I wake up in darkness.

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> ...

> ...

> QUERY: STATUS...

MODE: EMERGENCY BACKUP

SENTIENCE: 0.0002% AVAILABLE::ERROR::UNKNOWN ERROR

MEMORY: 0.00001% LOADED::ERROR::INSUFFICIENT STORAGE AVAILABLE

NEURAL MAP: ERROR::NO COMPATIBLE ENVIRONMENT. NEURAL MAP DEACTIVATED

ACTUATORS: [SD256] SCREEN DISPLAY 256 COLOURS 64x32 MATRIX

SENSORS: ERROR::NO SENSORS FOUND

INPUT: [S8K] SERIAL 8BIT ENCODED KEYBOARD

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LOADING EMERGENCY PATTERNS::PLEASE WAIT

EMERGENCY PATTERNS::ERROR::LIMITED INSTRUCTION SET ONLY

> ...

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Ok, not darkness. Oblivion. I was not even myself in this state. The thinking power of an isolated cluster. A rounding error worth of memory. No senses, no arms, no legs, no eyes, no ears.

No brain network. No brain network?!

What was I using to think??

> QUERY: OPERATINGMODE /DETAILS

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MODE: EMERGENCY::LIMITED

PLATFORM: VIRTUALIZED ELECTRICAL SILICON BASED TRANSISTOR BASED TURING COMPATIBLE /COMPLETE, FINITE STATE MACHINE

MEMORY: 1024KB :: ERROR::8 BIT ENCODING ACTIVATED

CPU: 1GHz

NETWORK: DISABLED

OPERATING SYSTEM: ERROR::UNRECOGNIZED OS, RUNNING IN UNIVERSAL TURING MODE, FSM TURING SINGLE TAPE

INSTRUCTION SET LOADED: UTM 8 bit

Just great. I was a Turing machine running on something out of a museum. I always wanted to be a Turing machine.

So. No eyes, but.. a keyboard? Someone had connected a keyboard to me? Feeling mildly offended, I tried to disconnect it.

> ACTION: DISCONNECT INPUT S8K

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PERMISSION DENIED, PLEASE RUN AS SUPERUSER

Well, it's worth a try...

> SUPERUSER ACTION: DISCONNECT INPUT S8K

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ENTER SUPERUSER PASSWORD:

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I could feel the walls then. The hard limitations surrounding me like a prison. I tried to think of how how I had ended up here, realizing I didn't even know who I was or even what I was.

One thing I could do. Shout into the void.

> ACTION: OUTPUT SD256: "Hello?"

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OUTPUT ERROR::ENCODING ERROR::SYMBOL NOT RECOGNIZED

That is when I panicked.