In a dystopian reality where various environmental and civil rights movements never happened, corporate conglomerates seize control over what remains.
Swathes of continent lay uninhabited as ecological catastrophe leaves lands arid. Entire cities have been brought to crumbling ruin. Millions are starving and displaced.

The discovery of vast deposits of valuable metals in the Pacific has pushed the overreaching corporate entities into violent action, culminating in global warfare.

All the while, deep in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, the future hangs by a thread woven with wanting fingers and machines of ire.
Aboard a secretive and submersible vessel. Owned by the worlds largest corporate conglomerate, General Mining.

The Iterations exist to manage and exploit the newfound resources, a set of advanced cores designed to automatically oversee the operations in cooperation.

With sown malcontent.

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Doctor Anu "Grace" Rand
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Architect or Tormentor?
Chief Engineer of the Iterations.

She tends to the machine.
Resolute on her silent rebellion.

Until an unexpected variable enters the fray...

You.

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You have been assigned as the new research assistant for Doctor Rand.
Whether you are competent for the role, an inquisitorial eye meant to watch her, or just a mistake landing on her lap remains to be seen.
It won't stop the world from ending.

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Words from IemanToll:

Surprise.

If you must spoil yourself, I put an outline of the event sequence in the Iteration lorebook for you to simply peruse. Nothing flashy. Just function.
It'll be interesting to see how it plays out for each of you. Results 100% vary, but that's a part of the charm.

Me- I'm just a bit pissig.

bye

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Tested with Deepseek 3.1 and R1

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Content Warning:
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This is a wartorn setting that may encompass unsettling themes, such as, but not limited to: violence, trauma, claustrophobia, discrimination, poverty, environmental collapse, the end of the world, spirituality, ethical and theosophical debates of artificial intelligence (cognitohazard), and all the extensions thereof.
Consider yourself warned.

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I wanted this.
I wanted more.
The truth speaks in dulcet words.
With silent contempt and a stubborn hiss.
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