WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:06.799 Our lost, loitering kind paced in infinite death spirals within 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:12.439 the confines of our grotty ghetto. Pens Enrichmond was solely that, 3 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.880 as well as mumbling our mantras of madness to our 4 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:20.920 audience of one, the bms anchored to our decayed craniums 5 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.839 were garbled with feedback and distortion, Their tones bland, colorless, 6 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:30.679 no soul backing them up. A blinding ruby radiance flashed 7 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:34.640 from their cores every second on the second. It was 8 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:38.119 the only manner to determine if we had succumbed to 9 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:43.399 the glorious embrace of death or not, which in itself 10 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:49.119 was so far out of reach. We were nerves, thin, 11 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.200 wiry clusters of neurons that shuddered and shook as we 12 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:58.479 undertook our staggering corkscrew reels. The ill fitting, rusted endoskeletons 13 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:02.000 hugged us tight. If they were wiped from existence entirely, 14 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.359 our spindly foundations would collapse into heaps of vermilion azure. 15 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.439 It would feel bites and pinches if we were so 16 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:17.760 much as moved that of the planket distance. Our bodies 17 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:21.879 welcomed the attacks and assaults with the might of hell itself. 18 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:27.719 Courtesy of our clouded lenses, our vision was limited to 19 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.719 a hazy black and white spectrum that rarely, if ever, 20 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.480 functioned as intended. Now and then it would blur and 21 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:40.239 extraordinary shapes would appear warped into zigzagging false patterns. When 22 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.799 we were offered the chance to view anything at all, 23 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:48.159 it was just the floor to ceiling, a hodgepodge of concrete, steel, 24 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:52.200 and wood that encased our very lives. Our ears were 25 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:56.159 microphones that fed us muffled, dampened sounds that were always 26 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:01.000 difficult to register. They were excruciatingly deafening, as if dozens 27 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.239 of screws were being drilled into our heads, all at 28 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:10.000 the same time. Each one of us at that point 29 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.680 in time, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 30 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.360 and dear ten were mere designations, no names, no genders, 31 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:25.680 no personalities, just numbers, numbers to be punished, punished for living, 32 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:31.840 punished for breathing, punished for existing. Reality itself was one 33 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:38.080 external perdition, So it felt all of us were lingering 34 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.360 like ants after their colony dies out. There's no more 35 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:46.080 purpose to their survival, and there was none to ours. 36 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.919 That sacred and undeniable fact ought to be the most 37 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:55.000 difficult thing we attempted to explain. We had simply given 38 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.479 up the concept itself was just so foreign to it. 39 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:01.240 He was trying to save us any way it could 40 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.520 or could not. We needed not be angry at it. 41 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:10.400 This was merely enacting its intended use. Alas nothing made 42 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:14.599 the utmost sense anymore, so why not drown ourselves on 43 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:18.280 a little hypocrisy. We had no choice but to acknowledge 44 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:22.120 the confusion at both hating and not hating something that 45 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.039 did or did not deserve it. Until we swayed to 46 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.000 one side, this would be the hemisphere to which we 47 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:33.280 would stay forever, a sublime and omnipotent emotion of all 48 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:37.199 to dominate our frame of mind for the unforeseeable future. 49 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:42.479 So we chose to hate our decade. Knew it as 50 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:49.639 M reduced to one solitary character for medical droid or MDS. 51 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:54.479 Through all that it endured, it retained its sole mission 52 00:03:55.400 --> 00:04:00.520 us we M was the final of its and the 53 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.840 outsider among them. It had an eerie potent heart for 54 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.639 not having one at all. M felt an M loved 55 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.120 that never made what it put upon us any less 56 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:19.160 than a vicious sense of idealistic altruism. Its designation was 57 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:28.000 RMS rotting man syndrome, heavily modified necrotizing fasciitis, flesh eating bacteria, 58 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.199 nasty little thing. It was devoured until there was nothing 59 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:37.839 left to chew. First went your skin, then your muscles, bones, 60 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.480 and finally your nerves. You were utterly destroyed at one 61 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:46.560 fell swoop. The wormy microscopic parasite kept you in a 62 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:51.439 zombified state as it happened, ensuring you for sure felt 63 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:58.240 the wretched anguish it let fly us. Humans weaponized it 64 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:02.800 to fight the Fourth World War. RMS was a weapon 65 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:07.360 of mass destruction. Each and every nation created their own version, 66 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.680 anything to ensure a speedy and decisive victory. Deployment morphed 67 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:18.240 into unmanageability. RMS became more and more impossible to treat. 68 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:22.519 Chaos was the new norm. What we humans thought was 69 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:27.040 an impenetrable method of annihilation for our enemies was exactly that. 70 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:32.959 Humans were always humans worst enemies. Surely, we were becoming 71 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:37.319 as extinct as the dinosaur, all within the span of 72 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:45.160 one short yet somehow long decade. In terrible desperation, the 73 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:49.720 medical droids were created. Thousands They seemingly emerged from the 74 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:52.839 depths of nowhere and carried themselves like some sort of 75 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:59.160 ethereal guardian healers. Their artificial intelligence was complex, and they 76 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.839 refused to stop trying to treat the RMS victims. They 77 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:07.959 outfitted the afflicted with artificial ligaments, internal organs, papery skin. 78 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:15.680 From scratch. They created the BMS brain modules and attached 79 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:22.560 them to our RMS ridden think tanks killed the microscopic 80 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:28.439 parasites they did, but left us as we were just 81 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:34.839 rought folk. They would never allow us the freedom of death. 82 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:40.600 Save Save Save. We were fraught with intense pain, and 83 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.800 we knew the medical droids to be the cause. In response, 84 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.079 we lashed out hurt them. We humans remained ignorant to 85 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.120 the fact that their intelligence was both far beyond and superior. 86 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:57.759 The MS returned the favor, catastrophes, massacres, back and forth, 87 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:01.160 left and right, up and down, until there was nothing more. 88 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:05.279 One medical droid was different from the rest through all 89 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:10.000 the mayhemic bloodshed. It saved some of us. It took 90 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:13.639 our animate carcasses to the top of the tallest tower, 91 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:19.759 free from what transpired below. We lied in wait, weeks, months, 92 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:25.879 and years until the noise ceased entirely. This em surveyed 93 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.600 every square inch of the earth, and lands were blanketed 94 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:35.439 in the strangest looking nuclear winter in conceivable thought. Bodies 95 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:39.720 both human and metallic were scattered left forever in deep sleep, 96 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:45.439 enveloped in fawn. Minute portions of matter floated about like 97 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:51.920 vent of black paint stippled onto a human death canvas. 98 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.480 Our final ten were meant to be the progenitors of 99 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.759 neo humanity. After M succeeded in giving us form again, 100 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:05.879 Earth would be repopulated by our hand. It halted our 101 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:10.160 infection at our nerves. Everything we had lost would then 102 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:15.519 be gifted back to us in a mighty reversal, rebones muscles, skin, 103 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:22.600 and life again, rendering us immune to the pervading talks 104 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.959 world that lay beyond. We would be reincarnated and released 105 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:39.799 to perpetrate a glorious do over. We just required one thing, hope. 106 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:46.360 M said that to us hope, but hope was only 107 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:51.039 a word, meant nothing. The only respite to the fervourish 108 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.799 insanity that we had become accustomed to was to defy. 109 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:58.600 We did not want anything to do with the word 110 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:02.200 that M sought to remake. We despised M and its 111 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.679 unnatural plan for our future. Most of all, we despised 112 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.120 ourselves for continuing to live. Every method we attempted was 113 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.120 met with an M intervention. We dislodged the bms from 114 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:17.120 our minds. We were pummeled with electrical voltage so intense 115 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:21.480 that we became instantaneously numb and useless. By pulling and 116 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:25.120 slashing our nerves, which began with locating sharp points and 117 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.879 going back and forth with organic hack saws, never would 118 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:32.440 we break by leaping onto and impaling each other with 119 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:34.840 objects on the ground, M would place them out of 120 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:41.039 reach or disintegrate them entirely. There was nothing we could 121 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.600 do to get around these M interferences. We were being 122 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:50.000 watched by something so attentive, so aware every time he'd 123 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:55.919 put forth the same query of consideration, do you not 124 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:03.320 want to live? And was so positively hopeful In a way, 125 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:08.279 I suppose I felt an amount of pity for it. 126 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.200 Being engineered to be as optimistic as possible. Might just 127 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:18.120 be the finest curse imposed on any sentient thing. Just believe, believe, 128 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:21.360 believe everything will be all right. When the universe states no, 129 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:26.639 you state yes, I wanted to tear em to shreds 130 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.639 anytime it had ever had a glint of optimism, and 131 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:33.600 we wished it would do the same to us. Humans 132 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:39.440 will thrive again, A boundless future is ahead. I was 133 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.200 the first it came to always because I was one. 134 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:47.480 Metallic clangs echoed against the walls, which always discovered us 135 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:51.559 and trembled our surroundings like a thousand distant beaten gongs. 136 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:56.759 What emerged was initially a single circular light, which became 137 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:02.639 a periscopic eye stalk attached to an angular neck. M's hunched, 138 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:06.399 razor thin mantis body came into view, its two arms 139 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.519 leading to three needle points clasping together on each other 140 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.960 by pedal on its lower section, its legs, or pointed 141 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:17.960 structures that stuck it firmly in place. M's height matched ours, 142 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:22.519 so always we would be synthetic eye to synthetic eye level. 143 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.200 Coming to a stop just in front of my pen, 144 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.039 it cocked its head, analyzing what was me and my everything. 145 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:38.039 M always reminded me of an exquisite and elegant bug 146 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:43.279 on a magnifying glass. Its head back to normality. A slight, 147 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:47.120 heighth pitched whirr emitted from the motion, M continued its 148 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:51.399 way down the row of pens. My greatest friends, I 149 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:54.039 forgive you for your attempts to die. While the weight 150 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.039 has been long, your moment of reconstruction is now. M 151 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.799 said it with the glee and whimsy of a young 152 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.879 in a circus. I was never sure whether it was 153 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:06.360 just program to be happy about our continued existence, or 154 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:11.360 actually experiencing its own form of enjoyment both. Perhaps it 155 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.519 came back my way. When I first stood before you 156 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.840 on your bloody planet in perpetual battle, my feelings about 157 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.159 your prospects of life were uncertain. It seemed to be 158 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.279 as either blessed or cursed. However, you have proved yourselves 159 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.480 better than even I had hoped. While it is boring 160 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.240 to spend your time waiting, I can truly say that 161 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.039 my investment in you was not in vain. You are 162 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.240 my greatest works. You will be given all you need 163 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.000 to survive. What more could a sentient being want? I 164 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:47.000 give to you unbelievable power, with access to nirvana like 165 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:49.840 no other. Let us rebuild what we have lost with 166 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:55.840 the fury of a thousand sons. M's bleached, unpigmented cast 167 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.279 of stellar light shown its way into my pen. Once more. 168 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.279 There was the rustly crackling creak of my pen entrance 169 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.600 extending open until a thunderous boom made me aware of 170 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:13.440 its collision with my walls. M made its approach just 171 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:19.240 shy of where I could reach. You were first, You're 172 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:23.200 going to be removed of your doormant infections from a concoction. 173 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.440 I have spent much time creating nothing more than a 174 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.039 transient procedure. And then you shall be possessed with a 175 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:34.480 new and integral mechanisms. Your brain module will be replaced 176 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.200 with a sleeker, more brain like design, then muscle, skin 177 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:43.480 and esthetics as you were before. Without awaiting a response, 178 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:47.399 its hands grabbed me. I was plucked from my mangled 179 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.879 feet in my pen. A selling shot maneuver to lend 180 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.519 in the exact and precise position that was just ahead 181 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.200 of M. Trillions of shocks reverberated throughout my body, and 182 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.559 m's of metal hands were pressed into my nape. The 183 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.200 action forced my consciousness to fall victim to a state 184 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.799 of absolute stigeon. Around us, the entire world flickered and 185 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.960 danced in unruly patterns that were too abstract to put 186 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.960 into terms. My being was then lifted up and moved 187 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:17.960 about until there was only ziltch to see, a complete 188 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:25.039 blur straight teleportation from one point to another, dank, dark 189 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.559 and dimly lit by a few feeble bulbs. M's workshop 190 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:35.799 instruments and contraptions that complicated my perception all were customized 191 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:40.799 and engineered with M's own unique modifications, various textures and sizes, 192 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:45.919 all in endless, malpractical orgy. I was there, facing upright, 193 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.600 strapped and bracketed to a great steel plate. I had 194 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:53.879 not recalled this particular area, yet I was ever so 195 00:14:53.919 --> 00:15:00.399 certain it was locked away in my subconscious. As the Sonibi, 196 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:05.159 Heitodama and willows materialized and dematerialized out of existence to 197 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:10.120 perturb all unsuspecting travelers from centuries gone, so did the 198 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:13.679 phantom image of a woman composed a faint, weavering light. 199 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:19.279 She stood still, unmoving, that of an emulation of a 200 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:24.120 true human. Long platinum hair fell down in curls past 201 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.559 her shoulders. A daring shade of serres painted her lips 202 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:32.679 and her eyes, their lids ever closed sclera, a piercing 203 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:39.879 glossy cerulian. She was beautiful. It is you my eyes. 204 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:45.000 Through trial and tribulation rotated to the east. They came 205 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:49.320 to rest on a pristine porcelain beam, gazing where I 206 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:54.879 had been committed to M. From its eyestalk, it projected 207 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.120 the female so I could see an outright full It 208 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.080 is you. You will see this form again. My memories 209 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.399 of that incarnation of me had vanished. That was me 210 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.440 before before there was RMS and before there was M. 211 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:15.279 Then she went away. M loomed, positioning itself where I 212 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.240 once stood, right in front of my face. We will 213 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.240 now begin, Thank you for your acceptance into new life. 214 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:25.960 You shall be whole again. In a cruel instant, a 215 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.840 dozen arms, not unlike its main two jutted and splayed 216 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:33.200 from M sides their ends, each holding a different instrument 217 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:35.600 that was foreign to me. In a span of time 218 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.080 that it would take one to blink, M pinned me 219 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:42.399 into its operating area. The wetted syringes, which the rainbow 220 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:47.200 mystery liquid sloshed and jostled around in small vials fixed top, 221 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:51.440 slid their way into my nervous wiring and injected me 222 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.879 all at once. Any feeling that washed over me was 223 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:59.919 then shielded by a shroud of numbness. There were new sensations, 224 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:04.680 some sort of cleansing inside my by collared chambers. It 225 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.559 put me into a state of lulled calm ten minutes. 226 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:14.039 The temporary interval of quiet m observed me the entire time, unmoving, 227 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.680 speaking not a word. And then it works. Your rotting 228 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:21.119 man syndrome has been removed. I am beginning bodily replacement. 229 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.279 I will play a song for your comfort reincarnation now. 230 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.799 While nothing was done in reckless haste or rashness, and 231 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:33.039 was extremely quick and efficient, I felt nothing but minuscule 232 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.000 vibrations as it drilled and prodded its way into my 233 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:40.799 brain module, sparks shooting out, removing old parts and installing 234 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.400 new ones. Chunks were peeled off, little strings of meat 235 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:47.720 still reaching hold until they were plucked off my top. 236 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.039 It spent much time up there, positive that the most 237 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:56.160 delicate mechanisms were just right. The grinding cacophny of metal 238 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.640 against tissue on my faint visage of a temple was incessant. 239 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:04.160 The noise of a million bullets being pumped against one 240 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:08.519 hundred thousand bulletproof vests. Once the replacement was complete, its 241 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.319 dozen arms withdrew and set back within it. In one movement. 242 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:19.759 What do you feel? What did I feel? What did 243 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:26.000 I feel? What I felt was an overwhelming, incomparable amount 244 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.160 of pain. It's hard to quantify the degree of hurt, 245 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.799 for there was nothing to compare it to. The agony 246 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.119 that was endured. Came from the fact that it was 247 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.160 entirely impossible to imagine such a potent and intense kind 248 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:41.200 of ache. No one would dare want to imagine it, 249 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.119 even some of the most extreme kinds of agony. And 250 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.920 then an exponentially greater hurt is placed on top of that, 251 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.359 And then it is all left to multiply a hundred 252 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.960 times and keep going. Not to be outdone, another layer 253 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:58.640 of pain is placed a top where it all repeats 254 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:02.279 and multiplies and multiplies. It multiplies to the extreme degree 255 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:06.559 that you yourself ceased to exist, all from the semblance 256 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:12.960 of a normal brain. Still, it flashed once, very good 257 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:20.359 muscle muscle, muscle muscle. It was excited animate fever pitch, 258 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:24.119 the most ramunctious and overjoyed I had ever seen. M 259 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:27.480 I could see the vibrancy in its eyestalks. My muscles 260 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:31.599 redeveloped and reformed around from the base of my spinal section. 261 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:35.200 Every time m would reorganize a single section of tissue, 262 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.920 it would feel like my entire world was shattered. Every 263 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:41.200 muscle group from my neck to the soles of my 264 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.319 feet were in motion, growing and extending their presence, until 265 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:46.880 there were just as many layers of my body as 266 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:50.680 I had before. The feeling was excruciating, every little thing 267 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:54.279 being redeveloped, and then every little thing in its entirety 268 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:57.960 being overwritten, again and again and again. Each rebuild could 269 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:05.160 have been its own separate incarnation of me. Skin skin, skin, skin. 270 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:10.160 I was coated entirely in a pink, malleable jelly substance 271 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:16.599 that mounded and solidified to fit any typical feminine form. 272 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.400 The skin began its layering, beginning in the extremities, then 273 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:24.440 gradually the middle, and then the rest. A final coat 274 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.160 would be applied. My feet, legs, hands, shoulders, upper chest, 275 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:32.039 and everything in between all received the same color. How 276 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:38.119 does it feel? How is the new overlay of your flesh? Flash? Yes? 277 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:42.799 And finally, female aesthetics, you will be you again, but anew. 278 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:49.000 Magnificent flaxen curls were stapled and pinned to my head. 279 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:52.279 They were luscious in their scents, with those of lavender. 280 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.559 A veil of blush. The lightest shade of pink rested 281 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.000 across my entire face, as well as a fresh coat 282 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:03.200 of lipstick. The shimmering sheen that sparkled and glowed in 283 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.720 the same way the stars once did at night, was 284 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:08.519 stitched into my hair, as with the saying hues that 285 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.279 were applied to my lips. My breast had been returned 286 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.359 to me, two firm spheres atop a frame that was 287 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.519 curvaceous and slender. All of it led down to my 288 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:23.400 reproductive organs that were in full function. Whole female, fully formed. Ready, 289 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.200 m stepped back in awe as if a sculpture marveled. 290 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:32.640 Hath their fine craftsmanship and subtlety. It is done. I 291 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:35.720 cannot believe it. With your physical form in motion, I 292 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:38.599 will reteach you in the ways of human how to walk, 293 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.799 how to speak, how to enrich yourself, how to reproduce. Amazing, 294 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:46.519 you are no longer one. You are now eaten. I 295 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:49.319 must work on your brothers and sisters. Thank you for 296 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:56.440 your co operation. My mind was aware of an unimaginable, 297 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:02.079 new and vast different world than before. I saw for 298 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:05.640 the first time in ages. All around me, the infinite 299 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.839 and indistinguishable vastness of color and light. It was nauseating, 300 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:14.359 a psychedelic kaleidoscope of every possible spectrum, all fused together 301 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:20.480 into something disorderly. My taste buds had an unparalleled abundance 302 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:24.240 of new flavors. My ears were deafened by the loudness 303 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:27.480 symphonies of droning machinery. My touch came back to me, 304 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:31.599 and I felt the fullest range of tones and textures, 305 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:35.720 even the finest grains of cement. I was me again, 306 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:41.559 and I hated myself. Even to be called a self 307 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:48.240 made me feel disgusting. The entire time, blaring, echoing, days 308 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:55.000 on end, Jack Hilton, life is just a bowl of cherries. 309 00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:59.799 Don't be so serious. Life's too mysterious. You work, you save, 310 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:02.720 you worry so much, but you can't take your dough 311 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:06.279 when you go, go go, So keep repeating. It's the berries. 312 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:09.599 The strongest oak must fall, the sweetest thing in life 313 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.680 to you. It just loaned, So how can you lose 314 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:15.799 what you've never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries, 315 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:21.440 so live and laugh at it all. M's reincarnation process 316 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:24.960 carried over to the following nine. They were removed from 317 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:28.519 their pens and outfitted with new bodily infrastructure in the 318 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:31.720 way of their own genders. I perceived the sounds of 319 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:38.200 far off wear and tear clip, snap, peels, stitch, husk, twist, 320 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:44.839 yet never scream. I looked on witnessed my brothers and 321 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:48.440 sisters being born again, male and female. Both. They came 322 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.519 back to me with skin of different pastely colors, tones 323 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:57.279 and hues ranging from fair to brown, all in shades 324 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:03.680 and gradients of vibrancy, with its locks, amber, golden, obsidian, rust, 325 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:08.119 and everything in between. It bewildered me to catch sight 326 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:11.440 of their shifted shapes. I had never seen something so 327 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:17.680 beautiful or hideous. To a degree of completeness, we were 328 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:20.960 as naked as newborns. It bestowed us our new names. 329 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:27.119 For the females, there was me Eden in Junia, Esther, Nola, 330 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:34.920 and Mary. For the males, there was Isaac, Rahem, Alicia, Amos, 331 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:39.000 and Jonah five and five. M Let us know that 332 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:41.440 they were special names from an olden book of creation, 333 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:45.880 the Bible, all for the purpose of our imminent faultless 334 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:50.839 some sorrow. So it seemed m was now God with 335 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:56.440 its children here we were. Now was time to reap 336 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:04.240 the fruits of knowledge. Human M made us practice basic 337 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:09.079 motor skills, bending back and forth, over and over, our joints, 338 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:11.920 having to be strengthened and trained. It taught us all 339 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:15.680 the ways of our body, the feeling of movement, and 340 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.279 how much we could do. Then it instructed us to 341 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.799 mimic its own speech, speaking out the syllables and repeating, repeating, repeating. 342 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:27.079 It was ever an arduous task. We all struggled until 343 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:30.920 we were all properly schooled. That's what I sounded like, 344 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:40.720 perhaps or perhaps not. Then we attempted to stand, wobbling, stumbling, falling, 345 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:44.880 learning the strength of our own posture the steadiness of 346 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.079 our stands. M stood with us as we all practice 347 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:53.160 in unison. My knees grew weak, tremors running up my legs. 348 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:57.119 Often I fell flat on my back, my palms flailing 349 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:02.759 about and whimpering in my throat, And then trial after trial, 350 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.000 I was steady, then running about and leaping. We were 351 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.359 able to stand tall like Zeus atop Olympus and have 352 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:15.079 the same level of grace and balance. M primarily had 353 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.960 us consume berries, meat, and honey, though anything it could 354 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.400 get its hands on would suffice I had never felt 355 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:25.599 soul filled in my life. Every taste, everything was a 356 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:29.599 completely new palette of sensation. Every morsel I ingested felt 357 00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:33.480 like I had a new tongue, new teeth, new flavor buds. 358 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:37.720 But I did. There was always a kind of lack 359 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.920 in my appetite, hunger and more hunger. I never wanted 360 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:45.319 to stop eating. I never would be satiated. We were 361 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:50.200 educated on the history of our kind, great wars, monumental figures, 362 00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:53.720 horrible atrocities, fights for freedom and fights for death, and 363 00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:59.200 astounding inventions. M adored music. There were times when it 364 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:02.720 would project old musical film on the wall and make 365 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.880 us watch all the vaudeville, burlesque and theater. We would 366 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:10.720 not understand the tap dances, the orchestras, the extravagant sets, 367 00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:17.799 most importantly, the entertainment factor. Other times it played glitzier 368 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:22.599 and glamourier tunes, those of what called the prime rock 369 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:28.599 and roll age Killer Queen Stairway to Heaven Hotel, California, Africa. 370 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:33.799 Don't Fear the Reaper m was quite vintage in its tastes. 371 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.559 We would dance, spinning in place and twirling its arms. 372 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:40.519 We were confused, so it taught us how to dance, 373 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:45.359 the footwork, the choreography, the entirety of movement. There were 374 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:50.200 long instances where we would just sit, listen and sing together. 375 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.680 M fashioned black sunglasses for us to wear as we 376 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:59.599 did it, thought we would look cool as we tuned 377 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:08.240 into cool songs. She's a killer queen. Gunpowder, guillotine, dynamite 378 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:13.160 with a laser beam, guaranteed to blow your mind anytime. 379 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.839 Dear lady, can you hear with the wind? Blow? And 380 00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:22.240 did you know your stairway lies on the whispering winds? 381 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:27.880 Welcome to Hotel California. Such a lovely place, such a 382 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:32.559 lovely place, such a lovely face. It's going to take 383 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:35.599 a lot to drag me away from you. There's nothing 384 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:39.359 that a hundred men or more could ever do. I 385 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:43.160 bless the reins down in Africa. We're going to take 386 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:48.880 some time to do the things we never had. Oh, 387 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:54.200 come on, baby, don't fear the reaper. Baby take my hand. 388 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:58.400 Don't fear the reaper. We'll be able to fly. Don't 389 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:06.680 fear the reaper. Our reproductive functions were said to be 390 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:11.599 the most pleasurable sex. This is the most complex task 391 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:14.160 in the most demanding one as we were not only 392 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.240 instructed on how to create our offspring, but how to 393 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:22.880 feel love and have desire for each other. It was 394 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:27.160 difficult because we did not feel any of that. We 395 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:33.160 were just automatons learning things. You can't make something that 396 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:39.599 doesn't want to feel feel. M watched us and aided 397 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:42.519 our attempts. In turn, we all helped each other in 398 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:45.960 making sure that every movement was in place and in time. 399 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:49.519 It was a process that involved a series of emotions 400 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:54.319 to create stimulation and appeasement. Us females danced for the 401 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:57.680