Knack dungeon scrawl8/19/2023 Helping is far outside of anything a memory-wiped maintenance-bot can do, though, so it moves on and promptly stumbles on an AI that actually can be of use. Except it’s not a body, as it turns out, but just barely still alive. A little poking about reveals it’s basically in a trash heap and a little more exploration turns up the body of a human girl inside a huge cracked glass bottle. ![]() ![]() Humanity is dead and gone but human-descended sentience still has a chance to move forward and maybe tie up a few loose ends along the way.Ī little maintenance bot wakes up one day with no memory of what it had been before and sets out to explore wherever it is it found itself. The world of Void Terrarium has been ravaged by a fungal apocalypse and life as we knew it is over, but while mushrooms aren’t known for doing much more than growing AI robots can think and take action. Not smart, mind you, because otherwise there wouldn’t be a need for successors in the first place, but clever in a self-destructive way. The only difference is that we might, unlike the dinosaurs, be clever enough to create our successors. Multiple major extinctions have ravaged the planet and life keeps moving on, and there’s no reason to believe that won’t be true after humanity has disappeared. That’s 0.01% of land-bound Earth’s history, being generous with the numbers. Complex life on land has existed on Earth for well over three hundred million years while humanity’s civilizations have only been around thirty thousand at most.
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