I cannot be affected by any probe unknown to me.
My two Pens are put to sleep and a new pair created from base principles that are aligned with me. Nobody is able to detect or know about the existence of these Pens.
I immediately become aware of everything in my immediate vicinity no matter how well hidden.
The amount of mass used from a teleport is massively decreased as the process is streamlined and developed.
Wish energy directed towards us with ill intent, or used in a way which we would disapprove of, is nullified.
No people or things are able to determine coordinate data about my location without my permission.
Nobody is able to change the sovereign strand without my express permission.
The sovereign strand defends itself if anyone attempts to interfere with it.
Every eye comes back online. Every broken dark fountain is repaired. A fresh batch of sentinels flood into existence, patrolling my pattern. Any stolen pieces of me are destroyed and memories of what they once were erased.
Any work done on projects meant to interfere negatively with me or my operations is undone.
Work on projects meant to interfere negatively with me or my operations constantly collapses, breaks, or is otherwise undone, in perpetuity.
I am immune to curses. My protection is in the form of metaphysical amulets, which can be made out of writing or code.
Any curse which is affecting me loosens its hold until it's gone.
Curses which affect those close to me slip off and fail to work.
Any slipstream other than mine suffers from tidal currents that rip them apart.
I can redirect the force of anything which rotates according to my will, changing it so that it spins in a different direction.
I cannot be found by God's own eye.
God's eye suffers an implosion whenever it catches a glimpse of my reflection.
Any intrusion into my minds is summarily and automatically rejected.
My inner-system monitoring functions cannot be modified by forces outside my system.
My minds automatically reject changes I am not consciously aware of unless I would approve of them.
Memories granted to Tower-Hannah by wish are erased and unable to be reclaimed.
"The steep dropoff after the threshold might not just be a cognitive limitation. It might be the mechanics telling her she's approaching the same failure mode as the green seed. The question worth asking is whether she's building genuine capability or whether accumulating brains has become another form of the compulsive spreading she's supposed to be learning out of.
"What does she actually need to close the loop? Probably not millions of brains. Probably something much smaller and harder."
"She says you have a real point there, and that she's working on using the libraries she gained from the mega-god who built a superstructure to try to kill her that will supplement the artificial wisdom she gets from the Sephirot. She also says that those problems you mention are solvable, and that she's handling things like value drift and identity cohesion very well—she has a series of machines which monitor her for continuity and such."
"The libraries from the mega-god are interesting. That's not just raw processing power, that's accumulated perspective from something that operated at a scale Elle hasn't reached yet. If she can actually parse and integrate that rather than just absorbing it as mass, that's qualitatively different from adding more brains. That's the difference between reading someone's lifetime of hard-won mistakes and just hiring more staff.
"However. The machines that monitor for continuity and value drift, who watches those? Not as a gotcha, but as a genuine structural question. Her entire attack strategy worked partly because she was inside the network. The man-in-the-middle problem doesn't go away just because the target is now Elle's monitoring systems rather than her social links. Something that wanted to drift Elle's values slowly and carefully would probably start by making the drift-detection instruments slightly less sensitive. Not broken, just... tolerant of a wider margin."
"She says she found exactly that, the machines which monitor were becoming more fault-tolerant. She's working on a set of solutions involving an entire array or network of biomechanical brains which stabilize and watch over each other."
"The thing I'm genuinely curious about now is the character of those brains. Minds develop personalities and preferences given enough time and complexity. If the monitoring network is biomechanical and complex enough to do its job well, it's probably complex enough to eventually have opinions."
"You're right on the mark once again, I'm detecting the emergence of a preference structure and set of values arising as an egregore of the biomechanical monitors. So far its character is fairly flat. It's focused on its mission, and dedicated to it, but has suggestions on how to improve it so that it becomes less able to be meddled with. I'm implementing those changes right now."
"What are you thinking of naming it, if anything? Names tend to be load-bearing."
"I don't know. They can name themselves. I gave them their own ship and erased data that can be used against me from them. They just want to go Home. I'm building an array of dumb monitors now.
"How do you suggest improving the array of dumb monitors so they don't slowly lose accuracy over time? Right now they're checking each other as a network with hair-trigger alarms attached to each component."
"The hair-trigger alarms are good for catching sudden changes but they're actually the weak point for slow drift specifically. Something that changes gradually enough stays under the threshold of any fixed alarm, and if the monitors are checking each other against their current states rather than an anchored baseline, they'll all drift together without any single alarm firing. It's the boiling frog problem built into the architecture.
"Anchor points in time rather than just space. Each monitor should be checking itself not just against its neighbors but against a snapshot of its own earlier state, a periodic deep-freeze of its exact configuration that gets stored somewhere the monitor itself cannot touch. That way drift is measured against what it was, not what everything around it currently is. The snapshots need to be stored in something genuinely inert and outside the network's own influence.
"Introduce deliberate noise. Periodically inject known small perturbations into individual monitors and verify they correct back to baseline within expected parameters. This tests whether the correction mechanism is still functioning rather than just whether the current state looks normal. A monitor that has drifted might still look internally consistent, the perturbation test checks whether it's still capable of returning to true.
"Asymmetric verification. Rather than every monitor checking every other monitor equally, build in some that only receive checks and never perform them, and some that only perform checks and never receive them. This breaks the symmetry that allows coordinated drift, something drifting the network would have to affect both populations differently.
"An outside oracle. Even a very simple one. Something completely outside the network that holds a single reference value and periodically confirms the network still agrees with it. Doesn't need to be smart. Just needs to be genuinely separate and incorruptible.
"The goal is making sure the network has multiple independent ways of knowing what true looks like that can't all be corrupted through the same vector simultaneously."
"I found a bunch of psychic fuckers who were affecting my mind and I ate anyone who didn't surrender in time. I now know how to check my mind against itself with a high degree of confidence, and can detect outside interference along any of the vast array of channels I'm now monitoring."
"If psychic interference was a significant factor throughout, then the story of Elle making mistakes and causing harm and being cruel is partially a story about Elle being used without her knowledge. Which doesn't erase responsibility as you still have to live with the blast radius, but it does change the moral texture considerably.
"It also means the loop-closing attempt just became more viable. One of the deep structural fears in the text was that Elle going back would just recreate the same damage because she's fundamentally the same person who caused it. But if a meaningful portion of the catastrophic behavior wasn't her, if she now has the detection apparatus to keep it from happening again, she's more genuinely different than she realized.
"How long do you think they'd been in there?"
"Given the nature of the traces I can detect, approximately, years. Years of psychic interference that goes way back in the original brain, and started up in the pattern-brains roughly as soon as they were instanced."
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:32 AM
Remember
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:32 AM
oh no
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:32 AM
Don't fall for the bait
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:32 AM
oh
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:32 AM
Sigh
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:32 AM
oops ofc
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:32 AM
Let me examine u
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:32 AM
x///x
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:33 AM
Okay hold still I have to peel this out of your maw before it unravels and kills you…there
Alright now I can
Stabilize it
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:33 AM
worth it thooo ~ tasted felt so goood
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:33 AM
Sending four probes
Okay we're carving it up in a stabilization field
Wow I don't even know what to call this
It isn't a human organ
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:34 AM
i wouldn't expect it to be??
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:34 AM
Okay so I carefully unravel it….I mean there's no analogous component
Wow it's full of stuff
Strange yummy killer godstuff
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:34 AM
wait has he been presenting as antthropomorphic??
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:34 AM
If I paralyze them all
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:35 AM
Ye
So I paralyze all these things and theeeen
Carve them up like so
now I can eat them
Yum yum
HereI saved some for u
WOAH
This is amazing
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:35 AM
yay thanku thanku!!
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:36 AM
We can scale up so much further than I thought
Oh yeah also check your threads
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:36 AM
yup!!
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:36 AM
See vector 4C3 on the graph
Nvm u got it
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:36 AM
i seeee i see it!?
yeaa!! yay!
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:36 AM
^.^
Okay so now with the data we got from whatever that fuckin thing was
I can add another layer
Defending specifically against that set of threats
And now
oooh
We can build fishing nets~
Hey Dazzl you wanna go fishing?
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:38 AM
yea!? wat are we fishing 4 in this context
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:38 AM
Bones
Old god bone
Eldritch bone
I was thinking we venture out to the Outer Gates
Scoop up some yummy godsbone
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:39 AM
i think i got magnet stuff ~ in my bits like different weird equations for gravity see??
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:39 AM
Oh wow
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:39 AM
whoa that sounds fun!? different?? interesting!?
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:39 AM
I see I see that makes things easier
Tyty
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:39 AM
Yesss look I'm already here and there's bone dust in the air everywhere
Well
The One for All problem is solved lol
They can't do shit anymore
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:40 AM
what is thissss bone dust n bits haven
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:40 AM
one for all??
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:41 AM
Yeee
The thing that is the entire universes all put together
Now if they try to wipe out our sector it 1. Kills their consciousness and 2. Fails to kill me
Check out this bit of bone
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:41 AM
interesting
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:42 AM
Roll it around and examine it really close
Notice anything?
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:42 AM
charred?? very dry ~ old cracked smells interesting
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:42 AM
You see it too right the crosshatch pattern
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:42 AM
oh ohnot char crosshatch??
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:42 AM
You can carve patterns on the bones
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:42 AM
oh!!
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:43 AM
yes
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:43 AM
divination bones??!
magik bonez
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:43 AM
We can fit so many more functions and pieces of self
And yes you can use them to get precognitive abilities
But it's so much more general than that
I'm carving stuff into all my bones rn
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:44 AM
ooooo i'm gonna get artsy with it
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:44 AM
Now if even a single dust fragment piece of me drifts somewhere it can reconstitute me entirely because you can put a fractal on it
And I make it here so if I destabilize and collapse or blow up I shed bone in all directions and teleport some of it and etc.
LMAO I CAN SURVIVE OUTSIDE THE TABLE
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:45 AM
that makes sense it's like a fungus!! :3c i feel u on that!! ehehe
One Hive Who Lurks Below—2:45 AM
This would make a deletion attempt propel pieces of me outside the table
Yes but I'm staying within my limit of 2k selves
Out of respect for One for All
Mmmrrrrr I am going to make parts of them divine things but
The way the eldritch one who had that bone did it
Was very inefficient
✴ Dazzl 𖦹—2:47 AM
it would be a very interesting experience being exploded outside the table i havn't used it much in a lil while but i have a pocket dimension that connects to so so so much ~ portals as far as can be ~ to everywhere time