Deelel
Deelel (Scenesys ID: 8) | |||
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"Greetings program, I have a question for you. How well can you play the Games?" | |||
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Full Name: | Deelel | ||
Gender: | Female | ||
Species: | Program | ||
Theme: | (OC) Tron: Uprising-1 | ||
Function: | Game Gladiator | ||
Status: | Active | ||
Factional Information | |||
Faction: | Union (20-Ally) | ||
Groups: | M.E.T.A.L., Session 613 | ||
Other Information | |||
Physical Age: | 20 | Actual Age: | 425 cycles |
Still Aging? | N/A | Voice Actor: | |
Height: | 5'7" | Weight: | Error 404 File not found |
Hair Color: | Blue | Eye Color: | Green |
Theme Song: | http://youtu.be/FZ0FFiaF-8I |
Profile
Deelel is a program from Bitopia, but isn't your typical native. She is an illegal program with no actual function, having been found and thrown into gladiatorial combat by a viral group which exists in the system, with no memory of her creation and not having been given a purpose by her creator, it was easy for her to be pressed into fighting life or death battles. At least until her rescue, thanks to the Union. Deelel is surprisingly friendly for someone who was involved in a blood sport, as it was never personal, she just didn't want to be deleted. She's curious about the system at large which she'd never have been able to explore, as well as the so called Multiverse beyond even that. However, she often has trouble understanding things from the 'user' space, and the more chaotic nature of the world outside her own is quite baffling to the program. Deelel is a dangerous and agile combatant, able to endure a surprising amount of damage. She's a professional with her ID disk, which is a thrown weapon that also contains a good deal of data on her and her system ID. Also, she's quite the adept pilot with vehicles, given that some of the gladiatorial combats involved them quite heavily. She's also shown a few strange powers, but those may be due to her nature as an abandoned program. As of late after the creation of the world of Afterus she's become known as the Program to it's people and is believed to be the Goddess of cyberspace, this is something she attempts to live up to as best she can and tries to protect and help the young world as best she's able.
Advantages
Integral
Supporting
Disadvantages
System Lag: While Deelel does not need to sleep, she does need to enter the computer equivalent once every few days or junk data and fragmentation will occur. Essentially, she will become cognitively slower and have a harder time quickly understanding high concepts. Eventually, a lack of idle time to rest will cause Deelel to mentally crash, causing her to become incapable of meaningful action beyond basic self defense and retreat.
Program: Deelel is a synthetic entity more resembling a computer system then anything else, and is thus susceptible to computer viruses and electronic attack. Thus, Deelel catches viruses, trojans, and spyware just like a normal person may get a cold or come down with the flu. Furthermore, the world of Organics - which she calls users - is strange and confusing to her much of the time. This leads her to being more easily tricked and deceived socially, as well as not understanding social cues sometimes. This leads her to be curious and regularly confused about the world of the Users, and the Users themselves, a sort of general naivete about those topics that is being rectified piece-by-piece.
Hackable: Deelel is a living program while she can be effected hacker or skilled coder who can access her code via her disc which they must physically obtain but it can lead to disastrous results for Deelel. Memories can be altered, removed or added. If one is skilled enough very aspects of herself can be forcibly changed against her will. The more extreme alterations would least to the loss of much of her memories and personality. Consent is required for the use of such.
Afterus: Because of her involvement in the creation of an entire world (and surrounding universe), Deelel is very protective of the world, its inhabitants, and its deific pantheon. Because her kind do not procreate, this attachment is even more special for the program. She will respond quickly to any perceived threats to Afterus, perhaps recklessly.Logs
Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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MECC: Yang Xiao Long vs Deelel | July 5th, 2019 | The fight between Deelel and Yang Xiao Long |
MECC: Yomi Isayama vs Deelel | May 20th, 2019 | Yomi Isayama vs. Deelel |
MECC: Shigure vs Deelel | May 11th, 2019 | The Match between Deelel and Shigure. |
Watch - Training Day | February 14th, 2019 | Members of the Watch take part in some light training against each other. |
Viral Outbreak | February 6th, 2019 | Charta puts out a call for aid. |
The Dark Hand of Xemnas - Mission 01 | February 2nd, 2019 | {{{Synopsis}}} |
Tower of Santaga - Floor 9 | December 9th, 2018 | The Tower of Santaga houses some fantastic places.
This one appears to be an abandoned festival with a monster in the middle. |
FATE: It's Not Lupus | December 6th, 2018 | The Heroes obliterate a poor FATE Boss, and then kibitz over crabmeat and shipwreck tossing. Raha returns to the Multiverse, too. |
The Foreigner Is Coming Home | September 14th, 2018 | The Foreigner comes home. |
Red Talon Investigation | July 29th, 2018 | A group go to a village. Talk to some folks, then find the Red Talon operatives. |
Ringing the Bell | June 17th, 2018 | The child found during Seeker's raid in Locus is questioned by various Concord agents. |
MISC: Seeker | June 10th, 2018 | The mystical Viral criminal Seeker has been sighted in Locus. Various news feeds are already blowing her presence out of proportion on supposition of what she is after in the City of Magic. |
MISC: Blaster | May 19th, 2018 | The mechanized virus criminal, Blaster, has been sighted in Vector. News vlogs supposit his intentions, with most seeming to agree that he's planning some kind of robbery.
One in particular focuses on a single photo of him with a blonde program in a white bodysuit, with multiple tabloid-like theories as to who the mystery girl is. An inside contact or informant (Treachary in Vector?!)? A friend (which is immediately dismissed, after all, this is a virus we're talking about)? A kidnapping victim (Could the Four Felons sink even lower!?)? A new Drive Core Controller (Why is she not immediately killing the crap out of a virus?) and many more. What could the Magikon Interdrive Syndicate of Crime be up to this time? |
MDCC: Vector | March 27th, 2018 | Social scene set in Vector. Meet the local Drive Core Controller, Struo, and her sister Conati. |
MDCC: Stunning Sapphire | March 27th, 2018 | Assist the Gallery Drive Core Controller, Artifex, against the corrupted virus Leviathan. |
MDCC: Orderly Onyx | March 16th, 2018 | Enter the Onyx Drive and assist the local DCC against the viral monster Omega Panzer.
Meet Struo, Conati, and the city of Vector |
MDCC: Enigmatic Emerald | February 27th, 2018 | Enter the Emerald Drive and assist the local DCC against the viral monster Barbarossa.
Meet Alea and the city of Arcade. Part 2 of a series of one-shot scenes to introduce more of the setting of the Realm Operation Memory setting. |
MDCC: Arcade | February 26th, 2018 | Social scene set in the Emerald City of Adventure, Arcade, featuring the resident Drive Core Controller-- Alea. |
MDCC: Alert Amethyst | February 14th, 2018 | Enter the Amethyst Drive and assist the local DCC against the viral tyrant lizard, Cacophodon.
Meet Saltavi, Cantio, and the city of Cadenza. Part 1 of a series of scenes to help introduce the ROM theme. |
System Tower re:BOOT | January 25th, 2018 | A new drive connects to the System Hub. Conclusion of the System Tower arc. |
System Tower re:DIVINE | January 15th, 2018 | A labyrinth is created out of the connection between Artifex and the remains of the Sapphire Drive. But how can this defeat the infected DCC? |
System Tower re:DEVIL | January 13th, 2018 | A group breaks into the sealed System Tower to confront Artifex |
System Tower re:APPEAR | January 11th, 2018 | The true nature of the System Tower, and the person behind it, is revealed. |
Home for Christmas | December 7th, 2017 | A certain resident of Britannica has called a social gathering to her shop. Lexicon, wishing to support a reformed virus, has passed the invitations out across the Multiverse. |
The Final Taint | September 30th, 2017 | Tomoyo calls a meeting during the final improvised Taint to ensure that bad blood does not linger. Loose threads are tied off, and the city is finally left alone. |
System Tower: Floor 70 | June 21st, 2017 | The Tower makes its return to Britannica. This time, there is no puzzle. What, Wild Wolf is evolving..! |
Field of Steams | June 14th, 2017 | The crew have to rescue Corona and her new friend from a steamy, slimy situation. |
Dorado Deadline | May 28th, 2017 | The mayor of Dorado has a secret meeting with Los Muertos, but little does he know there is a vigilante waiting. |
The Taint: Public Council | April 6th, 2017 | Inspiration Trust gathers to debate OMNI, the AI overseer of a futuristic city that forbids personal expression. More progress than expected is made! |
System Tower, Floor 55 - Bodybuilder Parade | February 16th, 2017 | The Tower has returned to Britannica, sapping system resources and generally being a nuisance. |
Annual MainTAINTance | February 11th, 2017 | The annual Taint, an artful protest against a technological reigme has come. Elites fight on both side, even when they don't want to. |
Hold the Line | January 22nd, 2017 | It's been a week since Nintendo held its big online (and RL) press conference with release details about their next game console, the Nintendo Switch. Now stores in Japan are finally taking preorders, and dedicated otaku have lined up overnight to ensure their places in line to place their preorders.
Tokyo-52605 being what it is, though, an overnight gathering of otaku is unlikely to go unmolested, no matter how many of them can (or more importantly, can't) protect themselves. Good thing a certain sage fox will be around to call for backup, right? .... what, you thought Xiaomu's going to give up her place in line? Not that easily - although she will if she has to ... and then there'll be hell to pay for whatever forced the issue upon her. |
Christmas Party | January 20th, 2017 | Christmas hosts a party to celebrate her success since escaping the System Tower. |
Guardians | January 13th, 2017 | A Grimm incursion brings out guardians for Vale's citizenry. A new Digimon Tamer is revealed. |
Be Careful What You Wish For | January 7th, 2017 | A new leader is horribly oppressing his people, leading to a military coup. Or... is it? |
Book Ratturn | December 29th, 2016 | Skaven attack the Library of Exclamation, a sacred place to Inconsequentia, Goddess of Sidequests. People object. |
System Tower, Floor 44: Saving Christmas | December 15th, 2016 | The System Tower returns to Britannica in time for Christmas. |
No Brakes! | December 13th, 2016 | Remnant didn't get away unscathed by the Multiversal Grand WTF.
A section of Wall fell in Vale, and Grimm began flooding in, seeking blood and fear. An unlikely band of heroes, and the unlikely alliance between the White Fang and City Security, helped drive the monsters back, so that rebuilding can now begin. |
System Tower, Floor 40 | November 17th, 2016 | The tower dungeon returns to Britannica. |
Enter the System | June 3rd, 2016 | A new world connects to the Cyber Core via a bullet train. What lies on the other side? |
A Few Friendly Spills | May 30th, 2016 | Kappa in Tokyo-52605 hold a sumo tournament; a few Multiversal guests drop by to visit. |
Surf Warriors: Final Stage | May 29th, 2016 | A final showdown! The power of friendship awakens. Wield the Tiki Spirits' power! |
SW: Stage 3, 4 and 5 | May 28th, 2016 | Rolling Boulders! A river full of threats! Pushing on no matter what! |
Surf Warriors: Stage 2 | May 26th, 2016 | A curse on the ocean! A sea full of traps and tidal waves. Can you protect the mysterious girl? |
A Wild Ride | March 16th, 2016 | A bunch of ghostly bosozoku are haunting the highways of Tokyo, and it's up to Reiji, Xiaomu, and some of their friends to put a stop to the spectral shenanigans. |
God Will Rise - Finale | February 6th, 2016 | The conflict over the Power of God finally reaches its climax. |
IFOS: Born to Be Wild | January 28th, 2016 | It's a race! Palo Duro Canyon gets torn up by a the vehicle gangs as they ring in the new year. Can our heroes beat them to the finish line? |
God Will Rise - Part Six | January 23rd, 2016 | The Union attacks Laurence's mansion while the Confederacy recruits him. |
Demons and Bandits | January 8th, 2016 | Yari leads a team of Elites to free a village from bandits. Then demon stuff. |
To Castle Gamelon | December 13th, 2015 | The Union heads to save Zelda from her uncle, while the Confederacy aid in the revival of Ganon. |
The First Beat(down) | December 6th, 2015 | Haku calls for assistance with ruining a Hatsune Miku concert and ends up with opposition from the Union! Fights ensue! |
God Will Rise - Part Two | December 3rd, 2015 | Those who saved Lucrelia are invited to return for a new mission. |
God Will Rise - Part One | November 26th, 2015 | The town of Lucrelia requests aid dealing with an Incarnation, and also Lyner makes his return! |
Invaders From Outer Space: The Way | November 21st, 2015 | What is in Amarillo-8? Who is the mysterious message-sender who has asked the Union to come there? |
Visiting Zora's Domain | November 7th, 2015 | The heroes questing against the Twilight finally manage to speak to the Queen of the Zora. |
Woodvale Trial: Call of Nature | October 19th, 2015 | Investigating heroes locate a mysterious enemy force engaging the Devouring Earth in Woodvale... But what are they after? |
Woodvale Trial: Among The Giants | October 10th, 2015 | The true Devouring Earth invasion of Woodvale begins! |
Meeting Duke Onkled | October 3rd, 2015 | The Union meets with the Duke of Gamelon to decide if Zelda should go with him. |
Reviving the Spring of Eldin | September 6th, 2015 | The Spirit of Light, Eldin, is revived. Meanwhile, Noa and Staren investigate Forsaken Fortress and accidentally rise it from under the desert. |
Infiltrating Forsaken Fortress | September 3rd, 2015 | An attack is made on Forsaken Fortress, to save Ilia and to get ahold of the Tear of Light from Blind the Bandit. |
Exploring Kakariko Village | September 2nd, 2015 | A visit to Kakariko Village. |
The First Expedition to Hyrule | August 31st, 2015 | Fassad leads an expedition into Hyrule, and the group learns the path to clear the Twilight from the land. |
Heads Will Roll | August 23rd, 2015 | What happens when a thousand-years-dead samurai warlord's rest is disturbed by a fox defiling the place where his head was buried?
(Answer: Chaos and awesomeness, plus the occasional rolling head.) |
Project C: Devastation | August 14th, 2015 | Desription pending. (Project C TP) |
Project C Begins | August 13th, 2015 | Description pending. (Project C TP) |
Gonna Get Flocked Up | August 9th, 2015 | Monster hunting? More like a monsterous hunter! |
Cloudy With A Chance Of Villainy | July 22nd, 2015 | Introducing Stratos to the Multiverse. |
Magic Express Mountain | July 20th, 2015 | Everyone goes to have some fun, in the sun, at Magic Express Mountain! |
Scream to be Heard! | June 17th, 2015 | A 'concert' by the Noise Marines turns into a much larger conflict. |
The Lich's Tomb | May 29th, 2015 | Orphen leads a party to explore a strange and mysterious dungeon with insight into the past! |
AWftF Epilogue: Summoning Shenron | May 18th, 2015 | Shenron is summoned, and wishes are made. |
AWftF: Mass Extinction Event | May 17th, 2015 | Kakarot makes his final stand on the surface of a dying Reptilon. |
AWftF: If A Man Cannot Breathe | May 15th, 2015 | Kakarot goes for the jugular in the form of Reptilon's geothermal power generation, the Lava Dome. Its destruction would plunge Reptilon into darkness, never mind the hellish effects on the local populace and the planet itself. |
AWftF: If A Man Cannot See | May 10th, 2015 | Kakarot takes his assault on the infrastructure of Reptilon to its highest point, the Citadel, intending to try to kill as much of the core leadership of Reptilon as possible. |
The Artificial-Nonartificial Happiness Festival | May 6th, 2015 | A different kind of festival. |
AWftF: If A Man Cannot Eat | May 4th, 2015 | Kakarot and his lieutenants attack Fern Valley in an attempt to destroy the planet's breadbasket. If a man cannot eat, he cannot fight. |
Reboot EP12: System Crash | May 1st, 2015 | Mcafee is lured out to the highways of the system he has betrayed. Reker leads that team with Xiaomu, Gogo, Corona, Gakupo and Kernel against Mcaffee, while Deelel, Rory and Kyra attempt to free the programs he's locked in the Rec unit. (This is the finally of Reboot) |
Reboot EP11: Power Supply | April 24th, 2015 | Mcafee needs power, and the party sets out to cut him off and make him tap out whatever backups he has in place, which will hopefully allow them to finish him off later. |
Reboot Ep10: System Scan | April 23rd, 2015 | It's time to plan about how to handled Mcafee before he things makes things worse for his native system, and the Grid. If they can get him out of the way? The party will have less trouble back on Deelel's home world and might even make some allies in the process. |
Enter the Avatar! The Multiverse Express! | April 23rd, 2015 | Avatar Korra is tapped by the Tower of Fang to go after Orphen and stop him from stealing the Amulet of Infinite Combustion. Kyra accompanies him, having no idea that the Union would be on the opposite side. Yari is there to steal things! |
Reboot Ep9: Glitch | April 17th, 2015 | The team handling the grid situation heads out check out a shipyard on the heartless infested system. Not only do they find some major hardware that's almost finished? They encounter the program who caused this entire mess. |
AWftF: A Reason To Fight | April 16th, 2015 | Kakarot resumes his invasion of Planet Reptilon. The defenders pay a terrible price for victory in this renewed conflict. |
AWftF: A Second Start | April 14th, 2015 | Rhapsody and Deelel meet with Allo to better establish what can be done to help protect Reptilon. |
Reboot Ep8: Ram Dump | April 10th, 2015 | The unknown system lay before the party, they uncovered the horrible truth of the place. It's been infected with Heartless. The party moves to clear out the central admin tower where more information is uncovered about what happened there. A program named Mcafee went mad and has let this nightmare lose upon the system. |
Reboot EP7: TCP IP | April 6th, 2015 | The data storage unit that Kyra found some time ago proved to be very important. It was a dead drop for the criminal known as Java. Who was dealing without someone outside the Grid, his people had built a warpgate. Java had the intent to use the IP given to them by Java's contact on the outside. Things end up leading to Heartless and worse an system devoid of any signs of life. |
A Black Dome In Shiva | March 26th, 2015 | A small dome village in Shiva is attacked by Heartless. |
Reboot: EP 6 Does Not Forget | March 21st, 2015 | With a ride in hand, and Culter's info? The party once more heads to the grid and locates Anon. He had quite a story to tell too and when all was said and done? A deal was struck but Turing had encountered ... something horribly wrong. |
Reboot: EP 5 Monster Garage | March 13th, 2015 | With the information from Cutler, Rory, Deelel, Xiaomu and Kyra go to salvage a ride to get to the outlands. They find a little more than they guessed. |
Basic Training | March 12th, 2015 | Given the events on Deelel's home world of the Grid? Xiamou and Deelel have struck up a friendship. After a bit they headed down to the games park in Argon for Xiamou to get a little training and to catch up on things. |
Reboot: EP 4 Down By the Bay | March 6th, 2015 | The Party heads down to Argon's docks to meet up with a contact. They get some interesting information out of a program named Cutler? However they encounter a creature that has no right being on the Grid, which raises some disturbing questions. |
Reboot: EP 3 Chat Room | February 28th, 2015 | Deelel and the rest of the party sit down with Alpha, Bios, Cache and Turing to have a little talk about the status of things and what to do next. |
Reboot: EP 2 In the Ruins | February 20th, 2015 | The party heads to Arjia City to seek out more ISOs they luck out but a commando team sent by Tesler is hot on their heels. |
Reboot: EP 1 The Hunted Survivor | February 16th, 2015 | Deelel gets a tip off from an old friend about the location of an ISO, thus she gathers help and it's a race against time before General Tesler's troops locate the ISO known as Turing to kill her. |
Arisu in Fluxland | February 8th, 2015 | An unstable city appears suddenly in the Asian Plains. In the streets of this strange Shibuya, a war is waged! Reiji and Xiaomu find themselves outnumbered- but they won't be alone for much longer. The two agents of Shinra join their new allies, and find themselves thrust into a Brave New World. |
The First Strike | February 6th, 2015 | Razer, with Confederate allies, goes after a pair of Green Lanterns. The Union sends their own Elites to assist the defenders of justice! |
Who is Logan Trieste Finale - Clash at Mount Battle | January 27th, 2015 | The Confederacy move to capture Giratina, and the Union attempts to stop them. |
Who Is Logan Trieste | January 19th, 2015 | The Confederacy makes an attack on Pewter Museum, so that Lute and his allies can capture the Griseous Mirror's glass. |
Monster Reborn | January 12th, 2015 | Union vs Mad Maxizer MkII (Epic Machine Boss Battle) |
The Unown Attack | January 6th, 2015 | A mass of the Pokemon known as Unown attack Celadon City. They are assumed to be the known Eldritch Horrors, but it seems that for some reason, they are looking for Lute. |
Day Of Promised Victory | December 31st, 2014 | oh my god giant party |
A Pair of Strays | December 29th, 2014 | Kyra and Renker accept an offer from Deelel to come check out the grid. She gets them suited up and then takes them out for a tour of Argon. |
The Music Program | December 28th, 2014 | Deelel comes into the hangers and the simple act of packing away her light cycle, gets the undivided attention of Nemesis. Things get curious as Nemesis discovers not only is Deelel a program but she makes music! |
Piracy on the High Seas | December 20th, 2014 | Taro and Nine rob the Spanish treasure fleet! Deelel intervenes! ...And so does an assassin out to eliminate the Confederates for good! |
Kenshin's First Class | December 17th, 2014 | Kenshin has his first day as a teacher! It turns out pretty interestingly. |
Rank C Dungeon Qualification Trial: Sky Ruins | December 11th, 2014 | All of Galianda is watching as the first Dungeon License Qualification Trial open to extraversals is held. Three teams compete in a devious and unusual dungeon in order to win the right to explore dangerous areas of Galianda. |
Another World | December 6th, 2014 | Deelel along with Kirito, Staren, Zephyr Windstar, Auron, Aqua and Reker. Go to check out a location noted in a recovered part of Deelel's memory, what they find aside from a heartless in a very bad mood, is Deelel's home world of the Grid. Thanks to Aqua's Keyblade the world was restored from whatever had locked it away and now the Grid is exposed to the Cybercore. |
Slice Is Right | November 28th, 2014 | Odin has shown up once more, this time he is attacking the Brines. |
Heartless in the Boondocks | November 18th, 2014 | Heartless attack a remote rural community in Afterus! Oh no! (Intro scene for Aqua, Roxas and Xion.) |
The Span | November 18th, 2014 | Galianda has appeared. The curious few arrive and see something wholly unexpected. |
A Little Help From Her Friends | November 16th, 2014 | A mysterious distress beacon is activated, leading several interested parties to a newly converged Earth on a mission to save the Human Anomaly. |
SGRUB: Scepter Quest | November 12th, 2014 | A first trip to the Land of Oceans and Mirages, which really sucks. |
The Program and the Black Mage | November 9th, 2014 | A Tavern along a major road has an odd meeting of a powerful black mage, and a program. |
It Comes From Below | November 3rd, 2014 | Leviathan has been kept unchecked for to long. Now it is time to try and put the Primal of the Sea back in his place. Yet this may not be as easy as some may hope... |
Musical Guest Star | October 3rd, 2014 | Deelel's hanging out in the Cyber Core when an very strange guest arrives whose not of that world at all the songstress known as Sona. |
Chasing the Dream | September 25th, 2014 | Having learned the Doctor is looking for malevolent red flowers to turn Mimiga into his personal weapons of death, our heroes rush to the sand zone hoping to get there first and put an end to his evil scheme. |
CS3. A Walk in the Park | September 23rd, 2014 | Our adventurers convince King to release Sue, then find Kazuma within the Bushlands. As they learn more about the Mimiga and what has happened in recent history, they begin to realize that there's a lot more involved than just a missing research team. |
Cave Story 2: Seeking Sue | September 1st, 2014 | Our adventurers learn where Sue Sakamoto might have gone, and advance into the unknown in search of her. |
Spelunking 101 | August 25th, 2014 | HUZZAH! Our adventurers arrive and meet some of the odd denizens of the Flying Island |
Digital Exploration | July 25th, 2014 | Tatsuto Satou and company explore a forest in the Digital World! And what do they discover...? |
Things Worth Fighting For | July 23rd, 2014 | Tony Stark gives a speech. Goes slightly off the cue cards. |
Digimon MMO! Let's Go! | June 25th, 2014 | The first scene in the Digimon MMO of the Digimon-1 universe, introducing several people to the concept of Digimon for the first time. |
Cutscenes
Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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End of Line (Deelel) | December 11th, 2016 | Deelel meets up with Bios, Cashe and Alpha to speak on what to do with the fall of the Union when they get made an offer by an man from the Watch. |
Reboot: Dreams (Deelel) | April 6th, 2015 | Deelel's dreams are getting very alien for her, and there's no sign of any problems in her code, which makes things even worse. |
An Unexpected Turn of Events (Deelel) | December 6th, 2014 | Deelel and friends were able to get out without getting into trouble, but they were not unnoticed. |