I Am Not A Child's Plaything (MGLN SI)
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tomaO2
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I know he's the bad guy but I can't help but feel sorry for him. You know you just killed a man, right? Not even a moment of introspection? Perhaps right before finding out he was alive? Cause acting sad that he was dead only to get mad at him being alive I think might have added a bit of additional humor to that scene. Are we even sure he killed you? It's not like you don't know that you aren't an SI and, therefore, the way you got to become Raising Heart is just background fluff. Did you even find any files saying that your body was actually kidnapped from Earth?
An amusing chapter. I liked the surprise survival of Dartinia. The way he was tricked into giving permission so that SI could kill him and the surprise problem of Raising Heart being hard coded to find a new user. I pity that user. He's screwed.
An amusing chapter. I liked the surprise survival of Dartinia. The way he was tricked into giving permission so that SI could kill him and the surprise problem of Raising Heart being hard coded to find a new user. I pity that user. He's screwed.
Dude, quite trying to put human emotion into a machine. He may have originally been a meat puppet running off of chemicals but that time has clearly passed. He has been hard coded to do a lot of different things. You don't think soft coding wasn't included? -_-
Ardion Prosili
An (im)Perfect Cell
Ha! That's what you get for using non-specific orders, asshole!
OneWayLearning
TARGET LOCKED...
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Well, so much for a passive aggressive A.I. entity. Ain't nobody who can tell that orb what to do now! Except anyone with an A rank core. Or higher.
That being said, it does make sense that, due to a much different thought process, someone would be more okay with out and out murdering like that. Especially with the kind of grudge any regular, still fleshy, person would have against the crazy mad science types that did this to him. Its just... Self Preservation. Yeah.
That being said, it does make sense that, due to a much different thought process, someone would be more okay with out and out murdering like that. Especially with the kind of grudge any regular, still fleshy, person would have against the crazy mad science types that did this to him. Its just... Self Preservation. Yeah.
Wade Wilson
GIGA! 4TH WALL! BREAKER!
I would like it to be known that I hate that a prepubescent Japanese girl is retardedly powerfull because she is good at math, I would like it greatly if someone responsible and crazy awesome got the SI.
.. responsible? why would you want them to be responsible? i understand crazy awesome, but not the responsible bit.
It's a good thing you killed that doctor. If you hadn't, he might've thought to add a 'may not harm a Master-level user, or, through inaction, permit a Master-level user to come to harm' restriction to the next model.
So you can't modify or remove your user selection subsystem on your own. Do you have control over the data it's using to make its decisions, or the systems that collect that data? Can you assess compatibility yourself without being picked up (and thereby letting the AUS evaluate them)?
So you can't modify or remove your user selection subsystem on your own. Do you have control over the data it's using to make its decisions, or the systems that collect that data? Can you assess compatibility yourself without being picked up (and thereby letting the AUS evaluate them)?
Ardion Prosili
An (im)Perfect Cell
So Nanoha then. Great! Good that we agree.
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tomaO2
Male
I would count this situation as ROB's fault.
He already knows he was transported into the Nanoha-verse so it's not like he was kidnapped by this guy in particular. ROB is the one that took him from his bed and made him an AI. Dartinia is just a scape goat, which is not to say he hasn't performed horrible experiments on other humans, but not to the SI.
If the SI had started the Nanoha-verse in his human body, roamed around for a chapter or two, and THEN was kidnapped and stuffed into an AI that is one thing, but the SI started as a computer. It's pretty much a reincarnation story, and you don't blame the parent for giving birth to you. The evil scientist here is nothing more then a background device to get the story rolling. That's how I see it anyway. <shrugs>
Did the SI actually find any notes on his body? If he goes to Earth and researches his former identity will he find out that he has friends and family there? Is the SI actually going to make even the slightest effort to resume his old life or is he just going to sail off and have new robot adventures with Nanoha/whoever?
If the former, then I suppose that would be the logical extension of his rage towards the Dartinia but if he promptly just puts aside his old life then I would say his rage was a tad over blown cause that shows that he accepted that this isn't his reality and his transfer was also the process that made him an AI.
That said, I don't disagree with killing him. Just the level of hatred going into the act.
He's a device... the kind of levitation you use to fetch a cup of coffee can move him around.
thebrute7
Walker of the Planes
First some feedback addressing stuffs
As for the rest... that may come up later. Just maybe...
Okay, this is a whole lot later than I had intended to put this out, but stuff came up, you know how it is. But I promised an update Friday and by my clock it isn't yet 11:30, so I came in on time. Technically. It's short, so I'll probably update at least once over the weekend, probably Sunday. Assuming I remember.
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Part Four
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I floated down the corridor slowly. I needed to get off the ship now, but the front of the ship was either crushed or buried under a rather large amount of dirt.
The back of the ship wasn't nearly as damaged as the front, where both the Doctor and I had been, but I could already detect six life-signs moving around in the back of the ship. Members of the crew that I would need to avoid. There had been two members of the crew whose personnel files suggested that my Automatic User Selection might give them Master access. Until I had more time to explore those systems, I couldn't be sure. And so they all had to be avoided in case those members hadn't made it off the ship.
Unfortunately, I was not exactly inconspicuous. I was small, certainly, but glowing white wings coming off a small red gem are not very subtle.
>>Dimensional transfer detected>>
>>Three new life-signs>>
>>New contacts approaching by air>>
>>Time to arrival 11 minutes>>
Those contacts could be crewmen coming to look for their fellows, or they could be mages from an organization like the Time-Space Administration Bureau. Or another criminal group.
I paused my flight at an intersection in the hall. I could go either left or right to the ship's respective cargo bays, but there were crewmen in both directions - two to the left and three to the right - and I was unsure of my ability to sneak by.
So I went left.
I floated as close to the ceiling as I could, since people don't tend to look up, and slipped into the leftmost cargo bay.
"I don't give a damn, Carlos, we need to get out of here now. The captain sent a distress signal, and the TSAB could be here any time."
I drifted down behind some containers and started making my way towards the cargo bay doors. Hopefully they were still functioning. That would be the quickest way out of the ship. I had to get close though, since the ship's main computer wasn't functioning.
The mage's continued their bickering, but they were heading back the way I had come. I drifted up to the console next to the bay doors and accessed the system.
Then the lights cut out. The connection to the secondary generator had been cut.
And I was glowing. A bulls-eye just asking to get shot in the dark of the cargo bay.
"What the hell is that?" The mage I had marked as Carlos said.
"I dunno, his taller partner said. But I don't think it's supposed to be there."
They swung their devices, pistol shaped storage devices in this case toward me. Twin pulses of mana, one blue and the other green flashed towards me.
[Protection]
They struck my barrier, and I resolved to develop a more efficient shield at the next opportunity. The most basic Mid-style shield upon which others are built was entirely too mana intensive. And not just because I'm a bit bigger than a large marble, and the shield covers about four or five times more area than necessary.
>>Mana Storage reduced to 29%>>
>>Bay doors are opening>>
Two more shots rushed in. My form blurred away.
[Flash Move]
A white magic circle appeared beneath me as I calculated the trajectory for my next spell.
>>Disable Safety Mode>>
>>Disabling Safety Mode removes mana dispersion, increased chance of lethal injuries>>
>>Please Confirm>>
>>Confirmed, Disabling Safety Mode>>
Hopefully this would work. Disabling my Safety Mode was just hedging my bets. Safety Mode was a bit of a misnomer. Spells could always be lethal, regardless of its existence, but Safety Mode tagged spells with an extra piece of magic that caused excess mana to bleed off into the surroundings rather than be concentrated entirely on the target once things like a barrier or barrier jacket have been removed.
A high power spell, especially bombardment types could easily be using too much mana to disperse easily and kill targets that aren't well enough protected.
At my current power I was unlikely to be able to kill them even if I tried. Not that I really wanted to. The Doctor was different. He was a chain that I needed to be rid of, and he was at least mainly responsible for me being like this, whoever sent me to this previously fictional universe aside. These men were just criminals, and I didn't hold any particularly ill will towards them. I just didn't care what happened to them.
[Twin Shooter]
A pair of white balls of compressed mana appeared on either side of me and zipped towards the crewmen.
They threw themselves behind some containers and I twisted the balls to zip around the containers. Basically, I wanted them to just stay out of the way while I left.
I moved as quickly as I could out of the cargo bay and detonated the mana balls behind me. It wasn't likely to hurt the men much if at all, but hopefully they wouldn't chase me. I floated up to the top of the ship as quickly as I could and let myself drop into a divet in the cracked and scorched hull.
>>Mana storage at 21%>>
>>Charging>>
Now I needed to assess the situation and figure out a plan of action. Ideally the new contact from the dimensional transfer would be TSAB. If they weren't, I could be in some trouble.
Can you be more specific? I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Well, looking back it did come across rather malicious didn't it. I intend to address this in later parts, but my emotional responses are notably muted. Dartinia was a chain around my neck, and a dangerous one, so I removed him. It was cold, colder than I would ever be in real life, but even in real life I have a tendency to be very, very unempathetic to people outside a very small circle. I sort of have to try to empathise with others on the same level as most people. Maybe I came across to strong though, it's something for me to think about. As for killing me? Yes and no.
Once I did my Protection spell to get him to bat me away, I had to get rid of him, or he would have done something to that effect. At that point I had shown my hand - that I was in fact as out to get him as his previous "creations".
As for the rest... that may come up later. Just maybe...
Okay, this is a whole lot later than I had intended to put this out, but stuff came up, you know how it is. But I promised an update Friday and by my clock it isn't yet 11:30, so I came in on time. Technically. It's short, so I'll probably update at least once over the weekend, probably Sunday. Assuming I remember.
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Part Four
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I floated down the corridor slowly. I needed to get off the ship now, but the front of the ship was either crushed or buried under a rather large amount of dirt.
The back of the ship wasn't nearly as damaged as the front, where both the Doctor and I had been, but I could already detect six life-signs moving around in the back of the ship. Members of the crew that I would need to avoid. There had been two members of the crew whose personnel files suggested that my Automatic User Selection might give them Master access. Until I had more time to explore those systems, I couldn't be sure. And so they all had to be avoided in case those members hadn't made it off the ship.
Unfortunately, I was not exactly inconspicuous. I was small, certainly, but glowing white wings coming off a small red gem are not very subtle.
>>Dimensional transfer detected>>
>>Three new life-signs>>
>>New contacts approaching by air>>
>>Time to arrival 11 minutes>>
Those contacts could be crewmen coming to look for their fellows, or they could be mages from an organization like the Time-Space Administration Bureau. Or another criminal group.
I paused my flight at an intersection in the hall. I could go either left or right to the ship's respective cargo bays, but there were crewmen in both directions - two to the left and three to the right - and I was unsure of my ability to sneak by.
So I went left.
I floated as close to the ceiling as I could, since people don't tend to look up, and slipped into the leftmost cargo bay.
"I don't give a damn, Carlos, we need to get out of here now. The captain sent a distress signal, and the TSAB could be here any time."
I drifted down behind some containers and started making my way towards the cargo bay doors. Hopefully they were still functioning. That would be the quickest way out of the ship. I had to get close though, since the ship's main computer wasn't functioning.
The mage's continued their bickering, but they were heading back the way I had come. I drifted up to the console next to the bay doors and accessed the system.
Then the lights cut out. The connection to the secondary generator had been cut.
And I was glowing. A bulls-eye just asking to get shot in the dark of the cargo bay.
"What the hell is that?" The mage I had marked as Carlos said.
"I dunno, his taller partner said. But I don't think it's supposed to be there."
They swung their devices, pistol shaped storage devices in this case toward me. Twin pulses of mana, one blue and the other green flashed towards me.
[Protection]
They struck my barrier, and I resolved to develop a more efficient shield at the next opportunity. The most basic Mid-style shield upon which others are built was entirely too mana intensive. And not just because I'm a bit bigger than a large marble, and the shield covers about four or five times more area than necessary.
>>Mana Storage reduced to 29%>>
>>Bay doors are opening>>
Two more shots rushed in. My form blurred away.
[Flash Move]
A white magic circle appeared beneath me as I calculated the trajectory for my next spell.
>>Disable Safety Mode>>
>>Disabling Safety Mode removes mana dispersion, increased chance of lethal injuries>>
>>Please Confirm>>
>>Confirmed, Disabling Safety Mode>>
Hopefully this would work. Disabling my Safety Mode was just hedging my bets. Safety Mode was a bit of a misnomer. Spells could always be lethal, regardless of its existence, but Safety Mode tagged spells with an extra piece of magic that caused excess mana to bleed off into the surroundings rather than be concentrated entirely on the target once things like a barrier or barrier jacket have been removed.
A high power spell, especially bombardment types could easily be using too much mana to disperse easily and kill targets that aren't well enough protected.
At my current power I was unlikely to be able to kill them even if I tried. Not that I really wanted to. The Doctor was different. He was a chain that I needed to be rid of, and he was at least mainly responsible for me being like this, whoever sent me to this previously fictional universe aside. These men were just criminals, and I didn't hold any particularly ill will towards them. I just didn't care what happened to them.
[Twin Shooter]
A pair of white balls of compressed mana appeared on either side of me and zipped towards the crewmen.
They threw themselves behind some containers and I twisted the balls to zip around the containers. Basically, I wanted them to just stay out of the way while I left.
I moved as quickly as I could out of the cargo bay and detonated the mana balls behind me. It wasn't likely to hurt the men much if at all, but hopefully they wouldn't chase me. I floated up to the top of the ship as quickly as I could and let myself drop into a divet in the cracked and scorched hull.
>>Mana storage at 21%>>
>>Charging>>
Now I needed to assess the situation and figure out a plan of action. Ideally the new contact from the dimensional transfer would be TSAB. If they weren't, I could be in some trouble.
Mizu
Software Developer
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- Victoria, Australia
Well, nice to see the SI's resourcefulness. I liked the comments about making your own, more efficient spells, as well as the "I don't harbour any ill will towards these criminals" comment. Will the SI be back at 100% mana by the time the TSAB/new contacts arrive? You said they were ~11 minutes away...
tomaO2
Male
My personal head canon says that it is pretty hard to go lethal with Mid type magic. Not a simple matter of turning off some program but I don't have anything to back that up, so, sure, lets go with that.
You know, I had this vision of everything being destroyed and being trapped in a ton of metal when I first heard the ship was crashing. Its held up a lot better then I thought.
Anyway, can't he roll around instead of flying, maybe use some sort of sticking ability in order to climb if need be? Flying is kind of obvious to people. Maybe with an illusion spell attached? I know Raising Heart doesn't really specialize in illusions but there might be something. Just seems like there could have been a more stealthy way to get by those men.
By the way, since you smashed your body into a human, did you end up getting blood on yourself? Says you just snapped his neck but hitting that hard leaves a wound. I'm pretty sure being found with dried blood of that man would not be good. Wouldn't be hard to figure out you were the murder weapon.
You know, Nanoha is just a great user by any standard and worth seeking out if you are stuck having to get a master anyway. She's strong, surprisingly mature for her age, gets into a lot of action, and loves her Intelligent Device to bits. Given how she seems to be largely alone until Vivio comes along, she probably gave it a lot more attention and care then a normal mage would. This is further enhanced by the fact that it was her first experience with that Magi-tech. Someone like her would appreciate Raising Heart on a level that a high tech citizen likely would not.
And all that was when it was basically an unfeeling device. With the SI controlling things, it would be pathetically easy to have her agree to disable all the Master Locks, something that I doubt many other mages would agree to, especially after they figure out he's sapient.
There is that training mode too, where the user can enter a virtual world created by the ID? Cause that would be a great place to make your case. Personally, I would strongly consider changing the voice again to that of a child and making a VR avatar so that you are more identifiable to Nanoha upon meeting her. You'd be able to get her to do just about anything for you.
You know, I had this vision of everything being destroyed and being trapped in a ton of metal when I first heard the ship was crashing. Its held up a lot better then I thought.
Anyway, can't he roll around instead of flying, maybe use some sort of sticking ability in order to climb if need be? Flying is kind of obvious to people. Maybe with an illusion spell attached? I know Raising Heart doesn't really specialize in illusions but there might be something. Just seems like there could have been a more stealthy way to get by those men.
By the way, since you smashed your body into a human, did you end up getting blood on yourself? Says you just snapped his neck but hitting that hard leaves a wound. I'm pretty sure being found with dried blood of that man would not be good. Wouldn't be hard to figure out you were the murder weapon.
You know, Nanoha is just a great user by any standard and worth seeking out if you are stuck having to get a master anyway. She's strong, surprisingly mature for her age, gets into a lot of action, and loves her Intelligent Device to bits. Given how she seems to be largely alone until Vivio comes along, she probably gave it a lot more attention and care then a normal mage would. This is further enhanced by the fact that it was her first experience with that Magi-tech. Someone like her would appreciate Raising Heart on a level that a high tech citizen likely would not.
And all that was when it was basically an unfeeling device. With the SI controlling things, it would be pathetically easy to have her agree to disable all the Master Locks, something that I doubt many other mages would agree to, especially after they figure out he's sapient.
There is that training mode too, where the user can enter a virtual world created by the ID? Cause that would be a great place to make your case. Personally, I would strongly consider changing the voice again to that of a child and making a VR avatar so that you are more identifiable to Nanoha upon meeting her. You'd be able to get her to do just about anything for you.
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Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
@tamoO2
The SI crashed into the scientist creator using a forcefield, so I doubt the marble itself got blood on it. The forcefield probably got bloody, then when the field collapsed blood fell around it. That or the field repelled the blood back into the body.
And yep, Nahoha as a partner would be a good idea for the SI as far as removing the hardcoded locks he's got on his form. Would also be handy for canon purposes. Not like he'd be able to do much in the Nanoha!Verse as a sentiant marble otherwise...
The SI crashed into the scientist creator using a forcefield, so I doubt the marble itself got blood on it. The forcefield probably got bloody, then when the field collapsed blood fell around it. That or the field repelled the blood back into the body.
And yep, Nahoha as a partner would be a good idea for the SI as far as removing the hardcoded locks he's got on his form. Would also be handy for canon purposes. Not like he'd be able to do much in the Nanoha!Verse as a sentiant marble otherwise...
OneWayLearning
TARGET LOCKED...
- Location
- Cannonballer Camera
Actually, do we happen to know exactly when Raising Heart got made? I remember Yuuno had Raising Heart on him for a time, but I don't remember where he got it in the first place... We don't even know when he is! I don't think we know, anyway.
The wiki claims that Yuuno found Raising Heart in an old ruin on an archaeological expedition, so it's likely a predecessor of modern Mid devices and older than most humans. Clearly the SI was created in a different way than canon Raising Heart unless he's actually just at the dawn of the TSAB.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
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- Dublin
We got the year, which says this is happening just before Nanoha gets RH. Personally I've always been of the opinion that Raising Heart is an Al-Hazardian artefact - and possibly found on the same dig as the Jewel Seeds - but since I doubt that will matter for this story, I'm not going to belabour the point.
I'm pretty certain there is no origin or Raising Heart that is canon other than that Yuuno had it before he set off for earth. People just like to speculate. Really there isn't anything special about RH to justify it being anything but a modern intelligent device.
Clearly that isn't the case here though.
Clearly that isn't the case here though.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
If Nanoha does end up still getting Raising Heart, I can only imagine how things will get interesting.
Wonder how she'd react to knowing that her device isn't just a sentient AI, but formerly a human being who was forcibly transformed/transferred.
How would that impact later events and interactions? What kind of influence would that be?
The whole idea interests me.
Wonder how she'd react to knowing that her device isn't just a sentient AI, but formerly a human being who was forcibly transformed/transferred.
How would that impact later events and interactions? What kind of influence would that be?
The whole idea interests me.
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I think it'd be more interesting if he never told her, never really seeing a reason, and everyone just thought he was a Device with an absurdly advanced AI, or at least unusual and unorthodox, AI.