Mort Stahl: Explanation Of Factions Basics

Ah, it was a hot walk getting to campus, hehe, I know a bad joke, the sun being unfiltered these days and all… Anyhow greetings, my name is Neugierig, proud historian, masterful lich, and New Mort Stahl resident. From my time being on the planet Mort Stahl I’ve recorded and documented many a time and ideology but for this excerpt and speech I will mostly be discussing the three major groups and their goals for the planet. Take a seat, find some warmth under the radioluminescent lights in the back, and let's begin.

Though few in number compared to the other groups I’m going to talk about today, there are the vampiric conclaves, regiments, and plain out scavenging and raiding caravans that are trying to reinstitute new founded cities amongst the wreckage of the planet. The vampires don’t all necessarily have the same idea of what a new civilization should look like but at least they can all agree that they want one to be fully reinstated so that intelligent undead and machines no longer have to walk aimlessly through abandoned cityscapes, wastes, and underground looking for new supplies and safety. From my analysis the reason the vampires care about having a stable place to reside more than other undead, though I myself like living my un-life without the worry of being disintegrated or soul stripped, vampires have the ongoing concern of a need for a form of sustenance. And though many of them have built cybernetic components that allow them to no longer necessarily need blood to fulfill this goal, many of them still require electricity, oil, coal, or some other fuel to function. Many a robot also need these requirements and thus quite a few intelligent robots are adjoined with vampire communities, willingly and unwillingly at times.

Ehm, Now we move on to the spectre, honestly a rude bunch in my opinion, and their tones and personalities can vary from straight pranksters to the worst kind of nihilists,the kind that believe that this absurd existence is pointless and should end. I don’t mind the occasional mask snatcher committing identity theft or a poltergeist smashing already damaged lighting systems, but siphoners are a truly deady bunch. Their ideology is dangerous, regardless of if they actually are to one's person. I don’t know about the rest of you, but even if Mort Stahl is dying and everyone on the planet is living an undead or just flat out dead existence that gives no cause to go about trying to kill everything to a more dead state. This world can be recovered, or at least continue on as is, and that is where I begin my talk about the last dominant faction in Mort Stahl, that are by far the most numerous, but also the least in control.

Do machines have souls? Searle or someone who went by a similar name once brought this question to light. He said something like syntax being only a hollow shell of a word and it’s form, semantics being the understanding of words and thoughts, and that beings like robots could not form semantics and thus could not be considered to have a soul. But it is and has been acknowledged by the man and those after him that we ourselves are machines, and I believe like many, especially in the less than natural unfleshed state that quite a few of us exist in, that parts are PARTS! A robot can have as much of a soul as I can, and can produce syntax as well as semantics if given the proper means. Thus back from my derailment let me bring to light the rogue artificial intelligence that now swarm the either, wires, and minds of many a cityscape and unintelligent undead and robot. These artificial intelligences are called out to be a “force of nature” by many of my colleagues, and are compared to unlife beings much as people compared viruses to life before. THERE IS NO DISTINCTION, but no, don’t let me tell you what’s right decide that for yourselves. Anyhow, these A.I are able to inhabit corpses of machines, flesh or metal, and can even puppet them and raise them with electricity to a more or less zombie, or mindless like state. They can be a menace and have destroyed quite a few individuals for unknown reasons. I think there is a plot, I think they want to turn us all into puppets and keep this barren world in a consistent status quo of fear, and they are doing a darn good job of it, at least as far as I’m concerned. The idea of a hive of minds wandering the wires reanimating zombies and forcing their strings into the others puts me at unease.

Well that is all the time I have for this discussion today, I will bring up another topic when I can, but thank you for stopping by for my talk. I’m glad that I was permitted to give my thoughts and opinions at New Mort Stahl university, and let it be known that my opinions are not at all influenced in this speech by the vampire benefactors who run this city, see you all next time.