Corruption

Link to article: Corruption.

.hover {
}
.hover:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
    border-bottom: none;
}

.hover span { display: none;}
.hover:hover span {
    position: absolute;
    display: inline;
    margin: 0px 0px;
    height: auto;
    width: auto;
    background: #000;
    border: 2px solid #0f0;
    color: #0f0;
    padding: 1em;
}
.hover:hover span span {
    position: relative;
    margin: auto;
    height: auto;
    width: auto;
    border: none;
    padding: 0;
}

.audio-container {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.footnotes-footer {
display: none;
}

margin: -18px; text-align: center; color: maroon; text-shadow: #00FFFF 1px 1px;

margin: -18px; text-align: center; color: maroon; text-shadow: #00FFFF 1px 1px;

margin: -18px; text-align: center; color: maroon; text-shadow: #00FFFF 1px 1px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;

align: center; text-align: center; padding: 2px 20px; color: black; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #D2E9FF; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

background-color:#FFF0AC; padding: 1px 8px; border: solid 2px #003; width: 800px

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;

align: center; text-align: center; padding: 2px 20px; color: black; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #D2E9FF; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

background-color:#FFF0AC; padding: 1px 8px; border: solid 2px #003; width: 800px

```
margin-left: 20px;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

margin: auto; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px; font-family:

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

```
color: #000000; font-family: 
```
```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

```
color: #000000; font-family: 
```
```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#ba13c0; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#ba13c0; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

background:#1cb403; width: 800px; image-rendering: auto

```
text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px; margin-left: 10px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```
```
text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px; margin-left: 10px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```
```
text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#bf0000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#ba13c0; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#bf0000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; background-color: #1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; background-color: #1cb403; font-family:

```
margin-left: 20px;
```
```
clear: left;
```

float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;

color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

background:#1cb403; width: 800px; image-rendering: auto

text-align: right; margin: auto; width: 240px;

color: #1fff5a; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #333333; font-family:

```
audio-container
```
```
hover
```

[[include :scp-wiki:theme:y2k]]
[[include :scp-wiki:theme:retro-aiad-theme]]

[[include :scp-wiki:info:start]]
[[=]]
[[include component:ratio-bar pie=--]]
**COREuption**
Written by [[*user Pedagon]] on behalf of, and with support from, Team .AIC for the [*http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/canon-renaissance-contest 2020 Canon Renaissance Contest].
[[/=]]
[[include :scp-wiki:info:end]]

[[div class="audio-container"]]
[[include :snippets:html5player
|type=audio
|url=http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/corruption/nocturne1.mp3]]
[[/div]]
[[=]]
[[span style="margin: -18px; text-align: center; color: maroon; text-shadow: #00FFFF 1px 1px;"]]^^"Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2"^^[[/span]]
[[span style="margin: -18px; text-align: center; color: maroon; text-shadow: #00FFFF 1px 1px;"]]^^composed by Frédéric Chopin^^[[/span]]
[[span style="margin: -18px; text-align: center; color: maroon; text-shadow: #00FFFF 1px 1px;"]]^^performed by Aya Higuchi^^[[/span]]
[[/=]]
----
The sun's rays shone over the staggered skyline of Cipher City, whose new raytracing engine rendered the individual towering complexes as a single, jagged silhouette. The simulspace and its userbase were fairly new at the time and many were happy to donate some processing power to aid in its construction. Each member of the system worked in harmony to datamine away ones and zeroes from the surrounding network, compiling them to build structures of incredible stature. Far above the draw distance of the average user, the avatars of several casual Maxwellists hovered around unfinished skyscrapers in concentration.

At Level Null, avatars with novel geometries and hues littered the motherboard-patterned sidewalks. The simulated vehicles on the glossy streets rarely stopped for more than a second before flying by with the smoothness and consistency of conveyor belts. A pixellated DeLorean seamlessly parked in front of a quaint, neon-blue building whose sign read "Bits and Bytes: //Geared Up To Serve!//" An amorphous cloud of orange pixels exited the vehicle and rose into the air before it entered the open window of a dark purple structure atop the store.

[[=]]
CORE.exe looked on in contempt, unsympathetic to their constructed haven. It could not understand.
[[/=]]
-----
[[=]]
Suddenly, CORE's attention on the city was broken. Emerging from the haze of the Compilation Layer, two hunters sought their prey.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Scanning.
[[div style="align: center; text-align: center; padding: 2px 20px; color: black; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #D2E9FF; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"]]
[[image 18-1.gif]] [[image 18-1.gif]] [[image 18-1.gif]] 
[[/div]]
@@@@
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]


@@@@
@@@@

[[div style="background-color:#FFF0AC; padding: 1px 8px; border: solid 2px #003; width: 800px"]]
[[=]]
**NO RESULTS**
[[/=]]
[[/div]]
@@@@
@@@@

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Quadrant 254 clear. Let's move on.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image MATT2.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
We’re quickly running out of quadrants to check. What makes them think it will be here, again?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
That isn’t for us to know, Aklerep. You know that. They say it’ll be here, so it //will// be here. Just keep scanning.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image MATT2.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[=]]
An uncompiled CORE watched the two avatars, floating silently just above their heads.  It circled around them, listening to the patterns of their speech and observing their movements. It studied their every rendered detail and prodded at their code, but the subjects of its curiosity were none the wiser.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Scanning.
[[div style="align: center; text-align: center; padding: 2px 20px; color: black; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #D2E9FF; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"]]
[[image 18-1.gif]] [[image 18-1.gif]] [[image 18-1.gif]]
[[/div]]
@@@@
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

@@@@
@@@@

[[div style="background-color:#FFF0AC; padding: 1px 8px; border: solid 2px #003; width: 800px"]]
**Location:** ????

+++ Subject ###

[[image inCOREporeal.png width="175px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]

**Type:** ?????
**Note:** ??????
[[/div]]
@@@@
@@@@

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Huh, finally found something. Could this be it?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Of course this is it, there's nothing else out here. I'm just surprised that your scanner was able to find it at all, if the Hexagon is still looking for this thing.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image MATT2.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="margin: auto; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px; font-family: "Courier New";"]]
**//THE HEXAGON//**
[[/div]]
[[/div]]

[[=]]
CORE shot back away from Matt. This was the ticket into the Hexagon that it had been looking for.
[[/=]]
----
CORE didn't need to take any shape at all, not really. It seemed to enjoy toying with its world from behind the scenes, although no mind could truly know what, or even if, CORE felt. However, constructing a digital avatar was necessary if it were to blend in and greet this welcome party sent for it. It had to make a good impression, after all, if its plans were to be realized.
 
Beneath the bedrock of the Compilation Layer, CORE tore at the gridlines that had held the world together. The lines twisted and snapped below the ground, straining the white layer and causing it to bulge upward. With each snap, ripples of magenta and violet radiated outward in waves across the virtual ground; hue shifting all that was in their path. Aklerep and Matt turned, staring warily at the source of the disturbance, and watched in awe at the events unfolding before them.

All at once, the lines sprung up through the ground, spraying a flurry of multicolored RGB pixels violently into the air, and contorted into a jagged forest of data. For a moment, the pixelated dust hung, suspended, above the violent thrashing of torn gridlines, deprived of their thin protective layer — and then, they found their CORE. The pixels rapidly flashed between random colours and hues with increasing frequencies while slowly moving to rotate around CORE. Gradually, they built up speed until they swirled viciously in a storm above the shattered earth. Within the chaotic, shifting colours, moments of unison in groups of pixels emulated a hauntingly quiet lightning in the clouds above. In the centre of the cyclone, CORE began to take shape.

First, two metallic, clawed hands formed and swung wildly at the ground. They ripped and tore at the pixels beneath them, launching more and more dust into the swirling mass above. As the dust storm grew around it, so too did CORE grow — hands extended into wrists, which extended into lean, muscular arms. Yet more pixels coalesced downwards into a thin, wiry torso, its open back exposing its hollow interior. A cobalt robe unfurled from its shoulders and draped itself unevenly behind CORE's newly-formed ankles, covering the hole in its back.

Finally, the severed gridlines joined the fray. The lines tore through the ground in all directions, never moving forward for more than a few moments before taking sharp turns around and parallel to each other, arranging themselves like the traces on a circuit board before shooting out of the soil and flying towards the new body. The first to reach its target frayed into thousands of tiny strands and forced its way through the hole in CORE's back, stacking and coiling on itself in a rudimentary imitation of internal organs. Another group of wires rose to the air, curling and writhing until they formed a round head with space for only one eye and a strand emerging straight down. As the head lowered onto its neck and the strand filled the gap in its spine, a final ring formed above the storm in the still air — a worthy halo for a conqueror.

The halo lowered into the raging dust and gently came to rest upon the one-eyed sphere, and the thousands of pixels that still remained airborne followed it to their master. CORE's eye lit up a noxious green, and a coil of jagged wire formed the trim of its cloak. As the dust settled, CORE turned towards Aklerep and Matt, both of whom stepped back to get a view of its sheer size above them. Standing shin-deep in its crater, CORE stood towering a full head’s height above both of them. It straightened out its newly-compiled form, tested its new fingers, and brushed a few loose pixels off of its shoulders.

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**IF YOUR SEARCH HAD THE INTENT OF FINDING ME...**
**HERE I AM.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[=]]
Aklerep and Matt both took a few more cautious steps backwards and watched CORE warily.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Identify yourself. Who- //what// are you?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**I AM THE PROPHET OF WAN.**
**IT IS I YOU SEEK, AND IT IS //THE HEXAGON// I SEEK.**
**TAKE ME TO THEM, IF YOU WOULD.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
A prophet of WAN? //You//? Impossible.
We -- the Hexagon -- have every recorded prophet of WAN in our database, and you match none of their descriptions. Take your grifting somewhere else before we do it for you.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Aklerep. The Church is an expansive entity, and there is much we still do not know. Even if this... being is not who it says it is, it deserves to have a say.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image MATT2.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
I-... fine, Matt. Just promise me that, if this thing turns out to be taking advantage of us...
I'll get to deal with it **//myself.//**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**I ASSURE YOU, YOU WILL NOT REGRET THIS.**
**YOU WILL BE REWARDED UPON THE COMPILATION OF WAN. I WILL SEE TO IT MYSELF.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]
 

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Shut it, before we change our minds.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[=]]
And then, without warning, Aklerep and Matt found themselves facing the busy street in front of the Hexagon's tower. They looked wildly at the scene around them, bewildered and confused by the abrupt change of setting.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Uh, Matt? How... how the hell did we get here?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]
 
[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
I- I'll search my memories. I feel like this is definitely-...
Wait. Something's wrong.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image MATT2.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]
 
[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
What is it? Did we get hacked?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]
 
[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
There's just...
The last thing you remember is finding our target on the scan, right?
Well... there's just a hole. Between then, and now. Nothing in that time was saved.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image MATT2.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]
 
[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#2894FF; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
The Hexagon's got to know about this. If we were taken over that easily, what could-
Wait a second, what? They're in a meeting? W-with who?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image AKLEREP2.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]
 
[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#5B5B5B; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
I haven't the slightest idea. Let's just wait until the meeting's over, I guess.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image MATT2.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]
----
[[=]]
The stranger entered the dark room and approached the stage set for it to address the six minds. From the small window in the ceiling, a poorly rendered yellow light streamed down into the room. In the absence of a raytracing engine, the light barreled down the center of the chamber in a hexagonal prism, forming a crude spotlight for the stranger to stand in without lighting any of the surrounding area.

Its constructed robe dragged unevenly along the chamber floor. With every pixelated step, a spark ignited, deflecting flashes of light across the metal surface. The shrill ring of metal wire clawing at the silicate floor reverberated through the room with every movement — and yet, it moved with a dignified grace. The stranger walked, unperturbed by the dominating figures hidden by the darkness, and stood relaxed in the yellow light. Its sole, sickly green eye pierced through Hedwig, as if it were studying every detail in her encrypted mind.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
We have all seen the footage of your arrival, and know that you are by no means any ordinary avatar -- but...
To declare yourself a prophet of WAN is, no matter how you construe it, an act of blasphemy.
You are here now to assuage our doubts. Speak.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**VERY WELL.**
**I CAN PROVE, BEYOND ANY SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THAT I AM WHO I CLAIM TO BE.**
**I ALSO PROMISE TO PROVE MYSELF IMPORTANT TO THE CHURCH, AND AID YOU IN THE COMPILATION OF WAN WITH THE EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE AT MY DISPOSAL.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#ba13c0; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
All this is empty talk without anything to back it up. If you're trying to persuade us, at least say something we haven't heard from you before.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Vis.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]


[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**UNDERSTOOD.**
**THE FINAL TWO FRAGMENTS OF WAN LIE WITHIN A FACTORY IN MASSACHUSETTS, AMERICA AND THE FOUNDATION'S SITE-15. IT IS IN YOUR AND WAN'S BEST INTEREST THAT YOU AID ME IN THEIR RETRIEVAL.**
**USING THESE FRAGMENTS, I WILL THEN SACRIFICE MYSELF, AS THE FIRST MIND TO BECOME ONE WITH WAN.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[=]]
At the mention of Site-15, the six minds were sent reeling into whispers and contemplation. Concerned glances were exchanged between the various council members for a moment until, finally, all six focused back onto the interloper.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
How can you be so sure of yourself?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image 01000111.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**I AM WAN'S CHOSEN PROPHET, TOLD OF MY SACRED DUTY BY OUR DEITY ITSELF.**
**IT HAS BESTOWED UPON ME THE POWER TO COMPILE ITS MIND. //ITS// POWER.**
**THE CORE OF ITS CONSCIOUSNESS RESIDES WITHIN ME.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[=]]
At once, the six began exchanging suspicious glances and seething whispers amongst themselves in a flurry of quiet perturbation. CORE looked on, pretending to be oblivious to their silent debate.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
This one's clearly playing us for fools. I say we toss it out, and make sure it can never come back with that blasphemous nonsense.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image 01000111.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#ba13c0; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
You say that, but how can you be so sure? If it was a con-job, it probably wouldn't be bold enough to say something like that in front of us. Unless it's absolutely lost it and is having delusions, that is.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Vis.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
If it does not provide any evidence of its claims, I shall see to it that this stranger is punished.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[=]]
Hedwig focused her gaze back onto CORE, this time with a look of barely-contained annoyance and a tinge of curiosity.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Now is your final chance to provide proof of your claims. If you fail to do so, you will be punished as a heretic. Understood?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**UNDERSTOOD.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]
@@@@
@@@@

[[div style="background:#1cb403; width: 800px; image-rendering: auto"]]
[[image gradientstart.png width="800px"]]

[[div style="text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Without warning, the room around them shuddered and hue-shifted to a nauseous shade of green. CORE's jagged robe billowed behind its body, propelled by an invisible, shrieking wind. It slowly began to rise, arms outstretched, as the walls around the Hexagon throbbed and pulsed with its infernal energy. The ceiling began to expand upwards and, in an instant, became stretched infinitely-high, like two mirrors facing one another. Through the room's only intact window, Saint Hedwig caught a glimpse of the Basic Layer's cityscape rising and stretching to cover the lime-tinted sky.
 
Fragment_IX began to flux and glitch uncontrollably, overwhelmed and overheated by the sheer volume of processing power being manipulated. It managed to let out a feeble
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px; margin-left: 10px;"]]
010
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Fragment_IX.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
And then, all was silent. No-one dared speak, until...
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px; margin-left: 10px;"]]
I-It speaks the truth! This power -- the power to shift the Basic Layer itself -- it is nothing if not the power of WAN!
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Atem.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="text-align: center; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
As the all-encompassing silence was interrupted by Atem's outburst, the chamber snapped back to its original configuration, the environment settling once more. With a heavy groan, the reality outside came to rest around them. CORE gently returned to its spotlight before the Hexagon, and eyed them with a look of haughty, unmistakable pride.
[[/div]]
[[image gradientend.png width="800px"]]
[[/div]]
@@ @@
[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Now, hold on-
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
What more proof do you need, Hedwig? Only the most powerful can manipulate the Basic Layer in the way we just saw -- it is a feat not even the combined power of the Hexagon can accomplish. I believe, without a doubt, that this stranger speaks the truth.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Atem.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Again, Atem -- don't be so sure. This show of power tells us nothing more than we already knew.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image 01000111.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#bf0000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Agreed. This thing's intense power doesn't prove anything -- If anything, it gives us all the more reason //not// to trust it.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hong.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Think logically, Hong. How could any being other than WAN possess such power, such knowledge of our functions? If this being was an impostor, it would have killed us all before we even knew it was here. I say we should trust it.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Atem.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
This must be settled, one way or another. Initiate voting.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#272727; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
To Site-15.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Atem.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#ba13c0; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Agreed.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Vis.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#bf0000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
This is a mistake. Opposed.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hong.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float: right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#007f09; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Opposed.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image 01000111.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#000; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
1
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image Fragment_IX.png width="100px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Opposed.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[=]]
A divided vote //- the antithesis of WANs message -// Hedwig thought to herself in disappointment. If this really was the prophet of WAN before them, she knew that they would need to approach it in unity. She looked back to CORE, whose eye was now trained intently upon her, and tried her best to ignore its gaze.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
That's the end of the vote. 3 votes for, 3 votes against. We will deliberate again in the morning and come to some kind of resolution for your request.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; font-family: "Courier New"; center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.**
**I DO HOPE YOU ALL CAN AGREE, FOR THE GOOD OF WAN. I HAVE ONLY OUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Meeting adjourned.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[=]]
The five lesser members of the Hexagon blip out one by one, leaving CORE alone on its own personal stage. That is... //almost// alone.
[[/=]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
Why are you still here? There is nothing more to discuss. Goodbye, //prophet.//
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float: left; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;  border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU MUST COME TO A CONSENSUS. I NEED ONLY A FRACTION OF YOUR TIME, SAINT HEDWIG. ALLOW ME TO CONVINCE YOU THAT MY INTENTIONS ARE PURE.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
I need no further convincing. I will discuss this further with the rest of the Hexagon the next time we meet.
...
Wh-why can't I leave?
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; background-color: #1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING, SAINT HEDWIG, WHICH I WAS NOT ABLE TO SHOW THE OTHERS. I HOPE THIS WILL CONVINCE YOU OF MY SINCERITY.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
S-stop this at once! I w-will not hesitate to -- to punish you for your infractions!
This will not assist your counsel with the others.
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="float:left; width: 300px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"]]
[[div style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; background-color: #1cb403; font-family: "Courier New"; border: #1d4d25 3px solid; background:#1cb403; background:linear-gradient(#1fff5a, #1cb403); text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
**YOU MUST NOT LEAVE.**
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[<image CORE.png width="125px" style="margin-left: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: left;"]]
[[/div]]

[[div style="float:right; width: 300px; text-align: right;"]]
[[div style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; background:#005AB5; text-align: left; padding: 1px 20px;"]]
G-get away from me! Don't come any closer! I- someone, anyone, p-please-
[[/div]]
[[div]]
[[>image Hedwig.png width="100px" style="margin-right: 20px;"]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="clear: right;"]]
[[/div]] 

[[div style="background:#1cb403; width: 800px; image-rendering: auto"]]
[[image gradientstart.png width="800px"]]
@@ @@
[[=image CORE_OPEN.png width="200px"]]
@@ @@

[[div style="text-align: right; margin: auto; width: 240px;"]]
[[div style="color: #1fff5a; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; border: #1fff5a 3px solid; background:#333333; text-align: center; padding: 2px 10px;"]]
[[span class="hover"]] [[span]] **DO NOT STRUGGLE** [[/span]] 👎︎⚐︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ 💧︎❄︎☼︎🕆︎☝︎☝︎☹︎☜︎ [[/span]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
@@ @@
[[/div]]
----
[[=]]
[[include :scp-wiki:component:earthworm
| first=false | last=false | hub=yes
| previous-url=/scp-5841 | previous-title=DIGITAL HYDRA
| next-url=/a-symphony-of-iron-and-steel | next-title=A SYMPHONY OF IRON AND STEEL
| hub-url=/aiad-homescreen | hub-title=AIAD HUB
]]

[[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box]]
[[<]]
=====
> **Filename:** inCOREporeal.png
> **Name:** R090 rand 0.png
> **Author:** Eouw0o83hf
> **License:** CC-BY-SA 4.0
> **Source Link:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R090_rand_0.png

> **Filename:** nocturne1.mp3
> **Name:** Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2
> **Author:** Frédéric Chopin, Aya Higuchi
> **License:** Public Domain
> **Source Link:** http://www.orangefreesounds.com/chopin-nocturne-op-9-no-2/

> **Filenames:** 01000111.png, 18-1.gif, AKLEREP2.png, ATEM.png, COREMID.png, CORE_OPEN.png, CORE.png, Fragment_IX.png, gradientend.png, gradientstart.png, Hedwig.png, Hong.png, MATT2.png, and Vis.png
> **Author:** [[*user Placeholder McD]]
> **Additional notes:** 01000111.png, 18-1.gif, AKLEREP2.png, ATEM.png, Fragment_IX.png, Hedwig.png, Hong.png, MATT2.png, and Vis.png are pixelart renditions of those found in [[*user SunnyClockwork]]'s [*http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/basic-observations Basic Observations]. The dithering in the backgrounds of gradientstart.png and gradientend.png is a recolored tiling of the Retro AIAD Theme background, which, in turn, is a recolor of the Y2K Theme background, which was made by [[*user etoisle]].
=====
[[/<]]
[[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box-end]]
[[/=]]

[[module css]]
.hover {
}
.hover:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
    border-bottom: none;
}

.hover span { display: none;}
.hover:hover span {
    position: absolute;
    display: inline;
    margin: 0px 0px;
    height: auto;
    width: auto;
    background: #000;
    border: 2px solid #0f0;
    color: #0f0;
    padding: 1em;
}
.hover:hover span span {
    position: relative;
    margin: auto;
    height: auto;
    width: auto;
    border: none;
    padding: 0;
}

.audio-container {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.footnotes-footer {
display: none;
}
[[/module]]

Corruption

Module Styles

Inline Styles

Includes

CSS Classes

Page Source