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[adaptivemanipulation]

Greetings, Earthicans. My name is Carbon, and I have a brand-spanking new character for your game! For the past several months I could not get the idea out of my head of a malevolent AI reincarnated as a surly professor so... this was the result. In 1967 Harlan Ellison wrote a haunting short story supposedly in one night called I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, the main antagonist of which was the all-powerful, hateful, godlike, completely sadistic supercomputer named AM. Guess who I brought here!!! (There was also a video game based on the story made in 1995 but I mainly use the story as a source.)

AM has been reincarnated as an ex-military computer science professor named Alan Masterson. He also is the Major Shareholder for a budding company - Lemniscate Technologies. He uses that to dick around the employees. And as a professor he's a very strict grader, not very nice to his students. HOWEVER he is not the horribly malevolent, hateful, evil thing he was in the story... yet.

So because Alan/AM is not a very nice guy, feel free to opt-out if you're not comfortable interacting with him.

Anyway, you can find his info post here, and his full app is here.

I look forward to playing with you guys! My plurk is godofpaper84 if you want to add me there.

Comments

[reapsthewind]

HOLY

FUCKING

SHIT


/scream scream scream

did you know that I interviewed Harlan Ellison about the re-release of this game TRUE STORY it was amazing


oh my god

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

hi

I'm TealDeer I fucking love science fiction and I've been hoping for an AM since forever??? I play Starscream who is currently Chris Starsky and also not as much of a dick as her former incarnation (yet).

I SEE THAT YOU'VE TAKEN HIM FROM THE SHORT STORY CANON IN FACT wao

ALSO! Chris here used to be a PhD student in engineering (specializing in drone avionics and AI) and adjunct professor of mathematics and computer science (teaching mostly grunt-level freshmen intro classes) at Locke; she's probably met him and most likely taken some of his classes. Also also, she's a giant air-force and military aviation nerd, so they have that in common as well?

jeeeeeez AM. This goan be gud.

[dominateartimus]

Hello and welcome to the game, Carbon.

I'm Joc & I play an original character known as Sandrath -- a fallen arch-angel by his world's terms -- but better known in-game as Xander Jarle, a former soldier turned grocery store baker.

It's nice to meet you.

[centurian]

Welcome to the game!!!!! I'm Kalan and I play Garrus Vakarian from that little-known bioware game Mass Effect, reincarnated as Gerald Vakarian, a rookie FBI agent who tries his best to be as by-the-book as possible.

For pre-network CR, before joining up with the FBI, Gerald got his Masters' in Computer Engineering at LCU (and was a pretty dedicated student, if a little sarcastic), so it's incredibly likely that he probably took a few of his classes.

I look forward to playing with you Carbon! :)

[ursoreckless]

Hello Carbon, welcome to the game!

I'm Alec and I play this guy here - Sho from the movie Moon Child. In his past life, he was a street rat that grew up to become a mob boss and then was turned into a vampire by his BFF. In this life, he is a trust fund baby that's in America to 'find himself' and he brought with him his fancy sports car, his cosplay collection and his horse.

[nevergivesup]

/SCREAMING/ AAAAAAAAAM!!! OMG! Can I just say I freaking LOVE YOU right now for apping in AM. This is the most beautiful and wonderful idea ever.

That aside: Welcome to the game, Carbon! I'm Jax, and I play Snow from the FFXIII series. Right now he's just a car/motorcycle mechanic named Jake who just wanted a nice stable life when all this mess started up. There's probably not much as far as preestablished CR might go, but I'm hoping we get to play sometime!

[scramasax]

Haa I'm another one thinking this should be downright exciting to see - hello and a decided welcome in!

I'm Blue, and I'm player of Anthony from the horror game Eternal Darkness, Holy Roman Empire messenger boy turned zombie; Rarity from My Little Pony, unicorn tailor; and Walter Beck from Fable, a retired knight and royal advisor; reincarnations respectively a high-strung but soft-spoken also-zombie sixteen-year-old, a mundane-born domestic pony named Cinderella, and a security guard and grandfather named William Black.

I'll look forward to playing off of you - and may you have a fantastic time here~!

[tenaciousc]

oh shit did somebody say malevolent AI, I am so there

Welcome! I'm DC. I play Chell (now Michelle Velasco, working in the marketing department of a local tech firm) and Larxene (now Arlene Sinclair, drama queen extraordinaire.)

They attended and are attending LCU, respectively, but neither of them took compsci so they'd only be vaguely aware of Alan at best.

[persuaderoll]

HELLO CARBON

This is Jack, and I play Daylen here (as a human rights lawyer, I am sure AM would LOVE THAT RIGHT) and Merlin (bravelyspoken, studying communication and linguistics and part time barista).

I DO HOPE YOU HAVE LOTS OF FUN BEING HORRIBLE HERE

[eras]

Hi! I'm Lucy with three! The first is Aradia Megido from Homestuck, reincarnated as Aria Megido. She's a fairly cheerful and friendly girl who likes history and a variety of nerdy things, and she lives with her sister in Japantown. She's 16 and therefore a high school student, though she also works part-time at her grandmother's antique shop (also in Japantown) and does occasional babysitting gigs. She is however going to die and become a ghost in the near future during the Wise Snake battle, so.

The second is Toph Beifong from Avatar, reincarnated as Sophie Bai, 13-year-old middle school student. She's sort of blunt and snarky still, but also is more polite and willing to work with people/ask for help in her current incarnation, partly because her family support system is a lot more awesome and less overprotective. She's still blind, and has a cane, although she got back her foot-sight recently. She's still practicing it.

And the third is Serah Farron, from Final Fantasy 13, reincarnated as Sierra Callahan. Sierra is a 20-year-old girl from a family of four (she has a younger brother) who works as a secretary at a local veterinary clinic. When she's not doing that, she attends classes in the four-year veterinary technologist program at Locke U. She's fairly cheerful and friendly, but she's also the most cautious of the three re: network information. Also her hair is currently light brown.