC: When I called Akiha and the others!

Turing: Correct, he was planning around your contact to the outside.
Tindalos: ...oh, right. He's my opposite in that he can't contact the real world from virtual reality. That was why he waited for us to do it.
Vapula: OH NO
Tindalos: ...
Enigma: ...
Turing: Still, he hasn't completed the reset. If we've reached the correct answer at this time, things should be resolved.
Vapula: Uhh, does that mean you've vaprocessed what the solution is?
Turing: It'll be possible if we can knock Tindalos Antimony out in one hit!
Tindalos: But we couldn't get the core with me and Enigma helping.
Enigma: And with the sand body doubles, that much magnetic fluid is hiding the core's location.
Tindalos: If we had a way to one shot him, how would we even hit him with it since he's over the ocean?

Vapula: ...I think I have an idea. The vaplan will need some help though. Will you help?
Sand Dragon: Bark!
Vapula: Good boy! Okay, who can vaprobably one shot big boy over there?
Turing: Can you do it, MC?
MC: Yeah / I'll have to / (silently summon artifact)
Enigma: Regular attacks will not provide enough cover. You must continue shaving away at his RAM he uses for calculation.
Tindalos: So get all the aggro, right? You know what he hates the most?
Vapula: The audience getting away! So the vaplan is to divide things and go crazy!
Sand Dragon: SCREEEE
Vapula: That's settled then! What are you gonna do, Turing?
Turing: I'm going to look for another solution. Okay, Tindalos?
Tindalos: God you can be so indirect. Just like this stubborn bear!
Enigma: These are resources based on flexible foresight and advanced calculations, thank you.
Tindalos Antimony: [...have you completed your calculations?] Well COME AT ME BROS!
The tsunami gets even bigger. Lots of gasping! The party steps forward.

MC: You'll get yours, Tindalos Antimony! (swings sword)
End of Episode half

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  2. It's more likely to be Tindalos ANTINOMY....an·tin·o·my
    /anˈtinəmē/
    noun
    a contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable; a paradox.
    "there are not many short novels capable of accommodating bewildering antinomies"

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