voice

[deem]

Hey guys, can you hear me?

[YoRHa unit 9S, forever uncertain as to whether he's thinking at people properly]

I just wanted to let you know that 2B and I are doing renovations on that old house on the western side of the island. At the moment there's no water or electricity so it's probably not the most hospitable for humans...

But once it's in working order, this'll give us an outpost in this area.

Also we were discussing some hands-free lights for working in the dark. Devices like that would come in handy, right? Are there any other types of equipment you could use? Seems like during our downtime, that's something to work on. Maybe we can also establish what resources we've got at our disposal, too. We're a team and all, right?

[Now that they're not dealing with invading hostiles, it seems to him it's time to put his technical skills to work]

[ooc: Feel free to thread-hop/jack, let's get geared up]

Comments

[lalliho]

...Hn. People say that here a lot. I don't know why it bothers me.

[deem]

Are you the type that believes people need a more selfish motivation?

If I need one, then... It feels good being useful. I'm not meant for combat, but I was built for things like maintenance and gathering information.

[lalliho]

Nnno. I don't think it's that... [This answer's pretty good, though, and Lalli's side of the connection perks up.] Are you like a scout?

[deem]

Yeah, that's a lot of what I do. I gather data on enemy formations, terrain, that sort of thing. Scanners are designed for it.

Well, that, and like I said, maintenance.

[And so the guess is quite on the money]

[lalliho]

[!!! He doesn't know what maintenance means, but!]

I'm a scout, too. A night scout, but my last job made me be an all the time scout and now I don't sleep.

[deem]

You don't sleep, really?

[Even androids sleep, so there's no fending off the note of surprise that comes with his message]

I scout in all conditions too, but... I'd get pretty tired if I didn't rest.

[lalliho]

I used to, but Qri's magic won't let me.

[It's the dumbest.]

Now when I get tired, I have to stand still or eat, mostly.

[deem]

Why would she do something like that to you? Geez.

[That'd get so boring after a while, being awake all the time]

I really don't get how she operates.

[lalliho]

[Siiiigh. Mental sigh.]

I don't know. My...friend likes his magic, and I guess mine can be useful, but it's still weird and stupid.

[deem]

I'm not even sure I've got anything that constitutes magic, but maybe that's for the better. I wasn't designed with that sort of thing in mind.

Maybe you can use it being weird to your advantage somehow, though.

[lalliho]

[That's...weird. Lalli had been sure of the same on the first day, stripped of his own magic and unable to produce a tangible effect on command. But he's heard this voice over telepathy before, even if he's mostly ignored it before now. It would be too long to have not discovered something, right...?]

Qri didn't give you anything?

[deem]

Not that I've noticed. I mean, unless you count this thing embedded in my chassis, but that seems like the same thing everyone ended up with.

[He can't find any modifications in his systems either, and so he's left to conclude that perhaps what he is prevents such changes from being made to begin with. Considering that he wasn't developed to combat, much less wield, magic it does make a certain amount of sense.

The gift of having been given an invisible power that isn't easily noticed: 9S' life now]

[lalliho]

Weird...

[He can't decide if having no power is better or worse than having a power like his. Like he said, he could think of ways for it to be useful... He was an even more effective scout this way, even if he consumed more food resources than he would without it.]

...What's a chassis?

[deem]

It depends on the kind of technology involved, but in my case I guess I could also say my endoskeleton? It's pretty durable, so I'm really not too sure how they managed to get a ring made of a softer material stuck in me.

Not to mention removing it disables my motor functions, so it has to be a systemic fusion too.

[Magic. It's confusing, and he's not especially keen on it]

[lalliho]

[..........there is a lot he does not understand here.]

I know about skeletons, but what's an endo?

[deem]

[Maybe it's fortunate this isn't the first time he's confused someone]

An endoskeleton is an internal skeleton, as opposed to an exoskeleton like some bugs have, where it serves as a hard shell. Androids have endoskeletons just like humans do, you see.

Except for what they're made of anyhow.

[lalliho]

The shell is a skeleton...

[yo, what the fuck... but alright, there was more important information given to him here.]

Do you know a blindfolded lady that says she's really strong and heavy?

[deem]

You must mean 2B! [No masking the enthusiasm here, he's a fan] We're partners, and those goggles are standard-issue so I've got them too.

[lalliho]

[Woah, okay. Good thing he's used to someone spouting scientific nonsense at him and being weird-bubbly, or this would be even more jarring for him to wrap his emotionally-stunted head around.]

Those are goggles...? She said she could see but I don't understand.

[deem]

Yeah, all YoRHa units in the field wear them.

[And if he thinks 2B's goggles look like a blindfold, 9S' are even more misleading, what with the tie in the back and all]

They actually improve our vision...but a lot of people around here seem confused about it.

[lalliho]

Yes, because that's stupid.

[bein real]

[deem]

How stupid is it when they actually work?

[Who needs reality in the distant, crazy future...]

[lalliho]

It doesn't make sense, so it's stupid.

[Like, it is stupid, but Lalli calls a lot of things stupid, so this opinion is ehh...]

Your eyes are covered, so you shouldn't see. Unless you have...spirit sight.

[deem]

"Spirit sight" doesn't make sense to me. Is that some kind of magic?

[9S will forever defend his absurd equipment, if only because he knows how that brand of nonsense works]

Seems to me that if I can see through it, it doesn't matter that my eyes are covered.

[lalliho]

...I guess it's magic. I see spirits because I'm a mage...

[Just kind of seems like A Thing, though.]

Why do you have eyes if you can cover them and see?