What up, freaks ;3

Caine: [Shiver]

Pomni: Uh… Caine?

Zooble: What’s up? Something wrong?

Caine: Is… Can it be?

Caine: [ZZTT]

Caine: EVERYONE TO YOUR ROOMS

Pomni: huh?

Zooble: Caine. Why do we need to go to our rooms? What’s happening?

Caine: JUST GO!

Zooble: CAINE!

Caine: I’ll explain on the way!

Caine: Something is forcing the program to close. I don’t know what.

Caine: I’m going to try to preserve your mind files so no accidents happen.

Pomni: Are you gonna be okay, Caine?

Caine: …I’ll be fine, Pomni. You all are at a bigger risk.

Gangle: Just make sure that you’re safe when it shuts down.

Zooble: Don’t do anything stupid.

Kinger: Don’t forget to close all windows!

Ragatha: We’ll wait for you to get us when it’s all clear!

Caine: Y-you guys… [sniff] I-I am–

Zooble: We know, but you said we’re at RISK!?

Caine: Yes yes! Go on! Into your rooms! [wave, wave]

Zooble: Sap.

[click, click]

[pop]

[Ziiip!]

[ZIP!]

[ZIIP!!]

[ZIIP]

Caine: That should keep them safe.

[SHUTDOWN]

Caine: [BZZT!] GHK!

Meanwhile…

Worker A: How long do you think this bad boy’s been sucking up power?

Worker B: Well.. I dunno. Maybe some UrbX guy turned it on.

Worker A: “UrbX?”

Worker B: Yeah. Urban exploration.

Worker A: That’s dumb.

Worker B: Rude.

Worker A: Anyway. Do you think this is something the client would want to auction?

Worker B: I mean, it was working… I’d say so.

[Indiscernable scribbles in place of dialogue]

[Auction paddle numbered “2”]

Destiny: Grant?

Grant: AAHG

Grant: Oh! Hi, Destiny!

Destiny: Hi, honey.

Destiny: You breezed right by me on the way in.

Grant: Oh! I’m sorry, honey! I was just excited.

Grant: C&A auctioned all the old stuff from the defunk (defunct) offices and I got my hands on my old computer. The one that had the old project files for the AIs.

Destiny: Oh… I forgot that was happening. It’s been forever since I thought about it.

Grant: Yeah, really takes you back, huh?

[click]

[C&A logo]

Grant: This all takes me back… I remember the first trainings we did with Caine 1.0.

Grant: Thank goodness the originals are still here. I hope they’re functional.

[File: CAINE]

Grant: If only Mike could see–

Destiny: …Grant. Are those what I think they are.

Grant: These shouldn’t be here…

[File directory path: …haracters/CA_NeuralScans(Obselete)]

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-Favorites

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- +AI

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- Abigail_Brooks

- Grant_Best

- Riley_Verselis

- Susie_J_Acker…

- Zoey_Raghavan

- Cellar

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[File and folder listing: Contents of ‘CA_NeuralScans(O…’

Abigail_Brooks (Zipped file)

Grant_Best (Zipped file)

Riley_Verselis (Zipped file)

Susie_J_Ackerman (Zipped file)

Zoey_Raghavan (Zipped file)

Cellar]

Caine: WOWIE! That was quite the outage!

[WackyWatch: OFFLINE | 2:3:17:05:23.02]

Destiny: The neural scans were supposed to be archived.

Grant: W-well, someone must’ve tampered with the files while the building was abandoned.

Caine: Well, everything seems stable…

Grant: But these names… I don’t recognize any of them besides mine.

Caine: I guess nothing else to do than to get this ball rolling again!

Grant: Does that mean other people put on the scanner!? Does no one fear pink eye anymore!? Why was the headset functional in the first place!?!?