[text | UN: S1R3N] enhance your online experience today!

[r3f4c70r3d]

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that today I come to you with a new option for your cellular devices! While the default chat program is...charming, in its simplicity, I have taken it upon myself to begin programming helpful extensions that will streamline and modernize the system. This update is on the small side, think of it more like an open beta:

Introducing EMOJIS and the easy to use EMOJI KEYBOARD Once you click on the download link below, your device will be updated to have a keyboard consisting of cute little faces and objects, for when you don't have the words to get your point across, or want to add some flare to your conversation.

[DOWNLAD]

Please report any issues you may have to S1R3N, and thank you for your time.

-A.G.

((OOC: Angels emoiji extension comes with an added bonus, very well hidden and encrypted spyware. This will, if you allow it, give Angel access to your characters chat history and any hidden profile features as well as an ability to keep track of your character in a database. Don't worry, your information will not be sold for profit. Probably. You can post some of what she might find HERE If you don't want her to be able to spy on and have access to your characters phone history or want to discuss access terms but still want your character to be able to download her extension just leave an ooc note in your comment.))

((OOC EDIT for clarity: Angel uses the monikers A.G., Angie, or simply A. (as its listed in her network biopage) with no indication about her looks, age or gender. Unless someone has met her in person and exchanged contact information she's effectively anonymous.))

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[r3f4c70r3d]

Have you already begun downloading? Hold on one moment.

[ That Rhys would be interested in literally anything she did that was not in direct relation to him or Jack has Angel surprised. And concerned. If he's as technically inclined as she's been lead to believe in her conversations with him then the chance that he'll notice the programming at work here isn't clean is high. She can't afford to break the small bridge of trust that they've managed to form, Rhys is still a crucial informant.
With all that in mind she quickly brings up the application on her own phone and in seconds has scrapped the spyware from it, zipped it up, and sent it as an attachment. ]

Version 1.0 has been riddled with bug reports already. I have just finished implementing an automatic patch but it has yet to go live. Tt would be easiest to send you this new version directly.

And yes there are cat versions of the faces.

[ This is an act of good faith, Rhys...don't make her regret it. ]

permaprivate

[rhygret]

[ Rhys was a former Hyperion stooge, of course he's into dumb stuff like cat emojis.

Or well. Ironically he is. He's not really into them, but the other execs had so to fit in Rhys had imitated them. he's kind of glad that whole culture died with Helios, but it wouldn't be...bad to have a cat face or two right? They're kind of cute. ]

No I didn't download anything yet? That's why I asked if there were cats.
Thanks though. This is surprisingly...nice of you.
What's the occasion?

UM there's nothing stupid about cat emojis!?

[r3f4c70r3d]

Generally, I am nice. You have been...an unfortunate exception? Let these kitty emojis serve as an olive branch of sorts.
😺😸😼🙀😹

RHYS IS TRYING TO PLAY IT COOL

[rhygret]

Awww thanks Angie. I knew you had it in you😹

[r3f4c70r3d]

*sigh*

You are welcome.😪😒

[ don't. make. her. regret. it. ]

[rhygret]

[ don't you mean

rhyret ]

Hahaha oh my god did you just type out an actual sigh??

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ In real life she huffs. ]


Is there something wrong with that?

[rhygret]

[ :'D ]

Nothing! Nothing's wrong with it.
You just seem so serious all the time, it's surprisingly...casual of you.
Totally not what I expected from an R&D nerd.

[ HE ACTUALLY DOESN'T MEAN THAT NEGATIVELY. It's...half Hyperion banter and half Rhys joshing around a little, just to poke some harmless fun. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ She's about to write back a snarky comment in self defense, but there's something else that she's much more curious about. ]

Wait. You think I'm from R&D?

[ In some ways she supposes she was, but definitely not in the ways Rhys is thinking. ]

[rhygret]

Wait are you not? I thought you were one of those eggheads down in the science division.

[ That's what it had sounded like to Rhys at the time anyway. The emojis are making him wonder if maybe she was some sort of programmer or developer though, now that he thinks about it. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

I'm not. What made you think I was?


[ Angel may have been a glorified science experiment, and she may be smart enough to qualify as an "egghead" but she doesn't think she has anything in common with the recluses down in that section-- besides being a recluse...wait. Okay the point is that she isn't anything like those people and never was one either way. ]

[rhygret]

I don't know? You talked about working for Jack and I just figured it was some sort of research. You don't sound like a total asshole which means you definitely didn't work the business side of Hyperion.

[ Since that's like, requirement number one ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

Um. Thanks?

...Did you work the business side of Hyperion?😏

[ Look at that she can be funny. ]

[rhygret]

[ Hurrhurrrrrr ]

Securities Propaganda. I was up for a promotion too before the whole...Vault Hunting thing.

[ If only text could carry pride, that's what would be expressed here. Maybe his job didn't make him a good person necessarily, but Rhys worked hard for that position. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Propaganda, huh? That would explain a lot about Rhys's attitude...the people in that department had to be especially full of shit, that was the entire job. An if Rhys was up for a promotion well...she can see why. ]

Wait, what was someone in Propaganda doing with cranial cybernetics? Usually something like that only appeals to those down in data mining.

[rhygret]

Well I was in data mining before I moved up into SP? I got it to give me an edge there. I've only been with Henderson for three years. Or...was. Someone tossed him out an air lock before the whole Vault Key thing.

[ What a waste of three years that was ): ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

Oh. That's too bad, he was decent at his position

[ She types without thinking, then ]

So I've heard. But death by airlock is par for the course, if you choose Hyperion. Was he replaced before the storm?

[rhygret]

Ugh yeah. That asshole was the whole reason we went on that trip in the first place which...I guess technically means I should thank but he was such an ASS you know?

Anyway he's dead now so it doesn't matter.

[ ....ACTUALLY LET HIM AMEND THAT AND SEND THIS A SECOND LATER: ]I didn't kill him. Just so you know.

[r3f4c70r3d]

It...isn't as though many of the deaths at Hyperion are undeserved. Even Helios falling, [ Something she still can't quite believe ] many would see it as an act of karma.

This may sound a little existential, but do you think we were brought back because we did something right? That we will be able to redeem ourselves?

[rhygret]

What do you mean brought back? Jack's the only one who's supposed to be dead remember? I was totally alive before I got here.

[ AGAINST ALL ODDS Rhys somehow pulled through that entire journey. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Oh shoot, Angel had just been musing out loud. Right, not everyone here had been dead before they awoke, and Rhys can't know otherwise about her. ]


I meant as in "woke up." From being in cryostasis.

[rhygret]

Ohhhh. Right yeah okay that makes more sense.
I don't think redemption or doing something good has anything to do with it? I'm not exactly a great person even after leaving Hyperion. I started out as pretty much the bad guy as far as most people are concerned.

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Nice save, Angel. Phew. ]

Why do you say that? What is it that you did after Hyperion's fall?

[ Because there wasn't an after for Angel, not until now. How did someone who escaped Jack keep going in a world so densely saturated by him? ]

[rhygret]

[ Still got it! ]

Well I did crash the whole place and that...killed a lot of people. Like a lot. Don't feel too great about that. And at the time I thought my friends had left me behind, so it was a lot of being alone, fixing myself up... Getting a new haircut instead of trying to go find my best bro.

I'm a pretty crappy person in general

[ Rhys deletes that last line, and then sends. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ That's rough, buddy.

Rhys's guilt over the accidental and indirect death of so many resonates with Angel- She knows what it is. To be a murderer. To obliterate swaths of people into bloody dust. And it may have all been indirect for her too, but it was never an accident. For a moment the guilt overwhelms her so she addresses the second half of Rhys's message ]


Those certainly are...

[ She could be pretty brutal here. She's thinking about it. "Jack was at leas proactive" "Are you sure you're not still the bad guy?"

But this is the smoothest conversation the two have had so far, she has to keep in mind that Rhys is an important ally, and another part of her mind which she won't address knows without him she'll be alone. Rhys remains the only other person from their galaxy that has woken, who may ever wake. Play nice. ]

Unusual priorities.


[ And then after a moment, thinks about it all and goes back to the first part ]

How do you live with it?