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@adoptedrobot-blog
I’m running a game where a group controls a covert operative. Using a pirate vessel, they close on the target world.
I set up several good landing sites, then, to add character, added a fuelling station on the moon and a starport. Both had good reason to be ignored... but...
...yeah.
Players, right?
adoptedrobot:
“No suit required. I don’t need oxygen. If you give me your secure comms frequency, I can talk with you, or vice versa.” Vee paused, staring at one wall, “We are nearing the station. Let’s get me inside quickly.”
“Their radio traffic indicates an inspection is slated for your ship. All ships leaving the planet actually…” She nodded, “I should have expected the security hike.” She let out a simulated sigh, “at least we’ll be out of their territory at the destination…”
She moved towards the storage cube.
“Aye, if it fails for any reason there’s an internal communicator for repairs inside the hangar. It can be in ‘standby’ mode just in case of emergencies.” She poked a panel by the airlock. “In fact it is already, they all are.” She checked something, and then flicked back.
“Radio traffic… I… Ugh. That’s no fun.” About then her phone buzzed. “This is…” She looked. “Shit… Don’t have a communicator anywhere near here. You’re gonna have to sit tight and look pretty… The communicator has idle camera views, so you can watch from there… There are some tubes,they hook between two hangars I have doing this. Don’t go there ok? Usually they’re closed, just opened for when I do pressure balances for either fuel drops or Atmo stuff.” She patted the other on the back as she put her phone to her ear.
“Yes, this is the captain of the heavy. Inspection? Can we not… Ahhh… Fine. I’ll get the ship into station… You’re coming. Well… Fine, give me a few minutes to get ready, I need a suit for the hangar, I will mark which hangar is open.”
Vee stood in the room, tapping her foot slowly as she glanced about. “yeeeeep. Waiting. Lots of waiting.”
She first sat down, rocking a bit on the floor, before deciding that lying on the hard ground was better (it wasn’t, but what could she do.) “Ah, professor... What would you do?” She looked at the tubes, “other than do everything the captain tells you not to do?” She shrugged, pacing the floor while listening in on the comms.
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@adoptedrobot
“So… you’re completely made of metal and electricity?” Claudia poked at the girl’s shoulder, feeling the cold metal. I’ve heard of beings like this, but… to actually see one… “This isn’t just armor or a witch’s curse?”
“Not completely no... Also large amounts of carbon nanofibers, and a special gel layer that mimics flesh to disperse heat...” She taps her armor, “This, though cold and hard, is in fact an alloy, more like ceramic.”
“I don’t know of any curses on me, though.” she shrugged, “It’s possible I was cursed, but I was created like this.” Vee explains, “My hair is actually stronger and more durable than spiderweb! I’m a feat of modern engineering... Or I was years ago back home...”
The dangerous sort
adoptedrobot :
“Well, you find truffles away from where people go, usually.” Vee explains, “Earth-crawlers are found easier too. The former are worth a great deal, and are a delicacy.”
She stared back, “That’s squatting, miss, but I suppose if there is no claim…” Vee shrugged, “But your claim to this place is a sound as mine… Not that I want it.”
She laughed, “I just wanted to sit out of the rainfall…”
“I don’t think I’ll be eating anything that’s been growing on under the floorboards around here.” Not without ample preparation, anyway.
“Anyhow, it sounds like we’ll be sharing each other’s company until the rain passes by. Wherever did you come from, if I may ask? It’s just that I noticed you seem outfitted in quite a bit of expensive-looking equipment. That is all real metal covering you from top to bottom, isn’t it?”
“Eating anything from moldy boards is bad for your health.” Vee nods, “But truffles are special.”
“I came from... Japan, originally, but after being in the states for a while, I traveled with my father... lots of travel. And then I lost him, and now I am here after more travel...” She shook her head, “No, it’s a special alloy. It looks like metal, but it’s actually more like a... soft ceramic. It’s meant to protect me from impacts and damage. It’s... well, it might have been expensive. I don’t know, I woke up the first time wearing it.” She looked at her outfit as if actually inspecting it for the first time.
“...Is it a strange outfit? I don’t have many others...”
adoptedrobot :
“It’s not that, I just think it’s a bit of an egotistical boast when you haven’t met every woman, miss…” The mechanical girl gave a smile, “But my question on weapons and materials…” She trailed off, directed towards the buildings.
“…Did I miss some vital aspect towards the Victorian architecture? There were a few anachronisms I noticed, and a bit of strange occurrences on the way to this location from the dockside…” She’d not stuck around, pushing through the city to reach this place, ignoring the incidents… To be fair, most things ignored her as well.
Come to think of it, the bishop’s eyes had glowed orange before. Vee’s were constantly glowing, and orange… was that why? She WAS armed too, though her rifle was… out of place (blocky with protective coverings hiding the workings.) Because the bishop was… well, quite monstrous. Did that make Vee a monster too?
“Oh! Is this also the direction towards your home?”
“And you haven’t seen what all I can do. Really, child…” She supposed being made of advanced technology didn’t mean the girl had to be smart. It might be a better idea to talk to her creators if she wants to learn more about the robotic designs. It didn’t take a genius to look at the stonework and know it was distinctively Victorian-era. Even a surfacer could recognise it.
“No, I live off in the Forgotten Quarter. It’s just a name, don’t think it’s actually forgotten. Just very empty.” Aside from the Nadir, which was… was… what was she thinking about, again? Well, whatever.
“So what made you think your father was in this city, anyway? Or anywhere in the Neath, for that matter? It’s going to be a rough trip if you’ve got to go overzee to find him.” God forbid if he went NORTH. Nero had gone NORTH once. Never again. She’s on her own if she wants to go down that path.
“Dad is drawn to strange places... Places with weird energies that defy common sense. This is one of them.” She tilted her head, “Although it might not seem so strange to you, but to me, it is VERY strange.”
She looked a bit worried. She was worried, of course, but that’s to be expected. This was a worrisome place.
“And... I suppose you are right. I mean, I can’t be totally certain what anyone is capable of. I might be a machine, but I won’t know anything until I learn it...” She gave a smile to the bishop, her eyes gleaming with inner light.
“It sounds kinda depressing, even if it’s not actually forgotten... Call it empathy for the immaterial, but it’s sad when things are unused.”
In that case, what are some of her favourite or least favourite tastes?
Muddy water and gunpowder are her least favorite. Her most favorite is Orange chocolate.
Does Vee have a sense of taste?
she does, but it is optional. She can deactivate it.
Undying
adoptedrobot:
“A failing Japanese company in cooperation with a foreign military across the ocean.” Vee replied, her eyes tracking the ghost as she moved, “It doesn’t exist anymore.”
“I had a dad I ‘belonged’ to if you want to use the term, but… We were separated.” There was a whirring as her head tilted, watching the woman float. Confusing, there were no devices or indications of electronics.
In fact, there wasn’t even a heat signature.
“…How are you doing that? How are you floating? How come I can’t track you with anything but my eyes?”
Oooooooookay… Yuyuko wasn’t sure how to process any of that information. She simply spent a few more moments orbiting the Robot in silent contemplation before deciding that she clearly didn’t need to understand.
“To be separated can be tragic only when a loved one’s fate isn’t known,” the Ghost replied as though that would make any sense.
“Did your father meet his end… Or have the fates been more cruel to you?”
“There was an explosion... and... and...” She stopped, her eyed going red just briefly before going to orange again, “Sorry, had a data fault... Dad said nobody ever really dies, so I’m looking for him... Or to repair him.” She frowned. He was [ERROR: OWNER CANNOT BE DECEASED.] but he said he never would be, and she hadn’t known him to lie... not to her anyway.
“He promised me he wouldn’t die, so I just need to find where he went!” She nodded. Yes, there couldn’t be a data fault because the owner was dead because he promised he wouldn’t be. There. Everything is fine now.
“Regardless, travel to find where he might have gone is important but money for travel is too, so I am getting truffles to sell!”
Princess Annabel Meran is the youngest daughter of the Meran Empress. Trapped inside Aldenia for her own protection, she attempts to build a court of her own, consisting of similarly-aged noble daughters. She performs all actions with dignity, poise, and grace, as she strives to maintain the status of her family, even though she only has servants with her in the family manor.
[The garden city of Aldenia exists for the sake of the nobility. Protected by a shield that keeps out both physical and magical transportation, there are only two exits: the knight Academy and a portal to the capital of the country. The nobility live up on a green rise. The Domiciles hold the militray garrison, and the peasant housing... well, someone has to do all the manual labor and keep those lawns neat and tidy...]
Undying
adoptedrobot:
“I’m Vee…” The girl responded, glancing to the sides of Yuyuko, looking for pathways. There were none, just mist and trees.
“Er… What are you doing so far off the path, miss? I was hunting for truffles, but… I can’t imagine anything of note out here in the forest so far…” She paused, “come to think of it, given the forest size… how did you find me?”
She’d gone off the path to get things away from where people normally went. That someone found her here was… well, a needle in a haystack seemed the appropriate describer. She didn’t know that Yuyuko wasn’t human.
Was it not the magic of the needle to make itself stand out from the straw?
“Were it that the world were so limited as the path, we would be as ants crawling through the earth. Laboring in small tunnels and seldom feeling the pull of whimsy. Where is the joy of discovery in that?” If Yuyuko’s status weren’t apparent to the robot, her floating dance on unseen breezes would probably help to cue her in.
“You have no master, yet you were not born. Who created you, Miss Vee?”
So help her, if it turned out that that wretched Makaiian went and built an autonomous Doll, complete with soul, and then left it in the woods… Well, that simply wouldn’t stand in Yuyuko’s book.
“A failing Japanese company in cooperation with a foreign military across the ocean.” Vee replied, her eyes tracking the ghost as she moved, “It doesn’t exist anymore.”
“I had a dad I ‘belonged’ to if you want to use the term, but... We were separated.” There was a whirring as her head tilted, watching the woman float. Confusing, there were no devices or indications of electronics.
In fact, there wasn’t even a heat signature.
“...How are you doing that? How are you floating? How come I can’t track you with anything but my eyes?”
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adoptedrobot:
“Miss, I will do anything else. I will stow my armor and weapon, wear a disguise and pretend to be a distant relative working for you… I will hide in an airlock, but not that.” She shudders, displaying an unusual amount of aversion for a machine.
“Or maybe even give me something to track where they are in the ship, and I can move about, avoiding detection! Just not in there.”
Who would program fear into a war machine? Nobody in their right mind would. It wasn’t a program… Rather, it came from that tiny soul of collected fragments in her. …as such, she wasn’t even obedient.
Solo watched her for a moment as she looked at the other. “Its not that bad.” She huffed. “But… I guess.” She sighed. “One question first.” She said. “Where you are gonna go… Its laden with hydrogen. Will that agitate you in some way? Cause, mmmm… Look I don’t want nukes to go off cause of rogue hydrogen. I can adjust the pressure some. And the tank ain’t small, not small at all.” She said looking around her hangar. “If not I can try to set ya up with something, but I feel like my solutions would be much worse.”
“Hydrogen is fine. It’s used as fuel, but it goes through a series of devices before it’s injected into my core… I can be in such an environment safely…” Vee states, “It’s much better than being put in a maintenance compartment.”
“If I can get in and out myself, it’s fine, just as long as it’s not as compact as that.” She looked relieved. Are robots supposed to look relieved? No matter, she certainly appeared to be.
Solo snorted.
“Trust me, it’s plenty big.” She kicked off grabbing one shoe on the way down, but missing the other. “God fucking…”. There was a sigh, as she landed turning on the gravity again the shoe landing off to one side. She walked over to pick it up. “C’mon it’s…”. She stopped. “It’s right above us.”
Solo walked up a set of stairs to the hangar atop the one they were in and opened an internal door to said hangar, which then immediately revealed a large metal cube taking up about 90% of the space of said hangar. “I store extra hydrogen fuel here. I’ve got two hangars set up like this, sell it in bulk to make a quick buck. There are airlocked entrances for service when it needs to happen, but they’re nearly the size of these rooms.” The walked to the back of the hangar where an airlock was, as well as a few space suits. “If you like I can give you one of these… otherwise we’ll see if inspectors are coming and if so, sneak away in there.”
“No suit required. I don’t need oxygen. If you give me your secure comms frequency, I can talk with you, or vice versa.” Vee paused, staring at one wall, “We are nearing the station. Let’s get me inside quickly.”
“Their radio traffic indicates an inspection is slated for your ship. All ships leaving the planet actually...” She nodded, “I should have expected the security hike.” She let out a simulated sigh, “at least we’ll be out of their territory at the destination...”
She moved towards the storage cube.
This ain’t no place for no hero
adoptedrobot:
“I need it… to find my dad, to get back to him.” It was half the truth. She needed to find someone to bring him back to her. But for that, she needed a rift, a path to another dimension.
“I have to use it to go after him. It’s more important to me than anything else. He’s all I have, and he was taken from me. I have to get him back.” Vee stared at the ruined object.
“I know what this does, I know how to alter it to get what I want… but I need working ones.”
Emma sighed as she worked out the internal conflict in her head. This was dangerous stuff that she was supposed to be stopping people from using. But she knows the importance of family.
And as if sensing the conflict in Emmas head, Kae came over to crouch beside her. She was something dangerous too, but Emma was able to keep her stable by looking over her. Maybe she could do the same here.
“I really shouldn’t be doing this.” Emma said as she stood back up so she could offer her hand to Vee with a smile. “But I can’t just keep you from finding your father. I’m sure three of us could find another one together.”
“I would like the help, but... when I’m done building it... I’ll have to go through alone, miss. Things... might not turn out so easy, and you might have people here for you.” She gave a weak smile, “All I have is him, though.”
The minute details of Vee’s mission, those were need-to-know. This hero, kind-hearted as she was, had no need to know that she was looking for a way to undo death itself. But to do that, she needed to skirt a dimension where life and death were hazy.
It was really for Emma’s safety that Vee was asking to go alone. She took the hero’s hand.
“I need a few of them, actually...”
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