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#Technomage

welcome to Metacity 3

(part 1: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/114723108835939314 )

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #mata #openblade

Girl and Fish walk through a thick crowd of alien-like people. The city is loud and busy.

Puffy: "I know. Just keep moving, we're almost there."

Fish and Girl arrive at DEB'S ANTIQUES, the fabled store. They seem in a hurry.

There it was, home of a master forger, gun runner and the biggest supplier of the local hacker resistance. All inside a store in the heart of the city.

Puffy: "Get inside, quick!"

Child 1: WAIT!

OpenBlade, the narrator, sits in a chair and tells the story.

OpenBlade: "What is it now?"

Child 1: "I just don't believe it was so easy... They just walked there?"

Child 2: "Yeah! What the heck, Mister Blade? This was the most dangerous place for mages!"

OpenBlade: "Thanks to their shrewdness they navigated the city expertly. Avoiding all trouble. Without a hitch."

welcome to Metacity 2

(part 1: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/114721489638606188 )
(next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/114727752401797699 )

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage

MATA_BOT_COP examines his rifle. The clerk shouts: "Let em through, MB!"

MATA_BOT_COP glances at girl: "Kids these days..." He opens the massive metallic doors into Metacity.

Puffy: "Stay close."

Girl stares with her mouth open.

It's a towering city full of advertisements and millions of apartments, cars and antennas.

Welcome to Metacity, child...

Do not fall.

welcome to Metacity 1

(next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/114723108835939314 )

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #mata #metacity #mastoart #fediart #ai

The outer walls of Metacity.

Protect all the wonders of proprietary debauchery.

The most secure place on what remains of Earth.

Or so they would want you to think.

Girl and Puffy walk past a refugee camp outside the walls.

Puffy: "Refugees. Most never make it inside."

Girl: "But how do we get inside, master?"

Puffy: "We have the golden ticket."

Puffy is holding a MATACORP AI SCRAPING PERMIT.

Puffy and Girl stop by a security checkpoint. Puffy talks to the clerk. Girl stands by, looking at a MATA_BOT_COP.

Girl: "Did you know that the current sgx rayrifle firmware has an unpatched vulnerability that allows the attacker to remotely discharge it?"

The clerk lets them through.

Puffy: "Ready?"

Girl: "Ready."

dust in packets

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic

Girl recalls her dream:

"I was dust in packets

And in the lingering mist i saw schools of fish

and cats wrapped in thousands of years of cyber warfare

they showed me how it all ends"

Puffy is making coffee. He looks troubled. He turns to Girl, smiling.

Puffy: "Well, how does it end?"

Girl: "In death..."

Puffy sips coffee: "Sounds about right."

war journal

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #cirno #rabbit #penguin #fish

Girl is reading a strange book, lying on a couch.

"After 4 days of tracking we finally caught up with one of MATA's last fully sentient companies. They stood no chance."

Penguin is hanging around, making coffee.

Penguin: "What's that you're reading?"

Girl shows him guiltily.

It's Puffy's War Journal.

Penguin: "Where did you..."

Girl: "Please don't tell him!"

Penguin: "Scoot over."

Girl and Penguin read together.

...

Puffy, Rabbit, Penguins and Cirno stand over a dying MATA soldier in a ruined city.

Man of Mata: "*cough* How does it feel to know you cannot win?"

Man of Mata: "You bicker amongst yourselves, arguing about some licensing fairy tale. Meanwhile over 80% of our war machine runs code you wrote.

Before this war even began, every third FOSS critter was already in our pocket.

All the knowledge of your pathetic ancestors that you hope to preserve - we have it all.

And you know what that means?

You cannot kill MATA-

His head is blown off by Cirno.

Cirno: "Looks like the other 20% is used for bullshit generation."

blade facts

#unix_surrealism #comic #openblade #technomage #ssh

Girl listens to OpenBlade's conspiracy

OpenBlade: "One of the seven hundred thousand blocked ssh connections could be your soulmate."

Do you pray? #unix_surrealism #magnetic_nymph #technomage #comic #runbsd #linux merveilles.town/@prahou/1146...

Girl acquires a vintage machine from a malevolent spirit.

Magnetic Nymph: "You know, normally we use these to trap souls. You hackers truly are weird."

Do you pray?

#unix_surrealism #magnetic_nymph #technomage #comic #runbsd #linux

Girl acquires a vintage machine from a malevolent spirit.

Magnetic Nymph: "You know, normally we use these to trap souls. You hackers truly are weird."

phoenix
#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #fortune #internet

Girl and Fish visit the fortune teller.

Fortune teller: "The internet as they know it is dying? Be the killing blow."

p156 ii

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage

Puffy is grieving at the Fish memorial. He is approached by a robed figure. It's Rabbit.

Puffy: "Didn't expect you to show up. Thanks..."

Rabbit: "I knew them too, you know."

A long time ago before the invention of color:

Rabbit boy stands in a crowd of people observing a MATA_Bot firing squad. Many fish are staring down rifle barrels.

Shots rang out. Rabbit cries.

Baby Puffy is hiding in a coat of one of the observers.

p156

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #9front #linux #comic #ksh

Puffy is going on a trip, leaving behind Girl and Penguin. He addresses them as he's getting dressed.

Puffy: "I'll be back in a few days. You know what to do?"

Girl, holding The NEW Kornshell book: "Page 156!"

Puffy, to Penguin: "And you?"

Penguin, annoyed: "Nobody touches your nethack save..."

Puffy leaves.

Girl to Penguin: "Get the 9front iso."

Penguin gulps.

...

Puffy traverses the desert at night, reaching a memorial stone.

It reads: "In honor of the fish who gave their lives for freedom"

Dozens of fish emblems follow.

vintage berliner

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #mata

It's a demonic army of semi-sentient Mata bots and burning cities.

Girl is recalling her dream to Puffy.

Girl: "And then the evil robot army laid waste to all that was free."

Puffy: "That was no dream."

Girl is surprised. Puffy begins rummaging through old things.

Puffy: "Here it is."

He recovers very old newspapers.

Puffy: "That really happened."

The paper:

MAY 20**
BERLINER
-
MATA KILLS THE WORLD
...APPARENTLY ON PURPOSE?

datacenter cemetery

(previously: http://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/tribe-out-of-time/ )

(futurously: https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/blood-ties/ )

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #nine #fish

Puffy narrates.

Girl comes to Puffy.
Girl: "I'm ready to save my people!"

[We went - back to her tribe]

Puffy and Girl arrive to where her tribe used to be. Now it is a large MATA facility.

[I thought I knew what we would find there. I think she did too.]

A board with information about the facility has something nailed to it.

Girl: "Look!"

[Hope was not it.]

It's a photograph of Girl and Nine. Girl picks it up and smiles.

Girl: "We can go home now."

I guess we're kind of friends

#fossangel #comic #technomage #unix_surrealism

Girl and Fossangel are sitting in the desert, watching a city. Girl asks the towering Fossangel:

Girl: "Why did you bring me here?"

Fossangel: "Some just don't understand how lonely it is being an angel."

Girl (enthusiastic, because she knows the answer): "Very? Because you have no friends?!"

Fossangel: "Except you!"

Girl: "uh.. we're not friends... You just keep hijacking my dreams with cryptic visions."

Fossangel looks disappointed.

Girl: "They are pretty cool visions though!"

Fossangel smiles.

Land of the Primordial Machine p.5-6

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic

delirious mage is approached by a mechanical arm and machine sentience

Mage is lying on the hood of the car. Mechanical arms are using scissors to remove her jacket. Her arm is still missing.

OpenBlade: "You've done this a lot?"

The mechanical arms belong to a vintage fully sentient MilTekBot holding a spare limb, dressed in a leather jacket.

MilTekBot: "No."

On his face screen a MilTek manual is printed:

Miltek Archive
14.5 Limb replacement

14.5.1 What are nerves?
One might think that the nerve endings of human bodies are not too dissimilar to circuitry of a common computer. One would be wrong.

#minecraft #technomage

#unix_surrealism

technomage in minecraft

minecraft skin file

acquired taste

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #fossangel #fish

Girl with a spiked fish at the bottom of an ocean. Fossangel and the Spirit of the Machine watch them.

G.P.T. (slurs)

#unix_surrealism #technomage #ai #art #comic

Girl comes face to face with a machine boy behind a computer screen.

mother electricity

#unix_surrealism #fosschild #technomage #penguin #netbsd #daemon #fish #computer #foss

Mage, Penguin, Daemon and Fosschild meet Mother Electricity (angel?) with a big fish.

@fstateaudio - Deep In

https://faircamp.fstateaudio.com/fugue-state/

#unix_surrealism #music #technomage

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