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Rite of Passage: The Oracle
(lemmy.sdf.org)
one should not chase the electric dream, but strive to became an extension to its dreamer
Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.
It's a box of antique photographs. A blade, a girl and a fish. Whatever it means, you're invested.
Now that you're a surrealist, become a Techno-Mage:
In the ruins of a temple deep inside the acidic jungle, where antediluvian machines rust away, persists the oracle. A timeless being in perpetual communion with the Spirit of the Eternal Machine.
All aspiring mages must seek her out eventually and listen to her prophesy that will foretell the struggle of their future.
Just like hackers of old once prophesied, so does Girl come to realize her doomed fate comes with perks.
I'm not sure I'd trust this oracle, after what they did to Solaris...
With PERQs, you say?
She does haul a machine on her back from time to time. Why not.