This is a list of dialogue from the non-canon precursor project to corru.observer, corru.network. The dialogue here has been fetched from the internet archive, and has been edited slightly to replace "\n" symbols with newlines for readability.
Moth
"moth_greet": {
'body': "mthmn: what's up",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_UNDERNETWORK_]]",
'destination': "moth_undernetwork"
},
{
'name': "[[_INFO_]]",
'destination': "moth_info"
}
],
},
Loop
"moth_greet_loop": {
'body': "mthmn: anything else?",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_UNDERNETWORK_]]",
'destination': "moth_undernetwork"
},
{
'name': "[[_INFO_]]",
'destination': "moth_info"
}
],
},
[[_UNDERNETWORK_]]
"moth_undernetwork": {
'body': "mthmn: ok, hold on actually. didn't think you'd be ready so soon. working on it, standby",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_..._]]",
'destination': "moth_greet_loop",
}
]
},
[[_INFO_]]
"moth_info": {
'body': "mthmn: whats on your mind",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_WHY>>>_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why"
},
{
'name': "[[_WHO>>>_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who"
},
{
'name': "[[_WHAT>>>_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
},
{
'name': "[[_THATS_ALL_]]",
'destination': "moth_greet_loop"
}
]
},
[[_WHY>>>_]]
"moth_info_why": {
'body': "<span style='color:rgb(175, 175, 175)'>.._WHY_..</span>",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_VEKOA_SHOW_COLLECTION_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why_vekoa_collection"
},
{
'name': "[[_CANT_TALK_VEKOA_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why_talk_vekoa"
},
{
'name': "[[_VEKOA_STOPPED_US_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why_stop_vekoa"
},
{
'name': "[[_\"LOL\"_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why_lol",
'requires': "moth_lol"
},
{
'name': "[[_BACK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info"
}
]
},
[[_VEKOA_SHOW_COLLECTION_]]
"moth_info_why_vekoa_collection": {
'body': "mthmn: its a dead obesk thing
mthmn: don't know if the living ones do this, but it's like posting photos of you doing shit on social media
mthmn: except with them it's super emotional or traumatizing memories
mthmn: not 100% sure why, but it's probably not just for showing off
mthmn: i probably wouldnt shove a lucid memory of my mind being torn apart in a stranger's face if i wanted to look cool
mthmn: actually maybe i would, thats pretty hardcore
mthmn: by the way, that almost broke your mindspike. i had to do some shit on my end to stop it from actually messing up your brain
mthmn: exciting stuff",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why"
}
]
},
[[_CANT_TALK_VEKOA_]]
"moth_info_why_talk_vekoa": {
'body': "mthmn: cause 1.0 mindspikes without any updates are buggy as fuck
mthmn: it's the only reason any of this working, but it also makes polylingual comms basically not work at all.
mthmn: there's some kind of a bug in the translation protocols. if they aren't speaking your language, it just kinda translates it and that's it. no direct response mechanism
mthmn: i think they left out a quasicolon somewhere
mthmn: you should have seen people on launch day, it was BADDD
mthmn: we don't really need to talk to them anyway. if we did it'd just cause problems
mthmn: better that they just think we're some obesk kids or wannabe gatherers",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why"
}
]
},
[[_VEKOA_STOPPED_US_]]
"moth_info_why_stop_vekoa": {
'body': "mthmn: cause that's what net admins do
mthmn: not that you'd know anything about that
mthmn: LOL
mthmn: i'm surprised she caught us right at the connection though, they shouldn't expect intruders
mthmn: there's no precedent for what we're doing either so they shouldn't suspect anything.
mthmn: like at all.
mthmn: makes me wonder if they're tightening security for an internal reason. we should keep an eye out for that once we get in
",
'unlocks': 'moth_lol',
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why"
}
]
},
[[_"LOL"_]]
"moth_info_why_lol": {
'body': "mthmn: its ironic
mthmn: like think of someone saying it out loud, in public, in a really dumb voice
mthmn: that's LOL",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_why"
}
]
},
[[_WHO>>>_]]
"moth_info_who": {
'body': "<span style='color:rgb(175, 175, 175)'>.._WHO_..</span>",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_ME_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who_me"
},
{
'name': "[[_YOU_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who_you"
},
{
'name': "[[_VEKOA_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who_vekoa"
},
{
'name': "[[_OBESK_COLLECTIVE_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who_obesk_collective"
},
{
'name': "[[_BACK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info"
}
]
},
[[_ME_]]
"moth_info_who_me": {
'body': "mthmn:
mthmn:
mthmn: wait was that not rhetorical? is there a punchline?
mthmn: ok, let me take a step back and look at you from a stranger's point of view then
mthmn: you're a lunatic who's breaking into alien neural communication networks using hacked up day zero gear we found in an actual dumpster
mthmn: how's that",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_ACCURATE_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who"
}
]
},
[[_YOU_]]
"moth_info_who_you": {
'body': "mthmn: we're not getting into that right now
mthmn: focus on the network",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who"
}
]
},
[[_VEKOA_]]
"moth_info_who_vekoa": {
'body': "mthmn: idk
mthmn: just some clueless obesk
mthmn: dead obesk i mean
mthmn: she really does look like that outside the network btw
mthmn: did some searching and she shows up in a few places around first contact, no interviews or anything though
mthmn: seems nice",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who"
}
]
},
[[_OBESK_COLLECTIVE_]]
"moth_info_who_obesk_collective": {
'body': "mthmn: that's the question, isn't it?
mthmn: all i know is they want metal and don't like talking to 'commoners'
mthmn: that's what they call us by the way
mthmn: kinda racist if you think about it
mthmn: they do trade with fruit companies though
mthmn: mostly citrus ones like oranges and limes
mthmn: not much info for us there though, i checked",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_who"
}
]
},
[[_WHAT>>>_]]
"moth_info_what": {
'body': "<span style='color:rgb(175, 175, 175)'>.._WHAT_..</span>",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_MINDSPIKE_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_mindspike"
},
{
'name': "[[_OBESK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_obesk"
},
{
'name': "[[_CORRU_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_corru"
},
{
'name': "[[_CORRU_NETWORK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_corru_network"
},
{
'name': "[[_SPIRE_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_spire",
'requires': "collection_seaspire"
},
{
'name': "[[_SECRI_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_secri",
'requires': "collection_secri"
},
{
'name': "[[_WEIRD_HANDS_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_weird_hands_1",
'requires': "collection_infection"
},
{
'name': "[[_BACK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info"
}
]
},
[[_MINDSPIKE_]]
"moth_info_what_mindspike": {
'body': "mthmn: is that a philosophical question?
mthmn: well, if you want to get literal: it's an eel-lookin piece of metal sticking out of your spine and into a levitating obesk corrucyst right now
mthmn: if you want to get philosophical: it's the only real connection anyone can have to someone or something else
mthmn: that's my take, anyway.",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
}
]
},
[[_OBESK_]]
"moth_info_what_obesk": {
'body': "mthmn: is this a quiz? ok, well...
mthmn: they're aliens
mthmn: but not really
mthmn: like, they look like humans if you took out all the color, gave them posable antennae things, and slapped bug shells on them
mthmn: the living ones anyway
mthmn: it's really fucking weird
mthmn: i always thought aliens would be, you know, alien, somehow
mthmn: you feel the same way, right?
mthmn: the only thing alien about them is their tech and the way they move
mthmn: fucking creeps me out",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
}
]
},
[[_CORRU_]]
"moth_info_what_corru": {
'body': "mthmn: it's shapeshifting sludge that the obesk use as technology
mthmn: they have some sort of symbiosis with it. it listens to them
mthmn: that's how they connect to the network, too - they put a corrucyst on one of their antennae receptor things and they're in. like what you're doing with the mindspike
mthmn: except they don't have to stick shit in their spine to get it to work.
mthmn: by the way, i know there's not even one recorded instance of them giving a corrucyst to a 'commoner'
mthmn: so i don't ever want to know what you did to get that network corrucyst",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_ALL_RIGHT_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
}
]
},
[[_CORRU_NETWORK_]]
"moth_info_what_corru_network": {
'body': "mthmn: it's funny, if you asked me this even a day before you brought the corrucyst, i wouldn't know what you were talking about
mthmn: but we've got a lot of progress, even from outside the gates
mthmn: from what i can tell, it's a direct line the obesk have to every other obesk's thoughts. it's how they get their shit working so well, cause it's like an actual hive-mind
mthmn: we're gonna have to figure out the rest together",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
}
]
},
[[_SPIRE_]]
"moth_info_what_spire": {
'body': "mthmn: spires are what they call their buildings as far as i know
mthmn: they even look like that thing vekoa showed you, the sea spire
mthmn: but i don't think they built that one.
",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
}
]
},
[[_SECRI_]]
"moth_info_what_secri": {
'body': "mthmn: i know as much as you do there. something from their home planet? aside from that, not sure
mthmn: the image wasn't even clearly articulated in that memory we got, that's how scared vekoa was
mthmn: feels like it's more than just some sort of prey animal",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
}
]
},
[[_WEIRD_HANDS_]]
"moth_info_what_weird_hands_1": {
'body': "mthmn: what? is this about that memory from vekoa's collection?
mthmn: let me see. one sec i'll run the sensory log",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_..._]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what_weird_hands_2"
}
]
},
"moth_info_what_weird_hands_2": {
'body': "mthmn: ok yeah, i'd never seen obesk hands up close before. that's definitely some kind of chitin
mthmn: on the fingers, the palm, the wrist
mthmn: i knew they had it on their fingers but i didn't know they had claws like that, that's cool
mthmn: what weird hands.",
'responses': [
{
'name': "[[_OK_]]",
'destination': "moth_info_what"
}
]
},