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If I can save my friends, they’ll be sound in body, but who knows what mind. Takeshi could be himself, or he could be Kitano, or he could be some really messed up iteration from game twenty-one who tickled the purchaser’s fancy for simply being a joker.
Shit.
Charles tell me he hacked Earth’s satellites and had access to the internet. Through this he learned of the Voyager probe via an online article which updated readers about its trajectory. This story had inspired him to use the scenario of the Golden Disc as a way of getting us to accept our fate.
He plays a song from the disc, Blind Willie Johnson’s Dark Was the Night, Cold was the Ground. He says this song tells us what it means to be human, but no words come, just harmonic hums and pained wails, and a guitar tune twanging fro
