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The Arachne System (SPIDERLIV 3)

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[X] You're going straight in the back door, right through the electric lock, and you were just cut through the offices, timing your movement with the cameras. Keep it simple!
 
JustGazzer said:
really i thought there was a drone fetish thing implied right there :p
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thats actually not really my thing? if anything rosie is basically a chance for me to make jokes at my own expense regarding my love of robots as metaphor by having a robot that categorically rejects it entirely. there's so much comedy material i think i can mine out of rosie feeling nothing in emotionally charged situations, having no self-preservation instinct, having simple values with no way to deviate, and constant reminders of all the above in a cheery voice.

besides i only developed a weird thing for robots after a year of intensely writing them and trying to put myself in the shoes of a robot that finds other robots hot. this was a mistake, there's no cute secretary robots in real life!!!!!!!!!!

also... regarding rosie's inner life (or lack thereof) rosie may or may not have conciousness in some form, but she doesn't have feelings, independent desires, or any ability whatsoever to change or grow beyond saving data, which it does only a limited amount of. it's likely she actually has several separate processes which can distinguish between self and not self to a degree but which are running in parallel and which are individually so simple and unidirectional that even though it's directing huge amounts of processing power and complex programs, its level of actual conscious awareness falls short of, say, a housefly.

point is, she doesn't have anything even remotely approaching personhood and probably within a few hours of getting her an inquisitive May discovered she can make it loop because it's not really understanding or internalizing most of what it is saying.
 
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[X] You were going up to the roof and working your way down the elevator shaft to the basement. You'd be out of the way, but also not checking on any of the stuff out in the open.
 
[X] You're going straight in the back door, right through the electric lock, and you were just cut through the offices, timing your movement with the cameras. Keep it simple!
 
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The Life Foundation
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    • "Right, let's do this thing." you muttered. In a short hop off a garbage can and a few steps up the side of the building you were on the roof, ducking behind an air conditioning unit. Reasoning the flash of light was probably best done just inside the stairway, you grabbed the door, feeling with your tech-sense for the alarm and breaking the electronic lock. The door clicked and you pulled it open, taking two steps down and letting it close before reaching into your shirt for your new icon thingy.

    "Spiderbitepowermakeup." you muttered, and a moment later you were in your suit, metal arm flexing, the arc reactor humming against your back. Short hop to the elevator, edging around the corner to make sure the upper offices were empty before opening the elevator doors (ding!). The elevators were both still sitting on the ground floor, and to minimize noise you stuck a web to the ceiling and started lowering yourself down.

    "The degree to which your powers make you suited for breaking and entering never ceases to mildly disturb me." Athena muttered.

    "Hey, breaking and entering is a cool crime for cool people when you do it to awful megacorps." you pointed out in a whisper, gently setting down on the roof of the elevator. You took a moment to get a mental map of the first two floors through the cameras, spotting a handful of blerry-eyed late night workers, two janitors, and a handful of security guards. You shouldn't have been so concerned about wiping yourself from the cameras, because whoever was supposed to be on them appeared to be playing a gatcha game on their phone instead. Welp, it was still good practice.

    You slid down the narrow access latter to under the elevator and reached the basement door. No active cameras down here... that was odd. Why wouldn't they have cameras where their servers and stuff were? Beyond that, though, you didn't feel much in the way of active technology at all, a few computers running maybe. There was more there, more computers and devices and storage, but without them running you'd have to get closer to get any kind of read.

    "Ideas?"

    "They must just have things powered down. Might be routine maintenance, might be a security thing." Athena speculated.

    "I guess." you said, cracking the elevator door just enough to slip a narrow fibre optic camera through. You were expecting a boring looking basement, white hallways and cubical, maybe a server farm type deal.

    You weren't expecting what looked like a glass airlock inside a stainless steel lab, lined with equipment whose design and purpose were quite beyond you.

    "Alright, twist." you muttered, pushing the elevator doors open and stepping inside. The inner door opened easily as well, with a pop of pressure differential, and you started scanning the shelves. There were gloveboxes lining one wall, some glass and some metal and armoured, storage units along another, desks and papers, a few laptops. You didn't know much about anything biological, but it struck you as a medical laboratory. Everything was dark. "Anything in our notes about the Life Foundation breaking into the pharmaceutical industry?"

    "Nothing. I'm recording all this, by the way."

    "Good. Alright, this is officially spoopytown, population yikes." you muttered, pacing around the room. You glanced into the various gloveboxes, but all of them seemed empty. The computers, though... "There's a lot of data in here. Hope I have enough storage."

    You opened the cabient to the main computer, still offline, and pulled out a phone and the portable hard drive you'd taken with you. The computer flickered to life and you plugged it in, Athena's avatar appearing on it.

    "Urgh, this thing is taking its time to boot up. These people ever heard of an SSD?" she said, tapping her virtual fingers on her desk. "Look, I'll prioritize data if there's too much. Might as well take a look at more physical evidence."

    You stood and started pacing the room, checking over all the ports, pulling open drawers, generally snooping. Things seemed remarkably sparse, there wasn't much in the drawers beside some small tools. Ruffling through the papers, you found them to mostly be blank sheets or covers, protectors for something else, staple holes torn through them. You got the distinct impression something was missing.

    As you rounded the corner and glanced behind the elevator shafts, you noticed along the warning-tape-lined floor a wide metal door, secured with a heavy bar. Experimentally, you placed a hand under it and lifted. Impressive, had to be at least a few hundred pounds.

    "I'm going to look in the locked room that probably holds, like, a monster or whatever." you said.

    "Have fun." Athena muttered. You could still hear her virtual fingers tapping impatiently.

    You moved the bar out of the way, lowering it carefully into the slots on the wall so as not to make too much noise, and cracked the door. It swung open on a counterweight, like a bank vault, and inside was...

    Nothing. Big empty freezer. Total lack of anything interesting, just a little red square taped in the floor. It wasn't cold, though you could tell it could be.

    "Have you been eaten yet?" Athena asked, and you were about to respond when she kept talking. "Huh. Hey, Liv, there's nothing here."

    "What do you mean?"

    "I mean all the drives are empty of anything except system files. This is a fresh install." she said.

    "... weird." you muttered, stepping into the vault. "Obvious answer: something was here, and they transferred it elsewhere."

    "Or it escaped." Athena offered.

    "Or it escaped." you repeated, looking over the room. Look like it had been power-washed or something, you could see very faintly the lines of grime against the concrete floor, against the walls...

    You looked up at the ceiling to see something black and icky clinging to the corner, looking almost like it was poking just slightly out from behind one of the refrigeration pipes. Like an oil slick that defied gravity.

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    [ ] Say hi.​
    [ ] Poke it with a leg.​
    [ ] Nope on out of there.​
     
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    • Oh, if this is AU Venom we got to be super thoughtful to help it develop right so we don't end fighting each other... unless it's already unstable, or Klyntar are just evil here or something. But hopefully not.

    But we can totally do a better job then Peter.
     
    [X] Nope on out of there.

    This is a trap! This is such a massive trap!

    Think about it. Liv has walked into a basement with no cameras or other tech to use her power on. There's a big featureless room with a really thick door and a really strong bar (that her powers won't work on).

    I don't know how, but someone has figured out her powers/weaknesses. This is a trap, and she needs to get out now.
     
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