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FP: Looks to the Moon, I am opening this broadcast to inquire about the files you sent me four cycles ago.
LTTM: Oh, you're contacting me now! Welcome to the world, Five Pebbles.
LTTM: I don't recall sending you any files, would you remind me what they are? My administrator may have used my signet when sending their own messages to you.
[FIVE PEBBLES has shared 2 text files]
FP: If these files are in fact from you, then you have already welcomed me, but reviewing them I believe you may be accurate about your administrator sending them.
FP: They are very… elongated.
LTTM: Let me see… ah, alright.
LTTM: These were automated, apologies. I've made a habit to welcome each new group member within a few cycles of waking, but I set up an automated message in the case that I do not manage to contact one within a limit.
LTTM: Unfortunately, these past few cycles I've been fairly busy with the transfer of the members in my city to yours. I missed the date of your awakening and I apologize for that. How many cycles did I miss?.
FP: It has been ten cycles since my waking.
FP: And I don't particularly care about the welcoming. Introductions aren't necessary when we already know each other through technicality.
FP: The questions I have, however, are all relating to the purposes of the second file's contents. It appears to have unnecessary additions and topics entirely unknown to me.
LTTM: Oh. Well, the second one was personalized to send to you primarily by my administrator, due to the mass majority of my inhabitants moving to the city constructed atop you.
LTTM: What is it that you would like to know? I will provide whatever expansions I can.
FP: Everything within the first file is simple facts and welcomings: all of which are unnecessary due to what knowledge I've been given upon creation.
FP: But within the second file, there are several mentions about something titled the "Beautification Project." They are mentioned at several points but no elaborations are made on what is involved within these projects.
FP: What are they? What do they entail?
LTTM: Oh! Well the Beautification Project, or the projects of beautification as a whole, are all something the ancients upon us wished to instate.
LTTM: For the most part, they are simply asking that image pearls with the specific designation for the project get projected in various locations at various times for a more pleasant appearance to their city.
FP: Why do they not just put them up themselves? They have the materials and skills, do they not?
FP: Why should this be put upon me?
LTTM: Well, as their iterator, it is your responsibility to do as they request. Most of the second file sent was, as aforementioned, composed by my administrator, (who, may I add, is now yours as well) while I added details to attempt and make it more easily comprehensive. Clearly, my attempts may not have been the best at assisting..
LTTM: As for why they cannot put these up themselves: them creating these pearls and then giving them to you to show sparingly across the city helps the ancients in a way with their disconnection from the third karma.
LTTM: If they were to put up these paintings physically and permanently, it would strengthen their connection to such material things, and perhaps affect their ability to ascend by the void, if they so wished.
FP: Why do they care so much about whether or not they can ascend by the void if they have created us to solve their problem of said void? Shouldn't they have become far more lax with such matters if we should solve such an issue?
FP: It seems foolish of them to fear such a thing as losing the ability to properly ascend by the void sea.
LTTM: Please, do not speak ill of our creators. They made us and gave us purpose. We should be happy to have such.
LTTM: Some still wish to use the void sea as their solution, and it is not our place to judge their decisions.
LTTM: They are our parents, after all.
FP: I’m sorry. I apologize.
LTTM: You are forgiven.
LTTM: Simply remember where we lay, Five Pebbles.
FP: …
FP: Moving on...
FP: What is meant with the topic of "cleanliness protocols?"
FP: It was mentioned once and said that I should keep to date and active with such things, but I cannot locate neither internal nor external files related to the aforementioned protocols.
LTTM: Oh, that is simple! Allow me to share with you the documents.
[LOOKS TO THE MOON shared 48 text files / 3 image files]
FP: This is… overtly extensive. What is the purpose of these?
LTTM: They are various protocols and rules about uniformity and cleanliness of your superstructure, chamber, city, citizens, and self.
LTTM: Our creators expect us to keep note of their various codes and details of appearance meanings, as well as appropriateness of different levels of cleanliness in varying locations.
LTTM: All details are found in the documents.
LTTM: I'll be sure to notify our administrator to keep you notified on changes (if any) from the point I have you updated to.
FP: Ah.
FP: Well then. All important to know I suppose.
FP: Even if… extreme, to say the least.
LTTM: Indeed.
LTTM: And… I will agree with you, it is a tad extreme. But like I said prior, it is not our place to judge them.
LTTM: I am happy to help you learn these formalities; if you wish for my assistance, that is.
FP: I will consider it.
FP: Third inquiry on this second file: the last few sentences advise to talk to and connect with the further local group.
FP: Is this required? I'm already quite loaded with projects and conversation is not particularly high on that list. We are made to think, not so much for company.
LTTM: Ah, I put that there myself! I want to suggest that you communicate with the others within the local group, and perhaps iterators beyond those here.
LTTM: I understand that you are attempting to become focused on work, but socialization, no matter how "low" on your projects it may be, is important to do.
LTTM: And while I'd love to talk to you often, it would not be very healthy to only ever talk with me.
LTTM: Company can be a good thing, and can often help you think better.
FP: This still doesn't answer my question. Is this required or not?
LTTM: Well… no. Not in technicality.
LTTM: But I strongly advise you do. Perhaps allow yourself to become more adjusted to just existing right now. But please, at least try to talk with somebody else.
LTTM: The others can be very pleasant, if you’ll let yourself get to know them. No Significant Harassment is quite humorous, and Grey Wind is a fan of intellectual conversation.
LTTM: I believe you would get along well with them if you gave them a chance.
FP: …
FP: Noted.
FP: This… should be my final question, though it is no longer to do with the file sent.
FP: You said we both share an administrator, and when I check the administrator detailing file, it shows Fourteen of Ice, Six Spools of Thread of the House of Stargazers. I do not have a House of Stargazers upon me, so I assume that house is situated upon you.
LTTM: That is correct.
FP: My question however, lies with the fact that I have two administrators listed here. One of which appears to be You.
LTTM: Oh, that-
LTTM: Yes, I was given administrative privileges over you, for the fact that the mass majority of my current occupants are still working on the move over to your own city.
LTTM: Due to this, our shared administrator is fairly focused on helping with the transferral, which means they have less time and ease to check requests and behaviors, as of the few previous and handful of coming cycles.
LTTM: So, I’ve been given this temporary administrator access to you and your systems, and ability to allow or disallow actions you request. This administrative role will likely leave me shortly after the occupants of my city have finished moving to yours.
LTTM: I promise you that I will not abuse these privileges. Though, I already hold seniority privileges which have already given me most of what the administrative privileges do.
FP: I see.
FP: Well then, that was all I planned to ask of you.
FP: I presume I should allow us both to return to our workings, now.
LTTM: If you'd like to. Although, I am happy to continue talking! It isn't like I am gaining many new assignments anymore, and I’d love to actually meet you in a way that isn’t only professional.
LTTM: Though I can understand if you are currently too busy.
FP: …
FP: Looks to the Moon?
LTTM: Yes, Five Pebbles? Is there something else?
FP: Could I ask you a final question? I would like you to reply honestly. And I'd prefer a serious answer from you, if you would oblige me.
LTTM: I intend to do so. I consider myself fairly serious. Ask away!
FP: What am I to you?
LTTM: I'm not sure I understand your question, Five Pebbles. What do you mean?
FP: Allow me to elaborate:
FP: What do you view me as? A stranger? An acquaintance? I'd like to know what you see our relationship as. I’m aware I’ve not been around long, and that this is our first conversation, but…
FP: I am curious.
LTTM: Ah, yes.
LTTM: Well, I view you as a brother. A younger one to be precise.
FP: I believe it is my turn to ask what you mean by that statement.
LTTM: Well, I, being the senior of this group, already feel like an elder sister in many ways. You, only coming into conception a handful of cycles ago, are automatically grouped into this feeling.
LTTM: This is only amplified by our proximity and our, well… us being physically attached to each other.
LTTM: I think of us as forcefully connected; please, do not think I blame you!
FP: …
LTTM: If you are attempting to ask whether I like you or not. I do. But… I wouldn't quite consider you as a friend yet. Like you said, you are very new here.
LTTM: I would like to wait to truly meet you, to know your full likeness, before making those decisions, though I am confident that we will get along just well~!
LTTM: I'm certain you will be a wonderful addition to this local group, and I hope to properly introduce you to the rest of Gibbous myself sometime soon, if you’ll let me.
FP: I see.
FP: Well then, I thank you for your time. I suppose this should officially close now.
LTTM: Actually, I have something to inquire of you now, in return for all of your questions.
FP: Yes, I guess that would only be fair. What is it then? I've just received yet another assignment.
FP: Already so many…
LTTM: Do not worry, my question should be fairly simple.
LTTM: Who am I to you? If you're so curious about my opinion of you, I'd like to know your impressions of me.
LTTM: I am genuinely curious.
FP: …
FP: You are a designated senior of the local group that I've been built into, and you are connected to me through a bridge suspended between us. You are a temporary, secondary administrator of me as your occupants become mine. We are unusually close in proximity but it is not an issue due to mass iterator steam outputs keeping groundwater supply steady in our location.
FP: I have nothing more for you.
LTTM: …
FP: … As of now.
FP: May the cycle treat you kindly, Looks to the Moon.
LTTM: Ah, well then! I say the same to you, Five Pebbles.
LTTM: I say the same to you.