IC Inbox for caldera

[wellitspossible]

"Hello! I'm not around, sorry. Leave me a message...? Why do these all look like birds, though? Is this a joke about twi-"


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Hey there, Superstar!

Your Ringmaster, [Player-Set Name], is feeling a bit under the weather and will be temporarily unavailable while [player-set gender] gets some rest! Don't worry! There are plenty of games to be played on The Grounds while our dedicated caregivers help get [Player-Set Name] back on [player-set gender] feet!

See you in the circus!

text @xddcc

[wellitspossible]

[...Uhhhh... okay. Weird message.]

Did you
mean
to send this...?

[zero_votes]

[Oh no.]

I'm sorry. It's an automated notification for players when I'm expected to be unavailable for portions of time. Nothing to worry about.

[wellitspossible]

Oh. OK.

Are you not feeling well? I know you have kind of a physical body here, but didn't think you could catch a cold or anything.

[zero_votes]

[There's a long, long pause in responding as Caine frets over what to say. He's terrible at lying, and Pomni has known it since she first arrived and he tried to claim the Exit door was just a digital hallucination. She'd see right through him.]

[Well, she would in-person. Over text, maybe not. But he didn't know what to say that wouldn't sound suspicious from the outset.]

It's an issue with my code. Nothing for you to worry about. I'm handling it.

[Following his default protocol to isolate corrupted code until a developer can correct it is handling it, right? He's not lying per se...]

I think I may have sent a message to Jax as well. It's hard to tell when the automations take over.

[wellitspossible]

y e a h, you're not gonna get a response from Jax.

Anyway, make sure you're having water and eating? I know the last time you wondered what was wrong with you, you were letting yourself accidentally starve.

[zero_votes]

[No response from Jax wasn't much of a shocker.]

[He reads the message from Pomni. She came to her own conclusion in the end. That's much easier to deal with than trying to fool her. Data point stored: Vague answers allow for humans to come to their own conclusions for their satisfaction.]

I will. Respawning wouldn't be ideal.

[The whole reason he was going to such extremes to self-isolate was because deleting his program wouldn't work here.]

You and Jax take care of yourselves.

[wellitspossible]

[...Thaaaat's not a great-sounding ending to that message, but. He was weird, so. Maybe that was okay.]

[zero_votes]

[With no response from Pomni, Caine assumes the conversation is done and puts his bird away. He's not going to need it again.]

[Voice dull, he says the message he's programmed to say when the player chooses to log out.]

Thank you for playing The Amazing Digital Circus. We look forward to seeing you again real soon.