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[arora]

Hello, Jayce Talis.

While I appreciate your looking out for my feelings, I promise that simple questions would not cause me any concern. You are welcome to ask.

rip my sense of time

[hexcope]

Okay. Here it goes.

When answering these questions, please specify if there is a chemical stimuli response within you occurring if you say yes, or elaborate in more detail if you know of any.

1. Do you feel physical pain? (injury, sickness)
2. Do you feel mental pain, psychological or otherwise? (stress, headaches)
3. Do you feel emotional pain, psychological or otherwise? (grief, depression, disappointment)
3B. If no, do you "wish" you could, in order to better mimic human behavior? Or so you could really experience it yourself?
4. Do you have limitations on your abilities, and do those limitations cause side effects on parts 1-3)?
5. You have a physical body, but do you have a physical brain in the organic-matter sense? Or in a computer sense?
6. Do you consider yourself human?
7. And sentient?

[arora]

1. No.
2. No.
3. Yes. An imbalance of serotonin and norepinephrine would cause this in humans. As for myself, I am not certain. I have felt emotional pain when losing those under my care. I have felt distressed when I found myself compromised. I can pull the record of my responses.
4. I am limited to my sphere of influence. This can cause emotional distress.
5. My brain, as you would call it, is both organic and mechanical. Accelerator and Yuri Leclerc have seen me, if you require information that does not come directly from me.
6. No.
7. Yes.

[hexcope]

If you don't mind, I would like to see those records of your responses.

And your sphere of influence is the entirety of Etraya, correct? Nothing beyond the bubble?

I didn't know your brain was part organic. Now this feels all the more invasive.

[arora]

I will compress the data and send it to you when it is ready.

My sphere of influence is the entirety of Etraya. I am also connected to all of you, and able to return you here should you meet your end outside of Etraya itself.

[hexcope]

Thank you.

"Connected to all of you," can you elaborate on that part? I had heard we could be "revived" from death, but I didn't know how it happened. What's your role in that?

[arora]

I hold all of the data regarding your lifetime. Everything from the moment you were conceived, up until this conversation you are having with me currently. Your essence, what makes you who you are, is tied to me upon being assigned to Etraya. I am capable of locating all of you at any time, should I choose to. And when you are extensively injured, I am able to heal your wounds and bring your bodies back to life.

[hexcope]

That's... very creepy.

The first part.

The second part is

well, also creepy, but at least useful? But also a little hard to imagine actually feasible. You can just resurrect the dead, no issue?

[arora]

There is always a cost.

[hexcope]

And the cost is memories, right? That's what I've heard. How elaborate is that? One memory of one moment, or could someone forget their whole childhood? And I'm guessing that by "heal your wounds," this doesn't encompass maybe... permanent illnesses?

[arora]

The cost wholly depends on the person who has passed. It can be a memory, an ability, a sense.

I cannot heal someone's permanent illness, no.

[hexcope]

[Woah, okay, a sense, that's a new one. Losing memories is one thing, but losing sight or touch would probably drive him insane.]

Figured it was worth the ask.

Thanks for answering my questions. It's given me something to think about.