Cubefall 2012

[seat_five_girl]

The young woman, perhaps eighteen, lounging sideways in the chair near the fire is reading. The Haynes guide to BU-31 to 35 series GENOM boomers to be precise.

She's stopping regularly to check if there's anything interesting going on around too, though what counts for that with everything Cubefall related going on might be hard to tell.

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[evilontheloose]

"No, that's the thing about an artificial body... back as new, no need to heal anything or rest." Jordan smirks a bit. "I was even tempted to optimize stuff, but who knows what would happen when you turned back, right?"

"Oh, I added notes to the manual. Clarifications and stuff."

[seat_five_girl]

"It would probably depend on what you'd optimized," says Ako, "I'll look it over. Most of the stuff in it was pretty general anyways."

[evilontheloose]

"Yeah, the manual looked more like a shopping catalog... half was bland description, and half was assumptions about what you already knew." A nearby terminal dings! with the finishing of some data analysis, and Jordan moves to check it.

"...huh. Weird."

[seat_five_girl]

To be fair it isn't the official manufacture's manual.


That would be worse probably.

"What's up, Jordan-chan?"

[evilontheloose]

"Well.. according to this, your bioconverter reactor is optimized for... blood." Jordan raises a bow. "You're a vampire bot, Ako-chan."

[seat_five_girl]

"What."

[evilontheloose]

"Right here, Ako-chan." She points at the screen. "Blood, or something much like blood, but I'd bet on blood."

"You're a vampire-bot, equipped to refuel by drinking the blood of your enemies."

[seat_five_girl]

"That's insane! Who does that sort of thing for any kind of a mass produced robot?"

[evilontheloose]

Jordan cant' help it but laugh a bit. "A Mad Scientist, of course." Who else.

"It works fine with your hollowed fangs." Yeah, she found those too. "Om nom nom on people you just beat the crap out of."

[seat_five_girl]

But sold commercially! There are third party manuals! How?

"I don't want to drink anyone's blood. This is nuts."

[evilontheloose]

"And now you know exactly why I don't go for those changes. The screen never tells you everything, and you have to take something unexpected." Which is the whole point of the change, if you think of it. "I have surprises enough in my life."

[seat_five_girl]

"I haven't had any urges to latch onto people's necks," says Ako, "Just - I guess it won't be a surprise if it happens?"

She runs a hand over her hair and sighs.

"I don't need blood, right?"

[evilontheloose]

"Hmm... I did not find any extra batteries, so you need something in that bioconvertor." Jordan quickly writes up a note. "Give this to Bar, it's a list of equivalent substances. She should be able to fashion you a drink that works and is not blood."

[seat_five_girl]

"Thanks. I don't even want to think about how this got past safety boards. They're supposed to catch stuff like this, right?"

Or at least prevent things like coffee machines from catching fire and burning down houses.

[evilontheloose]

"W#ell, it depends on what they call 'safety', Ako-chan. Maybe in the world your bot-body came from, people just think devouring your fallen enemies is practical." Jordan herself, would dump the bodies into biogenerator vats or something.

[seat_five_girl]

"Maybe they locked the engineers in a lab playing Dracula on a loop," Ako counters, "Might as well make the most of it, I guess."

[evilontheloose]

"Well, I'm hoping you're not planning to bite me, then: I don't have a vampire fetish." All things considered, Jordan's fantasies are quite... tame.

But she is joking this time.

[seat_five_girl]

Ako makes finger fangs with one hand in front of her mouth.

"I vant to suck - ah, no. It might be a different body, but blood still makes me queasy."

[evilontheloose]

Jordan snickerfits at something, shaking head. "Right..." Bad, bad evil genius.

No, Ako, you don't want to know, trust us.

[seat_five_girl]

Of course Ako trusts Jordan. Otherwise, well, she would have found a less risky way to try and figure out her new body.

Unfortunately, she can't read the narration.

"What?"

[evilontheloose]

Hm, nothing, Ako-chan. Just... hm." The Evil Genius shrugs. "Silly ideas seeing my best friend sort of all grown up."

[seat_five_girl]

"I never really thought I'd grow up this much," says Ako looking down at herself, "Oka-san is shorter for one thing."

[evilontheloose]

"Yeah, and it's a very nice grown-up shape. But I think I like you, as you, more." More familiar.

Even comforting, her friend is.

[seat_five_girl]

"I think I mostly like my usual body more too, but it's neat as a break."

And being taller is always fun once in a while.

[evilontheloose]

"Hm, since you are all grown-up right now, wanna find out if the Bar will let me buy you a few drinks?" Jordan, always full of ideas.