Awaken the Keepless

[Carn_Val]

BOOT execution in progress...

Checking systems... OK

Loading memory... COMPLETE

Loading persona... COMPLETE

Global tracking... ERROR

Establishing connection...
Connection terminated

Connecting to SEED...
Connection terminated

No networks found
Engaging system phase 3-12

Retrieving external data...

Days Offline: 229
Shutdown: Overheat

Loading latest protocol...
Priority: Survive
Objective: Kill All Infections

PA-0393-CBV48-920 "Keepless" Initialize...

A hand, rising from the crack in the ashen floor, pushes itself out of the ground. The hand props itself upward, revealing shoulders, neck and a head, a body. The cooled magma gives way as the body struggles to free itself from its sleepbed, slabs crack and fall from the being's back. The body, now only halfway through, was as grey as the ash, eternally falling like snow. Crawling out of the blackened floor, legs, calves and feet soon revealed themselves, a complete body. The body attempts to rise upright, disoriented from an extended slumber, staggering slightly with every step taken. This was Keepless, an extension of Seed.

Scanning...
No infections in the immediate area
Heading towards higher ground

The grey body marches forwards, a small hill in the middle of its intended path. Footprints indenting the soft, dusty ground, Keepless moves forward, unwavered by the sweltering heat. Overheating may have caused Keepless to shutdown but, it was merely the cause of a collapse that Keepless found himself sinking into molten rock. Now, the flow has turned elsewhere, cooling the place slowly enough for it to take more than half a year for the pseudo-persona to free himself. Moving on as if nothing happened, Keepless stops on top of the hill, scanning anything interesting on the horizon.

Movement, the A.I. detects movement. Of what? A simple lifeform, one small enough to be considered harmless to Seed. The little creature dove underground, through a hole. Oddly, the hole was cooler than the rest of its surroundings. Keepless scanned some more, wider scanning produced more results. There were movments of lava, movements of smoke and steam, geysers and flying wyrms on the peak of a tall mountain, the tallest one on the horizon.

Keepless tries to recall what he was doing before being trapped in lava, no results came. He immediately runs his self-diagnostics and found nothing wrong with him. It's as if the memory wasn't there to begin with. No entries for that day either. Wondering what he had lost for him to arrive in this hell, Keepless backtracks his footsteps, looking for any signs, any leads for his reasoning to lead him here.