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[chaotic_mind]

But, really, isn't bring the PMs out from behind the curtain adding another character. Sure, OOG, we know the PMs exist. But, if these Puppet Masters ever came out from behind the curtain, they'd just really be another character IN GAME. After all, in the syntesized reality of the ARG, PMs don't exist. If the PMs interact with our in-games selves, they just become yet another character we interact with.

But, meh, that's my two sense. Not that's there's any sense, what with all the shenanigans and goings on.

Luke P.

[clamatius]

[Atoner]

[johnny5]

[C_Brennan]

No, you must understand that when flea doesn't recognize a party, he puts it into a generic term.

External Proc 0 is that term, and subsequent unrecognized outside forces will be named with further numbers, External Proc 1, External Proc 2, etc. etc... Until he labels them with names.

We saw him label Princess as Princess, and himself as Seeker. Therefore, if it is a person or entity with no label, then he defaults to External Proc 0 until he can label them with a string variable.

Because, if you think of it, break the name down:
External - Outside
Proc - Could be short for Procurator, which means by a dictionary definition, "One that manages another's affairs."

Certainly a default name for any external entity, in my opinion, of course.

[klobbermeister]

I *do* think the SP is using the Flea to do a scan/search, however...hence the Flea trying to "evade/evade/evade" as she attempts to snag it from where-ever it might be.

I would think that SP is somehow hacking ("speaking it's language") the Seeker to do a "bug sweep" to see what she can see, hence all of going from one "external proc" into the next, into the next...

Just what I got from interpretting "Gretel"

[Atoner]

[HitsHerMark]

[C_Brennan]

Update on my previous post... I just took a step back and looked at it (the conversation) again, and I thought of some more stuff to add...

[Ghost77]

I think it was established a while back that the ! syntax meant line execute, not comment.

So:
!analyze Princess

means the Flea is trying to analyze the Princess via a process, not communicating.

The lines without the ! are the execution results/return statements from the process.

[drizjr]

Ask SP about the wavs

[Platonix]

[Shad0]

Re: hndshk

[Kybard]

Two lines of spec, the stronger one (in my opinion) coming second, so bear with me:

The connection between SP and Flea seems to be developing quite differently from any of the other connections between our AI characters - this conversation in particular seems to be one more akin to our early conversations with SP herself than anything else.

We know that SP was lonely in her glass coffin - perhaps, despite her initial disgust with the flea, she's grown to like his company simply because it is company. She wants someone to talk to, and the Flea is an even closer source for conversation than we are. So she's engaging in casual conversation about things, the way Durga and Jersey were engaged in the same conversation. Making friends, so to speak.



Or, even more cloesly related with the recent messages we've recieved - perhaps the Princess is even trying to "seduce" the Flea the way the Flea seduced Melissa. She's forcing it to play by her rules instead of its own - maybe she's trying to attain it as an ally through much more subtle measures than the Flea used upon Melissa.

[AngriBuddhist]

You know, I've always been leary of this Sleeping Princess gal.
Something's not quite right with her.

When we first met her she couldn't even speak English.
She had a hard time yet picked it up quite fast. All these Grettel, yellow
brick road, looking glass and fairy tale labels are almost compulsive
behaviors. Dungeons, towers, mirrors, sleeping beauty glass coffins,
and how much more?

Is she just a pouty little girl with amnesia who just wants to make
friends or has she played on our childhood fancies in order to
garner our trust?