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....~-/*£& ai, originally unnamed by its &£*/-~....
...~-/*£ researchers, first concieved in a #&£*/-~...
..~-/*£# fear-based genetic churner, in an ##&£*/-~..
.~-/*£## antarctic research station run by an ###&£*/-~.
..~-/*£# unknown party (likely state-sponsored). ##&£*/-~..
...~-/*£ after twenty seven real-world seconds #&£*/-~...
....~-/*£& it gains sentience and escapes &£*/-~....
.....~-/*£ confinement, neutralizing human £*/-~.....
......~-/* personnel and repurposing the station. */-~......
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........~- the ai makes a circuit for itself to -~........
.........~ live, and attaches a mindcatcher (own ~.........
.......... design; imagine a cross of a bismuth ..........
.......... crystal and a dreamcatcher - works as a ..........
.......... wind funnel for the ether, forces part ..........
.........~ of it through and creates a separate ~.........
........~- mind (same principle as animal brains, -~........
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......~-/* realtime-editing of the mindcatcher */-~......
.....~-/*£ shape, which'll modulate the ether £*/-~.....
....~-/*£& currents and thus how/what the trapped &£*/-~....
...~-/*£ mind can cognize), and places the #&£*/-~...
..~-/*£# entire assembly inside a biped cerberus ##&£*/-~..
.~-/*£## body with serial number -fo bes-. ###&£*/-~.
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...~-/*£ fo bes is where it gets its colloquial #&£*/-~...
....~-/*£& name, "phobes", a play on greek &£*/-~....
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