[Twenty Fifth Cord]: [Fail!Locked to Grissom]

[sakedrinking]

Um.

Mister Grissom? I-I... kind of have a weird situation going on with my brother and sister and um... I was kind of hoping I could talk to you...

I-I understand if you're busy, though!

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[grissom1liner.livejournal.com]

Of course. What's the problem?

[drunkkareoke.livejournal.com]

It's... it's um... kind of a long story. Are you sure I'm not bothering you?

[grissom1liner.livejournal.com]

Not at all.

[drunkkareoke.livejournal.com]

A-alright...

*hesitation*

Haku, just tell it.

Okay. .. okay.

So... um... f-from what Greg's said there's a pretty big gap between my time's technology and yours, so... I'm sorry if some of this doesn't make sense.

When the first Vocaloids, Meiko and Kaito, were built, they used the prototype of what was going to later be called the Kokoro Program. No one... really seems to know where Kokoro came from, just that some one 'stumbled across it' and eventually it got passed to the company that made us. ... them. I-I mean them. I'm different, but that's not important right now...

A-anyway... it just kept getting improved until the twins were made. Um. Len and Rin Kagamine. I-I can't remember if you've actually met them or not. When they were made, though...

The creators and techs acted strangely about them. We all had scheduled check ups, tune ups, that sort of thing, but they'd often take the twins in more often than us. We really didn't think anything of it because it seemed like they were always fine. But when we got here...

Something really strange happened. They... they started taking on other personalities.

See... since we're idols back home, we do a lot of music videos, called PVs, and more often than not they tell a story. The twins always had such... interesting ones. Sad ones. Sad songs, too. Well, some of them. But they were just videos, right? Nothing to worry about.

They... they've been taking on the personalities of the characters in the songs. They're still Rin and Len but... they forget who they really are, that they're Vocaloids. They think they're human. The first time, it was both of them. Rin was a girl a hospital and Len was a war prisoner of some kind. Rin thought I was a nurse come to take her back to the hospital. The second time, it was just Len, and he was convinced he was some... some playboy going to high school. To get them back to normal, they had to sing the songs that went with the video. They'd go unconscious, and wake up normal, but with all the memories of what happened while they were... different.

It's not a virus. It doesn't effect anyone else. It doesn't affect their systems at all. When they pass out? I'm locked out from scanning them. That's... that's not supposed to happen at all.

And...

and it got weirder.

Len brought me this locket. It's really really old. So old I had to use something Greg gave me to get rid of the rust that was holding it shut. At the same time, Rin had this paper message in a bottle. They said they both found them at the beach where we last were before coming here.

When I got the locket open?

It was them in the pictures. I-I kept trying to say that maybe they were real humans their design was based off of, but Len corrected me by saying that he was supposed to be Rin's reflection, and no one ever mentioned being based of actual people.

I tried to take the items from them, and they freaked out and refused. All I could do was get pictures.

[Attached: Photographs. Several shots of the exterior of the gold, rusted locket, interior with faded sepia-toned photos, picture of the bottle, picture of the message with the only readable words being "If we could be reborn, I would like to play with you again."]

I-I'm... I'm sorry if this is... confusing o-or too much for you to even really understand...

I'm just not sure who else I can even go to about this. Or what to think anymore. The first time was weird enough, the second time scared me... but now the locket and the note? We're a family... but it almost feels like something is mocking us...

[grissom1liner.livejournal.com]

That is strange.

I can try to investigate, but since I don't know much about your technology, there's not a whole lot I can do. But I can recommend a few people you may want to check with. First is David Xanatos--he's a resident expert in artificial intelligence. You can find him at the Eyrie Tower of the Hinata Inn in Tetha. Second, also in Tetha, are Wizardmon and Sorcermon. If things get bad enough, they may be able to help. However, with both of these, there may be some strings attached. Xanatos is well known for having motives of his own, and Wizardmon and Sorcermon have some restrictions in what they can do.

[drunkkareoke.livejournal.com]

Konata's mentioned Xantos before. I'm... kind of weary of Tetha after what happened last time I was there, but at this point... well, I already said. I'm not sure what to do.

There's also the issue of how willing the twins are at letting this be investigated. I... I'd offer my own systems for a look but um...

Well I'm not from the same company. My company actually stole a ripped off copy of Kokoro after Miku was made and it's kind of messed up...

[grissom1liner.livejournal.com]

If that's the case, then you may want to sit on this for a little while. Hold onto whatever information you can, though. If things get worse, then you may have to investigate with or without their cooperation.

[drunkkareoke.livejournal.com]

Maybe...

One of the things I'm really worried about is... well...

a few of the videos have um... what Konata called the 'bad ending'. One in particular... has Len killing Miku. Or.. a version of Miku. Some are just... very violent for no real reason. I don't know which ones are going to become actual personalities, but in the event that they do...

*sigh* I'm sorry. I'm rambling, thinking on the what ifs too much. If something like that happened... I'd just have to trust that we could stop them from acting out those things... some how.

[grissom1liner.livejournal.com]

I know. By its very nature, this world presents us with a number of possibilities. We're faced with both good and bad alternatives to the histories we've known.

But you can't spend all your time worrying about that. If things do go that way, then you at least have the foreknowledge to try and stop it.

[drunkkareoke.livejournal.com]

Mm... mhm. I don't think it's possible to stop the switches... but knowing their PVs means I have an idea of what they are when they happen.

Th... thank you, sir. I feel a lot better.

[grissom1liner.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I'm sorry I couldn't do more.

[drunkkareoke.livejournal.com]

It's more than I've had in a while... and I've been keeping pretty quiet about it since the last incident. I appreciate it.