#lambot au

[thewisaaaaad]

Ok so about that Robo Lamb au. I still need a name for it, but its stuck in my brain

so i did art about it.

BEHOLD! the OG L.A.M.B. unit! this little critter comes with all terrain ball mobility feet, hard light emitting sub-drones that function as hands and multi tools, horn shaped antenna to keep it connected to the Network, and even a handy holographic projector around its neck so that it can display directions or requests to civilians! They keep powered with a mini nuclear engine, meaning they don't need to be recharged for centuries!

And this... this is the poor little fella that got stuck serving the Zealots, the Old Faiths police force. Specifically they serve in the slums, where the forces boss decided it was much cheaper to replace any broken bots than to have them repaired. Leshy, head of security in the old faith, doesn't really care too much; after all, Amidusas is very good at keeping the slums in line. So good ol lambert gets stuck in this state after getting caught in a few riots and being in the wrong place at the wrong time when a prisoner made a break for it.

Still the little bot trucks on, and has become something of a mascot for the small division, even if Amidusas doesn't care for the thing and hopes it just shuts down soon. Good thing Forneus helped patch the thing up, or that broken leg would have been the end of it. She isn't around anymore, and was reassigned to Hekets territory shortly before the latest prisoner arrived. good thing the twins are still here to help.

... I don't think Heket even knew she HAD kits...

oh. Hmm.

It seems that the new prisoner ALSO was interested in fixing up Lambert. and also gave it a few upgrades...

this can only end well.

(hidden notes left in an abandoned cell:

The upgrades worked perfectly. I had to beef up the internal reactor, which was a bit of a trick, but I didn't become head inventor for nothing. Thankfully I had two guards who were willing to help me get the supplies i needed, and kept this whole business hush hush.

I'm so proud of my boys.

The upgraded hard light projectors cut through the Zealots drones like they were nothing, and the juiced up mobility meant that they couldn't even catch em.

The spooky "mask" data i put in gave the mortal guards a bit of a fright too. Hah!

...I only hope I haven't traumatized the poor thing. It hasn't taken the "mask" off yet, and has become a bit... withdrawn. I am concerned that its prime directive of "help others" is coming into direct conflict with my orders.

...And yet it follows my orders nonetheless.

Lambert, if you ever get the chance to read this.

I'm sorry for what I did to you.

Its for the greater good.

Gods, I sound just like S.

-N.

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You thought I was done, didn’t ya?

You thought I had no more unique ideas for narilamb, but NOOOO

I have seen several iterations (read: 3) of future cotl where Narinder is a AI created by the bishops or something adjacent to that, one where lamb is an ai scan of the real lamb.

But i have yet to see a version where lamb is a robot created to serve.

ALLOW ME TO CAPITALIZE ON THIS >:)

So we start with the bishops being a major tech corporation that controls the whole city. Their products affect every facet of life, from locomotion to furniture to food to- you guessed it- robots!

And the Local Autonomous Maintenance Bot is the invention of the proud inventor Narinder. These little guys go around and fix everything in the mega city- for a price, of course.

Then, as fate dictates, Nari got into a spat with his siblings. I like to think that, for all the wealth that he was willing to drain from the city’s people, he wanted to return that wealth somehow. A way to resurrect the city, one might say.

This, he is imprisoned in the bowels of Old Faith, where the police barely do their jobs and just send out drones to do their work. If a drone breaks, who cares? They can get another one!

The bishops, fearing retribution from their estranged brother, shut down all of the L.A.M.B. Units. For you see, they were concerned that he had coded a backdoor, so that he could turn the humble service drones on them. Thus, they sent out a kill command, permanently bricking all of the innocent little bots.

But that was never their purpose. They were intended to keep the city alive. Without them, replacement products can only go so far. Narinder knows this, and looks for a way to save the city.

And indeed, there is. An old, disused L.A.M.B. Unit, quietly tutting away in the back of the prison, never shut down. In fact, it hadn’t had an ai reset in some years, due to its connection to the system being severed some years ago.

Lambs were never intended for combat. But Nari has no other choice.

But what kind of trauma would such a drastic shift in purpose inflict on a mind that only knew how to help?

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I um. Had a realization.

lambot makes a cute little gun.

reference under cut

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Also i um. whipped this up for the whole bunny lamb thing that @donutfloats started.

It doesn't fit on robots, so I had to improvise.

Nari isn't happy (bet he regrets not making a humanoid design NOW huh?)

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Oh. I guess @cconfusedkat really liked my little guy

uh. any suggestions?

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@cconfusedkat i hope your happy with what you've done to my baby :(

(its ok they exploded for character development reasons)

ANYWAY yeah this was the event that got them so severely damaged in the first place.

It was during an (entirely justified) riot in the prison sector. Some bot got hea

Not my best work. may come back and fix it

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Alright I want to drop A LOT of lore for the Lambot au.

And here’s how I’m gonna do it: drawing propaganda posters for each character to accompany their lore. Yeeeeaaahh that’s what I want to do!

Look forward to that :)