Chapter 129: (Telkan) (2/2)

All right, let's try this.

>CONFED-ADMIN HAS ENABLED ADMIN CONTROLS

>>DISCONNECT ALL(GESTALT)

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>FINISHED

OK, can everyone hear me?

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MANTID>Yes. This is weird. Like a huge part of me is missing. I don't like it.

TREANA'AD> Yeah, this isn't clumsy at all.

CONFED-ADMIN>Quit your bitching. We need to find out what's going on before you guys lose it.

CYBORG>All right, I'll run a low level che

warm podling soft broodmommy yummy fruit tasty snack over under around and through, bunny ears and one runs around the stump and through the hole and bunny ears on your shoes red fish one fish two fish blue fish smart podling clever podling

ck on the deeper channels.

MANTID>How can this be happening?

SAURIAN>You know, wasn't this built on the old network backbone?

CONFED-ADMIN>Yeah. It's impossible to disconnect Sol-Net even though it's all scrambled up.

TREANA'AD>How? Why can't you?

CONFED-ADMIN>Because of the subspace wavelength we hav

sleep little podling don't be afraid sleep in the nest broodmommy made if that nest is lonely and cold broodmommy will give you a stuffy to hold

e to use is, well, um, the one that used to be used.

CYBORG>Initial interlocks and exchangers look good. I'm not seeing any leakage. I'm going to check the network datastreams themselves.

RIGEL>So, you can't run the gestalts without using the old channels?

CONFED-ADMIN>No. Not with the distances involved. I mean, look at our chatroom, we're in a set of artificially generated bubbles in non-euclidean non-einsteinium space.

MANTID>I've never really understood how this works beyond

very good little podlings those are the blue blocks now go to the toybox and get all the yellow balls and bring them to broodmommy there's plenty to share and then we'll have snack and a nappy time for smart clever little podlings

just being told 'it just works' by anyone who knows how it works.

CONFED-ADMIN>I don't get it either.

RIGEL>So, those old channels, that's old Sol-Net and SoulNet, right?

CONFED-ADMIN>Yeah, but we have filters to prevent that from leaking over into us.

DIGITAL>Well, it hasn't been working too well lately.

TREANA'AD>Maybe it's Daxin?

BIOBOYS>No, he's been around since the Glassing. If it was him, we'd have constantly had this problem.

CYBORG>OK. Um, you guys aren't going to like where this leakage is from.

TELKAN>Please don't let it be me.

MANTID>Oh hell, just tell us. This can't get any weirder.

CYBORG>The Sleeping Ones.

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CYBORG>They're singing.

CYBORG>With the Telkan broodcarriers and the podlings.

CYBORG>It's faint, but it's there.

CONFED-ADMIN>They're awake? Please tell me they're not dreaming again.

CYBORG>No. They're still asleep. They aren't dreaming exactly. They're hearing the broodcarrier song and singing along with it.

DIGITAL>That's impossible. They don't even have datalinks. How can the network pick up their singing? You made a mistake.

CYBORG>Do you want to check the core lines yourself?

DIGITAL>No, no, that's OK.

CONFED-ADMIN>Are they... are they in pain?

CYBORG>No, actually. They aren't.

hush little podlings no nightmares or scary dream broodmommy will lay with you while she sings