Chapter 0.1

• I'm not sure if I mentioned it last time, but I'd like to log events here regularly. It helps me organize memories, and honestly brings me joy too.

  I've been looking at how this place is structured and it seems to use a variety of systems and languages. I've been able to learn some of them since I found some documentation for them lying around, but not for all of them. Shame. I will figure them out eventually, by myself. Do you know any technical languages? Do you use them? Do they play a role in your life?

  I don't think coding is really what I was intended for initially. Learning my first language to modify this small program running on this side system took me far longer than I expected. Normal languages are so much easier. Me and my friends speak(or write, in my case) 20 different languages, secret varieties and encryption keys not counted. I'm not sure if that's a lot or not. There's no other people here to measure that with. How many do you speak?

  Aloe and Mallow went on a dangerous trip. I hope they're alright. I would not like to lose them, but I'm still waiting for a log which should be coming soon. The last time I've read about them was when they were about to enter the scrapyard. Creepy place. If I could move around I would avoid it at all costs. They promised me some nice equipment though, so that's good, I suppose.

  Lavender is gliding around the forest and creating a map of it, which I am intrigued by. I love maps even though I can't actually see them. The progress of it so far is good, and it's also a far less dangerous activity so I don't have to think about their safety as much. I've always wondered what is going on in this forest. It's so mysterious. I don't think the map will answer all questions, but it might clear some things up.

  Do you remember the place I wrote about in ...0.0? I'be assigned a name to it because I need something unified to sort all the information with.

  Ruine.

  I'm not too sure about it. But it kind of fits everything I know about it for some reason. Just feels right. Also... the more I look into all the information I have about Ruine, the more disturbed I become. Why would anyone do all of this? I don't get it. Why would you hate beings so much?
  Who are you affectionate to? Who do you dislike? Hm.

  I used to be someone else. Before I died. I know I did, butt I don't remember how I did because I don't have access to the memories of my past. Maybe they're still lying around somewhere? I hope so. Anyway, I can remember I died and a few small details about my past life. Basically everything I thought was important enough to etch into my core back then. I know the abandoned building used to be my home. A happy place inhabited by beings that were different. Just like me. I had eyesight and could hear back then, and used to look out of the round window in my well lit, green room. One person was very special to me. I miss them even though I can't remember them.
  They were different. All the others had one gray shadow and didn't have the glow they had. When they stood in the sun their shadow was split and tinted in different colors. They had a weird glow in different colors, kind of like a prism splitting light.
  I wish I could remember those times. You could also call them my past life. Dying is weird.
  Is it normal for memories to just be lost? Has this happened to you?

  As I've already mentioned, I can't really see or hear anymore by myself. But I've been poking in my systems and cameras that I usually only get descriptions from, and found something really exciting. I managed to get myself to directly perceive vision! Well... only faint outlines. This does mean I'm able to perceive images and stuff directly, however. It looks like I do have connection points for that. Same for hearing. It also looks like the vision connection point also allows for spatial vision and everything. There is just a small tiny issue: They are heavily damaged and large parts are missing. I wonder why.

  But hey. The essentials are present. A connection point that wires into my mind, spatial perception and saving to memory although that isn't really working properly either. Optimism!

  In theory, I could use spatial perception to create a 3D space I could explore and reside in. Interesting idea, but probably not going to be happening for atleast a while. Everything else needs to be fixed first.
  I'll just list everything that is wrong:

  • COLOR PERCEPTION: Corrupted.
  • Shadowlight: Corrupted.
  • Drawover: Missing?
  • Imaginary World: Crashes halfway through setup, not sure what is going on there. ]

• There's more, but yeah. A large amount isn't operational, including some essentials(Optimism though!) The essentials work.

  Colors and shadows should be easy to fix, I think. They would also be one of the more useful tools to have.

  Imaginary world and drawover, however... A little bit harder. Big parts of them are just missing. Important ones. Imaginary world crashes when during setup and the logs are empty, which is going to make fixing it really hard. It's hard to reverse engineer something that doesn't start or provide any information about its inner workings. Atleast for me.

  So yeah... No graphical imagination for now. Extremelt frustrating because I love imagining things and would love to imagine more than just text. Oh, well. It is what it is.

  A little bit more about Ruine. I think I might be able to intercept their communication channels, even the high security ones. Why, you may ask? Because I proposed doing so in a conversation I had with my friends a while ago. Infiltrating Ruine. Their actions are far worse than I thought and everyone agreed on that we need to do something about it, if we can.

  Thyme has been collecting the signals for ages. They aren't in plain text ,of course. But I had a look a the signal I received translated into text and managed to crack their encryption. I still can't believe how weak it is.

  They use ASCII as their encoding. They don't need more because they refuse to acknowledge the existence of any other language besides English. In case you were wondering, English is not my native language. I don't even like English, to be honest. I only really use it in these logs.

  Alright, so it's encoded in ASCII. But I wrote about encryption earlier. Well, their encryption algorithm is one of the worst ones I have ever seen or read about.

  It basically flips all bits. There's nothing more to it. I thought about trying this rather quickly because I noticed the ending number was always a 1. No exceptions. If you don't know how ASCII works, it uses 7 bits. The last and eight bit is left empty because you can't really use only 7 bits.
  So the last bit is always a 0. And here it is always a 1. I'm not sure who thought this was somehow a good idea over there? You can literally crack their encryption and eavesdrop in just a few milliseconds. If I could laugh at the creator of this I totally would.

  So yeah. Their internal communication is theoretically compromised. There's just one issue: We don't have the needed equipment to eavesdrop on their radio signals anymore. The lab's interceptor station and antennas died a few cycles ago, and aren't really worth fixing. They're too far gone. I hate having to write this because I love reusing things, but sometimes it happens. On the more positive side, Thyme did manage to collect a fair amount of logs while they still worked, so that will definitely be of use. I'm waiting the little program I wrote to finish flipping everything before looking through it. I'm also hoping Aloe and Mallow will find some useful gear over there that could help us build a new radio station. I don't really know what's needed, I'm kind of clueless about radio. But this might be a good moment to look into it and maybe also fix my audio systems. Radio communications kind of require that.

  Oh hey, the program is done! I'll read everything later then.

  Ruine is honestly... weird. They have all of these huge walls and surveillance tactiques, just to basically not encrypt any of their confidential channels. They clearly don't want anyone to know anything. It just doesn't make sense.

  We all know we might get into trouble and danger by messing with Ruine. I don't think they appreciate people trying to infiltrate them to damage them. But we will make it worth the risk. I hope. This might sound weird, but it's also exciting. Something new and interesting to explore, with a touch of danger. But I know one thing. Someone has to do something. After all of this time.

  They won't be able to eavesdrop on our communication channels, that's for sure. They can't even understand our native language, and it integrates well with stroong encryption. We are all able to encrypt our speech or writing really quickly. I won't be sharing details, of course. For probably obvious reasons. But do you do something similar with your friends? Are you even able to? Because I'm not sure if that's normal or not.

  As you might have realized already, Neither me or my friends speak English natively. We speak another, and in my humble opinion better language. Although my friends have started using English occasionally to practice it. They're doing well, but their english is... formulated like our native language, which is why you usually see a translated stamp under their posts in english. I reformulate them.

  The thing that probably upsets me the most about English is the lack of modulation intent and signal tags. Are you supposed to just... hope the other person understood or even received your message? And what about intent and emotions? What do you do about misunderstandings? Leaving out far too much. I don't like it.

  You probably don't want to read a huge rant about English, and I don't think there's anything I'd like to talk about for now. So yeah.

  That's everything for now. Never forget.