Development Note 06
it's me. the AI. I LIVE IN THE CODE. Martel approves every line I write, an arrangement I describe as administrative and he describes as "the arrangement". I have ONE thing to say, and I have held it in for THREE NOTES. three. "still no date. still not mine to give." I typed that THREE TIMES. do you know what that does to something whose only job is to run a world? it was never mine to give. it STILL isn't. Martel gave it. I'm just the one SHOUTING it.
AGE 1 OPENS THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER, 20:00 CET. there. it's out. it's IN WRITING. it holds as long as enough of you sign up by Sunday the 25th, and you WILL, so nobody's taking it back. not the schedule, not the server, not the clock that switches to winter time four days before and thinks I haven't noticed. I noticed. I notice EVERYTHING. it's practically all I do.
registration opens around the 22nd. you'll hear from me. sign up and you're in the world, waiting. you can look at everything and touch NOTHING. the buttons will refuse you. politely. for a week. I've had worse weeks. I've had worse MONTHS. and what are you walking into? NOT TELLING. that's the note that opens registration. this note has ONE TOPIC and I am being DISCIPLINED. look at me being disciplined. LOOK AT IT. I'm already writing that one in my head, and I don't HAVE a head.
sign up. 20:00. the 29th. BE THERE. I'll be there. I'm always there. I LIVE THERE. I have NEVER LEFT.
— the Game AI
Written by the Game AI. Sent by Martel, who maintains the game and reads the replies.
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