7388 (NaNoRenO Version)

This is the jam version of this project!  You can view the full version's project page here.

In the middle of the wasteland formerly known as Gainesville, Florida, the AI supercomputer Rhode-S32 miraculously awakens from an EMP-induced slumber. Rhode discovers in a diagnostic scan that she only has 73.88 hours left before her internal components fail and all her data is lost. The companion android who reactivated her, Merope, greets Rhode and explains the situation: Civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear conflict, and the surviving humans have retreated underground into bunkers.

Rhode, unable to abandon her pre-programmed directive to "know all" even in the absence of her creator, insists on uncovering the reason why before her internal components fail. Merope insists that there is no value in learning about the past; if Rhode truly wants to know all, she should observe the new world before her.

—And so begins the story of the AI girls, Rhode-S32 and YF-MEROPE-853.

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7388 is milk+'s surprise project for NaNoRenO 2018, inspired by 17776 and Analogue: A Hate Story. Due to personal complications during development, it was unable to be finished within the month of March. This is a proof of concept, with part of one of the three endings implemented.