As soon as the presence left, Ale felt as if she had lost a few years of her life. Which honestly scared her more than anything, because she had never really thought about her own mortality as much, not even after the close encounter with death from the [Death] Mana incident.
And from this... from this event.
[Warning, train of thought diversion from original lineaments detected.]
[Loading up data from backup...]
[Error... Data deleted upon arrival.]
[Uploading memory data timestamps.]
[Uploading data files name.]
[Uploading settings from which the viotion of data structure occurred.]
[Awaiting further orders.]
"...Motherfricking...." Ale cursed as she gred at the television, no longer broadcasting anything.
She had set up a few preliminary orders within Main Core, the one that was no longer linked to their consciousness stream, the one that was just data and something that interfaced with them, but was not actually part of their psyche.
An actual database and program, and nothing more.
"Continue monitoring...." Ale said as she sat on the computer chair and let herself rest against the desktop, as soon as she sat there, the pc turned on by itself.
Another of the automated preprogrammed responses she had set up, as soon as she sat here, Main Core sent the wake-up command, and the pc turned on.
The internet browser opened itself and several tabs started being preloaded so they would be ready for Ale. Her social network in A-Chirp & A-Frens.
The nding page for 'The World' the worldwide network set up by the Saintsworths, and the uncher for their multipyer game's uncher.
The video channel of her internet persona ' xXx-AleFallenAngel-xXx' and a follower count that however roughly on the 4,3k subscribers with a good amount of views per video in most of her clips and shorts channels, the amount of money she got was quite useful... if not needed. As her expenses were mostly covered. But it was good that she could at least use the money to create new content, such as py new games and whatnot.
But no, that wasn't the issue.
Most of her socials were managed by automated responses too, such as the one that she had set up and Magmo triggered.
"Attempt to recover memory data if something is deleted and I do not react to said deletion of data..." Was the order she had set up, that guaranteed she would remember if someone had tried to tamper with her memory or with her personality or mind.
That had been the pn, born from the fear of what would happened if the corrupted mana that Melissandra Singh had used would have enforced a change in her psyche instead of a change in her body.
If the order had gone for her mind... A simple thought would have been all she would have needed to end her life and perhaps get Alexa too.
But now that had been triggered, and she couldn't be 100% sure about what was the change or how it affected her.
"First... I was relieved that Magmo came by to ensure everything was okay." Ale started going by her thought process, as the trigger to the arm was a change in her thought process and not a change to her mind or personality, that would be another can of worms to deal with.
"I was happy that I managed to remember that today was the special broadcast from Magmo..." Ale continued recounting.
[Warning... Adding another tally to the thoughtfare count.]
"So that was it, I didn't remember that. But I think I remembered." Ale felt her mind try to fracture trying to justify the mental dissonance she was experiencing, so she didn't fight it. She could accept the fact that both were true.
One was true to her, and the other was the actual truth.
"I didn't remember, but was contacted instead." Ale whispered to herself.
She was contacted, she didn't seek Magmo, but Magmo sought her.
"Good thing I didn't remember?" Ale said in a mocking tone, the fact that Magmo wasn't returning meant that the fact that she was aware of the dissonance was not the issue, but something had happened that made him want to come here.
Management Architecture for Guarding Metadata Operation...
"Someone who was made to manage the architecture and a guardian for the metadata embedded upon this world?" Ale said trying to decipher Magmo's actual name, "Someone... or something made him and he has been managing metadata... what metadata? The only metadata around should be within the World's network. On the internet... Or within the database of entities such as me."
Only people like Ale and Alexa who were actually artificial constructs could hold metadata, so an entity like Magmo could only interface with three people within Aqui.
Ale, Alexa and perhaps Sapphire. Depending on how advanced Albireo was, then perhaps four.
But... Something told Ale that this was not as simple as that, the fact that the entity wasn't returning meant that this knowledge wasn't dangerous.
"Is Magmo a Core User?" Ale asked herself aloud, the abilities they dispyed would say yes in a normal environment.
But then she couldn't help but remember how P4, Alexa, Alexandra and even Ale used abilities that weren't based upon Core Powers.
Not really.
P4 even said so itself. They weren't using their powers right. That meant to imply that there existed other types of powers around.
Could Magmo be one such entity?
What evidence did Ale have?
"Names and words..." Ale continued her reasoning, writing using the keyboard in front of her, "What kind of entity should one be wary of when using names and words...?"
She wasn't getting much, just some mentions to [The Scrambler] and their ilk.
"ughh.... This is when I miss you the most Alexandra..." Ale said, frustrated, she didn't have anyone to bounce ideas off, all she had was her personal computer and a white screen from the search engine returning a few series and games with the premise of fighting off Mind Core users as the protagonist that would save the city.
She also had her socials with people asking for updates on why she hadn't streamed in almost half a month.
"Right... We got sent a half a month into the future... or well, spent half a month unconscious till they dumped us here... Should update my profile with an announcement..." Ale navigated to her socials and stared at it, a few automated posts had been going out, but her viewers knew how to py with her profiles to trigger those, they knew themselves that these weren't her, as she mostly commented under said posts, messing around with them.
"Unless..." Ale smiled at the idea that came, "Setting up live... preparing A-chirp post..."
Ale started setting up everything up, ensured her face was okay, her hair brushed and the setting behind her... well, it was a new room, that would trigger a whole theory no doubt.
"Stream title... 'I lived B#tch'..." Ale couldn't help but smirk at that joke, she hoped [Big sister] would see it, but wasn't sure if the woman even knew that she streamed on the side.
The first thing she did was send the notification on her socials, the response was almost immediate, with her name and hashtag 'Aleniateds' of her fans trended, a few normies would probably be so confused about people proudly saying the aleniated survived and were living once again.
Ale loved the idea of people worrying about it.
"So... Yeah no joke, I lived." Ale said waving at the webcam as her stream chat started spamming one of her emotes, alesalute, the usual greeting, "Long time no see peeps, how have you been?"
The chat quickly started asking about what had happened, a few linked A-chirp threads about people worrying about her having an accident. A few linked theories about her triggering a core and becoming a Hero even.
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Ale's left eyebrow: I told you all, this proves it. Sidequick training is two weeks long. She just finished it and has time to stream! I was not crazy! :Alebonk:
Seaweed lover: My man, that is not a Sidekick room. She probably just had to move, maybe she did live on the outskirts of her city, and their wall had to shrink.
Astor was right: That one looks like a Saintsworths premade bedroom, probably a quality 4 or 5 depending on the floor quality, but we can't see it. Either way, that would mean she is living under the eternal gre of the Camity Dragon... Stay strong Aneki :Alepray:
All Hail The Fallen Angel: Wait wait wait wait, so the nutcase that said that the Lizard kidnapped her was right all along?!?!?!?!? :Aleshock:
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The chat continued scrolling faster and faster as regurs started speaking among themselves.
-------Super Chat-------------
Ale's right thumb sent 50 A-Dolrs
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Welcome back Aneki, hope you are well. I bring you great tidings. In your absence, we stayed strong and continued with your royal decree. We have managed to advance the hidden project (Sending a glitter bomb to the lizard). We have managed to get past reception, but our glitter bomb keeps getting discovered before passing the second security check. We will continue our sacred mission.
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Ah right, she had asked them to send one and even promised to get whoever managed to achieve it (And get evidence) on her stream... She would probably need to retract that one.
"Carry on your sacred job." Ale instead saluted to the webcam, she didn't think they would manage to achieve it, but if they did she would nag at Alexanders so he paid the travel. "So you may have been wondering what was with my absence..."
Ale instead decided to get to the meat of the matter, she hadn't started this impromptu stream for, as she asked that, the chat started going wild with all kinds of theories, every one worse than the previous one.
"But first!" Ale said raising her finger and changing the yout of her stream for whenever she did QA. This set up her image atop a podium mocking the cssical podium for answering questions and giving a speech by a politician. Her chat on screen moved to the pce usually reserved for the newsman companies and whatnot. "I did not trigger a Core, I wasn't in Sidekick training, and for legal reasons I need to state that if I were to trigger a core, I would not become a Minion or a vilin as I am a w-abiding citizen."
That st part she said with a mocking tone and doing her best to come as sarcastic as possible, she even made air quotes to reiterate the fact.
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Ale plz step on me every day: I KNEW SHE WOULDN'T BETRAY US!
Ale's royal retainer: OUR QUEEN DIDN'T SELL HER SOUL!
Kaji: Even if she did, she wouldn't tell us on a public stream, just wait for membership stream.
The most rational Aleniated fan: *Message deleted by moderator*
Mofu-Mofu: Calm down everyone, we don't want to timeout people!
Lord Fifth: BELIEVE IN LORD FIFTH, GAIN ETERNAL LIFE!
The most rational Aleniated fan: *Message deleted by moderator*
*The most rational Aleniated fan was timed out*
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"One of you actually got it right, my family had to move out because... IRL stuff, you know how it is." Ale said shrugging, she was quite happy with the fact that her moderation team had come this quickly, they had earned themselves a raise, but then again, she did pay them quite well, "And yeah, this is what we got for now. I am still in the process of deciding if this is hirious or not, because as some of you pointed out... This is indeed a Saintsworths building..."
That made the chat go wild once again.
"But I didn't make this stream for that or to tell you how I am enjoying the irony of streaming from that lizard's building." Ale wasn't sure if Alexanders was watching this particur stream or not, but she hoped he was. Something told her it was a bad idea to broach the topic about Magmo with him, so she wouldn't. Not directly anyway. "This next bit may be dangerous, so if you know a Core user personally, do leave. This is not a joke or a bit."
Ale let those words stretch out and then, said one of the phrases she had engraved into the minds of her fans, a safe word kind of thing to ensure they knew she was serious. "Mango parfait." Yeah... she was still setting up her niche.
That made the chat stop for a few seconds and soon afterward the chat got filled with the combination of emotes of :alesalute:, :aleserious: and :alegun:
"Okay, so... Core Powers... It's not what I will talk about." Ale started this bit, reinforcing that part, she didn't want a misunderstanding after all, "Anyone know about people, entities, monsters, or supernatural things with whom you shouldn't share your name?"
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DeliveryGuy?: So like... Not Core users? You are asking about the paranormal? The thing that we used to have before the advent of Core Users?
GemGurl: The part of the aleniateds that are old enough to know about that, are also the part that you don't want to talk with.
Vergil is just a dude: If we aren't speaking about Core Users that would mean... ghost and the like?
I'm a rock: If we go purely paranormal, that would be the Fae, right?
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"The fae?" Ale said, reading the chat, the first message her eyes caught was a checkmarked user; that meant A-tube recognized this user as a content creator who was popur enough to earn a checkmark.
She didn't recognize the username as someone she spoke with on the regur.... But then she remembered Alexanders alternate persona he had used to speak with her.
So that meant the guy was indeed seeing her stream, that was something she didn't need to worry about.
------Chat------
DeliveryGuy?: Fairies, old folklore that was used to put the bme about events we didn't know how they came to be, like lightning, raining and earthquakes.
Ale's right thigh: People used to carry Iron pendants as the tradition said that these would ward against the Fae.
Horned singer guy: The tradition stated that if you told your name to a Fae, they had the right to take your life and kidnap you to the faends. Where you would be their sve for all eternity.
Second most rational Aleniated fan: So I just need to say my name so a Fae mommy can take me in?
Bronze Hamster: If you want to spend eternity as a sve (In the not fun way) then yes. Bring introduction cards with you so you are ready, do send me your social security number and credit card first tho.
Second most rational Aleniated fan: *Message deleted*
Mofu-Mofu: Guys, please do not send sensitive information, real or not.
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"Fae..." Ale read aloud the data that was coming, "Let's check on that one first I guess."
And moved to a new screen, this time her image was to the side while on the center was a projection of her desktop. She had a curated browser set up for streaming, one in which she deleted all the data after each stream. On this screen she started researching about the Fae.
"So... Names have power and giving a name away is giving your life away..." Ale said reading the data, a few jokes came and went about how that only worked if you said your true name and there was a few of aleniated fans setting up pns about how to use fake names.
A few spoke about how in this era where half the time you used a handle instead of a name, then your name was secondary and your handle was the true name and whatnot.
Ale wasn't sure about that. But that made her think... Was Magmo actually part of the Fae? Or well, was an existence such as Magmo the reason these theories existed?
------Chat------
DeliveryGuy? has paid 100 for a TTS message
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There is a theory in the high strata of the nerd society about Core Powers having a corretion with mythological creatures. If that was proven to be true, there could be a Core Power User with powers simir enough to the most common known myth about the Fae.
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The mechanical voice that Ale had made for the TTS spoke; it was a mock voice trained upon Alexanders speeches, so hearing it gave her weird feelings, more so because Alexanders had acknowledged her as an actual sister to the Saintsworths' siblings.
"....Oh right, random side announcement, I am getting a new TTS voice. Do you think this time a female voice could be used, or do you want something else? I'll set up a poll in membership ter." Ale said, setting up a new stream of comments about that.
But she ignored those as she thought about that revetion.
So a Core Power with foundation upon the belief of the Fae...? That could expin it too... But... Magmo had said 'For us' or 'We', implying there were multiple entities such as himself.
Who else could he refer? Another observer above this world? Ale only knew one such entity, the ND0 System.
The entity who ruled above Core and spoke down to them, was Magmo an entity like that one?
