Alyn was intrigued. He had suspected the possibility, but now he was sure that the Doomwalker had some sort of AI in it, despite the technology being from some sort of big war or something from sometime in the past. Although the fact that there were AI robots in the military facility where he got his hardware also made it easier to see how the Doomwalker could too. But really, there was a whole lot he still didn't know about it despite all the things he had learned.

At the very least, it seemed to have a sense of self and understood that it could be named.

This was actually convenient, since it meant he could issue the thing commands and communicate with it from afar with his telepathy. Which he STILL had no freaking clue about why it worked so well with many types of machines. But whatever.

So Alyn thought a response to the Doomwalker, since it would be easier and faster than him typing on a keyboard.

You can refer to me, your owner and the primary administrator, as Alyn Reed, or just Alyn in casual conversation. I'd like you to accept an ongoing psychic link with me as well.

I would like to rename this unit from Doomwalker to become ALYNWALKER.

Also, I have no idea about your previous history, so while I'd like you to preserve your old memory system as best you can for the sake of posterity and for enhancing your system knowledge, I'd like you to purge any loyalties you may have or do have to any other primary administrators besides myself. You can leave Ajakstu on as a Beta Admin though, of course, as well as retain the whitelist of guests I input as well, like my moths and companions.

Please use those parameters and conduct a hard restart using the new updated Alyn-drivers I just installed.

This message was last edited by the player at 07:38, Tue 20 Feb.

ACKNOWLEDGED.



...NATURE OF OFFER UNCLEAR. WHAT IS PSYCHIC LINK-- PLEASE DEFINE.



ACKNOWLEDGED.



VERY LITTLE TO SAVE. EVEN LESS TO PURGE. ...PURGING OF PREVIOUS AFFILIATIONS MOSTLY SUCCESSFUL. CHECKING FOR POSSIBLE MISSED DATA WILL TAKE MORE TIME.



ACKNOWLEDGED.



All the lights go out... then start up about five seconds later. Whew.

PROCESSING...

That did it. The fact the Walker was able to respond to his psychic commands confirmed it had an AI. And the fact that it continued to respond to his mental prompts despite not understanding what Alyn was asking about psychic commands was, in and of itself, basically an acceptance of said psychic presence.

So he simply remained silent and let the rebooting complete itself, and waited for it to fully restart.

One thing he did notice was that it's speech abilities seemed to be improving as it initiated the reboot. Perhaps this was a good step that he had it do, to help it begin to repair and heal its past damage and neglect.

Alyn touched one of the panels, and remained silent as his eyes glistened a moment before returning to normal.

Alynwalker...can you provide me a status of your progress with the reboot?

And also, as you do, I'd like you to de-frag yourself to make it easier for your self-repair systems to fix your CPU as well.

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......Nothing. No response.



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......NEW REQUEST MAY DELAY/EXTEND TIME TO COMPLETION, says Alynwalker. Okay, at least that was a response. Even though it replied out loud, it could hear when Alyn thought at/to it.

......TIME UNTIL COMPLETION UNDER CURRENT PARAMETERS CURRENTLY... APPROXIMATELY... FIVE MINUTES. DO YOU STILL WANT TO EXTEND?

Alyn considered, and thought a response to it.

Can you tell me how much longer the defrag would extend the reboot? I think doing this is important and if it's a reasonable amount of time I'm willing to wait. Like 24 hours or less I'll definitely wait.

He turned to the nearby Ajakstu.

"Um...it's gonna be a while. I'm still working to get it rebooted and begin repairing its systems. Could you do me a favor and check on the others, and make sure they aren't getting into trouble or something while I work on this?" he asked, nicely.

After sulking about and eating a nice chunk out of the Cooler the Duke was 'happy' again. Still seemingly lying on a pile of rubbish might have taken care of those nasty burns but now his back ached. Still all that stuff with the robot was getting reaaaaaaaally boring by now and the Duke starts to wander. Sure there was something fun to do here right?


ooc: Well no beef on the healing.

TOO MANY VARIABLES. POSSIBLY. . . AN ADDITIONAL 5 TO 55 MINUTES. DO YOU STILL WANT TO EXTEND?




(Roll Insightful for me again, The Duke!)

If 55 minutes is the worst possible estimate, then that's fine. Yes, please extend as necessary and add in some de-fragging. That should help your systems perorm much better, and probably will make you "feel" better too. Alyn replied, telepathically.

ACKNOWLEDGED. The voice is quieter, this time. Guess it's already hard at work...

21:35, Today: The Duke rolled 12 using 2d6+1 with rolls of 6,5.  Insightful. – 12

(Ooooh.

The Duke, you find a life form! Pick one of these:

--it seems like a non-sentient animal, and like it might be delicious if cooked properly

--it seems like an intelligent being, and says something to suggest that it might be friendly/helpful/kind/useful

Once you pick one, I'll fill in more details, or ask you follow-up questions, depending)

ooc: Do intelligent. The Duke has just eaten after all

Ajakstu laughs to himself at the idea that Alyn considers him to be the responsible one. Sensing opportuunity, he heads for the Duke once he wraps up the ankle hatches. Having first encountered Pesky cowering from the mants or maybe the raiders Ajakstu figures that one is certainly not getting into trouble.

"Duke! I think I can help you secure that chest piece!"

The Duke finds... a blob.

Well, a blob that stands up on two pseudopods like a human would. And it has two... pseudoarms, too. It even has a stubby little-- top... growth... on top, where a (thick) neck and a (slightly pointy) head would go on a human.

So. A greenish blob, almost-transparent but not very (it'd probably be really pretty if you shone a light behind it, though)... about five-ish feet tall...

...And it talks. "...Oh! Look at you! You poor thing! Has someone been fighting with you? Are you hurt?" The voice is like that of a human woman... if just a little underwater. A bit of a lilting, almost sing-song accent.

Foers almost immediately classifies this blob as DO NOT KILL.

Ajakstu has trouble finding The Duke at first (hey, the lighting is not optimum out here), but after a minute, oh, there he is, by that... green blob. Person. That's talking to him. Huh. Okay.

The Duke eyes the blob person who looks really like Jello a lot and loves her instantly. Whats not to love about a person the looks like your favourite dessert after all. Even FOERS seems to like her making heart hands at the beauty. The Duke just stares at her for a few moments and then with only a little drool forming on his lips nods in response to her question. Yeah the Duke is utterly lovestruck. The Lady must have looked down upon him favourably to send such a beauty on his path.

Ajakstu looks for a comfortable seat from which to watch The Duke's encounter unfold.

Also, some sort of obstruction to hide behind in case it gets creepy and weird. A large, sight obscuring and sound mitigating obstruction. Hopefully with the power to eradicate memories.

The blob notices Ajakstu. "Hello... another one... Not as cute... do either of you speak? Do you have names? Mine is Dulcinea. Me... Dul-cin-e-a..." says the green blob, pointing a pseudopod at herself.

(The new pic isn't perfect, but it's as good as "pic for green blob person" would let me get)

The Duke keeps staring at the woman his mouth moving but not a single word coming out. Still he seems to mouth her name the lips moving liek he is tasting it but no sound except a massive sigh as he points at himself and seems to fail to even utter his own name. The poor thing clearly was having a mental meltdown.

"Well, you understand me, I think... Who hurt you, poor thing? Were some bad monsters picking on you...?"

The Duke just slowly nods again and gestures in the general direction of the Doomwalker. He even manages to utter a sob that comes from his toes as this woman seems to be the first that understands just how hard it is to be the Duke.

"Ohh! Did you get in a fight over by that big 'ol thing? Someone tried to fight you for it? Poor li'l scrapper! You didn't deserve that...!"

His cover blown Ajakstu takes a half step backwards. This looks like a good match for Gas Bag back at the walkers with Fish Breath.

"You are speaking to The Duke, Destroyer of Enemies. Myself, I am called Ajakstu Gul. Next in rank is Rake, who you may see flying about. There are a few others of no consequence. The Duke can explain."

Having lubricated the skids of romance, Ajakstu takes a full step back and squats down, seemingly lost in contemplating the dirt beneath his feet.

"Ohhhh, The Duke? Do you have a Dukedom?" She's forgotten about Ajakstu already, still focused on the poor little giant.

The input from Ajakstu seems to break the spell a little and the Duke shakes his head when she asks the question. The fact that FOERS was jumping around her with hearts visualizing over it was not helping much of coarse.

"You are pretty."

Ajakstu thinks as hard as he can, "Pretty boy! Egoist! Alewife! Alwyn! Ypou gotta get down here and see this! Or at least un tongue tie The Duke!"