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[kingchaos2]

[SPEC] The Story and Mayday

[Road]

http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Characters

Try there, they've got a summary of characters.

[kingchaos2]

thanks a lot!

[PhatRick]

hmmmm, it said that she was building a sandcastle and a wave of spiders washed it away. Could they be related the SPDR(widow) to the ocean?

[kingchaos2]

Well I remember that the Widow was in Hell and it read that Hell was made of sand. After reading "Sandcastles" though it sounds as if that was just what it felt like and it was really just hot sand on the beach. The sandcastle and the swarm of spiders are the only two things in "Sandcastles" that actually have a connection. If you read too deep into it, you start to think that the same thing in "The Widow's Journey" still took place, but on a much smaller scale. In other words humans wouldn't even notice this if it were just a regular spider going up to a sandcastle made by a kid. That just doesn't make any sense with the bigger picture at all. I'm not sure how the ocean and the Widow would be related (to answer your question ). (Sorry, just got a little wordy there.)

[PhatRick]

I think the widow thought she was in hell because of how simple the computer was.

[kingchaos2]

Ah right. I remember reading that the whole story sort of could take place in a computer. My fault, thanks for the mind refresher.

[blueninja]

This is what I got out of the mayday stories, sorry if you have heard this before.

The AI was badly damaged and may have only recollections of the MAYDAY call before losing 'consciousness'. This is right after she was damaged so she was pretty out of it and hallucinating in whatever way AIs hallucinate, on the verge of termination or whatever. The AI can not remember what happened before, and only has the MAYDAY call as a mysterious memory.

Sand is a great image because we use silicon based chips. Sand as you know is mostly silicon. I remember reading something like the AI was frustrated at being on a "Griddle of sand", which I thought was a nice way to depict the architecture and ingredients of our CPUs. The sand castle might have been the AIs attempts to use it's primitive surroundings to protect itself, while the ocean coming to destroy it might have been D's initial attempts at cleaning her system. In her badly weakened state, the AI's sand castle attempts are broken and SPDR takes over, washing over the AI. Who is the brother on the beach whose face is taken away by the spiders though?

When the AI has more of a grip on things, the story gets less abstract and D's attempts at cleaning her system are only "bumbling alligators" or something to the AI.

I really liked witnessing SPDR's account of the slaying of the manticore (all in computer terms, it was some rogue process) when compared to the fairy tale version told by a much more eloquent speaker.

Anyway thanks to the people who put the story together, I think all of the texts that were deciphered are very well written (good job, writers), and I can't wait to see what is next.

-b

[kingchaos2]

Thanks a lot. What you said clears some things up for me. Now as far as the brother goes, is there any technical term that involves the word brother? Also, the brother on the beach could just mean another weaker AI within the computer. Can you have two AIs in the same construct?

[DigiDevil]

Thinking of it in modern computer terms an AI would be like an OS so as long as the system has enough storage space it could fit countless AIs. I think it would be more of a question of how multiple AIs on a system would interact with each other.

I could be way off but it would be logical.

[PhatRick]

I would think that AI's were more like....
the little thing that pops up in the corner of word. lol the paper clip