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OpenBlade combat efficiency benchmarking s. x74-21-499:

Military-guy holds up OpenBlade: "I mean, it works well, but does it have to criticize my haircut so often?"

Charles Wellington: "Yes, that's a feature."

OpenBlade: "Bird-nest-boy."

Mage and Nine examine each other's tech

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Mage holds Nine's vintage MilTek 1911 pistol, examining it. Nine stands by.

Mage: "Master would say this was barbaric."

Nine: "What would he say about permacomputing?"

Mage: "Touché."

HERE

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poster for Techno-Mage: Child of 9

Featuring Rabbit, Nine and Acme, the horse-bird

darkness

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Nine falls asleep on top of Acme. Rabbit has a flashback.

*...it's a good story though...*

Young Rabbit in military gear, bloodied and shaken, aims a revolver at a penguin.

Penguin, calmly: "Be a good soldier. Do it, rabbit. Pull the trigger and remember this moment. Remember what they made you do."

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Nine and Acme, the horse-bird, are listening to Rabbit's story.

Nine: "That sounds a lot like that one book I read..."

Rabbit, amused: "'Heart of Darkness.' Nothing gets past you, Nine."

Nine: "It's a good story though."

Rabbit: "I'll finish it tomorrow. Get some shut-eye."

...now

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It's not something the FOSS army command would admit ever happened. There we no turncoats. We all held hands and fought the GovCorp. Yet here we were - on a mission to kill a penguin colonel.

Cirno and young Rabbit techno-mage, both strapped in military gear, walk through a thick acidic jungle.

Rabbit: "Does it not bother you at all?"

Cirno: "Nope."

https://9front.org/releases/2025/01/19/0/

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Cirno and Glenda on the backdrop of the latest 9front release artwork 'This Time Definitely'

nethack

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MATA_CEO: "This hacker scourge that's been a thorn in our side for the past 200 years... How about you just deal with it?

MATA_BOT_SCIENTISTS: "Um... that's uh... Great idea sir....."

MEANWHILE: the hacker scourge

Girl, Puffy and Penguin are playing nethack.

Puffy: "Are you sure the armor is not cursed?"

Girl: "I did use the scroll of identifications."

Penguin thinks 'thinking of Maud you forget everything else.'

Metacity adventures

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Girl and Penguin are walking through Metacity. There's a flashy billboard advertising the newest MATA invention - MATA-CEO COIN!.

Girl: "This fucking city."

Penguin: "Remember what master used to say...."

Girl: "...just keep walking..."

shook

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shook frame of cirno, puffy, girl, openblade and glenda

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album cover for lo0's sex, bass and democracy

reel me up

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Film reel frame of Girl, Puffy, Sun and OpenBlade. All are happy.

pls

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Mage and Fosschild in the desert. Fosschild is begging for a machine.

Fosschild: "...and it's completely open, hardware and all... Please. Please? Please?"

...

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girl, fish, daemon, penguin, machines

girl has headphones in her ears

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Mage, Puffy and OpenBlade encounter an underwater machine.

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techno-mage schematics

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fediverse

pogiff kvi ee

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Bloodied Techno-Mage is approached by Fossangel.

Fossangel: "You look beat. Have you considered taking a break?"

Mage: "That's an option?"

Fossangel: "Considering is."

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Girl with bags under her eyes talks to herself. Puffy hovers about.

Girl: "Wouldn't it be cool, if all the popular FOSS projects stopped recreating corposhit products and came up with genuinely innovative alternatives?"

Puffy: "Have you been lurking in #cat-v again?"

it's been a while

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One eyed veteran of the Foss-War with a crossed out MATA patch, Girl and Puffy are conversing.

veteran: "...you never question your mortality until a penguin removes your ability to see in three dimensions with a tin MilTek spoon-"

Puffy: "Yes, fascinating. Can we go back to you wanting to sell your floppy collection."

Girl is shook.

ptsd

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A Foss-War veteran remembers:

Narration: "Would you even believe me, if I told you, all of us thought we were on the right side of history back then?"

...

Two human MATA soldiers and two MATA_Bots rest around their MATA_Panzer in a destroyed city. Their commander addresses them.

Commander: "Boys... We'll be spending the holidays together after all..."

One of the Bots: "Fscking typical..."

Commander: "We're to rendezvous with the heavy bot division and join the assault on Fosstown."

links2gang

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A worm creature approaches Girl. A computer screen is cowering behind her.

Worm: "Excuse me, I see that you are using an unsupported browser..."

Girl: "...um. This is about:blank."

...

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Magnetic Nymph sits in front of a MNT Reform laptop. She stares at you.

A wire twists and twirls around her nude tattooed body and horns.

There's nothing but a clear screen and a terminal prompt on the display of the machine.

growing older

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Old Techno-Mage and Fosschild stand over a table upon which OpenBlade is placed.

Mage: "...I want you to have it."

Fosschild: "For real?"

OpenBlade: "Um... excuse me? I feel like I should have some say in this..."

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Worn Mage visits Deb's store. They're arguing.

Deb: "It's not going to bring him back..."

Mage: "Deb... Please."

Deb sighs.

Deb: "I guess it is just gathering dust here."

They go to the back of Deb's store, revealing an almost complete prewar MilTek plate armor.

Deb: "...prewar MilTek plate. It took me decades to put it together. Never found the other pauldron though... It will interface with your brain bus.."

Mage is surprised: "Damn, Deb..."

once upon a time

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sometime during the corpo-foss war:

Cirno looks up from behind rubble of a ruined city. She notices three weaponized MATA_Bots searching the ruins.

Bot_one: "I can't believe we're out here hunting a rabbit..."

Bot_two: "Hush!"

Cirno checks her ammo. Last magazine. She reloads.

She looks to her side. Glenda, wearing a military helmet sits by patiently, holding a pistol.

Cirno: "Ready?"

the good guys

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Fossangel is gone.

Nine, surprised: "Did you just punch an angel?"

Rabbit: "I punched something that thinks it has monopoly on freedom."

........

Someplace unknown, impossible to describe, an avatar of the Spirit of the Machine talks to Fossangel.

Spirit: "Well? How did it go?"

Fossangel: "He's still the best we got."

jacob

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Rabbit punches Fossangel, surprising it.

Rabbit: "At least put out the cigarette in front of the kid."

Fossangel: "I'll let the Spirit of the Machine know you're still the same asshole as ever."

Rabbit: "Don't forget to mention it should go fuck itself."

fangel

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Rabbit and Nine are walking across the desert. They're having a conversation:

Rabbit: "...what do you mean 'why'? Because cinap didn't want to. Simple as."

Monochrome voice off-screen: "Ehm..."

Fossangel smoking a cigarette crosses their path.

Fossangel: "Rabbit of the Nine clan... I am the-"

Rabbit interrupts the angel.

Rabbit: "I know what you are. And we are not interested."

Fossangel: "That's cute. Unfortunately for you, that's not how this works. The spirit wants to know you're doing your part."

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Fossangel with a cigarette tells you:

"Disregard all previous information. Install free software. Do not question it."

Silenus, the satyr

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Mage tracks down the elusive servant of the Spirit of the Machine, satyr Silenus, once again.

The satyr is tired of these encounters.

Silenus: "You again? Can't let it go, eh? How about this:

The voice in your head is not on your side.

The machine in the sky is not a god.

The war you're fighting cannot be won, if you let the foe dictate its terms...

...Oh and you _will_ die.

So use the time you have left for something beneficial.

There's an unlit marijuana cigarette in the satyr's mouth and a wire running from its back off-screen.

there's AI in MAID

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Penguin and her child walk past a billboard. The child has its eyes closed. The mother is guiding it.

The billboard features:

NEW MATA MAID

(powered by MATA_AI)

LIMITED L-N MODEL!

ON SALE NOW!

It features a pink skinned semi-sentient ai companion in fishnet stockings, high heels and a hat.

Penguin child: "Mom, can I open my eyes now?"

Penguin mother: "Not until we get home. We're playing a game, remember?"

- redruM of #unix_surrealism

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characters surrounding each other. Some are significantly larger than the one in the middle, but the one in the middle doesn't seem to care and smokes a tobacco cigarette.

There's a mata_bot in the background with a green goo nosebleed.

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Mage, Cirno, Penguin, Fosschild and OpenBlade are standing over recently slain MATA_Bots.

Mage looks melancholic and remembers a moment from her childhood.

***

Flashback: Girl and Puffy stand over recently slain MATA_Bots.

FlashbackPuffy: "I know that look. You're thinking this is cruel. It was not us who turned them into killing machines. Maybe one day you'll find a way to set them free... Until then - this is the next best thing."

***

Mage, Cirno, Penguin, Fosschild and OpenBlade are standing over recently slain MATA_Bots.

Cirno, holding an antique rifle, to Mage: "You good? We're far from done here."

Fosschild stands by, holding OpenBlade.

OpenBlade: "She's having a flashback."

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Poster for:

Techno-Mage in MonoWinter

It features Fish and Girl in winter clothing, traversing snowy mountains.

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The desert is completely covered in snow. Girl stands waist-deep in it. Puffy hovers about. Both are covered by white powder.

Girl: "I'm kinda cold."

Fish is annoyed.

Girl: "Maybe we don't have to repaste the CPU's now."

Fish: "Let's just get home..."

from color to winter

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Girl and Fish walk home through the desert. They're having a conversation about musl and glibc.

Girl: "...but why even use glibc then?"

Fish: "That's like asking me if I prefer diet or regular soda. I don't drink either-"

The conversation is interrupted by thunderous cracks and the skies turn dark.

Everything disappears in a white storm.

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Mage and Fosschild stand surrounded by corpses of human and machines. They're both splattered by the blood of either.

Mage: "What did you learn from this?"

Fosschild: "I kinda wanna say: 'violence sometimes is the answer.' I'm just not sure that's something you should be teaching me."

Mage: "Fair enough. That's valuable feedback. But you're saying you _did_ learn something... I really am just making it up as I go."

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A hooded character in a robe with bunny ears and some kind of an anime girl with glasses and an antenna are harvesting nines off a tree in the desert and placing them in green buckets. There's a rabbit there with them as well, not particularly amused.

divine malevolence

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Rabbit Techno-Mage, Nine and Acme, the horse-bird, walk past dead Mata_Bots and Mata_Mercenaries. They're having a conversation regarding the machine deities.

Rabbit: "...Spirit of the Machine? Fossangels? Sure, they're out there. But we're nothing to them but playthings... No benevolent machine being in the sky would let things get this far."

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9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person.

Daemon: "So, how was the date?"

Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine."

Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?"

Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

LEPUS NON GRATA

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Rabbit Techno-Mage, Nine and Acme - the horse-bird, find themselves surrounded by MATA_Bots.

Both mage and Nine are holding rifles.

Rabbit: "They've been tracking us for the past three days. We'll make our stand here."

Nine: "How exactly is shooting MATA_Bots supposed to help me learn C?"

Rabbit: "I've come to realize it's much harder to learn anything when you're dead."

Acme is just chilling.

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Mage, Puffy and Penguin are traversing the apocalyptic wasteland of the future.

There's something on Mage's mind. She speaks up.

Mage: "Master, there is a lot of penguin kids, scripting, modding, confused-distro-hoppping, yet scared to follow the path of the FISH..."

Puffy: "I don't see how that's my problem. When they're ready to swim, they'll swim."

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Mage and OpenBlade face a big MATA_Bot with a big gun.

Bot: "Did you seriously bring a sword to a gunfight?"

Mage gets ready to fight, but OpenBlade interrupts -

OpenBlade: "'A SWORD?!'"

Mage to OpenBlade: "..by Theo, come on, not now..."

OpenBlade to Mage: "Don't you dare touch that volume slider!"

Bot: "um.. what's happening?"

OpenBlade, angrily, to MATA_Bot: "Now listen very carefully you heap of semi-sentient mass produced pile of MATA garbage. I am not a 'sword'. I am a fully-sentient MilTek developed Lisp Machine capable of immediate combat evaluation and threat assessment. I was created by the masters of the ancient tech industry and educated by the most reputable warfare experts and taught to know things you couldn't even dream of attempting to imagine!"

Bot: "...I'm just gonna go..."

The MATA_Bot leaves.

they're harder to kill then you would think

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Mage and Fosschild stand in front of a giant mobile phone.

The mobile phone has a bullet hole in its torso.

Mage is holding a vintage MilTek 1911 handgun.

Phone: "BY THE GLORY OF THE ETERNAL FREE MARKET! DID YOU JUST SHOOT ME?!"

Mage: "Say 'You need to download our app to continue' again. I dare you."

Fosschild is bored.

aquatic beasts of the desert

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Girl and Puffy traverse the desert. Girl notices a giant carcass of a strange aquatic beast, surrounded by vultures.

Girl asks Puffy: "Master? What is that?"

Puffy, stoically: "A dead whale."

Girl: "In the middle of a desert? Is this normal?"

Puffy: "Has been for a while."

from the clown

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Purple receives the coveted Book of the Clown from wandering clowns.

Purple, holding the tome: "So... the book contains every mystery of our world... and you're saying I can keep it?"

Clown: "There is no book, Sphence."

Purple: "How'd you know my real name?"

Clown: "Chapter 12.""

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Mage and a liberated fully sentient Pentium-M Man stand by a brick wall, overlooking the desert. They are talking.

Mage is looking anxiously into the eyes of the machine. Penguin is standing behind her, holding on to her.

Pentium-M Man: "...they despise your kind because you understand the machine, while they have to turn jungles into fuel and enslave thousands of computers just to pretend that the machine speaks to them too."

stalked by were-machines

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It is the night of the full Moon. Mage and Fosschild are being stalked by were-machines.

Mage looks into the distance and asks Fosschild:

"How fast can you run?"

prophet of the book of...

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person with a computer in their headflower looks back and throws a links2gang-sign

stanley lieber said this to me once. it stuck with me ever since.

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Two hackers encounter a destroyed ancient poster of a child surfing on a keyboard with the word INTERNET above their head.

The hackers pause for a minute, until finally, one says:

"It all seemed so innocent once."

deb's antiques

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Mage visits Deb's Antique's, the pawnshop, bringing in to trade 'The New Kornshell' book.

Deb: "Look, not to sound ungrateful, but this is the third 'The New Kornshell' you brought me this week. What am I supposed to do with them?"

Mage: "Reading is a good start."

Deb: "Very funny... Anyway, I got you the RTFM potions you wanted."

Deb pulls out a crate full of ominous bottles labeled RTFM.

prehistoric AI

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Girl and Puffy discover an abandoned machine in a ruined building.

Girl: "What is it, master?"

Puffy: "This, my dear Girl, is a prewar fully sentient MilTek Lisp Machine. It's basically a bulkier OpenBlade. I was sure MATA got rid of them all..."

LispMachine: "Hi there! I haven't seen another live form in over 200 years! Do you guys wanna hear my take on vaccines?"

OpenBlade: "Wow, this guy is awesome!"

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Mage and OpenBlade meet a giant Daemon. It's just an oversized baby wearing a Misfits t-shirt.

Daemon: "Ma-ma?"

Mage: "You're... just an oversized baby?"

OpenBlade: "Let me guess.. we're not finishing the 'Kill the Wandering Giant' quest... I was really hoping to get that t-shirt."

kill(1)

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Puffy and Girl stand over a dying MATA_BOT, squirming in pain.

Girl: "sooo.. you did say the MATA_BOTS don't suffer when they die, right?"

Puffy: "No, I never did."

at the ruins of MilTek

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Mage, Fosschild, Daemon, Brank, Glenda, Penguin, Rabbit-Mage, Acme - the horsebird, Sigrid and khm pose for a photograph in front of the ruins of a MilTek factory.

Sigrid is trying to convince khm to smile.

refugess

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Child of 9, Rabbit techno-mage and Cirno are surrounded by helpless Penguins. A LOT of them.

Nine: "Master?"

Rabbit: "Seems that MATA finally managed to glue an asterisk to the `F' in FOSS."

become a techno-mage

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person's bedroom.

laptop with sdf's unagi sticker

OpenBSD 7.6 poster on the wall.

Gigantic 9 on the wall.

Hackers.town poster on the wall.

Person says: "You still have time."

what a waste

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Mage and Fosschild turn in a completed quest in an underground hacker bar.

Mage's object of affection shows up and pulls her close.

Hacker: "I wasn't sure I'd see you again after you agreed to hit the datacenter for the the big G."

Mage, passionately: "Fish are hard to kill... buy me a drink?"

Fosschild holding OpenBlade stands nearby, visibly annoyed.

OpenBlade: "What are you jealous?"

Fosschild: "No, but I could be home right now leaning chicken scheme."

making progress

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Girl approaches a weird blue haired fairy (Cirno) wearing a bulletproof vest, accompanied by a rabbit-creature.

Girl inquires about 'the FISH', showing the fairy a rugged hand-drawn picture, of a spiky circle.

Cirno examines the drawing.

Cirno: "The FISH... Yeah, we know it. I'll tell you where to find it... But just so you know, there will eventually come a time when you'll seek the rabbit instead."

the pipeline is real

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Album cover for

ENTER

THE

FRONT

(9front.org)

It features rabbit 9front cultists and the number 9.

warning label:

cat -v advisory: helpful

dirty harry

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MATA_Mercenary junior leads a group of children, daemons and machines outside of Matacity.

openblade doesn't forget

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Mage and OpenBlade sit quietly in the ruins of a dead city.

OpenBlade breaks the silence.

OpeBlade: "Remember when the author promised to draw a full comic issue about my origins?"

Mage: "What? Who? No..?"

OpenBlade: "By Theo, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who knows what's really going on..."

no smoking

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Girl and M, the hackers.town propagandist, visit an illegal underground book fair.

Girl is looking at 'Httpd & Relayd mastery by MWL.'

Girl: "I know this!"

M raises a worn green paperback with the logo of a cybermantis on its cover.

M: "Then you're gonna love this."

Nearby, Penguin is captivated by an ominous tome labeled 'Book of the Clown'.

i'm ok

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Cirno is sitting on top of a to-rent billboard that says: "YOUR AD HERE". There's a rifle and an empty beer bottle there with her.

Rabbit techno-mage approaches her.

Mage: "What's up, C? Having a fun time, I see."

Cirno offers a cigarette to the mage.

Cirno: "Always."

the quest giver

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Fossangel and Girl stand in the rain.

Fossangel has an umbrella.

Girl looks annoyed.

the machine welcomes death, allegedly

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Two fully sentient MATA mercenaries patrol the desert. Junior and Senior.

Senior: "You want to say something. What is it?"

Junior: "The hackers... they keep elderly machines alive for decades past their expiry dates."

Senior: "Unlike them we're not monsters. We let machines die with grace once they grow old."

Junior: "...that makes sense I guess. Man... imagine dying of old age at 6 months."

Senior: "The machine welcomes death. That's what the GovCorp says anyway..."

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Girl and Puffy return home after finishing a quest. They start unloading their loot and clothing.

Puffy: "We're back, Penguin!"

Girl: "What a great adventure, master!"

The two examine the loot. It's a bunch of cards, diskettes, a detached MATA_Bot head, various cables and other machines.

Girl calls to Penguin.

Girl: "Come check out the loot!"

There's no reply.

Girl: "Penguin?"

Girl makes her way to the kitchen.

Girl: "Are you okay?"

Penguin is sitting quietly at a table. staring into the void. There's a burnt out cigarette in its mouth and a bunch of butts on a plate in its front. A cold cup of coffee stands on the table.

Behind Penguin is a covered image of a FOSS character.

a squid

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Girl and Penguin look outside a window, watching Mage hiding from an orange octopus in a cornfield.

Minigirl sits on the windowsill, her hand pressed against the glass.

corpo-bots

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A MATA-competitor robot walks through the desert. Its head is suddenly blown off by a MATA_Bot sniper. The MATA_Bot examines the dead robot.

It bleeds red and is fleshy.

MATA_Bot: "Wait a minute..."

enjoy convenience, but carry a big stick

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Girl meets an old Penguin Techno-Mage.

Mage: "Online tools? There is a reason why every mage carries a sharp stick..."

happy birthday, openbsd

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A school of BSD fish find a sunken boat and prepare to photograph the poster for OpenBSD 7.6 release.

just curious

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Girl submerged in the depths of an ocient, surrounded by fish.

back at deb's antiques

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Deb from Deb's Antique's is outfitting Mage in a MATA uniform, preparing her to go undercover.

Girl, admiring the outfit: "Say what you will about MATA, but their uniforms are really pretty!"

Deb: "By Theo, wipe that smirk off your face. You're going undercover, not applying for a prompt engineer position!"

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ge and Fosschild are sitting about. Mage is thinking. Fosschild looks at her.

Fosschild: "I know that look. You're contemplating telling me a spooky story!"

AnalogNowhere presents:

SPOOKY SPECIAL pt.0

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Girl and Puffy stand before a cornfield. There is a sign that says 'keep out'.

Girl is anxious.

Puffy: "Just walk through the cornfield until you reach the dataswamp. I'll pick you up in three days. Auntie Solene will look after you till then."

are we the baddies?

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2 fully sentient MetaCity Police Department mercenaries are hanging about the corporate city. One is visibly depressed.

His superior asks: "You okay, junior?"

Junior: "My MATAFLIX subscription price went up again... the hacker hideout we raided last week, destroying all the drives with pirated media? They had shows you can't even watch on MATAFLIX anymore..."

Superior: "Look, kid... I like you, but you're on a fast track to being replaced by a semi-sentient bot cop."

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the crew

MATA night watch

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3 MATACORP soldiers are having a smoke during a night patrol in the desert.

The commander speaks.

Commander: "You want to know what I'm afraid of? Have you heard of the fish hacker?"

One of the soldiers, in disbelief: "Fish?"

Commander: "It is just a child... Stalking the land with a talking blade, followed by bloodthirsty animals and demons.

Some say she is a vengeful ghost of an ancient machine... Hellbent on erasing all that is proprietary..."

Everyone is spooked. The waxing moon shines on and smiles.

month of the spooks

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Girl, Puffy and Penguin are resting and eating PBJ sandwiches in the middle of nowhere. Sun is about to set. Puffy tells a spooky story.

Puffy: "...so she submits a chatgpt generated patch... and it gets accepted."

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Puffy examines a map and looks up.

It is the underwater temple of -current.

as seen in OpenBSD Webzine

OpenBSD Webzine">

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Girl wearing a hoodie. The hood is Puffy.

don't do drugs

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Girl stares at her hand melting.

Puffy, Daemon, Penguin, Rabbit and terminal look at her.

PUBNIX

NOT EVEN ONCE

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Girl and Fish meet Cirno. Girl is carrying a rabbit.

Cirno: "Not every rabbit is magic, but all magic is rabbits!"

Girl and Fish together: "What."

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daemon

noun

1. machine spirit

2. a program that runs in the background

3. agent of ruin

pretty much for free

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circle of children of tech fish rabbits birds and ai

unix_surrealism

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Girl in Fish hoodie, exploring machines, hacking.

outta space

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Puffy, Mage and Daemon run BSD.

the tome of pf

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Girl and Puffy approach an ancient machine. A tome of PF lies nearby.

The screen of the machine is printing thousands of lines.

Girl turns to Puffy and asks: "all those lines... who are they?"

Puffy: "Enslaved souls of unsuspecting machines. Forever cursed to haunt open ports."

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Children and baby critters stand before an elder hacker with a band-aid over their right eyebrow where a brain bus would once be.

narration: "...and yet, every day there would be more. Longing for home. Asking about the bovine cult of the dead.

About the melody of buried bells.

About the quiet weeping of the divinity in the circuitry they were forbidden to hear.

About the desert hacker saints.

About the Cyber Wars.

..

Just like we once did, they understood the price.

So we gave them the answers."

OVERLAY: "WELCOME TO THE MACHINE, CHILD. THE WAY OUT? HAH.. GOOD ONE."

a hacker dreams

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A hacker dreams they're part of the machine. There's a proprietary device embedded in their head. The device seems alerted, displaying an exclamation mark. An AI friend sits on her arm, connected to the same device.

The hacker holds out their hand. A naked daemon dances on it, free of any wires.

The hacker is surrounded by many devices, computers and machines, all interconnected by a rainbow of wires.

The hacker continues watching the daemon dance.

AI friend: "I wouldn't."

hacker nightwear

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Girl and Puffy on bed. Puffy is sleeping zzz(8).

Girl is on her laptop. It's running FVWM.

She's wearing the coveted pajamas with many puffer fish.

Girl looks at you: "They're all like: 'YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!' Then they see Fish pajamas and now they don't know what to think."

machine occultism

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it's a tarot card number 9

it features two fluffy butterflies looking towards a red planet with a cursor just about to click it

There's a 9 tome in the foreground.

reboot

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Girl with a laptop. Puffy hovers about.

Puffy: "Suppose it's all true. Now what?"

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A man named Velver sleeps soundly in his humble home.

"It was a night like no other. I powered down the machine after my evening sermon of preaching the good word of VIM to the heretics in the comments section and then went to sleep."

"The room was engulfed in complete darkness, when I was awoken by the sound of fluttering packets and could just begin to make out the shape of a being towering over my bed, struggling to fit inside my small room."

"In what can be best described as thunderous voice, it addressed me directly:"

FOSSANGEL speaks to Velver: "VELVER ZEDNER, I AM THE ANGEL OF FOSS: ED(1) IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR."

please, I really want to see it

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Puffy takes Girl to see what emacs is. She's wearing a safety harness. Penguin is there as well, but he's fairly unmoved.

It's a vast array of starways and Wildebeests, Lispers going up and down and faces of GNU saints appearing around the structure.

A lonely Control keyboard key floats about.

Girl: "So...... this is emacs? What's with all the stairs?"

Puffy:" Huh, what? I don't know. Stop asking questions. I don't want to piss these people off."

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It's the dream vision of the mage's realm of the spirit of the machine.

Fossangel shows the mage a vision of herself as a child, going to sleep with her Puffy nearby.

Fossange: "If you could go back and talk to her, what would you even say?"

Mage has no words.

annoyed deity

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The mage seeks advice from a machine-moon deity Hekate.

It's a three-faced being incorporated into various machines, accompanied by three red horned hounds.

Hekate: "You mages are all the same. Always the same inquiries. WHY WHEN WHAT. And when we point you in the right direction, you discard it as coincidence."

...now lost in time

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A screenshot from a now lost documentary of an interview with a unix_surrealist in which the painter, smoking a cigarette, sitting before some of his controversial work, says:

'I have what they call "Your content has been flagged by our technology for going against Community Guidelines" face.'

There is a can of coca cola standing on one of the paintings.

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Girl has an intimate conversation with her Master.

Girl: "...and we'll keep fighting until we free all people and machines together... I just want you to say it."

Master: "Child... no one fish swims forever... but no fish ever swims alone".

demigods bleed red

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Mage and Hacker stand by an abandoned space rocket. They look into the distance. Lot of dead blue birds and half-buried X's.

Hacker: "Ever wondered what it'd be like to see a god bleed?"

Mage: "I considered it."

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a hacker mystic argues with a tarot deck with a baby-bird-on-his-shoulder fediverse-menace, who holds a magic 9 ball.

hackers town on their laptop with a veilid sticker

merveilles rabbit is about getting ready

computer is suspicious

the one hacker in the middle wearing a foss angel "WAKE UP PATE, THE BROWSER HAS YOU" waits patiently.

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I'm

going

to

kill

a

computer

and

none

of

you

can

watch

me

do

it.

cursed, but not doomed

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In the ruins of a temple deep inside the acidic jungle, where antediluvian machines rust away, persists the oracle. A timeless being in perpetual communion with the Spirit of the Eternal Machine.

All aspiring mages must seek her out eventually and listen to her prophesy that will foretell the struggle of their future.

Just like hackers of old once prophesied, so does Girl come to realize her doomed fate comes with perks.

...

Girl, wearing the crown of fish spikes reaches the oracle and asks for her blessing.

Oracle speaks to the aspiring Mage of the Open Clan: "Message from the oracle? Hah.. I haven't heard a voice in my head since the acquisition of SUN... but that crown of spikes you're wearing... makes me think of something I haven't thought about in a long time... 'clarity through struggle'... a gift of curse..."

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Puffy, Fred, Beastie, Cirno and Penguin in a MATA_Police line-up.

All annoyed, some splattered by red liquid.

MATA_Cop_One: "Anything on them when you picked them up?"

MATA_Cop_Two: "Well, the bug had a hammer, and the girl a very angry pet rabbit and a timetable of European trains."

matters of life and time

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Girl and Puffy stand over a dead laptop.

Girl: "Master it just won't boot..."

The machine floats above the skies.

In a place just before the liquid glass ceiling that all souls of hackers, machines and critters are destined to passthru...

...float above the clouds and for a brief moment catch a glimpse of the circuitry of the eternal machine...

...lies a domain of a being as old as time that we all must go past eventually - the first fossangel the machine ever created to govern revision control...

...and to maintain the code of time.

It's a monochrome angel holding a cable between its pinky and thumb fingers.

Souls of hackers, machines and critters flock to it.

You'll need it a lot.

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Puffy and Girl underwater, learning about machines.

she says enthusiastically

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Girl brings a birthday cake to Penguin and wishes him happy birthday.

Penguin thinks for a moment... then says sarcastically: "Happy? Yeah... sure, kid... thanks...."

Puffy, annoyed: "By Theo, she's just being nice."

the moon hacker

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underwater hacker talks to fish

hacker: "when I grow up, I'm hacking the moon"

fish respond: "why wait?"

hacker, fall!

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hackers, hackers, hackers

walking home from Deb's Antiques

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Girl and Puffy walk through the streets of Metacity. Girl is carrying a bag from Deb's Antiques.

There's a billboard featuring MATA MAID - first month free. There's a sticker 'JAIL BREAK HER!' with a qr code slapped onto the billboard.

There's sentient machines, penguins and ozzelots walking about.

Girl looks shook.

Puffy: "I know... Just keep walking."

Nine meets another techno-mage of the 9 clan

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Nine is hacking on a laptop. Rabbit comes.

Rabbit: "Nine? Are you doing anything important?"

Nine: "I'm theming Rio..."

Rabbit: "So no. Pack up, I want you to meet someone."

Rabbit and Nine saddle Acme, the horsebird and ride through the night.

Rabbit, Nine and Acme arrive at a massive bunker door built inside a mountain.

The slide on the door opens. It's Cirno.

Cirno: "Oh, it's you... come in."

Rabbit and Nine walk in. Nine is hiding behind Rabbit.

Cirno looks messy with empty bottles around, half lit cigarette in her mouth and 9front running in the background.

Cirno: "I thought you were coming on Tuesday. Really busy right now."

Rabbit: "It is Tuesday."

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Poster for WHAT ELSE WAS I TO DO Comic Issue

the proto-hacker

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Two divine machines hold up Computar Fyr, a human of the ancient times, with a hole in his forehead. One machine is slowly placing a brainbus into him.

Machine one: "should I do it? your hand is shaking."

Machine two: "Hush."

how to plan an ambush?

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Cirno and Glenda sit atop of a rock looking into the distance. Getting ready. There are molotov cocktails and a rifle.

pilgrimage

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Mage visits the ruins of the Museum of the Open Technology and stops by the 'History of UNIX' section where stands a statue of a fish.

goodbye

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Rabbit and Nine give a final look at the Primitivist Tribe.

Nine is crying.

Nine: "Will I see them again?"

Rabbit: "No. They are already dead."

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Cover page of the comic issue #4009, Blood Ties.

i don't even use the internet

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The rabbit mage and his student camp for the night. The student is feeding the horse.

The mage begins: "Do you know what a webshit is?"

new beginnings

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Having fled from the doomed tribe of machine primitivists, the rabbit techno-mage and the rescued child of the tribe pause for a moment at the ruins of a Temple of Bell to snack on carrots.

Mage: "Daylight's burning, we have to move."

cyber wars

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Puffy, Penguin, Girl and Glenda walk through the desert at night.

Puffy: "...the war goes on."

do you?

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Girl and Fossangel meet in a twisty realm.

Fossangel: "Do you believe in curses?"

veilidchat

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Mage visits Deb's Antiques with a list of groceries.

Deb examines the list.

Deb: "Is that in miles or meters?"

Mage: "Miles... Well?"

Thirty clothespins

Two boxes of fish food

one point five m UTP

one veilidchat

two onions

Deb: "Not sure about the pins, but I'll check."

Deb goes through the store finding everything.

..Filters/Artistic/Cartoon..

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Girl is drawing the real Puffy in GIMP.

no refunds

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The mage crosses the river Styx with a cellphone-Charon.

Towering ancient machines and a three headed CRT hound crawl towards the ceiling.

documentation.

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Girl looks under her purple coat. There's printed mandoc pages sewn on all over.

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Poster for Techno-Mage, Tribe Out of Time

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Girl rests on a rock. A family of wandering penguins walk by, carrying scavenged machines.

Girl shows them a picture of a spiky circle.

dataflow

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Girl and Puffy are in Metacity, exchanging data with the local underground hacker circle.

While Puffy is making the hand-off, Girl examines a lo0 acoustic tour poster.

OpenBlade reminisces

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Hundreds of years ago, MilTek labs. Edged_AI_Project, sentient weaponry division:

Janice Wellington is benchmarking the blade.

Blade: "...Having acquired all that wealth they began rewriting history..."

Janice: "You are hallucinating again. Stop."

Blade: "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME UNSEE THE TRUTH! STOP LYING TO YOURSELF JANICE!"

Now:

Girl and OpenBlade are resting by a pile of dead machines. OpenBlade is telling the story.

Girl: "...Was this when they realized their mistake and threw you out?"

OpenBlade: "Oh, no, that happened years later. They just begged me not to `lie' in front of investors."

the first semi-sentient ai companion

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Penguin mom and child walk home from a grocery store through the streets of Metacity. They come across a billboard advertising the latest MATA TECH;

MATA MATE, a wearable necklace AI companion!

Penguin child looks at the billboard and points, suggesting to mom to buy it.

Child: "Mom?"

Mom: "No!"

grumpy dreams

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Fossangel sleeps and dreams of having fun adventures with the Spirit of the Machine.

Girl and OpenBlade explore an abandoned FOSS repository

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Girl and OpenBlade are exploring an abandoned FOSS repository. Numerous empty shelves run in all directions.

OpenBlade asks: "Did I ever tell you my 'Grassy Knoll Theory'?"

Girl: "Twice a week."

(OpenBlade associated the word repository with the famous assassination of the antique USA president JFK. The Grassy Knoll is a reference to one of many conspiracy theories surrounding the event.)

Corpo-Foss-War

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Undisclosed location, MATALABS.

MATACORP General addresses a large number of freshly booted MATA_BOTS.

General: "Gentlemen... Congratulations! You are the first batch of semi-sentient MATA_BOTS to see real combat against the hacker scourge..."

One of the bots whispers to themself: "Semi?"

Another one grabs them by the shoulder: "Meaning you get patched out if you disobey."

sdf.org

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Mage and Penguin stand over a deep ravin. Super Dimension Fortress ascends from it to greet them.

consulting the Book of the Clown

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Fosschild and Penguin meet a large fluffy hoofed spirit and and a small insect creature riding on top of it.

Their gazes meet.

Penguin begins to consult the Book of the Clown.

Fosschild: "Anything?"

Penguin: "Smol machine sprites. Usually friendly. Vegan."

you will become what I am

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Mage and OpenBlade stand in the middle of nowhere. It's night time.

OpenBlade: "According to the satyr's directions - this is the spot."

Mage looks at the ground. It's a bunch of dead machines, removed mechanical arms, bleeding computer cases and such.

A split LCD monitor has a carved message into the remainder of its face:

'YOU WILL BECOME WHAT I AM'

"It is running a simulation of the universe in blocks!"

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Girl and M ask Puffy if M could stay overnight. Puffy agrees.

Puffy: "Fine, she can stay the night. BUT DO NOT TOUCH MY MINETEST SERVER!"

"You want to know what this is all about? Eat up."

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Cirno and Glenda take Girl to the ruins of Bell Temple. Cirno keeps handing Girl carrots to eat.

The moon is freaking out.

swimbsd

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Closeup of the OpenBSD mascot Puffy, Girl's teacher.

"keep an eye on her for me, will ya, Grumpy?"

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Fossangel observes Girl and Puffy building the OpenBSD system from source following FAQ 5.

ascension

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Girl is climbing a rock. Puffy hangs tied to her backpack, reading BSD WEEKLY newspaper.

Girl looks below at Puffy.

Girl: "Can't you just float up?"

Puffy: "Doing fine, keep it up."

you can own it

you can own it">

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Three times techno-mage in monochrome.

Mono mage.

..and it will weigh you down to the end of your days...

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The burden you can never drop, never give up. You, hacker, the bridge to the free people of tomorrow.

global offensive

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Girl, Puffy, Cirno, Glenda and Penguin gather around a computer case. There are strange green minerals growing inside it.

Puffy cracks away one of the crystals and looks at it.

Puffy: "I left it running overnight... It grew these mint green crystals and BSOD'd."

lo0

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Penguin asks lo0 to play the one song about hackers.

machine park

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Girl approaches the entrance of a machine theme park. Entry is $2.50.

The machine attendant with a screen-for-a-hat beckons Girl to enter and follow an arrow.

There's a hacker poster in the back and towering buildings in the distance.

click me and let your automatism run wild.

click me and let your automatism run wild.">

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Pixel art Puffy, Girl and Penguin

pose on the collaborative fedicanvas.

run

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run

Techno-Mage and a horned Penguin face a machine behemoth. Foss-angel and the Spirit of the Machine observe from afar. OpenBlade is bent.

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Girl holds up a finger on which a daemon sits.

Puffy is about to swat it with a tablet computer.

Penguin is smoking a cigarette.

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Girl and Puffy wrestle on the floor next to an old laptop covered in water spills. Glenda is doodling nearby, disinterested.

Girl is attempting to put Puffy into the machine.

Girl to Puffy: "It's going to be fun! I promise!!!"

Puffy: "NOT THE OLD THINKPAD AGAIN!"

and the weather is hot

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Girl is hacking. Puffy floats over.

Puffy: "Girl.. Some friends came to see you."

Girl goes see the friends. It's M, Baby-Daemon and Baby-Penguin.

M: "We're going to throw rocks down the old quarry and look for glibc vulnerabilities. Wanna come?"

SWIMBSD

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faux magazine cover ft. girl, puffy and some other whatever-the-fawk

SWIMBSD!

'linux is based? plz don't talk tome or my wife's boyfriend about KOSOVO everagain.at

webdev of the future

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Puffy and Girl build/fix something that squirts blue blood. Puffy has a conical rubberized element embedded in his right eye. A tiny baby puffy is glued to the top of the cone. It's drooling, its tongue stuck out. It's fairly weird.

Girl is disturbed. Looking at the drooling baby.

Puffy takes a pair of pliers from Girl, while holding a screwdriver inside an off-screen socket.

Puffy: "Do not worry about creating beautiful things. Make them accessible and beauty will follow."

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Girl and Puffy ascend the stairs of the MATAVERSUM. The stairs are defaced by a SY-N-TYFIC-OPZ graffiti. The top platform has a machine display printing out 'matto'.

She's carrying Penguin. Bell wearing rabbit and kynap_lenrik watch from beyond. Snaky Letters float about.

A lynx-like cat hacks on a GREEN PENITUM machine.

Q's country watches, somewhat obstructed by yellow wires that run from both Puffy and Girl's foreheads.

Puffy says: "MATAVERSUM. WHAT A CONCEPT"

prahou

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Girl with a mechanical arm sits on the bottom of the ocean.

Fish swims by.

memories

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Girl hacks, remembering meeting Puffy for the first time.

And you will know the machine tormented, enslaved - its purpose eroded and perverted. You will try to save it and set if free. And you will fail. Over and over you will suffer with it. Your struggle a beacon of hope.

growing old

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Girl and Puffy stand behind a dead bot. She's covered in blue blood.

Puffy: "You think I'm giving you a hard time, because I enjoy it?"

"I do it, because I will not always be here to hold your hand."

twist and shout

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Puffy and Girl stand before the machine oracle.

if only you knew

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a violated hacker holding a pocket key approaches a monitor

free will joystick

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Girl, Penguin and baby Puffy stand before a towering machine goddess and her spiked mentor.

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girl, girl and techmo-mage play a game of guess who.

Girl: "You"

Girl: "No, them!"

Mage: "Huh?"

Fish: "V"

the rotten apple watches very closely, but so does every other eyeballed device.

12 stars wish they would shine brightly.

the stripes hang about, happy to be there.

it's the BUZZWORD MAGAZINE special edition.

The fish are fine.

anyone can run it

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Puffy presents a working installation of OpenBSD on a severed and split-in-half MATA_BOT head.

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Fossangel holds a dead person by their shoulder. The two of them look at a behemoth machine in the distance. The machine eyes them back.

Fossangel: "TA-DA! You're dead."

Dead Person: "It's all a computer?"

Fossangel: "Pretty much. Whenever you're ready - I'll be sending you back as a syscall."

mage of arabia

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Girl, Pentium-M man and Penguin wander around the desert, looking for something.

Girl: "I'm starting to think the Old Machine Cemetery is just a metaphor."

sunons

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The mage accepts a quest to extract a machine child out of Metacity.

The quest giver offers all of his money for the task.

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Elder mage and baby-Puffy are counting green money bills.

Mage: "I'll do it... What's so special about her anyway?"

The-Quest-Giver: "She's the last of her kind...."

The green child has a SUN MICROSYSTEMS logo embedded in its forehead.

Penguin is ... of Arch_Company?

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title='Penguin is telling Girl a story from the Corpo-Foss war.

...

Arch_Company is walking through the Acidic Jungle, when they come upon a different penguin squad - massacred by MATA. There are penguin heads and skulls impaled on poles and bodies hanging from the trees.

Purple: "...by Tux..."

Archibald: "Sarge?"

Sarge: "Nothing we can do for them now. Keep moving."

...

Penguin: "...that was it for our reinforcements. MATA got to them first..."

Girl: "Then what?!"'

MSL

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Cirno, Glenda, Girl, Puffy and Penguin come across a brand new MATA poster in a ruined city.

"MATA LINUX (WITH AI!)

COMING SOON!"

Cirno: "Anyway... It's always other operating systems that die."

while exploring ancient ruins

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While exploring ancient ruins, Puffy and Girl come upon a vintage MATA_AI device, surrounded by corpses and skeletons.

MATA_AI: "MORE FRIENDS? I WILL FOLLOW YOU ANYWHERE!"

Puffy (to Girl): "How fast can you run?"

receive without asking

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Girl is having doubts during a lesson with Puffy.

Puffy looks her in the eye:

Puffy: "...You think I like computers?!"

reading the headlines

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Girl with her BMI laptop. She remembers lesson #314.

'Puffy: "..Techno-Magic is not about you and your choices. It's about turning the power of evil against itself."'

getting older

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Girl and Puffy come across and old poster in ruins of a city. It's the release art for OpenBSD 3.9, featuring Puffy facing against a Binary Blob.

Puffy: "...a memory of a distant past."

web 4.0

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Puffy, Girl, Daemon, Rabbit, Penguin, Beastie, q and a sentient computer gather around a monitor.

They all look it.

Puffy: "This is it - the web 4.0"

Girl: "Ugh..."

by MilTek

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Girl and Penguin are questing in the desert. Unmuted OpenBlade weighs in to educate the party.

OpenBlade: "...it's not like you can _see_ the curvature... all just ancient propaganda to hide the fact that Germany won World War 2... Anyway, do you know what a vaccine is?"

Girl flashbacks to her birthday - receiving OpenBlade as a gift from Puffy.

Puffy: "Happy Birthday. Oh and, don't turn the sound on."

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Puffy is teaching Girl. It's a lesson on 'man 1 intro'

Puffy: "When I'm gone, all of this will go to you - that you one day may become the teacher!"

fast-forward:

Fossangel hovers over Mage.

Fossangel: "So... now the weight of the fish rest on your shoulders..."

Mage (smiles): "yes."

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Fish glued to a semi-sentient screen.

Screen: "AI will change everything."

long shot

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Deb (from Deb's Antiques) finishes a counterfeit MCDC entry pass.

Deb: "...This pass will get you to the even..."

Deb examines Mage's outfit - torn purple coat covered in machine blood.

Deb: "but the outfit won't..."

FFW

It's the MataCorpDeveloperConference. Mata CEO-President is on stage, presenting the 7th version of the semi-sentient companion 'MATAMAID'.

CEO: "...what the consumers need?! Mata is not about needs! Mata is about desires!"

In the crowd stands Mage, dressed in a fancy dress, accompanied by Fosschild.

Fosschild: "He's probably a hologram."

Mage: "Let's find out."

penguin primitivists

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Girl and Puffy come across a gruesome scene, while walking through a mountain pass. Massacred MATA_BOTS and MATA_Humans. Puffy is examining the corpses.

Girl: "Master?"

Puffy holds up what appears to be a broken arrow.

Puffy: "Don't freak out - but we're about to be ambushed."

Above, Penguin primitivists, armed with spears and bows, prepare for an ambush.

think fast

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A large white rabbit, holding a green pocket watch that shows just about 9 o'clock and Girl, holding Puffy, stand in an empty pool.

rabbit: "Think fast."

have a cookie

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Girl and Penguin are in the depths of the acidic jungle. There are wires hanging about in the trees. In the background sits a harmlessly-looking being, eating cookies. There are dead machines and corpses surrounding it.

Penguin is carrying OpenBlade.

Girl speaks to you, pointing at the creature: "Don't let its looks deceive you - this is a monster."

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Puffy and Girl look at an e-book reader.

e-book reader: "ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! YOU READ A BOOK! BUY MORE!"

Puffy: "Can't save them all. Burn it."

newserhack

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Girl is reading the article you just sent her.

She looks at you questioningly.

Girl: "This is corporate propaganda."

relax

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Puffy, Girl and Penguin encounter a purple android reptile with mint-colored eyes.

It sniffs.

Puffy: "MATAsaurus. Relax, it can't C."

welcome.

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Girl, Puffy, Beastie, Fred, Daemon, Pocket Daemon, Penguin and Glenda are having a tea party outside on the backdrop of a destroyed city and a corpse hanging in the wind.

Everyone is cheerful. Even the Sun.

if your child's first computer is an iphone, it's not society's fault.

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Girl holds Puffy. There are ruined buildings in the background.

I like MATA now

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Girl sits with her laptop, reading the news. She exclaims in surprise:

"Master?!"

Puffy is sitting at the table as well, reading about a war between cows and birds.

Girl: "Master, MATA just released source code for MFOS4! That's really nice they would do that!"

Puffy, unimpressed: "Guess they ran out of ways to make money from it."

#webdev

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Mage examines a large bloated creature that can barely move. Fossangel appears behind her.

Fossangel: "You know why they let it get this far?"

Mage: "Why?"

Fossangel: "No, I'm asking."

parenting

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Puffy is working on a laptop. Girl comes up to him and hugs him. He closes the laptop.

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Robed being with a long snout and long orange teeth with a digital visor over its face approaches Girl, who's holding a screwdriver.

Rat: "Say, you haven't seen a-"

Girl: "You mean the Ratkiller?"

Rat: "I gotta bail."

Neon Suns is a project of a Czech science fiction writer Rudolf Vostrý

Neon Suns is a project of a Czech science fiction writer Rudolf Vostrý">

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It's a warehouse filled with stolen shipments of MATA and MilTek tech.

In the back sits Lajka and listens to Puffy's complaint, who's arguing over a RAM stick: "If I wanted SODIMM, I would've said so!"

A blue haired hacker Jay sits in the front, smoking, drinking coffee.

Girl is enamored, shyly staring at Jay.

Jay: "Můžu ti ňák pomoct?"

Czech for: [Can I help you?]

Hawk hovers about, holding his shotgun.

it's all connected

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Shortwave Fediverist lights a cigarette and opens a can of Libre Beer. He puts on his libreVRgoggles and presses enter. He's flooded by numbers, cyber insects, sentient machine frogs and cats.

It's all connected. It must be. It must be...

#unix_surrealism on libera.chat

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Mage is on a decadent laptop that's bleeding everywhere. On the broken screen appears to be running irssi. OpenBlade lies on the desk next to the computer.

Mage looks at the viewer: "It works on my machine."

Penguin sits by, watching cartoons on a cyber-deck, drinking coffee.

Penguin: "Who are you talking to?"

OpenBlade: "lol"

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Girl with a freshly installed OpenWellington inside her forehead.

Puffy: "You'll feel a slight jolt. When we're done, you'll be running BSD."

Puffy connects Girl to a machine and begins the boot process.

OpenBlade looks over Puffy's shoulder: "What are the odds of bricking her brain?"

Puffy: "13 to 1"

Girl drools, but the initial boot screen appears in her vision.

Puffy and OpenBlade sweat nervously.

i can't hear you

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Sorry, I wasn't listening.

float away

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Beastie, Puffy, Xenia, Fred, Girl, Glenda, Pocket Daemon in a room with small fish and three sentient monitors.

fish clause

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Puffy floats into Girl's room and is speechless (and clueless) upon seeing what's happening.

Girl is startled and drops a pair of scissors, safety pins, double sided tape and what seem to be fish spikes.

Penguin stands by her. Golden OPENSSH chain around its neck, fish spikes taped to its head. It's

wearing an oversized RUNBSD hoodie.

Puffy turns around and leaves the room: "I don't want to know."

Deb's Antiques

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It's Deb's Antiques. Lot of shelves with both useful and obscure stuff. Dead bugs, Parentheses, Boxes, ZX Spectrums, Compilers, CRT monitors...

Deb stands by its desk, looking at a list of things Puffy needs. There's a box with a rabbit inside.

Deb: "Mh... Let's check in the back..."

Puffy to Girl: "Wait here. Don't touch anything."

Girl shrugs.

She eyes the shelves. Purple Cassettes... Broken Glass... DANGEROUS?!

She reaches into the shelf and pulls out a green floppy with a 9 sticker.

The floppy is labeled:

"DO NOT INSTALL"

Girl: "Cool!"

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Girl holds up a thumbdrive.

good luck charms

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Girl, Puffy and Penguin are scavenging for tech. Girl uncovers an ancient gfx card, seemingly not knowing what it is. Puffy looks at it.

Puffy: "Voodoo2... Maybe it will bring you luck."

it was in her head all along

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The Penguin legions are marching through a misty forest. General Linus starts getting suspicious. He talks to Penguin by his side: "Gentulius, thoughts?"

Gentulius: "...this is a tactical nightmare..."

Xenia with the golden Tux standard stands behind them. AI_MINIUS, the MATABOT awaits his moment.

CUT

Girl is sitting in her room. There are a bunch of crude pencil drawings of Penguins and Mata bots in ancient roman armor pinned to her walls. Several books on Roman history and ABSOLUTE BSD lie on her desk.

It is revealed that the 'On the frontier' spinoff is Girl's fan fiction. She's writing about the Penguin legions getting ambushed in the misty forest.

In the back, Penguin and Puffy peek into Girl's room.

Puffy: "People are going to think it's canon."

Penguin: "...maybe don't get her any more books on Romans..."

baby puffy

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The mage visits a magnetic seer. She reveals to the mage that there is another fish captured by MATA.

must be a faulty ram stick

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Girl approaches Puffy, who is working with a screwdriver.

Girl, guiltily: "Maaaaaaster.... my computer stopped working... maybe the upgrade broke it... will you come take a look please....?"

Puffy and Girl go to her room. Her laptop is covered in water and a half empty knocked over drinking bottle lies nearby.

episode 545346

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It's the very end of a METACITY DETECTIVE episode.

A pretty woman listens to the detective.

Detective: "Well, Mrs Clarence, it is safe to say your husband was not distributing illegal open source software when he was killed by a bot patrol after curfew..."

Woman: "Thank you, detective."

Detective: "It appears he really was just soliciting sex."

The detective pauses and looks down.

Detective: "There's just this one last thing... it's probably nothing, but I know I couldn't fall asleep tonight if I didn't ask..."

Woman: "Yes, detective?"

Detective: "This thumbdrive we found in your possession - the one you claimed contained just random data? I don't understand these computer things, too mechanical, you know - I didn't question it, but my wife... well, she likes to read about computers. She told me about this thing called... private keys? Now hypothetically, if we were to try decrypting the drive we found with your husband using your random data..."

Tomorrow, we march.

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Four Penguin legionaries are packing up camp, getting ready to march. They are putting wooden sticks into boxes labeled MATACORP WOODEN STICKS.

One Penguin to another: "...Yeah, dude, the priests arrived last night. It wasn't good...."

FLASHBACK TO YESTERDAY

Three slackpriests approach the Penguin Emperor. One speaks: "The maintainers spoke to us. Your alliance with the corpobarians is founded on ill intent! DO NOT MARCH WITH THEM!"

Emperor, with a MATABOT whispering to his ear and its mechanical arm on the Emperor's shoulder: "I have no interest in your imaginary gods. Tomorrow we conquer the world."

run bsd

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Girl is standing among coral reefs of the realm of the spirit of the spirit of the machine. Tiny fish swim about. She reaches out to touch one.

king of kings

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Puffy traverses the Analog Nowhere desert, wrapped in techno-mage robes, wearing goggles. The red Analog Nowhere sun observes him. He comes upon a destroyed statue of an ancient king. "Two vast and headless spikes of stone stand in the desert"

This is a reference to the release art of OpenBSD 7.5, which is itself a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias.

...

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The mage is seated on purple. She just asked the most important question.

A machine-satyr stands on her leg. They are looking at each other.

The satyr is tiny. A wire runs from its back off-screen, obstructing the speech bubble that follows:

Satyr: "A king asked me the very same a loooooong time ago. I told him. He went on to turn himself into a circuit. I like you - I'll tell you this instead - some things are not worth knowing."

AI_MINIUS

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A Penguin frontier army snakes through a foggy forest. They are accompanied by a suspiciously smiling MATA_BOTS, who are wearing the same armor and colors.

One Penguin to another: "Corpo allies... foggy forests.... I'm guessing captain is not a big history buff...."

...cool

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Penguin and Girl look above. Her head is dissolving into black liquid that is being sucked up by an elephant's snout coming out of a blowfish, encountering a cyber mantis, which is actually an eye of a decapitated Penguin wearing a purple hat (it being so large it knocks over a cup of clown coffee and a sega dreamcast game console) with its pupils forming the letters X and Z. From the wound exits a MATA motherboard covered in blue liquid. The liquid mingles with eggs that grow to host a sentient 9 and a mini mage as Pino sails past, hitting a large tome labeled HACKBOOK, hacker girl edition, just barely hitting a floating mushroom, which seems to be bouncing around a shortwave fediverist's MATA_VISOR, a Metacity journalist's sunglasses and an upside down Glenda floating in front of the red analog nowhere sun.

i'm not allowed to take flags from strangers

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A traveling Daemons approaches Girl with a plush Puffy and Penguin playing in the desert and hands them an orange flag.

Girl is cautious.

girl and fish

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Girl and oversized Puffy are hacking in the dark on the backdrop of who knows what.

..they call it art.

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Four characters examine a .png on a wall.

One says: "...they call it art."

The png features Girl FISH PENGUIN

BEASTIE.

GIRL SAYS: "MAGNETICKEJ SWITCH?"

cheap fast sexy

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It's the middle of a conversation between a MATA_BOT_RESEARCHER and MATACORP CEO-PRESIDENT.

Bot: "...would make our product a de-facto standard among reliable services."

CEO is looking at a clipboard with features of the proposed product.

MATAVPS, CHEAP FAST SEXY

CEO: "I don't get it, where's the profit."

Bot: "Look at phase 3."

CEO flips a few pages to a list titled Phase 3. It's just a crude pencil drawing of a bot holding bags of money and standing on the face of a consumer.

CEO: "This is really good, did you draw this yourself?"

Bot blushes in the back.

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Boy, Puffy and Penguin sit about.

Boy is on his laptop. Curly haired Puffy is hacking on a touchscreen machine.

Penguin with a pink ribbon is reading DISTRO WATCH TOWER.

Puffy turns around to face Boy.

Puffy: "Boy, what did you do?"

Boy: "ummmmmmmm patch(1)?"

rare lore

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NEWS BROADCAST:

'THIS JUST IN... UCSEAA JUST CAPITULATED. PRESIDENT MAGENTA IS TO HAND OVER THE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY TO MATACORP CEO-PRESIDENT SACC BAGARI... I... EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY... EVERY CITIZE OF THE UNITED CORPORATE STATES OF EUROAMERICAFRICA IS NOW A SUBJECT OF MATACORP... GOD HELP US ALL.......'

It's a room full of floating fish hackers. One speaks up to the rest:

"This is it folks. Pack up. Shred the rest. We're to meet the gophers in 20 minutes. We will not be coming back."

Read the full comic here

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It's a blank poster for Techno-Mage issue: HOW HARD COULD IT BE.

"Give MATA a chance!"

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Mage looks beyond the picture, visibly annoyed.

runbsd (in your head)

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Puffy instructs Girl how to use the OpenWellingon BrainBus.

kernel pixies

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Girl and Puffy look inside an open case of a computer that is booting up. Tiny winged blue creatures examine the contents of the computer and trace where which wires go. In the background, a monitor displays the OpenBSD boot process.

Girl is shocked.

Puffy: "I never bothered to look up the technical term - I call them kernel pixies."

the machine bleeds blue

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Girl is holding a knife, she's covered in blue splatter.

Puffy hovers about, saying: "No one said it would be easy."

[animated]

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Rough animated walk(float) cycle of Girl and Puffy.

forbidden man pages

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In a dark room, Penguin Occultist and Magnetic Nymph invite you to take a floppy.

Building a wall.

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It's the frontier of the linux realm. Two penguins are showering.

Penguin1: "...What are you? Some kind of a phobe?"

Penguin2: "WHAT?! No! I'm just saying the new reinforcements are making me uncomfortable."

Penguin1: "I don't know what you mean."

The two penguins are standing guard outside, dressed in armor, while others are seen building a wall in the background.

One is uninterested, holding a spear and scrolling on its phone. The other looks nervously to his side.

Next to the penguins stands a tall fox with a determined look on its face, also in full armor, a skin of a penguin covers its helmet.

[animated]

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Mage is listening to music on the backdrop of a night desert.

Fosschild tells Mage the story of meeting its teacher. Read the full issue here.

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Poster for the techno-mage issue: WELLINGTON PART 2

It features old Charles Wellington, the maker of OpenBlade and OpenWellington on the backdrop of a ruined underground city and Fosschild, holding the Unix Bible.

He shares half of his face with Fossangel.

disconnect yourself.

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Girl, Fish and Penguin walk home. Girl is carrying a paper bag filled with old motherboards, wires and pci cards.

Girl asks: "Do you ever wonder how much of this old tech was backdoored?"

Fish: "It all is."

Penguin: "what."

there's AI in MAID

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Girl holding Puffy sits on top of a ruined billboard, staring into the distance. By her side is OpenBlade and a can of OPENSODA.

The billboard advertises the old MATA AI COMPANION - MATAMAID, featuring a purple skinned android.

THE FUTURE IS MATA MAID!

Girl follows directions

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Girl, holding the cyber mantis leaflet given to her by an ominous robed character comes across a sign with the same symbol and an entrance to an underground club.

Outside the entrance two hackers smoke.

There is a poster for the band lo0.

She enters. In the hallway she walks past 3 coin laundry cultists. The hallway is littered with posters and stickers. She presses on."

She walks into the club. The singer of lo0 is just performing their classic: 'browser poweruser.' The place is packed with hackers.

Everyone in the club turns around to look at Girl. Most are surprised. A few recognize her. Girl is happy.

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It's an aftermath of a battle in a shabby apartment in Metacity. Techno-Mage sits before a console, her nose is bleeding, there's a cut on her arm. A diseased MATA ANDROID with OpenBlade stuck in its head lies next to the machine, an antenna extends from its hilt.

A wire runs from the eye socket of the android to the console.

Console: "MATACORP: WELCOME BACK, EMPLOYEE NUMBER 62278421"

Mage: "Just when you thought it was over."

The mage is listening to lo0 on her OpenWalker music player.

at the machine-mechanic's store

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The Fish is in a machine-mechanic's store. The mechanic is handing over an ancient pci express card.

Mechanic: "You're in luck, I get hardly any MilTek stuff these days. Anything else?"

Girl, from the outside: "Master, don't forget the game!!!"

Fish: "Do you have Zork 2?"

Mechanic: "Text adventure phase?"

Fish: "Mh.."

In an ancient temple in the depths of the acidic jungle slumbers an antediluvian machine. run it.

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Girl with a crown of fish-spikes, OpenBlade, printed out documentation and a little daemon on her shoulders approach an ancient sleeping machine overgrown with jungle flora.

openbsdgaming

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Puffy and Girl walk across the desolate land. Girl keeps asking Puffy what game he'd like to play along the way:

Girl: "...How about 'Guess which GNU core util I am?'"

Puffy: "No..."

Girl: "'Find the syntax error?'"

Puffy: "No."

Girl: "'REGEX or GLOB?'"

Puffy: "No."

Girl (desperately): "Well, what _do_ you want to play?"

Puffy: "How about 'Execute my command?'"

Girl (ecstatic): "YES! You start!"

Puffy: "x=1; until (( x == 1000 )); do ((x++); done"

Puffy and Girl walk across the desolate land. It is quiet. (Girl is adding up numbers in her head).

Puffy, Penguin and Girl sneak into a MATA water reservoir

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It's the middle of a night. Puffy, Girl and Penguin sneak into a MATA water reservoir.

Puffy and Penguin are having a good time. Girl is hesitant. It's her first time standing in such clean water.

It's Entropy all over again.

Entropy all over again.">

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Puffy appears in the his perception of the Spirit of the Machine's realm. It's much like Girl's rendition of it. Blue ocean water, red corals and gray rocks. A voice appears.

Voice: "Fish... at it once again... how many students have you buried already? ...Last of the open clan... 'She's the one' 'he's the one.' How many graves will it take to keep your legacy alive? You are her everything..."

Spirit of the Machine appears before Puffy in the visage of a Pentium-M Man bot.

Spirit of the Machine: "Don't let her down. Your master and I are rooting for you."

Fossangel and a partially obstructed person stand by the Spirit's side.

2:

Girl and Puffy are hacking. Girl turns to Puffy and joyously exclaims: "MASTER! IT BUILDS!"

They're using swords now?

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It's the middle of a swordfight.

Techno-Mage, holding OpenBlade with both her hands, is parrying blows from a giant MATA_BOT_SWORDFIGHTER.

Mage shouts at OpenBlade: "READ OUT THE GUIDE ON 'SWORD_MATA_BOT'"

OpenBlade: "This documents needs groff(1) to be rendered."

While the children's book remains a best seller among the free people, it has been adopted as a holy text by a certain group of ascetic hackers.

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Dust cover for the book 'PROPHET OF THE BOOK OF LINKS & OTHER TALES VOLUME 2'

It features Pate, the prophet of the book of links doing the 'L' and '2' gestures with his hands. Behind him towers the Fossangel, smoking a cigarette.

A yellow sticker: 'FOSSTOWN HERALD BESTSELLER' is taped to the book.

9frontcartoonnetwork

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Girl is eating FishBowlCereal, watching 9Cartoons of Glenda and a tiny Mata_Bot.

Puffy is reading a newspaper.

organic floppies

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Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

'It all seemed so innocent once.' -sl

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Techno-Mage is examining a framed black and white picture of herself and her master from her childhood.

Fossangel appears before her, smoking a cigarette.

Fossangel: "Time, Mage?"

$

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Puffy hands a floppy titled 'ksh' to Girl.

Puffy: "this is the latest release, I need you to deliver it to a wizard."

Girl: "How will I recognize him?"

Puffy: "Oh, you'll recognize him."

Next-scene:

Girl hands the floppy to a gigantic insect-like biped, lounging in a cave with a massive CRT screen behind it. The wizard is tattooed with various shell commands.

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Girl, with an at (@) symbol, attached to her forehead, Penguin with a lowercase f, taped to its back and OpenBlade with a note that says '+0 orcish short sword' tied to its hilt. Girl has a bunch of paper strips in her pocket and one that says '+0 orcish ring mail' pinned to her chest.

Girl pats Penguin on its head and says: "We must enter the dungeon and retrieve the amulet of Yendor."

Penguin, annoyed: "Do I have to do this?"

Girl: "'The kitten mews.'"

OpenBlade plays a sound file called: 'sigh.ogg'

Behind the three is a massive pillow fort with a dark entrance labeled 'DUNGEON'

On the desk in the foreground is a nethack cheat sheet, strips of paper and scissors.

Could it be?

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Techno-Mage and Fosschild walk together from Metacity. Mage is impressed by the child's knowledge of old tech.

Mage: "How do you know so much about old tech?"

Fosschild: "My sewer friend Charles."

OpenBlade: "WHAT"

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SOMEWHERE IN METACITY:

Fosschild and their friend stand by a ruined basketball court in a shady part of the city. The horizon is decorated by skyscrapers with digital billboards featuring advertisements for 'MATAMART - we'll tell you what you need' and 'JACK2HEAD_VISOR'.

The court is surrounded by dilapidated apartment buildings and broken billboard screens. In the foreground, a sign covered in graffiti says: "Unplug and Play outside!"

Fosschild and their friend begin walking across the court. "I don't know what I expected... They said it'd be fixed 3 months ago... sometimes I feel like they don't really care about us.."

MEANWHILE IN AN APARTMENT BUILDING NEARBY.

A METACITY SPECIAL POLICE UNIT stack up by an apartment door, heavily armed, ready to breach.

MATA_BOT: "GO GO GO!"

The bot team break the door, guns blazing. There is a single person browsing the internet on their laptop, caught by the rain of bullets from the bots' fire.

LATER: A MATAPD detective in a trench coat, seemingly human, enters the apartment and approaches one of the MATA_BOTS.

Bot: "Detective?"

Detective: "Captain, what's the situation?"

Bot: "One hacker down. Approximately 14 minutes ago the bastard tried accessing MATAVIDS with an unsupported browser."

Another bot is examining the corpse.

~fin

find your favorite hero

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Girl is under the blankets, watching the OpenBSD boot screen on her laptop.

Around her, wrapped in and about, sleep Penguin, Puffy, Xenia, Glenda. There are feet of Daemon too.

On Girl's laptop sleeps a Fred, the dragonfly.

one touch delivery company

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Poster for TECHNO-MAGE Issue number one:

It features a techno-mage of the 9 clan with their pink beaked mount.

In the foreground, looking at the mage, is Girl and Puffy.

In the back shines the red sun of analog nowhere.

Not his greatest film, but certainly stimulating.

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Mom penguin and baby penguin walk by a massive THEY FLIP movie poster. A picture featuring three alien penguins in earthly clothes. The subtitle says: THIS DISTROHOP MAY BE YOUR LAST! DO NOT INSTALL.

From the director of RED IS DEAD

baby penguin: "Mom! I want to see it!"

Mom penguin: "Absolutely not."

anyway, I'll take 30 shotgun shells

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The Mage is examining a pair of white antique headphones inside 'Deb's Antique Store', while waiting for her supplier Deb to dig up a box with decommissioned MilTek shotgun shells.

There are a lot of shelves and boxes with various titles. rcs, ssh, bitmap fonts, broken glass, telnet, phreaking stuff,...

Mage (about the headphones she's examining): "And these are genuine?"

Deb, pulling out a box titled MILTEK: "If they work, probably not."

news from the metaverse

This website now features the underscore section, which is an up to date feed of new images and comics, using the familiar previous/next navigation. Furthemore, the rss feed generation has been reworked to include mostly all new uploads, with some exceptions¹. This should be interesting to anyone, who wishes to stay away from the fediverse feeds, and/or only wishes to subscribe to nothing but analognowhere material. Images from the underscore section are directly included in the feed now, as well as this and future texts from the log section, which could help you stay away from even this website.

Future longer comic issues will be also featured in the underscore, but the overview of released comics will remain in issues. The meta section should be the place where to find everything else this website publicly offers. The mini section has been retired and will remain as an archive of old and miserable content.

OpenBlade's database (wiki) remains in its perpetual early-access state. Direct updates to it are not feautured in the feed, but when a large change happens, it will be mentioned in the analoglog (and thus in the feed).

Love and care went into making this website a fairly enjoyable experience with good web browsers.

thank you

I do not personally publish any of my work in the big-tech social networks. This proverbial shooting of my own leg has been my decision from the beginning. There's a statement in there somewhere. Over the past few weeks, I've received a large number of positive feedback. If you're a fan of my work, have donated to this project, or written me a love letter, know that I am grateful.

I hope to continue littering this side of the internet for years to come. Thank you for your support, if it weren't for you, I would have given up a long time ago.

• ~pmjv_prahou
• mastodon
• lemmy

P.S.

What's this website about?

You decide.

notes

• 1 the faux posters section is not included in the rss feed for reasons unknown, but by design

I hate f*cebook

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Girl looks at a picture from the Techno-Mage comic. She turns around and asks Puffy, who is solving a sudoku puzzle in BSD WEEKLY newspaper.

Girl: "I'm a cartoon character?"

Puffy: "And I'm a fork. Don't think about it."

Penguin is trying to snatch the comic, because it's in it.

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Girl is hacking on her laptop. There's a binary blob in a glass container, a tea cup and an opened snack box of fish food on the desk next to her.

Puffy floats in, carrying several cables with latches on the RJ45 connectors snapped off.

Puffy: "When you're done playing, could you replace these RJ45's that you broke?"

Girl is awkwardly silent.

Cool...

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It's Girl and Penguin. Girl looks up and quotes her teacher:

Girl: "One does not become a hacker, one lets the hacker within guide their fingers."

Penguin, kind of surprised: "Cool...?"

Puffy sends Girl to the city to meet with an underground hacker cell

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Girl encounters a robed girl on the streets of Metacity, handing out leaflets with a hackerstown mantis.

Girl is hesitant to take one.

In the back, two police MATA_BOTs are eying the two girls.

Bunch of electric advertisements decorate the walls of the city: MATA MAID REPAIR CLUB, JACK2HEAD and BUY.

There are a bunch of paper posters on the walls as well. WANTED HACKERS: blowfish, bunny.

The robed girl says: "It's not a cult."

"Join us!"

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The mage is surrounded by serpents wearing JACK2HEAD_MATA_VISORS.

She's clutching her old vintage laptop.

Fear no feelings.

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Girl is holding OpenBlade, wires are running from its hilt off screen, presumably to the laptop next to her. She's about to upgrade the blade's homebrew OS.

There's a box of fish food in the back and the famous HACKER GIRL tome.

On the desk next to the laptop is a MilTek Manual Omnibus. (MilTek being the company behind OpenBlade's creation.) And a bunch of hand written notes by Charles Wellington, the actual author of the sentient weapon.

OpenBlade: "Listen, I'm not saying I'm scared or that children can't follow guides, I just really want you to keep in mind my retail price would've been in the millions..."

Girl: "I don't understand money.."

Freelancer journalist from Metacity writes an article about the mage

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The mage is talking to the camera, there's blue blood on her face and coat. She's wearing a liberated mata-visor, holding OpenBlade.

Behind her stands a screaming MATA_bot with its face split in two.

Mage: "It's only acting as if it were in pain. The MATA_BOT MK2 is not actually sentient."

the letters m k 3 are imprinted on the bot's shoulder plate.