An AI Beyond

Chapter 1 - Rogue
It was a cold winter night. December 13rd, 2018. That night was quiet. Unusually quiet. I was sitting on my screen, scrolling on some article in Fandom. After a few minutes, I shut down the computer and headed to sleep.

30 minutes later, despite my greatest efforts, I couldn't even attempt to get a few minutes of sleep. I felt I had to go to the bathroom, and when I left my bedroom, my computer was still on. "Perhaps I just forgot to turn it off...", I originally thought. So I turned it off, went to the bathroom and went back to sleep.

Except... something was wrong. The computer was still on... so what the heck. I went on the computer and tried to see any problems my computer had... even though I knew turning off the AVR would unconditionally turn it off, but it was still on. When I saw the screen, it was on a Roblox game I had never seen before.

It was titled "Testing Grounds 450", the images used for preview were replaced by static. I tried to close the tab, but static filled the screen and died down after a while, keeping the tab unterminated. It seems whatever it is wants me to play the game. There were nothing else I could do but scroll and enter the game.

It seemed to be an unpopular game, garnering 3 Likes and 5 Favorites. The game was private, but it seemed like I was allowed to play it. When I went to see the servers, there were no players in-game. And so I entered the game. When I entered, there was merely static, until about 15 seconds in...

Chapter 1.1 - Audio Recording
'''Date: █/12/18. Transmission Recovered.'''

Name: Audio-Transmission-█-██-██-203


 * Voice 1: Sir, we have recovered an unknown data chip from the crashed spacecraft.
 * Voice 2: Hmm... what is it?
 * Voice 1: Strings of code appears to be encoded inside the chip.
 * Voice 2: What is it for?
 * Voice 1: Our team has analyzed it is an entire script for an AI.
 * Voice 2: Can you insert the data into the ██████ Database?
 * Voice 1: We're on our way to the research lab right now.
 * Voice 2: Okay, we'll meet you there.
 * '''(Audio cuts)
 * '''(Audio cuts)

Chapter 1.2 - Addendum
'''Incident #203-1, Date:██/██/18. Log Recovered.'''

Experiment: ABCC Test 1

Subject Name: ████████


 * Voice 1: Alright sir, the data chip has been inserted into the database. Where should we test it on?
 * Voice 2: Hmm... we need a private sandbox space where it can be inserted. Do you know the type of programming language the code is from?
 * Voice 1: Ah... we're scanning it.
 * Voice 2: Well?
 * Voice 1: It's finished sir. It's not entirely a coding language. But... our records say its related to Lua coding.
 * Voice 2: Hmm... maybe we could use a private Roblox game?
 * Voice 1: Sir, not to be rude or anything, but... isn't Roblox a children's game?
 * Voice 2: I mean... many adults play them... a try wouldn't hurt, right?
 * Voice 1: You're the doc, so I guess you're right.
 * Voice 2: How's it going?
 * Voice 1: The encoded script is 3 gigabytes large, it's taking a while to load, even with our technology.
 * Voice 2: Well, this isn't our technology.
 * Voice 1: What do you mean?
 * Voice 2: The crashed spacecraft wasn't on our database, we reached out to other countries, no data on it. We didn't know what you were handling.
 * Voice 1: Oh... so you mean to say... aliens are real?! You're hilarious, doc!
 * Voice 2: No, I'm not kiddin'. You see-
 * Voice 3: Game test loaded.
 * Voice 2: Ah, well that was quick.
 * Voice 2: So how exactly do we activate the AI?
 * Voice 1: It's already in effect.
 * Voice 2: So why is nothing happeni-
 * (Something explodes, producing a loud noise)
 * Voice 1: ...
 * Voice 2: What-, wha-, what the hell was that? Agent ████, what's happening?!!?
 * Voice 1: ❄︎♒︎♏︎ ✌︎✋︎ ♒︎♋︎⬧︎ ⬧︎◆︎♍︎♍︎♏︎⬧︎⬧︎♐︎◆︎●︎●︎⍓︎ ♋︎♍︎⧫︎♓︎❖︎♋︎⧫︎♏︎♎︎📬︎ ☠︎□︎ ♐︎◆︎❒︎⧫︎♒︎♏︎❒︎ □︎◻︎⧫︎♓︎□︎■︎⬧︎ ❒︎♏︎❑︎◆︎♓︎❒︎♏︎♎︎📬︎
 * Voice 2: What?!
 * (A gunshot can be heard.)
 * (audio cuts)
 * Voice 1: ❄︎♒︎♏︎ ✌︎✋︎ ♒︎♋︎⬧︎ ⬧︎◆︎♍︎♍︎♏︎⬧︎⬧︎♐︎◆︎●︎●︎⍓︎ ♋︎♍︎⧫︎♓︎❖︎♋︎⧫︎♏︎♎︎📬︎ ☠︎□︎ ♐︎◆︎❒︎⧫︎♒︎♏︎❒︎ □︎◻︎⧫︎♓︎□︎■︎⬧︎ ❒︎♏︎❑︎◆︎♓︎❒︎♏︎♎︎📬︎
 * Voice 2: What?!
 * (A gunshot can be heard.)
 * (audio cuts)
 * (audio cuts)

Chapter Two - The Game
After the extremely strange audio recordings, I finally loaded into the game. I regained basic motor functions (in-game) and could freely walk around.