AGWW Online - Log 2003/05/23

Mage - Adventures in the Digital Web

Seeking: Hannibal Golux

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 Hannibal Golux (Virtual Adepts) - played by Nimrod Jones
 Luthor (NWO) - played by Stayka

 ST - Stayka

La_ST hopes she will manage to do a proper Seeking for you ^_^ I have some cool idea, but I don't know whether they will really fit as I think

<La_ST> Let's see where we should set this seeking in relation to the story

<ZenCadet> Well, I opened up a nice possible starting place with the "emergency" back at his digital domain.

<La_ST> I think when Hanni runs away from Asmo in annoyance, this might be a proper time

<La_ST> Well, or that, yes

<ZenCadet> It wasn't annoyance, it was an "emergency"

<ZenCadet> I used it as a possible contrivance or an actual lead into the seeking.

<La_ST> So, let's see... It's 21:09 now... Let the Attack begin... Err, the Seeking

<ZenCadet> If you had been unable to do this, it would have just been a contrivance... :)

<ZenCadet> heh-heh

<La_ST> Heh

ZenCadet is now known as Hannibal-Golux

Hannibal-Golux is now known as Hannibal_Golux

<Hannibal_Golux> (mmmm, heather ale is divine.)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Oh, am I likely to need my char sheet at all?)

<La_ST> It was the worst possible time - or maybe a good excuse? Hannibal got a the feeling that a surge of energy appeared in a sector not too far away...

<Hannibal_Golux> (I'm guessing probably not, but I dunno what you have planned...)

<La_ST> A surge of energy that hat a distinct sigfnature, one that haunted him in his Nightmares, and sometimes even while he was awake...

<La_ST> (No char sheet, I think. This is more personal)

Hannibal_Golux curses the day that he created the LUTHER project - his biggest mistake and the mistake that ended his career.

Hannibal_Golux curses the day that he created the LUTHER project - his biggest mistake and the mistake that ended his career... and his life!

<Luther> Are you running away, *Henry-dear*? Again?

<Hannibal_Golux> Damn you, Luther! Show yourself!

<Hannibal_Golux> I'm ready for you now!

<La_ST> The uncorporeal voice had a distinct direction locator attached

Hannibal_Golux is going to call on his prepared army of AIs... this was, after all, the entire reason why he had designed them.

<La_ST> It pointed to a sector that was still in some disarray after the Crash, and most surfers avoided it

<Hannibal_Golux> (muttering to himself) What's wrong, Luther? Hiding in a sector devoid of nourishment?

<Luther> I'm waiting for you

<Luther> I think you should cease running and finally face what you did

<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, I call to me my AIs and I take the ones that have had the most combat experience to my side as the "generals". I treat my dealings with Luther as a war.)

<La_ST> The voice laughs eerily and taunts him

<Hannibal_Golux> What *I* did!?

<Hannibal_Golux> Damn it, you know full well it was the university.

<La_ST> (Feel free to do yso ^_^ Frokm your descrioption he is pretty nasty to poor AIs though ^_^)

<Hannibal_Golux> Yet how do you repay me!? You destroy my body and try to assimilate my soul!

<Luther> What you did. You chose to run

<Luther> You have always been a chicken, haven't you?

<Hannibal_Golux> (Heh-heh... I am all to much expecting to walk away from this sans any AIs at all.... :) )

<Hannibal_Golux> Damn you Luther! Is this how you goaded the other VAIs?

<Luther> You obviously forget Darwin's laws... If you are a chicken you get eaten by the fox

<Hannibal_Golux> ... before you consumed *them*?

<Hannibal_Golux> I *created* you!

Luther laughs contemptously

<Luther> VAIs?

Hannibal_Golux scowls

<Hannibal_Golux> Yes, Luther, don't act ignorant.

<Luther> More like NonIntelligence, I would say

<Luther> Feeble attempts. I know you could have done better

<Luther> So, are you playing chicken again, or will youi face me man on ...man

<Hannibal_Golux> You are bringing destruction upon this realm. I know it was you behind that big White Out. Others may have their own theories, but I know who was *really* behind it.

<Hannibal_Golux> You are no more a man thatn Frankenstein's monster.

Luther laughs again, neither denying nor affairming anything

<Hannibal_Golux> (-t)

<Luther> Are you eaten up by guilt - "Daddy"?

<Hannibal_Golux> Well, this time I am prepared for you...

Luther laughs again, still taunting Hannibal, trying to dare him to rush in and attack

Hannibal_Golux instructs a squad of AIs to investigate the area.

<Luther> Prepared? Now that would be a first time, chicken

Hannibal_Golux scowls some more.

Hannibal_Golux struggles to keep control of himself.

<La_ST> The area is seeming disconnected from the rest of the web, there is just one conduit leading into it

<Hannibal_Golux> Your reign of terror in this domain is at an end, Luther.

<Luther> I don't reign in terror, I just prove that I am worthier and stronger than you in any case

<Hannibal_Golux> (I will caution the AIs to approach with caution and will keep an open Corr scan with them at all times monitoring everything they see and do)

<La_ST> (ok)

<La_ST> When the AIs approach the sector, they see that the one open conduit looks deceptively quiet

<Hannibal_Golux> Damn you, Luther, I should have pulled the plug on you long ago. I should never have opened that connection with the Digital Web.

<La_ST> It just leads into the sector in a straight line

<Hannibal_Golux> (i instruct them to approach with caution and keep on the alert - I suspect a trap)

<Luther> Maybe I should thank you for this tiny bit of intelligence on your part?

<Luther> With the Digital Web you opened up a world without boundaries

<La_ST> The conduit is not a very wide one - the AIs can get on it maybe in pairs

<La_ST> On both sides of the conduit, empty space stretches seemingly into eternity

<Luther> (sounding disappointed-contemptously) What do I see? You don't dare approach me yourself?

<Luther> You are even more of a chicken than I thought before

<La_ST> Suddenly on the end of the conduit, just on the ground of the disused sector, a towering fiogure appears. It virtually dwarves the AIs. The towering figure looks imposing - and eerily like a negative image of Hannibal himself

<Hannibal_Golux> (uh-oh ;) )

<Hannibal_Golux> (And Han created VAI in his own image)

<La_ST> Where his skin and hair is white, Luther is black like coalesced night, and where he is clad in black (youi are, aren't yoz?), Luther is clad in white

<Hannibal_Golux> (Sure white skin + hair, with black clothes... does he have white sunglasses?)

<La_ST> (Yeah, would be fitting. And probably green eyes *g*)

<Hannibal_Golux> (cool!)

<La_ST> (I think why you might have taken a special dislike to Kev ^_^)

<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh)

Luther looks at the apporoaching AI dwarves, a sneer on his face

Hannibal_Golux instructs the rest of his AI army to commence attacks with the intent to kill and for them to attack at their discretion.

<Hannibal_Golux> Kill him!

<Hannibal_Golux> Destroy him!

<Luther> You know, chicken, how much those 'AIs' of yours worry me?=

<Hannibal_Golux> De-rez the bastard!

Luther lifts one foot and sets it on the first batallion of AIOs

<Hannibal_Golux> (Ouch, very Sauron... :) )

<La_ST> (Well, they get ...virtually flattened)

<Hannibal_Golux> (ouch! that hurt)

Luther laughs again.

<Hannibal_Golux> (/me applauds the bad joke as worth of one of his own.)

<Hannibal_Golux> (worthy)

<Luther> Still thinking you can send such weak ersatz-warriors?

<Hannibal_Golux> (ersatz?)

Luther bows down, and blows the next AIs from the circuit, and they disappear in the black nothingness next to it

<Hannibal_Golux> Damn it!

<La_ST> While they fall down, they dissolve, first turning insubstantial, then into a grid pattern, until they are gone

Hannibal_Golux rushes to the rear and throws an electrical discharge arcing through the air to strike at Luther.

<La_ST> The flash actually connects, and Luther makes a face

<La_ST> But astonishingly there is a bit of approval hidden behind the mask of fury

Hannibal_Golux instructs the remaining AIs to intensify their attack while Luther is distracted by my attack.

<Hannibal_Golux> (my=his)

<La_ST> Still, as soonm as the AIs attack, Luther doesn't seem to be phazen by them, just wiping them out at will

Luther has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)

<La_ST> (LOL)

<Hannibal_Golux> (barking to the AIs) Topple him!

Luther has joined #agww

<Hannibal_Golux> (oh, no need... I seem to have destroyed him.... oh, he's respawned)

Luther growls angrily, kicking the next AIs from the conduit

Hannibal_Golux hits Luther with another arc of electricity.

<Hannibal_Golux> Attack behind the knees, cripple the code!

<La_ST> Again Hannibal's attack gets through to him, where the AIs seem not to hurt him the least

Luther stomps onm the next wave of AIs before they can get around him

<Luther> Still trying to send your weak minions?

<Luther> Why don't you fight like a man?

Hannibal_Golux quickly starts, like lightning, coding drawing up better arsenals for his AIs, if they cannot hurt him directly, then they can take the Gulliver approach. He arms them with grappling guns with the aim to pin Luther down, as the Lilliputians pinned down Gulliver.

Hannibal_Golux commands the AIs to disperse to either side of the giant as he strikes at the feet of the giant Luther with an attack intended to make him loose his footing.

<La_ST> The grappling guns shoot barbed hooks at the towering gians and really manage to sink in

Hannibal_Golux commands the AIs to start pulling at Luther, to ground him.

Luther howls in defiance, as he falls over

<Luther> With wide swings of his arms, he topples down the next AIs

<Hannibal_Golux> (/me just managed to catch another potential timeout...)

<Luther> Now there are only a few left, but the barbs did rip bits of code out of Luither's body

Hannibal_Golux instructs the AIs, to secure him to the ground.

<Hannibal_Golux> The bigger they are...... the harder they fall!

<Hannibal_Golux> Your code got a little too bloated, Luther.

Luther still tries to wiggle free, while the AIs seem to bind him

Hannibal_Golux grins at his apparent success.

<La_ST> (Never code with C++ ^_^)

<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh)

<Luther> Well, so what do you intend to do now?

<Hannibal_Golux> Now I intend to finally put to rest the mistakes I made. I intend to de-rez your sorry ass off the web.

Luther staresat the other side of the conduit where Hannibal waits, still appearing defiant and challenging

<Luther> You really think this is so easy, little man?

Hannibal_Golux seems to consider this for a moment, and then, rather flatly...

<Hannibal_Golux> Yes.

<Luther> Well... try me

<Hannibal_Golux> The other times I wasn't prepared. As I told you, this time I'm prepared.

Luther 's voice sounds very ominous and strangely not half as afraid as he probably should be

<Hannibal_Golux> You showed me that brawn wasn't enough, but you see, I'm smarter than you... despite your goading.

Luther waits for Hannibal's move, but still he doesn't seem overly concerned

Hannibal_Golux pulls out his control panel and releases a deletion program which manifests as a flock of ravenous vultures.

<Hannibal_Golux> Good-bye, Luther.

<La_ST> Just as the vulture flock around the seemingly imm0obile figure, Luther appears to dissolve into minute particles

<Hannibal_Golux> Noooo!

<La_ST> As fast as light they float ovet to Hannibal and engulf him, sinking into his every pore...

Hannibal_Golux sets a tracker in place as quickly as he can

<Hannibal_Golux> (...um, okay.....)

<La_ST> Suddenly you see images...

<Hannibal_Golux> Arg!

<La_ST> You are in your body again...

Hannibal_Golux screams.... and then is suddenly mute at the images...

<La_ST> Solidly, you can walk around on the earth, you are in your laboratory again

<Hannibal_Golux> (muttering) What illusion is this?

<La_ST> You work creating new forms of Artificial Intelligence

<Hannibal_Golux> (is this in a dreamlike state beyond my control then?)

<La_ST> Suddenly the door is ripped open, and two men in Black stand there, pointing guns at you

<La_ST> (Only description of the setting. Now you can act again)

MiB has joined #agww

<MiB> Dr.Gordons, we would like you to accompany us

Hannibal_Golux grabs at the keyboard and swings it on its lead in an arc to hit the gun hands of both MiB in an attempt to knock the guns from their hands, or at least imbalance them.

<Hannibal_Golux> You'll never get me!

<La_ST> THey simply step back to steps, letting the attack go into emptiness

Hannibal_Golux attempts to run past the two agents, knocking the one into the other to facilitate his escape.

MiB has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)

<Hannibal_Golux> (wow, that was easy.. ;) )

MiB has joined #agww

<Hannibal_Golux> (damn! he's back!)

Hannibal_Golux attempts to run past the two agents, knocking the one into the other to facilitate his escape.

<MiB> Your research is too valuable to be published like this...

<MiB> We demand you accompany us

<Luther> Running again, Henry?

<Hannibal_Golux> (I take it my attempt to run past them was unsuccessful...)

<La_ST> (You get past the MiBs)

<Hannibal_Golux> (oh, okay... :) )

MiB follows you

MiB seems to chase you and still stay at about the same distance

<La_ST> (Somehow this feels like a nightmare to you)

Hannibal_Golux runs through the faculty building, down the long corridors...

Hannibal_Golux runs through the faculty building, down the long and twisting corridors...

MiB effortlessly chases you

MiB doesn't catch up with you, though

<Luther> Henry... Maybe you should have fought instead of running?

Hannibal_Golux stops and looks at his hands... slowly he turns to face the MiB...

<Hannibal_Golux> (I was way ahead of Luther on that one... :)

)

<La_ST> (Hehe)

MiB stops

<MiB> Give over your rearch to us!

Hannibal_Golux raises his hands, clawlike, and (attempts to) emit Emperor-like lightning from his fingers.

<Hannibal_Golux> Never!

<MiB> It is too valuable to be either destroyed or to be given to the Masses

<Hannibal_Golux> The LUTHER project will never fall into the hands of the likes of you!

<La_ST> (Suddenly the energy beam from Hannibal's hands crashes into the MiBs, throwing them to the ground)

<Luther> So why did you not stand your ground the other time?

Hannibal_Golux stares wide-eyed at what he has done, and then a mischievous grin crosses his face.

<Hannibal_Golux> I did, you damned program! And now I'm pulling the plug.

Hannibal_Golux marches back to the lab.

<La_ST> As you enter the lab, Luther, now normal-sized, stands in front of the computer array

Luther has his arms folded before his chest, and he sizzles from energy

<Hannibal_Golux> (Man, I just realised.... Han is going to be a total Paradox machine if he ever gets out into the "Real World"... the only magic he has ever known has been the "vulgar" kind on the DW... heh-heh)

<La_ST> You have this feeling of static again that is Luther's trademark

Hannibal_Golux stops suddenly....

<Hannibal_Golux> Luther...

<La_ST> (LOL)

<Luther> Yes, - Henry?

<Luther> I have been here all the time, watching

<Luther> I have been here, when They came, too

Hannibal_Golux looks at his hands again... and then up at the image of Luther standing before him.

<Luther> You did realize that They were coming to your house this fateful night?

<Hannibal_Golux> This isn't exactly as I remember it, Luther... You are messing with my mind.

<La_ST> (Again you see a scene, of several black cars, fast approaching your house through a violent thundersrtorm)

<Luther> I only make you remember

<Hannibal_Golux> (I'm in my house now? Or do you mean the University?)

<Luther> You see how much you could deal with only two of them - you ran!

<Luther> You ran all the time!

Hannibal_Golux slowly raises his hands with purpose and then, screaming "Die!" tries to emit lightning from his hands again.

<Luther> What would have happened if they caught you?

<Hannibal_Golux> (aimed at Luther - Han is sick of Luther's badgering)

Luther puts down his white shades, and his eyes glow eeriely green, as he simply waves away the attack

<Luther> I am not through with you yet!

Hannibal_Golux looks momentarily surprised and then a calm crosses his face as if he wasn't really all that surprised that the attack didn't work.

<Hannibal_Golux> You're in my system, aren't you...

Luther emits a little electroshock, too, nonchalantly. It is just set to hurt, not to destry

Luther looks at Hannibal.

<Luther> Coming to see clearer now?

<Hannibal_Golux> (from the electric shock) Arg!

<Luther> Have you ever checked your house again, after I brought you here?

<Hannibal_Golux> (so can I clear this up... I'm in my home or the University? The lab was in the university...)

<La_ST> (oh, well. Ok. It is where the derez happened. It doesn't matter - it works in any case)

<La_ST> (So then it is at the university)

<La_ST> (Make "house" "lab" then

<Hannibal_Golux> (Yeah, it happened at the University lab)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Okie-dokie)

<Luther> So, did you?

<Hannibal_Golux> (btw, Henry Gordons was married)

Luther makes a wave with his hand

<Hannibal_Golux> You mean apart from the corridors?

<La_ST> (ok)

Hannibal_Golux looks around.

<Hannibal_Golux> What do you want, Luther?#

<La_ST> You see the scene after you ...diosappeared - a dozen MiBs invade the university, obviously out to get you and your equipment etc.)

<Luther> Now think, Henry...

<Luther> Would you really have managed to escape from *that*?

<Hannibal_Golux> (Damn... I forgot to mention that AFAIK all my equipment was fried, losing all of my research, but if that screws up your plans you can ignore it...)

<Hannibal_Golux> Are you trying to convince me that this is what happened?

<La_ST> (Well, it doesn't matter - the guys run through the corridors etc. Actually the point *is* that they didn't get anything from you)

<Hannibal_Golux> (yeah, no probs...)

<Hannibal_Golux> This isn't how it happened, Luther.

<La_ST> (What you see is the MiBs barging in, and you realize you'd have been either dead meat or kidnapped had you been there)

<Luther> Bad news, chicken - it was exactly what happened

<Hannibal_Golux> And I'm supposed to believe that you did me a favour by killing me?

Luther grins humourlessly at him.

<Luther> Your choice what you would have liked better

<Hannibal_Golux> Suck electrons and die, Luther... You can't convince me that this is what happened. You could show me anything. Why should I believe *you*?

<Luther> Whom would you believe?

<La_ST> (Suddenly you see the people in front of you with whom you spent most of the last time

<La_ST> You see Asmodai, Grey, AC, Marvin, Marcello, MC, DAN...

<Hannibal_Golux> You can only accept the possibilities of hostile activities, hostile invasions. They may well have been there that night, but your interpretation of their intent is twisted by your own limited understanding of the nature of existence.

<Hannibal_Golux> You exist to destroy and to consume.

<Hannibal_Golux> You assume that everyone is out to do this.

<Luther> I see to it that the strong survive

<Luther> So, are you strong?

<Hannibal_Golux> Strength does not necessarily come from force, Luther. I have strength of mind. Even if this were true, it doesn't mean that they were out to kill me. That is only how you percieved events.

Luther points his hand at the AC image and blasts her into tiny fractals

Hannibal_Golux stops himself short of screaming and holds back his anger.

<Hannibal_Golux> She's not real!

<Luther> TRue. But what *is* real?

Hannibal_Golux speaks through gritted teeth.

<La_ST> (The images are replaces by the piocture of Henry's wife.

<Hannibal_Golux> Nothing you have shown me here is real. You're in my mind, you've infected my neural pathways. You are a virus in my system. I just need to find the antibody to get you out.

Hannibal_Golux looks at his wife....

<Luther> Luther chuckles.

<Hannibal_Golux> (quietly) ...Susan...

<Luther> Have you ever wondered what happened with her?

Hannibal_Golux streches out a hand without thinking...

<Luther> What would have happened if you'd have been taken in by the Union?

<Hannibal_Golux> You leave her alone!

<La_ST> (What's her name?)

<Hannibal_Golux> (read above... I just said it)

<Hannibal_Golux> (I resisted the urge to call her Barbara...

:) )

<La_ST> (Damn, ST Loger runs on the computer in the neigbouring room)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Susan)

<La_ST> (Thx)

MiB is now known as Susan

<Susan> Henry!

Susan looks tearfully at him

Hannibal_Golux suddenly breaks down, tears streaming down his face.

<Susan> TWo men in black suits came to me and told me you were dead...

<Hannibal_Golux> Susan, baby... I'm sorry...

<Susan> Where have you been?

Susan rushes to Hannibal

Hannibal_Golux can't help himself... He embraces Susan and showers her with kisses.

<La_ST> (Suddenly an MiB stands behind you, coldly lecturing you..

La_ST is now known as MiB

<MiB> Now that you have joined us, your oldlife doesn't exist anymore

<MiB> You are not to contact anybody from you oldlife anymore

Hannibal_Golux spins on the MiB.

<Hannibal_Golux> What?

<MiB> If you do not comply, we are forced to take certain ...measures that we would prefer not to have to tae

<MiB> take

<Hannibal_Golux> Measures? What kind of measures?

MiB pulls out a gun and shoots Susan

<Hannibal_Golux> Noooooo!

<Luther> See?

Hannibal_Golux bursts into tears, but then fights them back as they turn to anger...

Luther laughs at Hannibal

<Hannibal_Golux> You bastard...

Hannibal_Golux looks up, but instead of looking at the offending MiB he looks straight at Luther.

<Hannibal_Golux> I've had enough of your lies.

<Hannibal_Golux> This isn't real.

<Hannibal_Golux> None of this is.

<Luther> THen you tell me what really is real

<Hannibal_Golux> Truth

<MiB> (you are back in the debris littered sector)

MiB is now known as La_ST

<Hannibal_Golux> It's the only thing that matters.

<Luther> So, and what is your truth?

<Luther> I showed you mine.

<Luther> Where am I? And what am I?

<La_ST> You stand alone in the sector. Luther isn't to be seen. Only destroyed fragments of your AIs lie around.

<Hannibal_Golux> And the Truth that I hold to, is that I'm going to de-rez you for what you did. You can show me whatever you like and call it Truth. Perhaps you *did* do me a favour killing me. Perhaps I *am* better off having not joined them... Now that I know more about them. But that did not give you the right to deny me the choice. That did not give you the right to murder me!

<La_ST> It appears they shot/destroyed eacxh other

Hannibal_Golux looks around the shattered remains of his work... He looks to find Luther, and when he sees nothing he takes a deep breath, raises his head and shouts: "Coward!"

<Luther> Are you so sure you have been killed? Maybe you should set out to find out whether youbelief is the truth after all

<La_ST> (The voice is within you at the moment)

Hannibal_Golux looks around him for Luther, but stops, knowing that he and Luther are linked in some way...

<Luther> Yes?

<La_ST> (The voice is not as aggressive as usual, almost a little pleading, as you think this last line of thought)

<Hannibal_Golux> You murdered Henry Gordons. You destroyed the life he had, the fact that his consciousness lives on in this... *shell* is moot. He is still dead.

<Hannibal_Golux> (almost to himself) You took away his life... You took his life... Taking a life is murder...

Hannibal_Golux collapses to his knees in the rubble of code that was once his army of AIs.

<Luther> And if you had had the choice - whixh would you have taken?

Hannibal_Golux looks at the remains of code. AIs that survived the Nephandi, yet were so casually destroyed by a beast of his own creation, confirming what he knew all along. More dangerous than the Union, more dangerous than even these Nephandi, is a beast that he has unleashed upon the world.

<Hannibal_Golux> My life is *mine* to shape. *Mine* to control. I am in charge of my own fate, my own destiny, my own life. It should have been *my* choice. That's all that matters.

<Luther> What would your own choive have been, out of your free will!

<Luther> *Tell me*

<La_ST> (The options run through your head again)

<Hannibal_Golux> Does it even matter now?

<La_ST> (The union trying to grab you, who would have destroyed your life as surely<)

<La_ST> (Theis other wild life, now, but at least free in a way)

<Hannibal_Golux> Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

<Luther> It does matter.

<Luther> Think!

<La_ST> (Luthers voice seems to be urging you, as if a lot hinges on this decision)

<La_ST> (Strangely he doesn't feel as the big adversary he normally is, now)

<Hannibal_Golux> Only the two options, huh? My life destroyed by the Union, or my life destroyed by my creation. Only two choices? I choose the third option. A life destroyed by my own hand. If I'd pulled the plug I would have destroyed all of my research, I could have been with my wife. The Union wouldn't have my work, no one would have. I would have taken my work underground and I would have discovered this on my own, but with my life intact! Do you hear me?

<Hannibal_Golux> It would have been *my* choice!

<Hannibal_Golux> *My* reality!

<Hannibal_Golux> Not *yours*!

<Luther> Maybe it was your choice after all...

Hannibal_Golux snorts a laugh.

<Hannibal_Golux> Destroyed by my own hand... I suppose I already have been. Destroyed by my own creation.

<La_ST> (Suddenly you feel the presence of Luther fading, and being replaced by a strange serewnity)

<La_ST> (You realize that this new gestalt of yours, this web-entity you became did indeed open you a wealth of new opportunities)

Hannibal_Golux smiles to himself, muttering quietly to himself: "What cold irony."

<La_ST> (Yor attempts with energies, that were created by your mind were a feeble attempt compared to the forces you can command in the WEb...)

<La_ST> (You feel that there was some stranfe truth in Luthers words after all, but you need to face him again to find out what exactly he wanted to tell you)

<La_ST> strange

Hannibal_Golux always sought the Truth in the machine. He always believe that the future lay within the digital world. What cruel fate it was that brought him here to so forcefully reveal its secrets.

<La_ST> Once more Luther's wovoice resounds in your mind)

<Luther> (Do you embrace the choice, or do you want to run away again?

<Hannibal_Golux> I'm through running, Luther. I concede that this digital existence unlocks secrets that I have always sought to understand, secrets I didn't even realise I was looking for. I concede that I have achieved more trapped here in the Digital Web than I could have dreamed of discovering locked on the outside. But I do not concede to *your* choice. I'm through running away, Luther. I *will* destroy you. I *will* make you pay.

<Hannibal_Golux> (Hey... I have the Flaw: Vengeance after all...)

<La_ST> Suddenly you hear Luther laughing again, a bit relieved this time

<La_ST> Now that's the spirit, boy!

<Hannibal_Golux> (^^^^ Luther, right?)#

<Hannibal_Golux> (^_^)

<La_ST> While his Laughter fades, you suddenly have a vision of the WEb in its entirety

<Hannibal_Golux> (Yay! Corr 5!)

<Hannibal_Golux> ( ;) )

<La_ST> You have the impression that you really seem to have become part of the WEb, that you can master it's energy and form at will

Hannibal_Golux can't help but release a laugh at this realisation... He gives up trying to fight it back and just roars with laughter as if from some great joke.

<La_ST> You wonder why you never realized that your frustration about your state of mind did block your advances in understanding...

<La_ST> And somehow, in a tiny cornor of your mind you woner if Luther didn't have a point that it might have been the best choice for you to rush forward into web than back into the arms of the Union...

<La_ST> (Ok. I think that was it :-))

<Hannibal_Golux> (Well, Han concedes that this life is better than the Union, especially with hindsight, but he still reviles Luther's methods and still swears vengeance on the monster he has unleashed.)

<Hannibal_Golux> (That was pretty cool.)

<La_ST> (You think it was okay? )

<La_ST> (Fine)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Not quite what I was expecting, not quite the tussle with my dark side that I thought it would be, but it was pretty neat.)

<La_ST> (Well, Luther didn't want to be likeable... He was just happy that he got some understanding into your thick brain, lol)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Well, that's an avatar... Naturally, I'm sure he's delighted that I'm still out to "destroy" him...)

<La_ST> (Ah, there might be further seekings... And I think Hanni certainly won't forgive Luther too fast)

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<Hannibal_Golux> (I'm still convinced that Luther should still have some kind of impact at times on the actual Digital Web to drive Han forward. After all the avatar inhabits an actual Viral Intelligence.)

Hannibal_Golux is now known as ZenCadet

La_ST is now known as AC_Newton

<AC_Newton> Yeah.

<ZenCadet> So I take it I can put my Arete up to 5 now? :)

<AC_Newton> Well, thewre should be further sessions of the DW chronicle... Then Luther might shake things up a bit, too

<AC_Newton> Yup. Arete 5 it is

ZenCadet does a little dance. "This is my 'I have Corr 5 now' dance!"

<AC_Newton> Hehe

<AC_Newton> I have to admit I was close to calling it a fail until your final paragraph ^_^

<ZenCadet> It's true... with the +1 to Corr in the DW, I now have (effectively) Corr 5

<AC_Newton> Hehe

<ZenCadet> Well, it was a tough call for me, too.

<AC_Newton> I assume

<AC_Newton> I couldn't have Luther be to blunt, too

<ZenCadet> Han knew that Luther was right, but there was no way in hell that he was going to let a piece of malicious code get the better of him.

<AC_Newton> *g*

<AC_Newton> Yeah, stubborness...

Luther has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)

<ZenCadet> Not so much stubborn as blinded by vengeance for having his life ripped away from him.

<ZenCadet> For good or ill, Luther still "murdered" him.

<ZenCadet> *And* Luther is still dangerous.

<AC_Newton> WEll, maybe he could try to find a way to re-create a body for himself over time

<AC_Newton> All the necessary data is still with him

<ZenCadet> Well, to be honest, with Han's new understanding of the web, I have a strong feeling that when he sees Asmodai next he will tell him not to bother trying to find his body.

<AC_Newton> Probably

<ZenCadet> Why be a man in the real world when he can be a god in the virtual one?

ZenCadet grins.

-- To Be Continued --

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