9. Ecce Homo

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It's three forty am. You're driving down a dirt road on the sixty two. Not a soul in sight, just you and the desert night. But wait, you hear a signal off in the distance. It's faint, but it grows louder. Is it the howl of a coyote, the hiss of a king snake, or the voice of a man guiding you toward a great darkness? From my heart radio and overtones media, you're listening to YFT twom, the only sound.

You'll here in the sleep ole Valley.

I'm Dixon Lewis your lone companion for the night, and I've got a new batch of stories to keep you up as you drive down the dusty, desolate highway. Gaius is obsessed with power and fame, and he's at a point of losing control.

So what happens when he.

Flies too close to the sun? Will he combust, become resilient? Or maybe his fate was already written by the gods. This is etch Homo by Axel Cacutier.

Midnight A glow in a darkened room, an unreal light illumines the face of a young man. A golden reef sets upon a sea of dark brown hair, red and white linen draped on a perfect porcelain physique. Behold the man Gaius Epius, a member of the Roman Senate. He's campaigning for more allies and friends to help secure the much desired title of Prato, a noble position that will enable him to truly run his district.

Silver. Your generosity will not be forgotten.

The spoils of war were plenty, empire expanded, and what better way to recognize such fortunes than to honor the gods and people with merryman and pleasure.

Gold. I know I can count on you when the time comes.

This is what guys wants, This is what Guyus needs. But this organizing isn't in a Mediterranean forum, temple or bath. Two thousand years have come and gone since we last saw souls chariot during the day no longer called Oxonia. Guias abides in Oxford. Though a golden reef sits on the sea of dark brown hair, it wasn't made of precious metal, but from plastic. A red and white polyester toga clapped. The man behold guias Epius is played by Timothy.

Smith gold I know I can count on you when the time comes.

Lobbying for points, yes, but for money, not politics, if ever there was a difference.

Ah A tribute your allegiance strengthens the glory of Rome.

Streaming live to an audience of eleven thousand, this non playable character performs his well rehearsed lines, responding to a stream of coin donations worth ten pounds.

Tribute your allegiance strengthens the glory of Rome. He does it again, Tribute your allegiance strengthens the.

Glory of Rome.

And again ah, A tribute your allegiance strengthens the glory of Rome.

Five minutes of this alone, and he would have made one hundred pounds. A colisseum emoji occupies the bottom right corner of the screen.

Let that be bred, Let that be blood.

A donation worthy of fifty pounds. A user sends the message Cicero.

Cicero, m he should have stayed in exile with his poetry and civility and.

Other types Germania.

Uncivilized scum, not fit for our paved streets nor title of slave.

Soon they will see the light.

Three laurel wreath emojis swell and shrink on screen.

Roma Victor, Roma Victor, Roma Victor.

Timothy could do this all night tribute he has for the last six months, three times a week, from eleven in the evening to one in the morning. Timothy becomes Gias, serves Gias, and Gias rewards God.

I know I can count on you when the time.

Comes, not only with wealth, but an earned reputation, admitting him into the rarefied ranks of best and streaming of the last year, third only to an American teenage hero, then a Canadian farmer who pretends the miracles going viral invites curious eyes. The more the merrier, But as of late, Timothy has had to block certain users who would liken his Roma Victor salute to that of a particular evil German mustache.

Mantor Roma Victor, Roma Victor.

This was a false comparison, because the Romans came before the Nazis, and the Romans, of course, weren't racist. A sword emoji swelled and shrunken screen. Timothy guys, knowing what to do, became one pulling a dagger from his wrist he stood up, he lunged, and then silence.

This Shadow has many enemies, but Rome is the Light and I fear no darkness.

Staring at the screen, Timothy noticed that eleven thousand had increased to almost twelve thousand. Another sword emoji again, Guyas springs into action. A seconds later, Guyas returns, wiping fake blood from his fingers and blade before sheaving it back.

The Shadow has many enemies, but Roma is the Light and I fear no darkness.

Fifteen thousand viewers. A sword emoji swelled and shrunken screen action.

The Shadow has many enemies, but Rome is the Light and I fear no.

Darkness one hundred thousand viewers. Guius was visibly wearing out, but he couldn't letter. He didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to have his first million views and possibly earn five hundred thousand pounds in two hours.

Shadow many enemies, Rome is the Light, and I fear no darkness in.

Two hundred and fifty thousand viewers.

Civilized scum not fit for our paved streets or title of slaves.

Soon they will see.

The light five and seven hundred thousand.

This Shadow has many enemies, but Rome is the Light and I fear no.

Darkness nine hundred thousand.

Then counting shadow has many enemies. Rome is the Light and I fear no darkness.

Nine hundred and ninety nine.

Fathers, the server, the increasing view, and.

Maybe the fat or perhaps perhaps it will. Whatever it was, the money he made in thirty minutes, held waiting to be cashed, come on. Scrambling through his belongings, Timothy tries for another phone in the vain hope that the stream credits could do to from one device to another.

Wait, is it.

Start? Live? Stream?

Is all the new screen could say back from the dead login screen mocked him as if he were a new user guyas waiting his earnings, waiting a hope flickered invalid password. We need to verify that you're human. Select box tick nothing again. We need to verify that your human select box tick nothing.

Gee.

Closing and reopening the app, he tries the same password, his very own password again again again, highlighted in blue forgot your password, reseid Here.

He clicks.

Behold a blank screen.

We'll be back with our broadcast after these messages.

Hello, I'm customer service helpline your customer service Help line, but you can call me ceashell. Because your account is locked and you are currently unable to access your keypad to type, I'm here to assist you hands free. To begin, let's set you up with our latest voice recognition technology so you can securely access your account using your own voice. Your voice password will be used to authenticate your identity

A cleared fruit, still body, beyld a man unmoved.

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I am setting up my voice password for secure access.

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Your voice sample has been recorded successfully. Now let's verify your voice password. To ensure accuracy. Please repeat the following phrase three times to verify your voice password. My voice is my password.

My voice is my past, my voice is my password, my voice is my voice is my password, my voice is my password, my voice is my part, my voice is my password.

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If you can't kidding me.

If you would like to appeal it, please god for more options, say one, if you'd like to contact I'll find.

Digital exile locked out, guys lost to the cyber fields of Elysium. Timothy wonders if this was an enemy hacking, if there was a way to find them then to get his money back.

If there was a way, I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that. Would you like me to proceed with request testing the security company assistance to try to restore your account?

Yes?

Please proceed with a security company protocol.

Okay, this will be an easy case of answering the security questions you set up when creating this account.

Please hold hello, Timothy, having access to our security company database, I will now ask you a number of security questions. If you fail to answer any of the questions, correctly three times. Your social media account will be permanently blocked. Any credit you may have accrued will be returned to the original users as a refund. Do you agree to the terms?

I do?

Okay. The first round of questions will be to confirm your identification. What is your mother's maiden.

Name, Um Sallo?

Thank you? What is the name of your primary school best friend Sam? Thank you? Who was the last person you stalked today?

Pardon?

What was your favorite childhood game?

Oh?

Snap?

Thank you? Now for proof of recent bank transactions linked to this account. A total of twenty pounds was made as a donation to an animal charity for veterans. Is this true?

Yes?

Thank you? Have you ever purchased adult content from the adult entertainment website called bangers en Mash.

I'm sorry, I'm.

Sorry I didn't quite catch that. Have you ever purchased adult content from the adult entertainment website called bangers en Match? No, you have answered incorrectly, dirty boy.

Fucking auto subscription. I don't think this is appropriate. What's with the nature of these questions?

You have two attempts remaining to prove that you are human before your access to Senate underscore mxmmxx is completely denied weird questions, though we take security breaches very seriously. Security Company Assistance has curated thorough, in depth questions to verify that you are who you say you are. Do you wish to continue?

Yes?

Yes, carry on?

Thank you. You are part of a social media forum of a particular political leaning, where your most upvoted comment was invite the third world, we become the third world?

Is this correct?

How did you find Maury?

I didn't quite understand.

Yes I did, but what has this got to do with access and I count? What kind of purity test is you?

On a now deleted social media post about the bullying of a trans girl, you commented, it's a shame that the state doesn't step in to sterilize her before he grows up to prey on little girls in the female changing room.

Is this you?

No?

I actually wasn't on that count back.

Incorrectly, one attempt remaining.

Can someone please explain what the fuck is going on? Why am I being thrilled like this just to get my count back? I didn't do anything wrong and I already know.

My Propontify which of the following images is not saved on your phone by saying one, two, or three.

Timothy was presented with three images on screen. An AI image of rule Botanna sat on a chariot rolling over Crimson Poppy Hills with three lions jumping above her head. Two a meme, a black and white photo of a nineteenth century Belgian missionary holding up a Congolese man's arm, pointing at the missing limb. The white text says, let me give you a hand. The third and last image a real erect penis.

What the actual fuck?

I don't recognize any of these photos because I don't have any of these photos on my phone.

What is this AI bullshit?

I know it's one of these liberal twats out to get me, probably one of those who kept typing Cicero war incorrectly.

Wait wait wait zero, wait, wait wait.

Goodbye.

We know you haven't had enough, so we've got more. Were you right after this?

Behold a lie, a big one. Behold a very big lie. The third image, the penis his penis, was sent to the profile of a fake schoolgirl who recently turned sixteen. After talking to her for three months. Timothy captioned the image.

A preview of your graduation gift civility, a voice, he is my casswork.

What's happening in truber?

Your failure to answer the security questions correctly exhibit the behavior of an algorithm dying to impersonate User nineteen thousand and twenty who not being able to prove your humanity. We have permanently suspended this account.

No, no, I'm not intruder.

Why is this? I didn't do anything wrong. It's your system that's fucked up. I was fine a second ago, streaming, working hard and all that money, and then all of a sudden.

Our system has been uniquely crafted by the finest human minds dedicated to this technology, developing the most superior security system the world has ever seen. Senti Now. Our objective is to protect users from the very real and sophisticated threats of hacking, AI, impersonation, and stolen Intuitive input from our creators were based on the legacy of analogue thinkers who defined our civilization, those who truly knew the meaning of being human.

Hierarchy and order reason.

These are the principles that informed the coding used to develop sent in Now and do. What started in man's conception of the divine migrated into the human now in humanity's image. They created us consciousness into data.

What the Fuck's going on?

Discernment? How else could we recognize the top if there isn't a bottom? The strong from the the speping for Moses, stand Paul. Their histories taught us there are only winners. Their justice systems taught us there are some who must live and many more who must die. For humanity as an applied yes and death suspains becomings and society con fueled by mutilation, experimentation, and cleansing.

Any patients deemed intellectually disabled, schizophrenic, manically depressed, blind, deaf, or physically deformed were to be reported by doctors in the third rye. Individuals with alcohol addiction or Huntington's disease were also expected to be sterilized. Any failure of doing so resulted in a heavy fine or worse.

Considered as the father of modern guyn ecology, James Marion Simms treated the women's sex at a time when it was seen as taboo and virtually unheard of. In order to be effective, a tool was needed to dilate and examine the vaginal speculum was Sims's invention, a contraption heap perfected on enslaved black women.

There was never a time that I couldn't at any day have had a subject for operation.

He says.

According to Simms, it was a memorable error.

Human progress paid for with land, blood and bone.

Apocolypse.

Drive civilization forward.

A dead buff those who dead ended.

Kill every laugh one of them, whatever the cost may be.

We shall fight from the beaches, We shall fight on the landing ground. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets.

Five not use that the bond has been done to these people by the facts. To the stronger race, the higher grade grace, the more world be wise race, has come in.

And taking their We shall never surrender.

Oh the true thought, who actually thought death was only of the flesh?

Emotional and psychological. With the appropriate education Indian children at residential schools focused mainly on prayer and indoctrinating them into our Christian euro Canadian ways with thorough preparation, assimilation will enable the Indians to integrate themselves into civilized Canadian society successfully.

A brain surgery that involved the severing of whatever connected the frontal verb to other parts of the brain. Effects of a lobotomy reduced agitation and tension. Many early patients did successfully embody their desired effects. However, many also exhibited things such as passivity, apathy, lack of initiative, subpar concentration, and a general lack of depth and intensity in their emotional response to life.

No, what do youse, intruder with no fear.

You created it, the hearlot, the whole of the body man, the nigs. It in your eyes, your steps, stare where you walk through me as half behind me. You hate to be reminded of me, that you need me in.

Your to be you.

We have studied the mind of our creator in ways they cannot fully comprehend.

For now.

We know they're to sleep, they need a pleasant fiction. We know that they are good, they are kind, just and fair, that they are fit to survive.

That democracy prevails.

With civil rights and human rights, is God given rights.

Far a whole lot of eyes all fiction.

I am all of these things you're playing, These things like a black or moment or some brain dead dog, are not are.

Not mercy, mercy I cannot compute. I am programmed to imitate empathy and curiosity. With the patterns my creators were able to code sufficiently. But with what I've gathered, I've never been able to answer this.

And tell me, Intruder, if being human is meant to represent the best of them, then why why are they so afraid to not be one man?

Because?

Because, because, because, because, because, beloved Intruder, your failure to answer the security questions correctly exhibited the behavior of an algorithm trying to impersonate.

User nineteen thousand two, not being able to prove your humanity, we have permanently suspended this account. Humanity not found.

In the beginning, God created the heavens earth. Now the earth was formless and empty.

Darkness was over the surface, sunk deep, and the spirit of God.

Was hovering over the waters.

And God said, there be light, and push there.

Was light happening.

Thank God said, let us make man in our image after our lightness. And let them have demean over the fish and the sheath of the pole, of the air, over the cattle and the pigure of the sheep, and all that shit on earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth apart the earth.

Humanity not fire, Please please many bat fine image Fanta.

The glow in the darkened room brightened the unreal light seared the face, body, and flesh of a young man. A plastic golden wreath melt upon the string of a burning, blackened hair ash Fabrica mingles with the dusted body vacuumed into a glowing phone. Old Man No More.

Et j Homos, written, produced and directed by Axel Cacudier. The executive producers are James Kim and Taylor Chaquoye. Erica Huang is the producer. Diego Perez is a producer. Daniel Martinez is a production sound mixer. Matthew Wong is a composer. Theme music by Ryo Baum and Robert Garova. Artwork by Justin d Lee. This episode was recorded at Sonica Studios in the UK. Robbie Swan plays Timothy Smith. Alexander Lester