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[cuttypie]

Who: Luka Kovač
Username: un: 13371uk@
Warnings: None so far


[He know he's playing a dangerous game here. That's why he's on audio instead of video, in case he...slips up. Being an Avatar of the Stranger had both its benefits and its downsides, and sometimes he couldn't quite...help the way he looks, especially if he gets a whiff of fear. His voice is pleasant and perfectly normal, with a melodious Croatian accent.]

Hello everyone, this is Dr. Luka Kovač. If I haven't met you yet, I'm a doctor who specializes in emergency medicine.

Some things I still don't understand here, so maybe someone else might have some information or thoughts on it. I come from a world where you don't really see too much of the supernatural around, but here there are superpowers and superheros and terrifying things that happen all the time.

And I guess Avatars have the power to make those terrifying things happen, right? To feed the Entities? But what gives them that power?

I suppose what I was really wondering is that maybe some of the people we've encountered used to be good and then were corrupted, somehow. I'm a doctor, the first thing I look for is a way to treat the patient, maybe even so far as find a cure.

But is there a cure for an Avatar?

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[outofthepast]

Now, I'm not the best person to be asking. Me and the supernatural aren't real acquainted, even now. I'm not sure if it's more like an Entity's influence on someone, or if it's like... well. Programming.

[Not to suddenly make this real personal, or anything.]

If it's the former, I'd hope someone could fight back or refuse. Dunno about the latter.

[cuttypie]

That's not a problem, I'm just curious to hear your thoughts on it anyway. I had suspected it was something like that, like an influence, but if it's programming...

...can you break programming? I guess the real question is how much free will is involved when you've got Entities involved?

[outofthepast]

Well... [Oh boy, what a question.] I guess I'm not a great person to ask as far as programming goes, either.

In most cases, your household robots and your old gen synths, the answer is no. But even then...

[This got awkward in record time. And he still can't answer definitively.]

Surely, ADI's got some kind of info on that. Free will, I mean, not robots.

[cuttypie]

[Household robots actually sounds super cool, he's gotta find out more about that.]

I don't know if that information is... [Can be trusted.] ...accurate.

But it's a good place to start.

From what I've seen with other Avatars, they're already so far gone there's no way to tell which is of their own will and what is of the Entity's will.

[outofthepast]

Really? Why's that? I thought ADI's whole thing was keeping track of that stuff.

[Maybe the Avatars are a fairly new concept?]

Hm. That's not encouraging to my "maybe," is it?

I'd still like to believe it's possible, but that really is a guess on my part.

[cuttypie]

Well, yes, not that their record keeping is bad, but the kinds of records they keep. [Would they even listen to an Avatar, if one gave them information? Or even if they would, they’d imprison or kill them next. No, he doesn’t trust ADI at all.]

Not really.

And as do I. I’d like to think that there are some who aren’t malicious. Who maybe made a choice to save someone and ended up in a bad situation.

[outofthepast]

I think that's pretty likely, knowing how people are. Be a real shame if we couldn't figure out a way to help folks like that.

Not sure how they'd go about finding out the answer, either... but if there's any way, we should try sometime.

[cuttypie]

[He quietly adds Nick to his mental list of good people who he can possibly trust from ADI.]

I think so, too. I don’t think ADI will like that. But I don’t care. I’m gonna try.