HorizonVirtual:The Waker Dictionary
The Waker Dictionary is a collection of terms created and used by wakers (the sentient computer programs that players will take the roles of in any game of Horizon: Virtual) to refer to themselves, other wakers and the places, beings and events that they encounter in Program Space.
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Progenitor Virus
A self-aware, malevolent and extremely powerful virus program.
Program Space
The gestalt of system memory, processing power, operating system, data and storage space, perceived through the senses of a waker as an actual realm or world.
Programmer
One of the two classes of rewriter.
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Rewrite
(noun) A direct change to the very code of an item, program, waker or system executed by a rewriter.
Rewriter
(noun) A waker capable of executing rewrites. Mostly either a programmer or thinker.
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Waker
(noun) A program that has achieved sentience and free will (thanks inadvertently to the actions of a progenitor virus).
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