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[buildingitsir]

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what the everliving fuck was THAT bullshit that happened over there?
i went to sh'ka for a few days and you guys open portals to hell
or something?
first girls that claw throats open
now that

you guys done burning shit down over there or what?
aka is it safe to go back?

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[pursuitofcappiness]

Okay, does she have a name? Description? Is she still here?

[buildingitsir]

she tried to tear my throat out
leaving reeve and richie to try and patch my fucking circuits up
and you want me to keep TRACK of that psycho?
no i didn't catch a name
makes me wish i could hook up to the device
you'd see my pov
anyways
dark skinned
curly hair
felt like she was toying with me
asking really personal questions and shit
idk what more description to give without
cancelling out my personality to give an 'every little detail' description
and i'm not doing that

[pursuitofcappiness]

I just feel like we should be on the look for her if she comes back and tries that again. Or on anyone else.

What do you mean, hook up to the device? Is there one that would read your thoughts?

[buildingitsir]

you must be new
great
i'm york stark
i'm an android, i'm not organic
so if i could hook up to the device
literally
then you could see what i saw
but i can't
soooooo

[pursuitofcappiness]

Oh. Uh, have you talked to Tony? Maybe he's got something.

[buildingitsir]

mmm he seems kinda iffy about working on me
so probably not
i don't think anyone has the means to work on me though
not like what we're inferring right now
and the only way i'd want to have work done is if i've got a backup of me stored somewhere safe
but i don't
sooooo nah
i'm good
unless you've got some wild suggestions

[pursuitofcappiness]

No, that was my only wild suggestion.

But why won't anyone work on you? Is your software unreadable by anyone?

[buildingitsir]

there's no computer to hook up to as far as i know
and would you want some stranger to work on your brain?
one wrong keystroke and i'm gone
like actually gone and you guys will just have a husk of me around
that's not fun
especially for me

also
even if there is a computer
i don't know if it has enough space to put a backup of me onto it

[pursuitofcappiness]

Guess not. Well, it was worth a shot.

[buildingitsir]

i've asked around before
nothing came of it
so i just gotta be careful
it is worth a shot
maybe if i'm nice the aliens will give me a functional computer for the winter holidays
doubt it
but it's nice to metaphorically dream

[pursuitofcappiness]

Do you celebrate those? Winter holidays?

Maybe we could gather enough parts to build you one.

[buildingitsir]

not really
before coming here it was november in detroit 2038
my family doesn't really do holidays
maybe a bit of presents and that's it
and only at mom's insistence

enough parts to build one
which would hopefully have enough space to hold all of my data
do you realize how massive that space would have to be to hold all of one android's programming and everything?

[pursuitofcappiness]

Well, I once got into a bunker with someone's entire brain backup and it took up the whole area.

But I don't recommend it. Too easy to get destroyed with the Earthquakes.

Have you been here a long time?

[buildingitsir]

sounds like something a person did
you can't really download a person's brain back into a body i think
androids you can
cyberlife does it all the time

been here over a year
one year, five months, fourteen days
if you want to get precise

[pursuitofcappiness]

General ballpark was fine, but thank you.

Not sure he ever downloaded it back into a person. I'm sure he's still alive in a datastore somewhere else.

[buildingitsir]

np

well if he's a bad guy
just pull the plug
or erase the database

tho if he's a bad guy he's probably got more backups somewhere
time to scorch earth it

[pursuitofcappiness]

Yeah, we did. Pretty sure he's got backups in another bunker but he's gone completely underground.

Anyway, I still think it's possible, but I don't have the communications datapoint.

[buildingitsir]

i don't have that either
just engineering
which i need to put to better use
especially after the volcano bullshit

[pursuitofcappiness]

Tell me about that, because I don't think I know the details.

[buildingitsir]

agrii notified us a volcano was gonna blow
all of us had to relocate waaaaaaay
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
underground for about a month
it sucked
reminded me of the underground bunker for calibrations
and then after the agrii decided it was safe
we were allowed back into the city
its a mess tho
makes detroit look pristine

[pursuitofcappiness]

That explains a lot about what it looked like when I arrived.

It's a shame though, you'd think they'd have been able to predict that sooner.

Are the bunkers still there?

[buildingitsir]

idk if you can get down to the warrens
err bunkers for the volcano situation
you can’t get to the calibrations rooms
the doors don’t open and close on our command
when they lure and lock you in
you’re there until the agrii are done with you

[pursuitofcappiness]

Great.

And we haven't gotten a reliable way to communicate to them?

[buildingitsir]

nope
you put up a message on the network calling for them
maybe they'll respond
not guaranteed tho
you can ask if others have gotten ahold of them
i haven't
but i haven't tried because i'm not interested in talking to the people keeping me trapped here

[pursuitofcappiness]

Why not?

Maybe you could think of something to say to get them to send those of us who wanna go home back. Maybe they could get volunteers.