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Writer Unblocked!Some of you may know that I am working on a novel, and have been for quite some time, off and on. Right now is definitely one of the "on" times. I have decided to write at least half a chapter a day, or at least three chapters a week, allowing me a little slack. For a book that will probably end up being around 26 chapters long (according to my notes), with nineteen chapters to flesh out and write, that leaves about seven weeks to two months before I have it finished, following that speed.

It is exciting to have a plan finally!
1 year ago  |  Comments (1)  |  + 3 Cool
Varlin LFTOorGTFO
AASDFSDGSHHDFSDFSDF SDF SGGTHADSDASF HSSSDF. HASDHEIDJHVB,DSGHS. ASDFGHJHGFDSDFG.

Furthermore, IASGFHUWEBFVYVCAEFUKEFCKJDAIBV,DMVB.

It sure is relieving to bang your hands on the keyboard.
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Varlin LFTOorGTFO
Light my FireI despise running. But, I have to find a way to make it work.

At the moment, I am working a dead-end job with zero future in it. Great start, eh?

Don't get me wrong, I like my job...well, used to like it. I am tour guide at a cave in Texas. It is fun, but not exactly career material. I am working there full time right now, having dropped out of college (sounds worse than it really is, I promise) as of the beginning of the most recent semester.

I am currently trying to get into the fire department, and took the time off of classes to try and make that happen. I applied with Austin, being so close, last December. Any of you who live in Austin may have seen or head all of the stink about the fire department hiring process, and how the questions and answers were leaked to the candidates at some point during the process, so now we have to start all over with the oral interviews. I am confident that I can do it again (I did it once) but the process is taking a ridiculously long time.

Because of this, I also applied with Arlington FD. Their process is similiar, with the addition of timed run. It is just a mile and half, which must be completed in 13:57. If you had told me a few years ago to run that, I would have said "BRING IT ON I EAT RUNNING FOR BREAKFAST". I am not in bad shape (I have been working out for another segment of the tests, the CPAT, which, as far as I can tell, was devised by Satan) but running is just not my strong suit anymore. I am going twice a day, before work and at night, desperately trying to improve my stamina and my time.

Trouble is, the test is in four to six days (I find out tonight) and the most I have managed to get is a strong mile before my legs yell "No more, fatass! We quit!" I don't feel like I am making as much progress as I could be as far as stamina goes.

Any runners have any secret tips?
1 year ago  |  Comments (2)
Varlin LFTOorGTFO
Omega, Tex, Mr. Freeze and CarolinaIt is my opinion that the Director probably started with PF as he said in the end of Recon, that he was looking for a way to contribute to the war because he couldn't personally. I think he had the Alpha long before he had the idea of splitting them, and was running his own experiments on it just for the giggles, and then realized that it could be fragmented. These fragments began exhibiting different personality facets, and he kept going to see what he could do.

The Alpha was meant to be implanted in a single agent originally, so maybe he was pitting them against each other to get the honor?* When it began to fragment, he realized he had more options. The director said there were many unharvestable fragments, so they had some way of examining them. I think he discovered one of them reminded him a little too much of Allison (perhaps his memory of her? Memory IS the key...) and so he set her aside with the idea that maybe she could be used to resurrect her in someway, perhaps implant the AI in a human body.

This raises the question of why Omega was so devoted to staying with her. Sure, Omega is anger, but why would anger be connected so heavily to Tex? Because he was angry for losing her? Perhaps he was angry because he couldn't protect her, thus Omega continually finding its way back to Tex over and over, trying to fulfill that part that he missed out on.

* If he was pitting them against each other for the honor of being implanted, that could explain why Carolina (at the top of the list) received two as the experiments continued, possibly because she was the highest and "deserved" it, and it also conveniently made a nice experiment: "How well would our best and brightest do with two other minds inside of her own?
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DeLurkIt is interesting how my activity all seems to center around the RvB seasons...like, I watch everything that gets posted, but I only ever use any of the features when in RvB mode.

I am done lurking in LFTO...
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Varlin LFTOorGTFO
Dashboard UpdateIt is sexy. I like it a lot.
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Varlin LFTOorGTFO
REACCHHHHSO. MUCH. REACH. If you guys wanna party up for some Reach, send me a friend request on XBL, gamertag Varlin. Sadly, I don't have a mic, so you won't be able to hear my melodious voice.
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Tex/Alpha/Director/PF TheoryThe director never visited that facility in person

...Maybe the FILSS unit there (who's to say, definitively, that there aren't several of those out there?) was set up to recognize that voice as the voice of the director. As has been noted, the Director has referred to hmself as an "old man." Perhaps the central goal of the whole AI business was to create a younger version of himself that could enter the war and fight. Sure, he wouldn't be experiencing it himself, but his personality would be doing it, and he could see how he'd've reacted.

I'm guessing he had the idea for the AI first, and then someone up the chain of command found out about it. Rather than shut him down, Command decides to use it to their advantage, and Project Freelancer is formed. Of course, the military in the RvBverse is cheap (the lowest bidder) rather than make a new AI, Command (spitefully) makes Dr. Church run experiments on his own AI so they don't have to create another one.

Now, getting back to the facility we saw, we know that an AI retains the memories of the human mind it was created from (at least, Cortana did, but then again we can't be certain in RvB) while fully knowing what it is. Alpha would have remembered the creation process. See where I'm going here?

The Director said he lost someone important to him. AI's probably don't have to be created from a living mind (hence, flash-cloning, because the subject dies in the process otherwise, and dead does not equal living...that was less obvious before I typed it). We're assuming Allison is the person the Director lost. He loved her and had her preserved, let's say. The Alpha approaches Dr. C with the idea of creating an AI from her as well, bringing her back. Of course, the Director himself has rules and whatnot to abide by, so he can't do it himself. He sets up this facility in secret for the Alpha to use.

This facility, if you haven't guessed where I'm going with this, is where Tex was created. Shortly after this point is when the experiments on Alpha would have begun.

The 'her' that EpsiChurch was referring to might have been Allison's body, which would most likely still be preserved in that outpost. That adds an eery parallel to Church going after Tex's body in Recontruction. Epsilon is going after Allison's body. Which he plans on using to host himself in. How?

He body was either: rebuilt cybernetically to hold her new AI incarnation, or
there are a whole hell of a lot of shell bodies in there, that she was going to have been implanted in.
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