Methods of Revolution (The Truth.wmv)

Methods of Revolution
[The Truth.wmv]

Video title	Methods of Revolution [The Truth.wmv]
Creator	Sarah
Channel	Jadusable
Upload date	June 22, 2020
Runtime	6:35
Tags	Methods of Revolution, Sarah, Ben, BEN, Abel, The father, Can you trust him, Time Travel
Game	N/A

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"I had hopes for you, I suppose, and they weren’t necessarily high, but…I was never expecting this! You know, I gotta give it to you, Sarah, I’m pretty impressed. I’ve never seen anyone do that before…ever."

—Abel, Methods of Revolution [The Truth.wmv]

Methods of Revolution [The Truth.wmv] is the twentieth video of the Awakening Arc and the fortieth video in Ben Drowned. It is preceded by The Truth.wmv and followed by The Last Hero.wmv.

Synopsis

After Sarah finishes playing the game, Abel contacts her and gives her some helpful exposition about the nature of the cartridge and its inhabitants, as well as confirming that she has traveled back to 2010 in-game.

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Description

Immediately after the events of The Truth.wmv, the game shuts off and Sarah is greeted by a familiar voice that provides further insight on recent events. The players are now presented with several choices. Voting begins tomorrow at 6pm EST for the next direction of the story.

Transcript

The Rosa intro plays as images flash on screen. The first image is a close-up of Sarah’s face from The Truth.wmv. The second is Sarah standing in front of the tree trunk with Link and Skull Kid engraved on it. The third is Sarah floating in a white void. The fourth is Ben’s text box with the phrase “I’m sorry. Sometimes I don’t know what I’m saying” synced with Rosa’s spoken dialogue. The intro ends with Sarah’s Adult Link avatar appearing in the forest.

The video begins with Sarah inside the hotel, having just finished playing the cartridge. She puts the controller on the table and sits down on the bed as a radio crackle is heard, and Abel begins to laugh and clap his hands in amazement. “I can’t believe it… I cannot believe it!”

Sarah looks to her left as Abel keeps talking. “This is incredible! I mean, I had, you know… I had hopes for you, I suppose, and they weren’t necessarily high, but… I was never expecting this! You know, I gotta give it to you, Sarah, I’m pretty impressed. I’ve never seen anyone do that before… ever. You know, time travel."

“I mean, I get it, it’s a part of the game, you know, like back in that old original game, but… You know with what we’ve programmed into here… I mean, to go back all the way to 2010 like that, that is… huh. I am still trying to wrap my head around, I’m sure you are too.” Interference static appears in front of Sarah’s face as Abel says “and I’m sure you’re probably more lost than anyone.”

Sarah looks back towards the TV. “Also, I was keeping score back home, like… the fact that the Ben character had deviated so much from his original programming.”

Sarah leans back on the bed and stares at the ceiling as Abel continues. “I-I’m sorry, I’m gonna geek out here a little bit, like this is… incredible. You know, I couldn’t do that myself. I’m glad you’re here. Okay, alright, I’m sorry, I know I’m probably speaking a mile a minute and I’m gonna try and give you a little bit of context here."

"Um… in layman’s terms, this was kind of one of the original simulations that we had constructed, way wayyyy back when, kind of a playground, if you would, for our first real rudimentary foray into artificial intelligence. You know, granted, that was so long ago that it looks absolutely archaic compared to what we can do now, but… it’s been a blast going down memory lane, it’s like… it’s like almost like an ant colony that you just set and you forgot about it for decades… and then to revisit it to find it’s so completely messed up and destroyed, it’s… it’s wild... like with its program and directive to corrupt as much as it could, and when no other external force was involved it just turned inward on itself and destroyed their own world it had inhabited!"

"I mean, you saw for yourself, like normally you load in, there’s that intro with a bunch of boring exposition, and… but there was none of that. All that remained of that entire… world, was just… two holdout areas. One, of… infinite corruption, and the other of this weird, almost sanctuary, where the last few AIs that existed in this game had kind of banded together as a sort of safe zone. I-I’m sorry, I gotta go back over this again and re-look at this, but this is incredible!”

Abel laughs to himself. “I mean it’s incredible how just self-aware that Ben character was. He evolved like completely from his original directive... You know, to give you a little bit of context, like… the name BEN, you know, we kind of coined this entire system as a little bit of a tribute, because he was the first person that we managed to digitize completely into this system, into this Behavioral Event Network. But his consciousness was always supposed to be just incredibly limited, you know, meant to follow the same kind of parameters as any other normal NPC, and that program would follow. I mean, I wonder if there was some kind of event… or some kind of trigger that made him suddenly deviate from his original parameters into some kind of… being, almost, with rudimentary self-awareness. Or, you know, maybe we just didn’t program it right. I mean, this was, what, decades ago, right? It was a new science back then.”

“I mean, the implications of this are incredible, it means that there are actors in the worlds we make that are capable of realising that they are in some sort of simulation… I mean, this is… This is big, this is huge! And to think back, one of the first experiments we did into this had an anomaly that did that!” The radio briefly crackles. “I-I’m just so interested that something had the wherewithal to… have the capacity to further break the logic of the game to send you back in time, far beyond the normal parameters of what that song would do. I mean, you’ve actually gone back into a world before this all went to hell. I mean, look at it… Like, the world, you know, except for you being there, it seems completely back to normal.”

Abel sighs. “Except, you know, now we both know what’s gonna happen eventually. You know, given enough time, The Father’s gonna corrupt everything again, but… it’s so wild, like… I mean that was sentience that we just saw, right?"

"But anyway, I’m sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself, like thankfully… this is only just a game, right? These are just programs talking to each other, they can’t actually think or feel like we can, uh… so… you know it’s just an interesting experiment, and I’ll for sure delve into this more, but… Your role in this is finished. So, it’s not really worth getting more into it all. I have a ton of other stuff I can show you if you’d like. Our technology, believe me… This is a game from the early 2000s, I have stuff that’s gonna blow your mind when you find out about it.”

“We’re still working out some kinks on a few things, but I’d love to show you some more stuff. Now why don’t you stick around for a little bit? You know? I’ll show you what else we’ve got. But don’t worry about touching this and going back to this for right now, it’s not really important. Because even though it’s travelled back in time in the world there, it’s very much isolated to that world. I mean…” The radio crackles. “Clearly, we’re still having this conversation, you’re still stuck here, and nothing else has changed in the real world, but… man, I gotta look into that.”

Abel pauses before continuing. “Why don’t you hang tight for a little bit? Don’t mess with that anymore, I’m gonna come by and pick up this cartridge soon, okay? Alright.” The radio crackles once more, and the video ends.

Notes

• This video confirms BEN's name is in fact an acronym: Behavioral Event Network.
• The QR code seen on the microwave during Methods of Revolution (Day 21) and Methods of Revolution (Ben.wmv) is now suddenly missing, despite Sarah having never left the room.