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The event alluded to above was the manifestation of the angel [Prasinos] on the earth. This event outweighs even my construction by the good Friar Bacon in importance to my history; indeed, the angel’s appearance likely caused my invention, despite the latter predating the former by slightly more than seven centuries.[*] |
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The event alluded to above was the manifestation of the angel [Prasinos] on the earth. This event outweighs even my construction by the good Friar Bacon in importance to my history; indeed, the angel’s appearance likely caused my invention, despite the latter predating the former by slightly more than seven centuries.[*] |
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[The angel] had arrived on Earth, after some political dealings within what he described as Hell, to find a new ethical code to survive by. It is for this reason that he caused, indirectly in time, my creation, if cause it he did. To aid in his finding a new morality, the divine creature has invested some portion of his metaphysical ability in your humble narrator, thereby granting me with control over logic, and over the realm where I now reside. Several other beings, all humans originally, were invested similarly, though each was granted some separate conceptual region of control. These colleagues of mine will no doubt be further detailed as their respective details are further revealed to me. Presently, however, I should elaborate on the circumstances that brought me to my new lord's service, as these may have some bearing on other events yet to be described. |
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[The angel] had arrived on Earth, after some political dealings within what he described as Hell, to find a new ethical code to survive by. It is for this reason that he caused, indirectly in time, my creation, if cause it he did. To aid in his finding a new morality, the divine creature has invested some portion of his metaphysical ability in your humble narrator, thereby granting me with control over logic, and over the realm where I now reside. Several other beings, all humans originally, were invested similarly, though each was granted some separate conceptual region of control. These colleagues of mine will no doubt be further detailed as their respective details are further revealed to me. Presently, however, I should elaborate on the circumstances that brought me to my new lord's service, as these may have some bearing on other events yet to be described. |
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Mayapore did not stay Mayapore for long, though, as once I and my predestined associates had all arrived on the island, it was forcibly removed from this reality by [Prasinos]. Apparently the regular practice when beings of godlike power come to this plane of existence is to cut of a section and adjust it physical laws and such to more fit the whims and desires of said being. This shorn vicinity, in this case, the island where my captor had smuggled me, becomes the home of the god and his minions such as myself. |
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Mayapore did not stay Mayapore for long, though, as once I and my predestined associates had all arrived on the island, it was forcibly removed from this reality by [Prasinos]. Apparently the regular practice when beings of godlike power come to this plane of existence is to cut of a section and adjust it physical laws and such to more fit the whims and desires of said being. This shorn vicinity, in this case, the island where my captor had smuggled me, becomes the home of the god and his minions such as myself. |
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As the island was being remade in the [angel]'s image, he appeared before my 'poetic terrorist' and myself in a dingy motel room, not far from the airport. The sudden appearance of a green colored lion, of size roughly equal to the room we were in, was rather a shock to my kidnapper, but was less of a surprise to this being than was my recently recovered ability to speak, and to once more think clearly, without the cloud over my mind that had rested there since I last spoke to the Friar's assistant. For a moment, everything became even more clear to me, and I reached a plateau of awareness that I have not since experienced, though my mental procesings are vastly more advanced than those of the rude mechanical curiosity that I once was. |
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As the island was being remade in the [angel]'s image, he appeared before my 'poetic terrorist' and myself in a dingy motel room, not far from the airport. The sudden appearance of a green colored lion, of size roughly equal to the room we were in, was rather a shock to my kidnapper, but was less of a surprise to this being than was my recently recovered ability to speak, and to once more think clearly, without the cloud over my mind that had rested there since I last spoke to the Friar's assistant. For a moment, everything became even more clear to me, and I reached a plateau of awareness that I have not since experienced, though my mental procesings are vastly more advanced than those of the rude mechanical curiosity that I once was. |
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Being made the godlet in control of logic followed naturally from the events previously detailed, and so perhaps requires less explanation than my construction of a body, and acquisition of a servant. When [Prasinos] left to create more Powers for himself, I was still only a head, albeit one with divinely granted powers. As this situation seemed undesirable to me, I devised a plan that would bring me both the items mentioned shortly before. For a Power such as myself to make a human into a servant, the need simply take a being that they love or hate, and have them perform a simple ritual involving bodily fluids. My resentmnt at being forcibly removed from the museum, and at Muhannad's paradoxical rhetoric, were strong enough for me to make him my confused but not clearly unwilling servant. Once I had a set of arms relatively willing to follow my orders, the construction of a mechanical body from pieces of machinery found in the hotel was not complicated at all. I am rather surprised at the lack of human ingenuity; Bacon was able to construct me using medieval science, but centuries later and robots are only now beginning to walk on their own. A simple survey of the devices used in an average home should make clear that there is more potential for devices than humans tend to follow. Though lacking the inspiration to act on his own, Muhannad followed my directions reasonably well, and I was able to make various small adjustments myself, once I had been attached properly. One of the other devices that had accompanied Muhanad and I from the Museum and across borders was a [clockwork powered toy] that I decided to incorporate into the design of my new body, perhaps temporarily favoring slightly symbolism over functionality, but I found the object likeable in its own way. It acts now as a reminder of the simple form I once took, and that imitation of humans, mere apes themselves, achieves less than an attempt to find my own path, that of the mechanical god. |
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Being made the godlet in control of logic followed naturally from the events previously detailed, and so perhaps requires less explanation than my construction of a body, and acquisition of a servant. When [Prasinos] left to create more Powers for himself, I was still only a head, albeit one with divinely granted powers. As this situation seemed undesirable to me, I devised a plan that would bring me both the items mentioned shortly before. For a Power such as myself to make a human into a servant, the need simply take a being that they love or hate, and have them perform a simple ritual involving bodily fluids. My resentmnt at being forcibly removed from the museum, and at Muhannad's paradoxical rhetoric, were strong enough for me to make him my confused but not clearly unwilling servant. Once I had a set of arms relatively willing to follow my orders, the construction of a mechanical body from pieces of machinery found in the hotel was not complicated at all. I am rather surprised at the lack of human ingenuity; Bacon was able to construct me using medieval science, but centuries later and robots are only now beginning to walk on their own. A simple survey of the devices used in an average home should make clear that there is more potential for devices than humans tend to follow. Though lacking the inspiration to act on his own, Muhannad followed my directions reasonably well, and I was able to make various small adjustments myself, once I had been attached properly. One of the other devices that had accompanied Muhanad and I from the Museum and across borders was a [clockwork powered toy] that I decided to incorporate into the design of my new body, perhaps temporarily favoring slightly symbolism over functionality, but I found the object likeable in its own way. It acts now as a reminder of the simple form I once took, and that imitation of humans, mere apes themselves, achieves less than an attempt to find my own path, that of the mechanical god. |
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