Robotic Research

I am Dr Mikhail Sergeyevich Cossack, I am a Roboticist from Russia! I am more then happy to help with anything you need, with in reason of course. Yes I speak English fluently, even if its my second language.

[russianroboticist]

doctor-albert-wily said: Look at you, Mister Popular.

Ugh. If I wanted your input, Albert, I would have asked for it. 

[russianroboticist]

You look a LOT like Edsger Dijkstra.

I will take that as a compliment! 

[russianroboticist]

Two Towers

[petalpunk]

Once Plant’s data transfers were all finished he relaxed, eyes adjusting to the light again as his optical sensors engaged and his apertures tightened up. Then he smiled. His antivirus had been upgraded so quickly! “So, that’s all? That was easy.” With a little shrug and another grin he got up and reached behind his head to put his hair in a braid so he could work more efficiently. “Thank you for the update. It’s still strange to know that I’ve got someone to actively take care of me now.”

After slipping off the table and stretching his arms out to stress and wear-in his joints a little bit he gave Cossack a (quite sweet-tempered) hug. “So, was there anything I could do in return?”

[russianroboticist]

Cossack hugs him right back, and pets his hair. "More of that amazing tea while I work would be nice." He turns back to his computers, plugging in the tablet and running the translation software. "And I'm sure it is strange, going so long without active help. You'll get used to it." He promises. 

"In the mean time, yes, tea. That is what you can do to make it to me. And also to stay connected tot he hub and let me know if anyone sends out a public message about our recent exciting events. 

[russianroboticist]

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[petalpunk]

Plant noticed the roboticist favoring his knee in such a familiar way and felt bad, but knew not too much could be done about it. He nodded, then sighed and got up. “Doctor, when you are feeling better, will you work on my old memories a little bit? Not today, if you don’t want to, but with all this going on I more than ever want them gone, so I don’t have to worry.” With a careful set of steps he went to reel the hose up. “And maybe do a little cleanup?”

[russianroboticist]

He stops and turns. "You know that hiding from bad memories never helps right?" But looking at that look on Plants face melted Cossacks heart just a little, and he puts a hand on the little robots shoulder. "Alright, come with me. Lets see what we can do." He leads Plant to the little makeshift lab he'd built behind the green house that was still tents and awning. Like an old MASH set up. 

He motions to the large wooden take for Plant to sit on and pulls over his laptop. "I'll set up an updating system and syncing program for you, so you can use it whenever you want." He plugs Plant into it and pulls up the folder on the harddrive that was WoodMan. He frowns as he looks at how huge it was. 500gigs of archived information, but only 200gigs of active memories. On average Cossack was sure that there was about 3 terabytes of dedicated storage to Woodman along on Plants harddrive. He looks at his Plantman, the other in a sync loop at the moment so his eyes were offline as cameras and only displaying loading information for the little garden bot. 

He reaches into a box and pulls it open, grabbing an external harddrive, he plugs it into another computer he had clears off some Stargate episodes before plugging it into the laptop Plant was and starts moving the memories from Plant onto the Harddrive. He had a feeling the other wouldn't really want to loose them, but for now he gave Plant what he wanted. Only leaving enough memory to know who Wood was, but not their personal connection. 

"Alright, there you go. You are up to date on all virus software." He clears his throat. If he could so easily delete memories of his wife he wondered if he would. 

[russianroboticist]

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[petalpunk]

"I know…" He huffed again, then whined. "I don’t like conflict. And I don’t understand what’s going on and it worries me. Oh, Doctor Light also said hello to me, and he said I could talk to him if I wanted to. That you were good friends. That’s true right? He isn’t tricking me?" Cossack’s attention at least seemed to be reassuring.

[russianroboticist]

He thinks about it, stroking at his beard. "Mm I respect Thomas, The work he does is important to our field. Thanks to him Robot Masters are the way they are. But am I friends with him? Not really. We are colleagues." Cossack smiles at Plant. "Calm down, everything will be fine. No point in worrying about things that haven't happened." He stands up with a groan and rubs at his knee a little. Pulling off his tool belt. He needed to get the binary messages translated as soon as possible.  

[russianroboticist]

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[petalpunk]

Plant’s expression softened, then tensed up a little bit. “I’m a little worried. You’re sure they can’t tell? I mean as soon as they identify that it’s me…” The idea of being kidnapped and reprogrammed again was totally terrifying. “I’m safe here right? You’re sure they won’t notice? And if they do you’ll defend me right?” He mindlessly twiddled his fingers as he thought about it. “You know I would fall apart if in someone else’s hands.”

After huffing and fiddling some more he glanced up just slightly. “What if whoever’s running away comes this way? What if they think I’m hiding him?”

[russianroboticist]

He reaches over and puts a warm hand on top of Plants head. "Shh, Plant. It is fine, I would always protect you." He affirmed. "The fix is simple for Albert if he finds my signal, resetting the signal. Like a dog shaking water." He taps Plant under the chin, watching him fondly. "I would send you to Russia before they come here, remember I installed you with that ETP?" 

[russianroboticist]

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[petalpunk]

"What? How do you know?" Plant blinked. "Are you passing in my Wilybot credentials? Did you get in? Are they saying things?" He waited until Cossack was on the ground before holding up the drink he had been sipping as an offering. It was a good thing, he supposed, that his old login codes were still valid. "I’m surprised you were able to actually make it. But that’s beside the point now. Is everything okay?" Once finished questioning he hauled a lawn chair over for the other to sit on, planting himself beside it and tucking his legs together on the grass.

[russianroboticist]

"Hmm? Oh da! I tried it out and they still worked. Albert is anything if not lazy sometimes, or forgetful in his advanced age." He sips at the tea and lets out a happy hum as he takes a seat in the chair and turns on the tablet as he crosses his legs. "And no, nothing going on yet. It looks like DWN 012 is attempting to mobilize a man hunt for the missing units." 

He rolls his shoulders a little and hands Plant back his tea. "очень вкусный!" He says about the tea. "That is very good." Since he'd moved in with Plant for his research he was finding his quality of life a bit better thanks to the fresh and healthy foods and drinks Plant made or had around. He ate salad a lot more these days, thats for sure. "We should be perfectly safe here, no message about you or the Gardens, or even myself. Which is good! If I am to spy on Albert then the less he notices me the better off we are." 

[russianroboticist]

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[petalpunk]

The little botanical robot was very happily sitting around outside as his father worked, sipping at some sort of chilled slushy drink that was undoubtedly made with tea and honey. It was a nice thing to have on a warm day.

He occasionally would peer up at Cossack and flick his vines, but after perhaps ten minutes he spoke up: “Do you need anything, Doctor?” He asked, standing and looking up at him, “Are you alright? I can get you something to drink if you like.”

[russianroboticist]

He looks down, pushing his glasses up his nose. "Eh? No, no I'm okay." He finishes putting everything back into the weather proof plastic box and unclipping his workers belt from the safety latch he attaches it to the ladders slide bar and starts making his way down to the ground. 

"But some of that nice tea would be lovely." He calls down as he slowly descends the ladder. "Its been busy today. Thomas has joined the Network hub and has been causing quiet a stir. It looks like Albert has some deserters fleeing to Thomas." He pats the tablet he'd downloaded all the latest SMS chats too. 

[russianroboticist]

your son dive man was careless and put a dent in my yacht. fix it or hand over $6000 for a contractor to do it.

OOC Future tip: Anon asks are not to be used as plot driven points without permission. Out of Character I would need to know who sent this to make it something I would make canon or react to IC. If you are not a part of TMN then I cannot answer this in character, sorry.  

TMI Tuesday questions are allowed, just to clear that up. Questions are harmless. 

[russianroboticist]

Two Towers

Cossack sat at the top of the radio tower, about 50 feet from the ground. The middle aged scientist had an old set of headphones pressed to on ear while he tuned and old looking black box attached to the green houses antenna. 

He turned the dial until he got the protocol connection, the series of dings, blips, and chimes when connecting to servers or fax machines. Dial up was the only way he was really able to spy the DWN's, and a good old fashioned handshake was harder to spot then a backdoor program. 

He reaches into his tool belt and pulls out a ham sandwich Plant had made him and munches at it. Stopping to enjoy it when he realizes how good it was and he leans back in the old school desk plastic chair he had bolted to the top of the tower. Plant made the best sandwiches. 

[russianroboticist]

отец! отец, is me, Dive!! I have returned from ocean - have been missing you so very very much. You are doing well, да?

да! Dive I have been doing very well, it is good to see you my boy! Take care of Kalinka when you go swimming. 

[russianroboticist]

"отец? I wanted to get your permission for this, but I asked one of Light's bots, Splash Woman if she could take me swimming along with older brother, Dive when the weather gets warmer?"

"I see no reason why not, маленький ангел." He kisses Kalinka on the cheek. "You listen to what Dive tells you, okay? He is in charge." 

[russianroboticist]

Doctor, when you have the opportunity, I need you to do something for me.

I always have some free time for my family, what is it Plant? 

[petalpunk]

I was hoping you could spare a few minutes to do some, um, data cleanup for me.

[russianroboticist]

Of course! But didnt' we do a soft ware clean up and update not to long ago? Do you think you have a virus!? 

[russianroboticist]

Doctor, when you have the opportunity, I need you to do something for me.

I always have some free time for my family, what is it Plant? 

[russianroboticist]

>Plant, please….

>It has been confusing since my wife passed, and I don’t….you are taken. I will not intrude of something you already have, no matter my personal feelings. I am content to be your friend.

[petalpunk]

The next message took quite a while to be relayed.

> I still do not understand, but.. I suppose it’s best we didn’t talk about it any more right now. If you need anything while you are out and about please let me know. And stay safe.

[russianroboticist]

>Always. 

>For you. 

His own message took quite awhile. 

[russianroboticist]

>Yes, I was hunting, I figured I should get food for myself for the next couple weeks. Some building materials. I have a buck. 

>And what I choose to keep from you my dear friend is what I feel is the best for us both. Don’t worry about it to much my little Роуз, you are still my dear friend. 

[petalpunk]

> Mikhail, please… I don’t understand. If you meant what you said, why are you trying to keep it from me? Who do I have to tell? It may be strange, and not something I would expect, but how could I ever live with myself not knowing the truth?

[russianroboticist]

>Plant, please....

>It has been confusing since my wife passed, and I don't....you are taken. I will not intrude of something you already have, no matter my personal feelings. I am content to be your friend.

[russianroboticist]

>…..Yes. Sorry, I’m out in the woods and typing on this little data pad is hard when my fingers are cold! 

[petalpunk]

> Are you in the Mechanical Forest? I’m here with Wood and could bring you something to keep you warm.

> But.. Doctor, I have trouble thinking that you didn’t intend something more by that? Is there something you’re keeping from me? I don’t want to pry, but…

[russianroboticist]

>Yes, I was hunting, I figured I should get food for myself for the next couple weeks. Some building materials. I have a buck. 

>And what I choose to keep from you my dear friend is what I feel is the best for us both. Don't worry about it to much my little Роуз, you are still my dear friend.