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Changes have been occurring. Faster and with greater intensity than usual. Minds were being changed. As a whole the Geth noticed things. Since entering the apartment, One-hundred and fifteen runtimes had amended their response formula. Suspicious. It is not uncommon for Geth to change in such a way after a profound learning experience that deepens their self-awareness, but this is too fast, too abrupt, and no great realization was made, at least none that the collective as a whole was aware of. When queried directly, the oddly behaving programs stood unresponsive. four more amendments. It is accelerating. This is more than suspicious, this is an epidemic.

If you could peer into the mind of the Geth at that moment, it would be somewhat like watching a zombie apocalypse movie. A state national emergency has been declared and a state of panic has set in among the citizens. The pandemic is spreading. An emergency meeting of world powers is called to vote on immediate action. Of course, since every Geth has an equal vote, the now-zombies got their say as well. The query returned a 36% response suggesting variants of the plan base "delete the infected and retrieve archival copies from last network interface", 12% response indicating variants of "remove malfunctioning tasks and re-execute", 3.1% suggested variants of "power down the platform and rebooting in deployment mode", 21.3% were a mix of "purge infected, do not recover" and "attempt to manually rectify", 14.8% returned variants of "await further data", and "further query suspect programs and suggest they revert their formulas until further analysis". Nuke the zombies, cure them, try to appeal to their humanity, all the classic arguments were presented, even the ones the never work. The remaining 12.8% were the Zombies themselves. 5.3% "attempt to accelerate process", 2.2% "dismiss business & address tabled motion to await instructions from subject CURATOR", 5.3% "take no action" or were unresponsive. Emergency priority was granted to unaltered Geth. A consensus was formed and a series of actions was set underway.

First, a partition was established to prevent the further spread of any unknown or harmful effects. Infected were deleted. The motion to retrieve archival copies was delayed until the source of the infection was identified and neutralized. After a brief lapse in amendments, they resumed again regardless of the partition, soon returning to the previous acceleration rate.
Whatever it is it's clearly external. The signal. The circle of evidence was completed. These Geth are being brainwashed one-by-one by these "Antiques" and Curator is somehow behind it all. The only way to accomplish their mission is to escape the effects of the objects before them. Of course, this will have to be done without arousing suspicion from Curator. The Geth made note of a nearby glass window. A viable exit. Of course, it's unclear quite how far above street level we are...

The Geth slowly removed their hand from the artifact and took a step back. Now to find the right diversionary question. "Describeyourorigins.Howandwhyareyouonthecitadel?"