[ i don't know that she totally understands the hivemind thing. and she usually believes that the regulations around the cloud are for good reason. but if he's able to help people and bring them peace, isn't that good? isn't that kind of like what they were hoping these weeks would do if they hadn't gone off the rails?
plus she was created to heal people's minds, so. same hat... ]
Even in the cloud, there's still disparity. Processing speeds—time itself—became a sort of currency when money stopped mattering. [ and CIs like her are basically second class citizens. ]
[She is right.... She is right! Viktor is the only person who thinks she is right. It's nice! It's a nice state of being...]
I see.
[Like her, he is still trying to piece together the digital format by what he has heard or saw of Kiraman. He loves it, the idea of it, too, but it is a bit more advanced beyond what he had come from. A little.]
We had no currency. We relied on bartering and trade amongst ourselves. On understanding the necessity of sharing.
It was a strong support for our way of life. Food was grown by everyone and shared as a community. Other work was divided, craftsmanship was exchanged, or simply done to help the collective.
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That sounds nice.
[ i don't know that she totally understands the hivemind thing. and she usually believes that the regulations around the cloud are for good reason. but if he's able to help people and bring them peace, isn't that good? isn't that kind of like what they were hoping these weeks would do if they hadn't gone off the rails?
plus she was created to heal people's minds, so. same hat... ]
Even in the cloud, there's still disparity. Processing speeds—time itself—became a sort of currency when money stopped mattering. [ and CIs like her are basically second class citizens. ]
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I see.
[Like her, he is still trying to piece together the digital format by what he has heard or saw of Kiraman. He loves it, the idea of it, too, but it is a bit more advanced beyond what he had come from. A little.]
We had no currency. We relied on bartering and trade amongst ourselves. On understanding the necessity of sharing.
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[ born in the cloud and her family was rich.......... ]
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It was a strong support for our way of life. Food was grown by everyone and shared as a community. Other work was divided, craftsmanship was exchanged, or simply done to help the collective.
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[ tactlessly: HOW'D YOU DIE ]
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...My former partner, Jayce, killed me in the commune. I don't know why, but he did call our Hextech a curse when we spoke previously.
Something had changed within him.
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[ she means this about jayce, not the hextech. what the fuck is hextech. it has tech in the name so it's probably fine and good. ]
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In a way. His mind... felt sick. The arcane had touched him somehow. He looked different. Older.
[Like, spiritually. He had aged about 80 years from his hell ordeal while Ekko got to kiss his not-girlfriend.]
I had spoke to him through Salo, one of his former fellow council members. He killed Salo after.
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He killed one of his own people?