Day 5
I successfully made contact with the human today. As per usual, I completed my cyclic meal intake, but did not come across the human. When I arrived at my work station, the human was already present. She turned around to me and once again, her face warped into a horrifying grimace similar to the one on the second day, baring her teeth and raising the corners of her mouth in a rather threatening manner. I recoiled, although fortunately, the grimace was gone as soon as it had appeared. The human did not seem to notice my discomfort, and simply turned back to her work station.
After a moment, I felt secure enough to approach my own work station. As we worked in silence, I pondered if this was perhaps not a sign of aggression, but rather a way of greeting among humans. Although this thesis could not be supported by any real evidence, as baring ones teeth was a universal sign of aggression among most species.
The human, suddenly, seemingly without any indicator, spoke up: "Y‘know, I just realized that I never asked your name. That must‘ve seemed terribly rude of me."
"I was not upset by your behaviour", I decided on after a moment.
"So what is your name?" "My species does not participate in the gifting of individual names.", I explained. "We simply address each other by their titles or their profession. I am addressed as 'mechanic'."
"But that‘s…boring and sad." My front pliers uttered a rattling sound. "I have never known anything else." Her vocal cords vibrated, producing a barely detectable humming sound.
The silence did not last long. "Can I ask you a kind of personal question? You don‘t have to answer, obviously…I was just wondering: Do…all of your species look like you? Kind of like, insect-looking, six legs, pliers, compound eyes type?"
"The anatomy of my species does not wary greatly. We all look quite similar, yes." "Oh, cool"
I tried to word my own following question as polite as possible: "What…about your species? Do your individuals vary greatly from each other in terms of physique?"
"Well…kind of. I mean, we all have, like, the same 'ground structure', I guess you‘d call it? Like, anatomy-wise? But we like, can vary in, for example skin colour, eye colour, hair colour, height, weight, so shape, basically. Uuh yeah, that‘s what‘s coming into my head right now." She had started 'counting' with her fingers while she spoke, taking one finger for every thing she listed.
"That is quite astounding, compared to my species.", I informed her. "Yeah, I guess you could say so…", she opened and closed her mouth, producing a clicking sound as her teeth clashed together. Seemingly, she had wanted to say another thing, but decided against it.
Before I was able to strike up another conversation, Wrin walked, or rather, stumbled into the main control room, a bottle in their gloved hand. They informed me that, apparently, there was another leak in one of the machinery rooms that they wanted me to have a look at. Although I doubted their words, I followed them nonetheless, even if it was solely to reassure them.
As it transpired, there was an actual leak, which I had to spend the rest of the cycle repairing and checking that there was further damage or similar leaks, since there had been two in a row in a rather short matter of cycles.
When I eventually finished the task at hand, the cycle had almost come to an end and the human had left the premises to indulge in her (now dark) recharging time session.
As I stated in the report prior to this one, I do not draw conclusions, but I have a slight presentiment that the human may like me.
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Shina's TSP Out of Bounds Adventures - EMPLOYEE DATABASE COUNT
THIS POST BROKE 9 TIMES I AM CLOSE TO BEING DONE but tbh it was so silly, feeling like I have a thin foil hat with 'theory master' written on it
I have explored a bit of the game out of bounds and I know its been done before but I still want to share some stuff so
I want to focus on this particular screen I found in the normal ver of the Museum (I think it sometimes shows in other ones in Parable), focusing on the 'total employee in x' lines
MORE UNDER THE CUT
TOTAL EMPLOYEE IN OFFICE: [2]
We know the first one is Stanley
The other one has no number and no status. It is possible the system being off just cannot tell the mysterious employee, their data might be corrupted or sth else idk, I'm rewriting this for 9th time
My theories:
a) Narrator: makes the most sense, might not have a number associated with himself but has power over Parable, seems to have internet access (mentions of Steam, reviews, Twitter), his status being left unknown might be due to his computer working but not being connected to the system
b) Settings Person/TK/432: people yelled at me that it shouldn't be the case cus they got fired (look below) but:
- 432 sorta evaporated likewise
- as the Settings Person, being able to keep the game on rolling, they seem to have overall some control over the game
- they used to be an employee but since they now aren't human, it is possible the system deleted their files but still sees them
Other options: Curator, other Stanley, dead rat, Mariella
TOTAL EMPLOYEE IN DATABASE [604]
There are in total 599 numbered screens - since two are fired
Fired ones: 104 - view on 432's desk; 601 - view on 434's
There is also blackened ones, 097 and 098 but these might also just not work
There are also 4 whitened screens with no numbers (look above next to fired and here) - I do not know if I should coun them in anything since no "employee" is written on them.
However, meetings room and stairs often show up as diff employees so I do think they deserve a mention
we also have 2 special employees - Pirate and Clippy.
Pirate is just a view on 427's desk (we have a few diff camera views throughout this whole thing but I have no energy to show every one now)
Clippy, 104 - fired, and 234 all show 432's desk. It might repeat more times but I think that's quite good to mention
We also have a 000 employee that doesn't have a special screen
We also have two errors: 028 (which is sideways) and 528
So to summarise and try to make sense out of that:
Computer screen says there are 604 employees
The room, however, has 601 (603 if you include Pirate and Clippy) employee screens
595 normal employees;
2 fired - 104, 601;
2 errors - 028, 528;
2 blackened - 097, 098
3 special ones - Pirate, Clippy and 000
4 white screens without numbers
My suggestions:
a) 603 in total (601 with fired ones+ Pirate and Clippy) + 000 - prob the easiest
b) Delete 2 fired ones (599 left), add 4 whitened out and Pirate - since 432 is already fired, we shouldn't count back Clippy
c) 595 normal + 2 blackened + 3 specials + 4 whites
d) 594 ( since 432 is already fired), count Pirate, Clippy, 2 blackened, 2 errors and 4 whites
I'm so done
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