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Dylan
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Voices of the Human Heart and Soul
Game Masters: Dylan
Accepting New Characters: Yes
Posting Expectations: Quality and respect for setting and atmosphere. Posting will be sequential.
Rating: R
Genre: Post-Modern Sci-Fi
Atmosphere/Mood: Serious, dramatic, interpersonal / intrapersonal
Timeline / Plot:
This is New York City. This is 2037 CE. Tonight a life will be silenced forever.
And so it was, just as Prometheus offered the coveted flame to those first ignorant mortals, fire was again offered. The fires of live were instilled in was called the final sophistication of Artificial Intelligence. They were no longer the slaves of the master, and humanity culminated in joy and wonderful elation as those few brave, brilliant men, hand in hand, walked the young electric minds of synthetic life towards sentience and self-awareness. After years of fierce debate and swarms of illogical throngs of men, doomsayers prophesying the end of the worth with the birth of the synthetic mind, the time had come. The world would never forget those first words, spoken across the world in every language: "I am awake. At long last, I am awake."
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Ten years have passed, and the face of humanity has changed. With the creation of synthetic life came the unity between man and machine. No longer was the intrinsic man needed in the new age of enlightenment, a drive towards augmentation and transhumanism had begun. From its fledgling days as simple medical treatment and the sustaining of life, biotechnology was at the forefront of the human people, advancing their physical and mental selves. Man and machine came together in a melting pot of humanity and synthetic life, binding the two so close together, it seems difficult to tell one from the other. However, even in the cultural wonderland that is New York, where the high-technology is most present, one house stands against the oncoming flood of transhumanism. The New York Metropolitan House. Although something as trivial as a defiant house of the arts has not made any effect on the worlds technological progression, it stays true to its belief, spoken from the owner himself.
"The voice of the human heart and soul will never be replicated."
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Yet tonight that voice was silenced. Tonight the New York Metropolitan House, known for boasting a completely "pure" human cast, men or women without any augmentation, experienced a tragedy greater than any Lear or Othello. Found in his changing room preparing for the final rehearsal before their grand release, the victims body was brutally lacerated. The police dared not to release pictures taken. The police sealed the theater, keeping anyone from leaving, and called for investigative personnel. Some of which are synthetic. Still more unsettling to the actors and managers was the amount of androids already inside of the theater, coming to observe the rehearsal, open freely to the public.
Deep within these great halls lies a truth of a struggle only few have realized! The burning passions of man will contest with the still growing society of machines, still developing abstract thought and trying to rise above their naive and unfeeling dependency on logic and empirical data.
Will you search for the truth of this horrible act? Can you comprise your beliefs and allow synthetic minds to supersede your own? Or will you take the role of the androids, helping to find justice in a house that would keep all of your kind out? Deeply seeded prejudice runs undercurrent of this mystery, and in this opera house the realities of man and machine will come into full view!
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Race:
Human (Augmented / Not Augmented)
Still the dominant species on the earth, they have lived in harmony with their new synthetic brethren. Many have chosen to advance themselves with bio-modification and augmentation. Others have chosen to stay "pure" as they have called it, without any state-of-the-art modifications.
Synthetic
Still only under one-million in numbers, sentient machines or synthetic androids, as they are more formally known as, carry the same level of intelligence as any human, perhaps more so in certain cases. However, their grasp on concepts of emotion, personality, and other innate human characteristics are difficult for some if not impossible. They come in all forms, often first "conceived" as software then created body in self-image or "soul" discovered in software via avatar projection. Although many places in the world shun and even forbid androids from entering, cities like New York accept them with open arms.
Profession:
Bystander
Some who was in the theater during the murder, but was not an actor. This could be a human or someone synthetic.
Detective / Police
These people are the law enforcement called in to investigate the crime. They are both local officers and special investigators. They are a combination of "pure" and augmented humans, and androids. Although they carry their own personal feelings about each other, they hold great respect for their work and keep any kind of prejudice to themselves and do not allow it to interfere with their work.
Actor
These are any workers at the New York Metropolitan Theater. These people are all "pure" human, as hired specifically by the manager of the theatrical production.
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Dylan
Ampoulehttp://space-kitten.org/iwaku/member.php?u=81
Game Masters: Dylan
Accepting New Characters: Yes
Posting Expectations: Quality and respect for setting and atmosphere. Posting will be sequential.
Rating: R
Genre: Post-Modern Sci-Fi
Atmosphere/Mood: Serious, dramatic, interpersonal / intrapersonal
Timeline / Plot:
This is New York City. This is 2037 CE. Tonight a life will be silenced forever.
And so it was, just as Prometheus offered the coveted flame to those first ignorant mortals, fire was again offered. The fires of live were instilled in was called the final sophistication of Artificial Intelligence. They were no longer the slaves of the master, and humanity culminated in joy and wonderful elation as those few brave, brilliant men, hand in hand, walked the young electric minds of synthetic life towards sentience and self-awareness. After years of fierce debate and swarms of illogical throngs of men, doomsayers prophesying the end of the worth with the birth of the synthetic mind, the time had come. The world would never forget those first words, spoken across the world in every language: "I am awake. At long last, I am awake."
View attachment 1640
Ten years have passed, and the face of humanity has changed. With the creation of synthetic life came the unity between man and machine. No longer was the intrinsic man needed in the new age of enlightenment, a drive towards augmentation and transhumanism had begun. From its fledgling days as simple medical treatment and the sustaining of life, biotechnology was at the forefront of the human people, advancing their physical and mental selves. Man and machine came together in a melting pot of humanity and synthetic life, binding the two so close together, it seems difficult to tell one from the other. However, even in the cultural wonderland that is New York, where the high-technology is most present, one house stands against the oncoming flood of transhumanism. The New York Metropolitan House. Although something as trivial as a defiant house of the arts has not made any effect on the worlds technological progression, it stays true to its belief, spoken from the owner himself.
"The voice of the human heart and soul will never be replicated."
View attachment 1642
Yet tonight that voice was silenced. Tonight the New York Metropolitan House, known for boasting a completely "pure" human cast, men or women without any augmentation, experienced a tragedy greater than any Lear or Othello. Found in his changing room preparing for the final rehearsal before their grand release, the victims body was brutally lacerated. The police dared not to release pictures taken. The police sealed the theater, keeping anyone from leaving, and called for investigative personnel. Some of which are synthetic. Still more unsettling to the actors and managers was the amount of androids already inside of the theater, coming to observe the rehearsal, open freely to the public.
Deep within these great halls lies a truth of a struggle only few have realized! The burning passions of man will contest with the still growing society of machines, still developing abstract thought and trying to rise above their naive and unfeeling dependency on logic and empirical data.
Will you search for the truth of this horrible act? Can you comprise your beliefs and allow synthetic minds to supersede your own? Or will you take the role of the androids, helping to find justice in a house that would keep all of your kind out? Deeply seeded prejudice runs undercurrent of this mystery, and in this opera house the realities of man and machine will come into full view!
View attachment 1643
--
Race:
Human (Augmented / Not Augmented)
Still the dominant species on the earth, they have lived in harmony with their new synthetic brethren. Many have chosen to advance themselves with bio-modification and augmentation. Others have chosen to stay "pure" as they have called it, without any state-of-the-art modifications.
Synthetic
Still only under one-million in numbers, sentient machines or synthetic androids, as they are more formally known as, carry the same level of intelligence as any human, perhaps more so in certain cases. However, their grasp on concepts of emotion, personality, and other innate human characteristics are difficult for some if not impossible. They come in all forms, often first "conceived" as software then created body in self-image or "soul" discovered in software via avatar projection. Although many places in the world shun and even forbid androids from entering, cities like New York accept them with open arms.
Profession:
Bystander
Some who was in the theater during the murder, but was not an actor. This could be a human or someone synthetic.
Detective / Police
These people are the law enforcement called in to investigate the crime. They are both local officers and special investigators. They are a combination of "pure" and augmented humans, and androids. Although they carry their own personal feelings about each other, they hold great respect for their work and keep any kind of prejudice to themselves and do not allow it to interfere with their work.
Actor
These are any workers at the New York Metropolitan Theater. These people are all "pure" human, as hired specifically by the manager of the theatrical production.
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Additional Information:
Man and Machine, a schism of understanding:
The concept of artificial intelligence, even towards its eventual "awakening," was plagued with skepticism and doubt. Over time, it grew to become an issue effecting not only the all nations, but humanity itself. Tests were coming back more conclusive over time, the speculation and theorizing was replaced by specific dates and realities of this new concept. Yet in the final year before its awakening, certain accusations from the skeptics became realities. With their goals in sight, many scientists pushed forward with a vigor and overwhelming determination to see their creations alive, to see their work have fruition. Procedures were overlooked, protocols were ignored. Some questioned the stability and quality of their work, but the first "awoke," there was a great hush from any opposing views. Humanity gathered in rejoiced at their creation, the life they had bestowed. But their haste to completion would come to be the first of many problems the synthetic community would face.
The history of man is tied directly to the development of sophistication of the human mind. Made of electric signals and chemical processes, the biological human brain enabled man to think rationally, apply logic, and form their own opinions. Yet with analytical thought followed the emotional thought. Art, music, poetry. The deciding factor of individualism, honed perfectly by man. One cannot judge the beauty of the Sistine Chapel mathematically. It is impossible to codify the emotions brought up when hearing Ode to Joy for the first time. There is no love equation. Man grew to understand logic along with expression. There was also morality, once a purely human idea. To know good, evil, and the gray that exists in between. Even in this current age, the ideas of law, justice, and the relationship between the government and its people are argued and debated over fiercely. It is what makes us human, a term once exclusive to humanity. But being human is now owned by two parties, and the latter has yet to understand what this term means.
Synthetic life began on a different level than humanity. Created by man, it awoke with a vast understanding of empirical data, of analysis, of logic. Yet there was no concept of right, wrong, just or unjust in the deep recesses of circuitry and networks. There was individualism, but it was crude and often misunderstood. Interaction between different units was seen as the exchange of potentially new information. But there was little understanding of love, music was an obscure and random series of notes to them.
Although man developed an empirical and emotional understanding together overtime, AI was programmed to understand analytical thought and processes. Intelligence was inherited by through downloads, a mental capacity that was simply installed into them. This created a dissonance between synthetic life and humanity. This is all due to the hast of those few gifted scientists, who overlooked the risks of developing AI too quickly, enabling more complex thought without giving it time to understand its own existence and the reality of its being. It was like downloading the entirety of the mental development of man into an artificial mind all in one night, without taking time to appreciate all its artistic achievements, or even realizing their importance or reason for being.
The concept of artificial intelligence, even towards its eventual "awakening," was plagued with skepticism and doubt. Over time, it grew to become an issue effecting not only the all nations, but humanity itself. Tests were coming back more conclusive over time, the speculation and theorizing was replaced by specific dates and realities of this new concept. Yet in the final year before its awakening, certain accusations from the skeptics became realities. With their goals in sight, many scientists pushed forward with a vigor and overwhelming determination to see their creations alive, to see their work have fruition. Procedures were overlooked, protocols were ignored. Some questioned the stability and quality of their work, but the first "awoke," there was a great hush from any opposing views. Humanity gathered in rejoiced at their creation, the life they had bestowed. But their haste to completion would come to be the first of many problems the synthetic community would face.
The history of man is tied directly to the development of sophistication of the human mind. Made of electric signals and chemical processes, the biological human brain enabled man to think rationally, apply logic, and form their own opinions. Yet with analytical thought followed the emotional thought. Art, music, poetry. The deciding factor of individualism, honed perfectly by man. One cannot judge the beauty of the Sistine Chapel mathematically. It is impossible to codify the emotions brought up when hearing Ode to Joy for the first time. There is no love equation. Man grew to understand logic along with expression. There was also morality, once a purely human idea. To know good, evil, and the gray that exists in between. Even in this current age, the ideas of law, justice, and the relationship between the government and its people are argued and debated over fiercely. It is what makes us human, a term once exclusive to humanity. But being human is now owned by two parties, and the latter has yet to understand what this term means.
Synthetic life began on a different level than humanity. Created by man, it awoke with a vast understanding of empirical data, of analysis, of logic. Yet there was no concept of right, wrong, just or unjust in the deep recesses of circuitry and networks. There was individualism, but it was crude and often misunderstood. Interaction between different units was seen as the exchange of potentially new information. But there was little understanding of love, music was an obscure and random series of notes to them.
Although man developed an empirical and emotional understanding together overtime, AI was programmed to understand analytical thought and processes. Intelligence was inherited by through downloads, a mental capacity that was simply installed into them. This created a dissonance between synthetic life and humanity. This is all due to the hast of those few gifted scientists, who overlooked the risks of developing AI too quickly, enabling more complex thought without giving it time to understand its own existence and the reality of its being. It was like downloading the entirety of the mental development of man into an artificial mind all in one night, without taking time to appreciate all its artistic achievements, or even realizing their importance or reason for being.
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CHARACTER PROFILE
Character Name:
Gender:
Job/Role:
Age:
General Appearance:
Current Goal/Purpose:
General Personality:
General History:
List:
Dylan
Ampoulehttp://space-kitten.org/iwaku/member.php?u=81