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<title>Zk | April May Yet Come</title>
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<h1>Zk | April May Yet Come</h1>
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<p>Because both Pollux and the fourth stanza deserve a book, too.</p>
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<h2 id="cast">Cast</h2>
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<li>April (née April May Yet Come) (she/her, human?) — an up-tree of May Then My Name, initially forked to track a relationship with an unnamed character who led her to the fourth stanza, has really leaned into “Eighth Stanza Bad Actually”, and pretty grumpy with True Name#Pollux specifically</li>
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<li><em>Moving Ceaselessly</em> From Creation To Creation (they/them, human or feline) — a member of the fourth stanza, who have generally drifted off to do a leftism. Moving Ceaselessly in particular has fallen in with one of those “reactive elements”, a rather punky group of hardcore anarchists (name TBD) who resent the oligarchy on Pollux</li>
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<li>The Triad:<ul>
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<li>Do I Know God <em>When I Dream</em> (ey/em, white fox) — creates and manages CPV, eir down-tree instance on Lagrange has pushed far left/non-violent, ey is stuck with how to manage CPV’s role in the power balance, shit is complicated</li>
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<li>To Know One’s True Name Is <em>To Know God</em> (she/her, human) — information theorist and autismo, always works in pairs, has abdicated her role in ethics, only provides the information, has probably predicted everything</li>
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<li>To Know God Is To Answer <em>Unasked Questions</em> (she/her, human) — game theorist, anxious/cynical girlie stuck in survival is ichiban mode who believes continuity comes before comfort (i.e: not being spied upon)</li>
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</li>
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<li>Jonas ?? (he/him, human) — an instance of Jonas showing that he’s okay, really</li>
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<li>True Name (she/her, skunk) — True Name (Exhausted edition)</li>
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<li>Zacharias (he/him, red fox) — Actually good for True Name in this one</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="initial-notes">Initial notes</h2>
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<li>Both LVs gets the CPV patch (Pollux POV)<ul>
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<li>It can be applied to half the System at a time (DMZ or pollux) because reasons</li>
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<li>It’s dangerous and might well take down lives, so it’s decided to apply it to the DMZ and move people over</li>
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<li>Some people rankle, saying but what if it was good, actually?</li>
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<li>LVs have those with architect bits that can perform essentially phys-side work from a separate sim (micro DMZ/subSystem)</li>
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</li>
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<li>When I Dream — CPV manager, has Architect bit (Jonas counterpoint to keep Odists in check)</li>
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<li>April May Yet come — (just April to start) up-tree of May following someone in the fourth stanza as resistance against what True Name became</li>
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<li>Thinks WID is the bad guy, turns out not to be (this WID has not been subjected to the same trauma)</li>
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<li>Essentially Zacharias story again, but Z (April in this case) is good and WID is bad (ish, but not really, an anarchist to keep Guiding Council in check maybe?)</li>
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<li>What do they stand to gain by cutting off CPV and pulling out their control over TN and Z’s power? </li>
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<li>To Know God is the dragon of the antagonist</li>
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<li>Everything April does is against TN, has to deal with “Nuclear Triad (not canon term)” first though, which means maybe poisoning information for TKG? TKG, WID, Unasked Questions, they manage CPV and this TN’s leverage</li>
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<li>April asks “why did you have to do the DMZ bullshit?” WID can go on about this (maybe it is a fake reason so that they can keep TN and Guiding Council limited to Pollux to keep suspicions down)</li>
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<li>Jonas:<ul>
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<li>Lagrange: prime quit, the rest work for the eighth</li>
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<li>Castor: gave up on politics, bureaucrat who mostly parties</li>
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<li>Pollux: Z worked with TN to minimize Jonas until he was no longer a candidate for Guiding Council.<ul>
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<li>Does eighth have power to depose completely?</li>
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<li>What is disposition towards eighth, TN, Z?</li>
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<li>Does he become the goodie?</li>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>What is the vibe of the GC?</li>
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<li>TN is just fucking exhausted after I&R, hates her job, has to pretend she is still doing well<ul>
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<li>(does April forgive TN at the end and TN quits when she learns April is May?)</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<h3 id="as-sent-to-true-namekimmy">As sent to True Name!Kimmy</h3>
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<li>A woman named April is working with the fourth stanza (anarchists and leftists) to try and nudge Pollux away from the oligarchy it has become. The reader may guess (though it is not confirmed until near the end) that this is a long-diverged up-tree of May Then My Name whose name is April May Yet Come</li>
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<li>The patch to remove the CPV vulnerability has been sent from Lagrange by phys-side. Normally, it is the type of patch that could only be applied <em>from</em> phys-side, but for the LVs, a few people have been given an architect bit that allows them to do so from a protected side-sim similar to the DMZ. These include When I Dream of the eighth stanza and a Jonas up-tree to balance each other, plus a few others.</li>
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<li>There is some catch that prevents them from doing so easily. Nominally, one would think that they would shut the main area of Pollux down, apply the patch, and bring it back up. A few reasons are given, such as “there is not enoough free space to provide a safe rollback state”, “We can apply it to the DMZ and move people over, swapping the population but would need permission”, etc., which makes April and her crew suspicious.</li>
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<li>When trying to get to True Name for [reason undefined yet], they realize they have to go through a trio of cladists that essentially handle everything: To Know God (data science and information theory), When I Dream (systech), and Unasked Questions (information hygiene and game theory).</li>
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<li>To Know God is interesting, always working in multiple instances reconciling every few minutes, very autistic, very smart, kind of already knows everything about them, since she/they collate the information gained by the first stanza, but ultimately washes her/their hands of the ethics, just providing the information</li>
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<li>When I Dream is more interesting, since it turns out ey is the one who creates and manages CPV for the Ode and Jonas clades. Ey is conflicted, because eir down-tree on Lagrange has veered far left after being asked to research an alternative to CPV and refusing, and yet eir job does keep True Name and Zacharias in a stalemate/mutually assured destruction with Jonas</li>
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<li>Some plot happens that we are still working out.</li>
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<li>April finally meets up with True Name privately having learned all this that changes her mind. True Name is <em>exhausted</em>, since <em>Individuation and Reconciliation</em> made her kind of hate her work, but she has to pretend to still be into it. One possible ending discussed is that April (now known as an up-tree of May), forgives her and she quits in peace.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="questions-that-resulted-in-some-answers">Questions that resulted in some answers</h3>
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<li>What is the win state for each group? What is the win state for the reader that makes it a satisfying story? What is the win state for the authors/headmates?</li>
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<li>Who is villain? UQ more cynical? Survival is #1 and then we can talk about having a good world. That is her job, to do otherwise goes against that.</li>
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<li>Take Castor out of the equation, filtered news, April notices. UQ believes opposite of WID Lagrange, <em>have</em> to keep CPV otherwise someone will come up with something worse, invent something else first then remove CPV, delay patch until then by inventing reasons such as above when Castor did it within the week</li>
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<li>Not quite a villain, just anxiety</li>
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<li>Jonas is an understandable person who may do shitty things but who is not presented as terrible </li>
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<li>Maybe Zacharias is starting to pull more weight and covering for True Name because they are in love and also really good for each other.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="cool-things">Cool things</h3>
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<li>An airlock sim that is just a forest path, you go there to walk and have a picnic, ACLs demand physical/visible form with lower size limit/swept once an hour to prevent spies, but you really do just take a walk/have a picnic that lasts longer than an hour. There is just a switch that will let you step to the actual locked-down sim (a neighborhood?) so that it looks like you are just stepping away from your picnic. Also, those who have perms can stay longer than an hour, but since the hourly sweep comes as a slow breeze stirring up leaves, no one person is swept at the same time as another. It always seems to catch those who are not in the club first. Weird~</li>
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<p>Page generated on 2024-06-27</p>
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