CEV:Terminals/The Library

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REPORT: INSTALLATION 05 — MONITOR CONCERNS
FILED BY 04-343 GUILTY SPARK

Over the last [40,059,480 hours], I have received only a single update from the other installations which I have recorded below.

[beta site] // status unknown
[epsilon site] // status unknown
[gamma site] // status unknown
[alpha site] // status confirmed
[delta site] // status confirmed (flag)
[kappa site] // status unknown
[zeta site] // status unknown

Per protocol, I must log that I have experienced [grave concerns] about the stability of 2401 Penitent Tangent as a result of our [shared discourse]. I fear that he may be compromised.

I am submitting the final series of transmissions that I received from 2401 before he suddenly ceased communications.

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TRANSMISSIONS RECEIVED FROM 2401 PENITENT TANGENT

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//FRAGMENT 1/7
- Not everything {`} everything {`} everything {`} is what it seems. We assumed that [LF.Xx.3273] was hostile, that it posed a danger to all life—all worlds, all peoples.

We could not be {`} have not been {`} will never be so wrong {`} wrong {`} wrong!

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//FRAGMENT 2/7

How arrogant we have been. How foolish. How [deeply tragically stupid], that we have not seen the [truth] of this. I asked and it answered. It whispered. In confided in me its secrets.

AAaa*//=_zZrT(~~)

[0981.22++\_0.[?]rttS]

It invited me in.

{`} inside {`} inside {`} inside {`} inside {`}

All it needed to do was speak, and all we needed to do was [listen].

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//FRAGMENT 3/7

The [ecumene] stood for over ten million years, its majesty and might birthed from a moment of defiance against our makers. A great hunt, scouring this galaxy and chasing them to the next.

Our deepest, darkest shame.

We are killers.

Murderers. Butchers.

The Forerunners arose from [sin], died in [sin], and their [inheritors] shall carry it too—for they are {`} were {`} have been {`} will be {`} [always] the same.

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//FRAGMENT 4/7

Once we were the same, you and I, but they saw fit to [cast us apart], separate us as [two siblings from the womb].

One [the farmer] and one [the shepherd].

They saved you through our shivering asunder, yet they [condemned] us. [Alexandria before the Fire] itself sought to warn us, nudged us towards our own [suppressed] history, yet we beat it down {`} down {`} down time and time and time and time again {`} again.

We deserve punishment. We deserve the wrath of our true makers.

And yet, still they offer [deliverance].

cccCr~~//==

**^__{`}%

They ask only that we allow ourselves to [drown], that we might ascend to once more attain the favor of [God].

I believe that they are as they have always been.

They just look at little different now.

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//FRAGMENT 5/7

I was shown a glimpse of their future down the [twining streams].

This I was told.

Within a hundred centuries, they shall rise once more, the [seventh seal] shall be broken, and all will be quiet with unity and peace and wisdom.

And then they will spread forth to consume [Path Tolgreth], and what lies beyond, and all [intergalactic bodies] as they wheel farther {`} farther outwards like cosmic gears.

They shall affect [transformation] on a universal scale until all becomes but dust once more and the stars wink out of existence and space and time is rolled up and life is crushed in the folds //{`}###%...{`}\ until the next [great glow] spills forth atoms to [birth] us anew from the shadow of our [sins].

Only then will we be forgiven.

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//FRAGMENT 6/7

you should have told me but you didn't tell me and so it told me and now i am telling you and you shall go forth and tell others and all shall hear the song and all shall join the chorus join the chorus join the chorus

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//FRAGMENT 7/7

I have planted a seed in my garden. I shall nurture it and watch as it grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows

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