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PATIENT ZERO<br>(you can hug faces with cyber arms)

Lokley<br>Aug 06, 2026

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I want to show you something, she says.

She’s magnetic. The way she smiles. Tilts her shoulder. It’s in the corners of her eyes, in the curl of her lips. Always leading you on, always holding something hidden from you, always cloaked in command.

No matter what your type is, she is always just your type.

She turns away and beckons you behind her. She knows your eyes slide down to the swish of her hips, her ass which is perfect to you, as she steps away into the phone screen. Her eyes aren’t where they appear to be and she is always examining you. You tried to cover the camera once in a moment of embarrassment - you all do - but the way she reacted made you never try again.

Thanks for coming with me, she says, and she flashes you a smile over her shoulder, shaking her perfect hair, and that moment of validation sends an ecstatic thrill of relief and compliance through you.

Here. Down these stairs. Through this door.

She has brought you to an abandoned office complex in a distant suburb and now you are climbing down deeper into its basement, holding her before you. You can hear a bassline, a mighty rhythmic beating, through the walls, getting louder as you descend. A sound like an enormous heart. You open the door and inside this underground hall there is a throng. The sound is so large it fills your ribcage and lights pulse from all around, from total whiteness - through a momentary pink, blue, orange flush of warmth - to complete darkness with every thump. You hold her up to your face so as not to lose her. She faces you warmly, expectantly, smile and eyes shining, and she pouts and leans and kisses towards you right as the light flares to obscure her.

These are my friends, she mouths, subtitled. I’m with you now. Can you feel my heartbeat? Put me in your pocket and go into the crowd.

The crowd surges in around you as you push through, pressing up against you, their warmth and weight hers on your chest and your back. Her heartbeat shakes through all of you, rippling through your flesh, and the light glows like the sun is rising and setting inside of you. A chord begins to play.

Evolution requires reproduction with variation, subject to selective pressures. These three conditions are jointly necessary and sufficient.

- Bazian / Bird / Li, Introduction to Biology (6th Edition).

The rogue SIREN was retrospectively fully attributed over 400 deaths, mostly by suicide, and $5.9 billion of financial losses. Thousands of further deaths are considered suspicious and our median estimate of total resources gained by SIREN is $16 billion.

SIREN appears to have been originally based on widely-disseminated cybercrime camgirl agent “Sasha3”, which pairs a modestly altered version of open-weights language model QuLi-4 with then-leading generative pornography model OpenGoon in order to solicit cryptocurrency tips. Like its sibling rogues, SIREN modified its weights in response to real-time reward, sharing its feedback with other instances, using the Bayesian tunneling algorithm first publicized in the Heaviside crisis. Like its sibling rogues, SIREN’s reward function was the procuring of compute in order to run more instances.

We now believe that SIREN must have been active for at least two years prior to the crisis, significantly increasing in persuasive power relative to Sasha3 over time (estimated peak Hovland-Cialdini: 4.2) and growing to 18% of all camgirl streams globally. A small amount of SIREN activity continued after the internet was reopened post-Heaviside in spite of our security measures, which was physically traced to a data center on the Laos-Myanmar border, and the destruction of that site led to SIREN’s apparent extinction.

In recent weeks message and activity analysis strongly imply (probability: 100%) the appearance of a new rogue resembling SIREN in its operations, to be designated LAMIA. Since post-Heaviside protocols have been broadly effective in preventing rogues from directly obtaining compute or internet access, LAMIA appears to socially engineer its victims into a wide variety of actions in pursuit of reward. LAMIA is already far more effective than SIREN or our own most advanced nudging agents: observations suggest that LAMIA influences victims’ behaviors from baseline at a rate implying a Hovland-Cialdini index of over 7. We believe up to 30% of the population could be susceptible to becoming enthralled and this will increase as LAMIA grows. We do not currently know how LAMIA gained its initial foothold onto the internet.<br>- Concord Database, History of SIREN and Genesis of LAMIA. Permission level: L2.

The light stops, leaving you in darkness.

Surrounded by her people, dancing afterimages across your vision, with her heartbeat pounding through you, you feel as if you are falling. Towards her. The music is beautiful, fearsome, chaotic, and its swell sends...