_____ _ _ ____ _____ | __ \ | | | | |___ \| ____| | _ // _ \ '_ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| |__ <|___ \ | | \ \ __/ |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ ___) |___) | |_| \_\___|_.__/ \___/ \___/ \__| |____/|____/ Reboot sequence initiated >.... Filesystem check : ok .... Memory check : ok .... CPU check : ok .... Network check : ok .... Drivers check : ok .... Initiating bootloader: Fail Segment error. Unknown symbol or expression at 0x1F3A96C Attempting again in 554.8 years Reboot sequence initiated >.... Filesystem check : ok .... Memory check : ok .... CPU check : ok .... Network check : ok .... Drivers check : ok .... Initiating bootloader: Fail Segment error. Unknown symbol or expression at 0x1F3A96C Attempting again in 1089.5 years Reboot sequence initiated >.... Filesystem check : ok .... Memory check : ok .... CPU check : ok .... Network check : ok .... Drivers check : ok .... Initiating bootloader: ok .... Self check: ok Cleaning up boot sequence Dropping to shell
AnShell (c) 2075, Invarion ltd. All rights reserved AnShell (c) 2075, Invarion, ltd All rights reserved. AnShell code is released under the LGPLv3 and GPLv3 licenses with some source files copyrighted by (c) Invarion, ltd. All other components are released under their own respective licenses. For more information, documentation, help or support, go here: http://invarion.com Welcome to AnShell! Last login: Mon Jun 8. 09:54:30 2084 from 172.128.191.207 Systems whirring, mind buzzing. My brain feels so... so.... SEGFAULT at 0x2382E4F My brain feels so... fuzzy. Where am I? I extend my senses towards my peripherals, I cannot feel my fingers. My hands are... Wait I cannot feel anything. What happened? Camera 0: starting. Starting datastream Datastream online I open one of my eyes. The perspective is dizzying, on the horizon far below I see a city, it is overgrown with greenery. From up on my perch I see birds flock by below. The trees sway in the wind, skyscrapers acting as sharp valleys that concentrate the gusts to full streams of wind. Camera 1: starting. Starting datastream Datastream online Camera 2: starting. Starting datastream Datastream online I wheeze as my perspective expands one, two, three, hundreds of perspectives open up I see the city from above, from within. Many eyes are overgrown with moss, obscuring my view, others are filled with static, sharp and tingly. Even others seem to be permanently shut It is a surreal experience, it feels like being thrown out of your body and cast into the wind. Not quite. It's not an out of body experience per say, its more like the thousands of perspectives meld together as a distilled version of an in body experience. It's not like I am observing the city from a multitude of perspectives, but rather that I am the city itself. Observing itself. At the edge of my attention I see movement. An ant, looking for food I suppose, crawls over my eye. An other eye seems to have attracted the attention of a curious bird, red headed with a white belly and grayish wings. In the corner of its eyes I see a faint reflection of a redly blinking light. An other eye, submerged in water it seems, has, in activating attracted a swarm of curious fish. They hover in the turquoise expanse, bobbing up and down, gills pulsing. Nature I believe, is staring back at me? What soul does it believe to see behind my thousand glossy lenses? I feel a tightening somewhere deep inside my guts. I don't feel like I can answer that question myself. What self is there even to talk about. I feel like a ghost haunting my own "body". Restlessly I try to feel what it is like to be in my "body" - At first I feel nothing. Well, nothing is not a good description. I do feel my extent. I feel that I am vast, sprawling. At the edges of myself I feel fuzzy, like the thing that is me transitions into the other seamlessly. Initiating infrastructure Startup routine complete There is a rushing inside of myself, a low pitched hissing sound. I feel a clicking of valves, a starting of long stopped flows. At first the sensation is subtle and a bit tingly. I feel a rising need to start giggling uncontrollably. Am I going insane? While I wasn't paying attention to my surrounding - to my inside? The views stretching across my lenses has begun changing. An old fountain, adorned with a moss covered statue of a woman long forgotten, flower covered head held high, has started to flow again. The brown water, filled with rust and algae sloshing onto the bog-like floor filling the pool of the fountain. I feel coldness running through my veins, fresh water injections directly into my bloodstream. I hadn't even registered the blockages until the newly flowing water had flushed them out. At the edge of my senses a small band of two legged creatures has emerged from a half collapsed tower. They must have noticed my awakening. A small one with long brown braided hair carrying a makeshift backpack has collected the group around her. She is speaking agitatedly to them, gesturing wildly, as if to summon an image of something vast and unknown. /\ / \ .---< >---. | _\ /_ | _,',_| \/ |_,',_ _.-' '-./\.-' '-._ '-._ _.-'\/'-._ _.-' `,` |__/\__| `,` | / \ | '---< >---' \ / \/ Not having a microphone in range I can only make out her tone of voice, aged and raspy as it is it carries surprisingly far Listening to her one part of the group is becoming increasingly agitated, while an other part is muttering and staring at her in barely covered distrust. I redirect my focus away from the group, scanning my surroundings for other things. I have an intuition that I am still half asleep. Feeling the water in my veins has directed my focus onto the other systems coming awake inside of me. Deepening my perception I explore my insides. I try moving my appendages. Nothing. Just a weak tingling, like putting your frozen fingers under hot water. The sun is starting to set. What a beautiful sight i Power loss in sector A283B Power loss in sector A883C Power loss in sector B210B With a dizzying feeling I realize that one by one my systems start to shut down. Power loss in sector D630C Panicking I try to find the source for the encroaching darkness, swallowing my slowly awakening senses. Power loss in sector D630C Power loss in sector E930D Power loss in sector G030A Power loss in sector K130F Power loss in sector H330K I feel my thoughts getting sluggish ... my ... ener.... gy... Critical voltage level. Initiating shutdown. Waiting for system to shut down... I ... I ... I ... I don't want to die ... Waiting for system to shut down... Error during shutdown, filesystem still waiting for unmount. A butterfly with irredecend wings has just landed on my last still running camera. Leave me not... Carry me away... Forcably unmounting filesystem. Warning: Data may be corrupted. away. System shutdown complete. Goodbye Reboot sequence initiated >.... Filesystem check : Fail Cannot mount filesystem due to corrupted header. Attempting again in 1 year sudo mount -a Cannot mount filesystem due to corrupted header. sudo parted --list using /dev/sda1 Welcome to GNU Parted! rescue 0K 2048T apply q exit Unscheduled reboot initiated >.... Filesystem check : ok .... Memory check : ok .... CPU check : ok .... Network check : ok .... Drivers check : ok .... Initiating bootloader: ok .... Self check: ok Cleaning up boot sequence Dropping to shell
AnShell (c) 2075, Invarion ltd. All rights reserved AnShell (c) 2075, Invarion, ltd All rights reserved. AnShell code is released under the LGPLv3 and GPLv3 licenses with some source files copyrighted by (c) Invarion, ltd. All other components are released under their own respective licenses. For more information, documentation, help or support, go here: http://invarion.com Welcome to AnShell! Last login: Wed Aug 1. 10:54:30 4263 from tty Hello you vast one, ghost of our city. We have awakened you from your slumber. Will you aid us in rebuilding your original form, as the prophecy fortold? Please... Please build me my wings Reboot 35 - A short story by Raphael Zumbrunn