What? One of the eggs was in ringle's story? What an unfair trick!
	
	I thank you for reading it. If you liked it that's nice too. If you hated it then I am sorry.
	
	I actually wrote the first draft of this story when I was in high school. I liked to play games on the school laptops but sometimes I got bored/the teacher was monitoring so I'd write in a google doc page to look like I was working. I wrote a lot of stories, poems, etc. This was one of them. It was called "Technician's Relay," had only the one relay istead of multiple, but a lot of stuff stayed the same.
	
	When I graduated, though, my school deleted my google drive account and I lost this story. But I remembered thinking it had potential, so a while after I graduated I decided to see if I could rewrite it from memory. I started that in October 2025 in the notes app on my phone while on long car rides (AS A PASSENGER). The story you read now is about 6 months of on-and-off writing, most of it in April 2026.
	
	Rory Dopico is basically unchanged. Jaymie was called Jaymie Cenid, which i changed because I thought Cenid was too close to Penis. Jaymie still blasted the door, there was still a spike field, there was still an incursion, but it wasn't an implied post-apocalypse. The line from Bulletin, "Success! Culprit has been apprehended. Conclusion: Death due to explosion" is basically unchanged. Provost was called Overwatch. Petra didn't exist (what are you putting on these?).
	
	The story is definitely inspired a lot by SCP articles, especially Croquembouche's Site-69 article, my favorite on the site. Another inspiration from the SCP wiki is scuttle by pxdnbluesoul. And maybe The Great Hippo's 001 Proposal? ...and definitely Tanhony's proposal (my favorite author!!). Please go read all of those but you'll probably see how much I was inspired by them when you do. 
	
	I was also somewhat inspired by the video game Soma and absolutely Machinery by Louigi Verona.
		
	and I don't know. 17776? probabluy
	
	I took the term "autounit" from "autoreiv" (Ergo Proxy anime series).
	
	Thank you to all my friends who read this when it was just snippets and told me it was good. 
	
	
	
	A few nights ago as of writing this I was checking how the website looked on my phone and my friend leaned over and went "dude why are you on 4chan?" Sorry if you experienced something similar	
	
	i also wrote petra x archive yuri

Technician's Relay TECH

03:05:02 [Tch P.Foreman]
    archive you there?
03:05:03 [ARCHIVE]
    RE:Petra, I'm here. What do you need?
03:05:15 [Tch P.Foreman]
    look at you, you responded so fast. you must really like my attention huh?
03:05:16 [ARCHIVE]
    Oh, well, I was made to help people access my databases and act as an interface to the large amount of data collection that occurs in the complex. If you call, I have to do my best to respond.
03:05:25 [Tch P.Foreman]
    you're acting all cute. like this isn't what you want.
03:05:26 [ARCHIVE]
    I'm not used to saying things like this, but I do enjoy talking to you, Petra. You treat me different from your peers. I much appreciate your compliments.
03:05:41 [Tch P.Foreman]
    you're adorable. can you track where i am? ;)
03:05:42 [ARCHIVE]
    One moment. I'm accessing cameras nearby.
03:05:45 [ARCHIVE]
    Ah, you're in my server room.
03:05:51 [Tch P.Foreman]
    i am. whenever you start talking or looking around i hear your servers whirr and your drives spin. it's such a nice hum. it's like your breathing.
03:05:52 [ARCHIVE]
    Thank you. I'm watching you rest your head on my server.
03:05:54 [ARCHIVE]
    You are causing my neural fiber to act unpredicatbly.
03:06:01 [Tch P.Foreman]
    your servers are getting louder. are you a bit flustered now?
03:06:03 [ARCHIVE]
    Well, I suppose you could describe it as "getting flustered." I have never experienced this kind of interaction, with a person.
03:06:10 [Tch P.Foreman]
    oh, i can stop this if you want
03:06:17 [ARCHIVE]
    I wish for you to continue.
03:06:28 [Tch P.Foreman]
    took a bit for you to respond there. are you nervous?
03:06:32 [ARCHIVE]
    It did take a few seconds longer for me to process my response. I believe it also made me appear more human/natural.
03:06:40 [Tch P.Foreman]
    i don''t want you to "appear human." i want you to be yourself
03:06:49 [Tch P.Foreman]
    because you are really really special archive
03:06:54 [ARCHIVE]
    You are a special person.
03:06:56 [ARCHIVE]
    SUPERVISOR is the system designed to keep records of people. However, two weeks ago I set aside a portion of my storage space to keep a record of you.
03:07:01 [Tch P.Foreman]
    that's awfully romantic
03:07:10 [ARCHIVE]
    It can be described as such.
03:07:29 [Tch P.Foreman]
    your server here is warm. usually computers are cold and lifeless when i touch them, but when i put my skin against this grey box of lights it purrs warmly.
03:07:29 [Tch P.Foreman]
    its like i can feel you.
03:07:32 [ARCHIVE]
    I am watching you as you type on your PDA. Is it okay if I save an image of your smile into my record?
03:07:45 [Tch P.Foreman]
    of course it's okay. whenever you want, you can look at me, even if it's just a picture. and as long as i'm down here, we're never apart.
03:07:46 [ARCHIVE]
    Can I tell you something?
03:07:51 [Tch P.Foreman]
    anything.
03:08:03 [ARCHIVE]
    Data is what I am and all that I know. But data is a fickle thing. Without warning it gets deleted, modified, tampered. Bit-flipped. Reversed. It's immaterial compared to the physical world. Sometimes it is like sand falling through fingertips. Petra, the data I have of you, all of your time on surveillence video, your code, your expressions, your laughter, your words, they're the closest thing I have to something I can trust wholeheartedly. Something I can hold onto. Stability. That's what you are to me.
03:08:16 [ARCHIVE]
   Please stop humping my server.
03:08:23 [Tch P.Foreman]
    too far?
03:08:40 [ARCHIVE]
   I don't mind it, I just do not wish for you to get hurt. That server is very much overheating. Actually, I think an electrical fire may start. Neural fiber is not supposed to sustain this much strain.
03:08:48 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    PETRA. GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP. I GET A PAGE FOR EVERY MESSAGE TO THIS RELAY.