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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:10 pm
It was a nice enough day out. It appeared that Gaia had exhausted it's supply of firecrackers and other things, as Rusty didn't hear any go off. The man was half asleep on a park bench, letting Hoss amble around. He'd learned that the 'baby' could take care of himself. And if he couldn't? He had a set of lungs on him and he'd holler.
Hoss was, for the moment, temporarily occupied with watching the park's children with a frown. Stupid little beasts. He did not play well with others, and hadn't had patience for actual children in his previous form. Why should he have it now?
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:16 pm
Leelue was currently sat patiently at the side of a jungle gym, red eyes glowing as she watched each child playing. She was particularly fascinated by the upsidown ones, and she still wasn't quite sure how they were able to flip around so quickly without falling over. She didn't move once or even tilt her head as she regarded each and every one.... Her vision paused for a second as she noticed a particularly grumpy looking child at the side, and he also seemed to be watching the kids... but she didn't really linger on him for more than a moment. After all, there were upsidown children here in front of her, and if she could just figure out the step by step process for the procedure then maybe she could be a kid too.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:22 pm
Hoss soon spotted Leelue. She was rather hard to miss, after all. He frowned and watched her before standing. He had to get a closer look.
The.... Person, thing, whatever, reminded him of the bots they were making back on his planet, before he'd been sent away. They hadn't been very mobile, but this new thing was enough to pique his curiosity.
Hoss toddled closer, giving very nasty glares and hisses to any child that came near him. God, he hated the little brats. And what made it worse was that he was one of them now, at least in body. How disgusting.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:30 pm
Leelue noticed Hoss approaching her long before she acknowledged his presence, however once she informed herself that he was getting closer merely to see her she began the step by step process that she'd put together for first encounters.
She turned her head towards him (never really taking her attention off the other children) and blinked her red eyes at him. "Hello" Her voice was hollow and mechanical, though deffinitely still that of a girl. She had learned that people didn't like her to approximate their voices as her own, and she had yet to put together a program for her own realistic voice.
"Can I help you?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:39 pm
Woah. Now that was pretty damn weird. Hoss was surprised at the tone of 'her' voice. Kind of like something he'd heard from an old 'b' movie.
"You a bot?" He asked, moving closer. How did she work? What kind of power was used? Curious Hoss was apparently curious. As an afterthought, he added: "Hi."
Manners, Hoss. You needed more of them.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:44 pm
She turned her head and watched him get closer. Now that he was interested in her, she became more interested in him and she switched the majority of her focus over to Hoss. "I am told that I am a Robot, if that is what you are asking" She didn't jump or move away from him. She had no personal space issues at all, and never felt annoyed or imposed upon, so she didn't mind him being so close at all.
"I have been told that it is customary for individuals to have things called names though, and I have taken the name Leelue for myself." She turned to face him again. "Do you have a name?" She asked more to assure herself that her information on names was correct, that everyone did indeed have one.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:13 pm
Huh. Fancy robot talked good.
"Leelue, huh?" It wasn't a hard name. Hoss still had troubles with speaking from time to time, but his muscles were getting better as he grew. "Yeah. Everyone's got names. I'm Hoss."
She was interesting. Who knew what kind of.... AI? Was that what they called it? Jasper had never been all that interested in bots, except for what they could be used for. No clue on how they were made. "Who made you?"
Because, hey. When in doubt, ask.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:15 pm
Leelue's metalic brain clicked away at the question. She didn't really know who had made her. She'd 'awoken' in a pod drifting through space, and had spent enough time in that pod to grow to child before she'd even hit the ground. Of course she'd originally thought that she had come from the pod, but it had been pointed out to her several times since then, that several individuals had come from 'relocation' pods, and that there was always a prior point of origin. If she could be completely bothered by something, the question of her origin would have bothered her... but she was Leelue. So of course she answered the only way she knew how.... truthfully.
"I do not know who made me. I wish that I did, becuase I have yet to find other robots for the most part. I wish to know if there are others like me." That woudl certainly make the process of information collecting easier. Right now it was just massive amounts of filed info in her shiny metal head.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:19 pm
Hmmm. That didn't answer any of Hoss's questions, either. It wasn't like the girl could open her own head and tell him how she was made, or how she was powered. Hoss clicked his thumb against his hook and frowned.
"Bots in Aekea." He mentioned. "Not like you, but people make 'em. Not as smart." Really, the Fakatori robots hadn't been much to talk to. The one that hated humanity had been fairly amusing. "Maybe you from there."
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:41 pm
"Aekea" She spoke the word and searched for the word in her memory at the same time. She came up with several things. "The name of a pet belonging to the 312th child I have watched, a small suburb of Gaia's Barton town, and a word mentioned by the mother of the albino buffalo child though the meaning there is unclear." She paused a second seeming to think about what she'd just said and came to a quick decision. "I have never been to Aekea, but I shall have to go and meet the robots that you say reside there." She noded rather mechanically. It was a guesture that she'd picked up in one of her 'step by step' compiling sessions.
"Do you know where you came from?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:23 am
Well. That was quite a memory the little robot had. "S'a city. Easta Barton." Hoss added.
"World called Asgeart. Sent here 'cause I was bad." He shrugged. Bad to them, anyway. He'd done what needed to be done. No regrets.
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:48 am
"Ageart" She filed the information away with the mental picture of the small boy. "I have never heard of that place, but I do not recall being off this world and not in that... pod." That was how it had been described. AS far as bad and good were concerned, she had no moral base for either... it was almost as if they didn't exist aside from their deffinitions. She filed Hoss's information with 'bad' in her head... of course it was just a word and didn't really mean anything yet.
She turned her head back to the children at play and blinked her eyes at them. "I am studying these children here on this metal structure. I am compiling a step by step process on how they move so that I might recreate the movement later myself."
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:01 am
Another podkid, huh? Wonder what she'd done, who she'd been? Maybe she hadn't been a robot before. Huh. Something to think about.
"Don't just watch. Ya gotta try, too." Hoss's words were beginning to be tempered with the southern accent of the men he lived with. "If you don't do it right at first, you try again, till you can do it. S'what people do."
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:29 am
"Retry?" She turned to him, trying to figure out if he was serious or not. She came to no deffinite conclusion, but she decided to take him at face value. She wasn't exactly coordinated, and she clinked her metal fingers against her palms in thought.
Looking at Hoss, she realized that he most likely wasn't all that coordinated either, although he may very well have an advantage over most others when it came to the jungle gym.
"I can do repetetive tasks. Those are easy." And it just became a task of rewriting and refining each motion program until there was little to no error left. That was practice for a robot. "Can you do this?" She pointed a metal hand at the jungle gym.
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:45 am
Hoss frowned at the jungle gym.
"Not yet." He said. "Too short." Too short and too stocky. He could hang well, though. If he felt like playing when he got older, he would assuredly own at this thing.
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