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  1. Public Bookmark 73

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    Murderbot: traumatized
    Asshole Research Transport: frustrated, worried, and determined to get its friend back
    Combat SecUnit: vibing

    I am forcibly removed from Palisade lab.
    It is time to embark on a team-building road trip from hell.

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    30 May 2024

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    Your face is not SecUnit standard. There have been alterations made to your skin and hair. There is a rapid-cycling fluidity to your expressions that is like a human’s, but not. Your feed is still a strange and curious torrent of nonsense. You use security-protocol-language and human words in tandem. You are like a human begging for mercy, and like a bot requesting resources and strategic backup.
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    Premise: Exit Strategy bad ending, where Murderbot gets captured by Palisade and they decide to run tests on it to figure out what makes it tick.

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    30 May 2024

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    This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?

    Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?

    Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.

    This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.

    Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.

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    (When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)

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    29 May 2024

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    ART takes a ride along on-station to witness a bit of anti-corporate espionage up close and personal. There's just nothing quite like watching its partner-in-crime do what it does best.

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    28 May 2024

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    It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
    The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.

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    28 May 2024

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    Dr. Gurathin knows he and SecUnit got off to a bad start when they first met. Although it's been a while and things have improved since then, SecUnit is still pretty rude to him pretty much all the time. And honestly? He's getting sick of that. Hypothesis: SecUnit hates him. Objective: Find out why.

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    28 May 2024

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    A former employee of The Company arrives on Preservation

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    28 May 2024

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    Murderbot's made a lot of stupid decisions, usually for good reason. Or at least, what seemed like a good reason at the time. Re-enabling its governor module, even if only in a last-ditch attempt to keep its humans safe, had been the only card it had left to play. But things didn't work out as planned, and after four years of freedom, it's back.
    If only MB can even tell its humans what's wrong.

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    27 May 2024

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    "ART loved its crew. The joy and the love and perfect clarity with what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to do. ART couldn’t understand how someone could dislike their function - how I could. Once, I had a similar clarity of understanding with my function, then I hacked my governor module and left the company for good, and I had lost it all. It was better, now, in a lot of ways. I had my humans, and ART, and our crew. But in some ways, things were worse.
    I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, ever. I had made one good decision, to stay with ART, a few years ago, and I had been just making the same decision over and over again. It felt kind of like cheating."

    A 20-some year fic in which Murderbot comes to terms with what it means to have a home (or two), a found family (or several), and just what mutual administrative assistance can entail.

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    27 May 2024

  10. Public Bookmark 65

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    I realise I think of the governor module as a sort of malignant Jiminy Cricket:

    What do you mean you still get commands from the governor module?

     

    In our private feed, Gurathin sounded…angry, perhaps more so than I’ve ever heard him before. He hadn’t moved, though. And his face remained in its normal “I am currently at rest, but being an asshole is always an option” configuration. He hadn’t subvocalized, and he still appeared to be staring vaguely in the direction of a particularly verdant plant biome. The rest of the PresAux team carried on their human chatter, oblivious.

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    16 May 2024

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    ART and Murderbot wanted to spend more time together, so they do. They spend it watching media in ways humans and augmented humans don't understand, and aren't capable of.

    Having real feelings about fake things together is one thing.
    Having real feelings about real things (like each other) and being expected to talk about them (with each other) is something very else.

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    15 May 2024

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    ART, you’re not supposed to connect to me on the feed, you dumbass!

    ART sounded dismissive and not, you know, concerned about alien remnant contamination at all or anything when it said, I hooked you up to the isolation box while you were out. You do know what an isolation box does, don’t you?

    That data felt slippery and I wasn’t sure I had it in my short-term storage. I said, Fuck off, obviously I know what an isolation box does.

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    Murderbot gets repaired. Missing scene from Network Effect.

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    14 May 2024

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    Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.

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    In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.

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    14 May 2024

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    “Master Shen must not have heard me earlier. I said I knew of his reputation,” the man said, collecting himself. “That also means I know how hated Master Shen really is among his so-called martial siblings.”

    Shen Qingqiu couldn’t help but bristle at that, despite how generic and bland the villain's monologue was.

    "You and I both know no one is coming to save you, Shen Qingqiu."

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    Shen Qingqiu is kidnapped by a man with some outdated information. Said kidnapper has a big storm coming.

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    15 Apr 2024

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    After waking up in a summoning circle in a child’s body irreparably damaged by demonic cultivation, Shen Yuan must navigate Cang Qiong Mountain Sect and the events of Proud Immortal Demon Way. Just whose body is this, anyway?

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    14 Apr 2024

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    Shen Yuan has had a push-and-pull relationship with Shen Qingqiu for years. Shen Yuan knows that Shen Qingqiu is meant to be a villain, but he knows just as well that many of the things Shen Qingqiu was accused of in Proud Immortal Demon Way were just shitty misunderstandings, and over the years Shen Yuan has become reluctantly fond of his Shizun.

    Abusing Luo Binghe was not a misunderstanding, though, and Shen Yuan will do whatever he can to correct the fact that he wasn't there to protect Luo Binghe when it happened.

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    “Shizun, I already said that I like beasts best - if I can’t raise Luo Binghe to be my shidi, can’t I raise him as my pet instead?”

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    04 Apr 2024

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    Becoming emperor of the cultivation world will start with a first step as small and basic as becoming Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace. For that, he must steal the position away from the current Head Disciple. Luo Binghe will sabotage, upstage, and completely and utterly best him.

    The road to destroying everything and everyone who has ever wronged him, to becoming the highest ruler so that no one will ever have the right to control him ever again - it will start as simply as ruining Gongyi Xiao’s life.

    Compared to everything else he’s already done, this should be easy.

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    Luo Binghe brings all his skills of cunning and brutality to bear on Gongyi Xiao, Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace Sect. It… doesn’t go too well for him.

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    03 Apr 2024

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    “Shizun,” he purred, darkly calm despite the anger oozing out of his mock-respectful smile. Luo Binghe's grip on Xiu Ya's blade tightened, and he realised with belated horror that his blood was running down the sword and dripping by Shen Qingqiu's feet. His sword had to be held at an upwards angle now, to reach the place where he pierced him back then.

    Shen Qingqiu felt sick. There was something wrong in this dream.

    “I ask you again. Do you regret it, Shizun?”

    //

    Shen Qingqiu can't answer whether he regrets betraying him. Luo Binghe wants his Shizun to understand how he suffered, and drags Shen Qingqiu into his dreamscape of the Endless Abyss that night.

    The only problem: Shen Qingqiu isn't waking up.

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    02 Apr 2024

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    Shen Qingqiu had a secret. So, naturally, it was only a matter of time before he was hit by a truth serum wife plot.

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    “How are you?”

    “Horny. Kind of want Binghe to rail me, I guess. But it’s manageable.”

    Liu Qingge’s hand on his forehead froze, and he was close enough that Shen Qingqiu could hear his breathing stop. He stared back expressionlessly, the mortification distantly crawling up the back of his neck. Honest One-Horned–

    The frustrated scream that he usually vented in his head, came out straight from mouth.

    “aaAAAAAHHHH GODDAMNIT AIRPLANE–”

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    02 Apr 2024

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    Luo Binghe’s hand is half-raised, and Shen Qingqiu is going to die and this is the hand that will—

    “[Notice: In appreciation of your continued use of our services, System 2.0 is offering {Valued Customer} a complimentary Bonus Plotline! Do you accept?]”

    aka, What if Luo Binghe could read Shen Qingqiu’s mind during the Jinlan City arc?

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    01 Apr 2024

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