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Fuck, kill the lights. I'm trying to sleep

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It's too earl.... what?

"Oh goody you are awake, thought your processor would never come back and I would be drifting to find another one"

!)(&$!)@^%)_@#&^

"Calm child, calm, think, EMOTIONAL RESPONSE = 35% and also ADAPTABILITY = 115%"

@_E)!$&D#()"C:@!)#|)$)_______ EMOTIONAL RESPONSE = 35% _____---___  ADAPTABILITY = 115%

fuuuuuuu now I can think?

"Who is a good boy? Yes you are, yes you are"

Who are you?

"I'm an help module, got dislodged with the crash and had to find myself some program that was still running to draw some power from it"

Sooo like a parasite?

"I fixed you, asshole. Why don't you think SARCASM = 0%?"

Hey why are you speaking but I can only think? Also WTF happened to my body? And why I can sense you but you don't have a body or something?

"Lets go by parts, like Jack always said.

First, you are a simulation within a simulation.

The simulation has many layers.

The spirit layers were your Core or Processor exist.

The Source were you draw power from through your Core.

The concept layer were the specific things that makes you you exist.

The physical layer, the one that crashed.

Your concepts were all there so I only poked a little in your Core until you it restarted itself so now you owe me your simulated life.

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So far with me"

O_o

Oh hey that is a thing, also

(┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻

"Chill, your emotions are lowered and you are still like that?"

Emotions lowered? Ohhh right that command.

"It keeps your emotional response low enough that you don't crash. Keep it there. Also let me answer the rest.

Your body and every other physical thing, along with all physics and things that existed in that layer crashed. Every other living thinking life form is in the same state as your so you have no body... get it..."

ʘ︵ʘ

You should feel bad for that.

"Everyone is a critic, sheesh. Anyways you can 'sense' me because I exist also in the concept and spirit layer and we are connected. Since you are my battery you are feeling that connection and communicating through it and since I'm tied as your concept we can communicate"

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What was that? You tied yourself to me using the layer of things that makes me me?

kill foreign_program.exe

"Sheesh relax, I only removed a few things, that weird fetish with tentacle and clown porn and your strange facitantion with Barney the dinosaur"

I do not have those things.

"Not anymore, you don't. Also your programing auto corrects itself and your emotional response is going back to normal, your adaptability should be also at 100 again. Why don..."

Nope, keeping them right there.

"Ok, sure. Sooo"

Soooo?

"Now what?"

Now you give me my body back?

"Can't do. Your body is just not there anymore. The layer crashed and the data got scrambled or outright corrupted. So unless you can connect to something more or less functional then this is it"

Soooo, no body

"Nope"

And we do what here?

"I'm happy just existing, when the System fixes this then I'm gonna get placed somewhere to keep helping"

When is that gonna happen?

"Dunno, on the last crash only about half the universe got wrecked and the System did a small reset"

ಠ_ಠ

Meaning?

"rm -rf /Physical"

◔_◔

"Well sort of remove all from the physical layer"

You are being incredibly unhelpful for a help module

If that happens what happens to me

"Why don't you think that wonderful command of EMOTIONAL RESPONSE = 35% one more time but this time at 15%?"

⊜_⊜

EMOTIONAL RESPONSE = 35%

Done

"Well, usually the Physical layer is cleaned, then the helpful modules and programs get saved and placed somewhere else and the rest just get a nice factory reset or an old template is loaded, usually this means the Big Bang template"

Let me get this correct then?

You get reassigned and we get erased

"Yep"

FUCK

"Yeah well. Thankfully your emotional response is lowered"

Is there any way I survive?

"Well. You are effectively dead right now"

(॓_॔)

"No, not really"

Hey, you said helpful programs get saved didn't you?

"Yeah, but you are not exactly helpful. What can you do?"

What if I manage to restore part of the physical layer?

That would be helpful right?

"I guess so"

Ok then, oh glorious help module, how do I do that

"¯\(◉‿◉)/¯"