mr_rubbish
Feb 19, 2004, 02:28 PM
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A Sinow Berrill reminisces the morning after the party....
This was supposed to be an epilogue for a character from the 'Halloween Vaction' group-fiction but that thread was locked before I could post it. I posted it in the 'Welcome To Ragol' group-fiction thread but how many people read that eh?
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Fred looked across the sand at the slowly collapsing sand-building some distance away. The slowly brighting sky illuminating the derelict building as the few remaining stragglers stumbled bleary-eyed into the open. Here and there small sections of wall lost integrity and disentegrated in small puffs of dust. A testament to its constructors that it lasted as long as it did.
Fred delicately peeled off the RAcast 'costume' taped to his exterior and dicarded it on the ground before him. Not so much a costume as the armour plating removed from a destroyed RAcast intruder. It had felt 'weird' to be wearing another robot's 'skin' but imagination was not a design consideration when he was created and he needed something quickly in order to move about unnoticed. He touched a tiny panel on his chest and it opened to reveal the reason he was there... an emotion chip.
The chip had been recovered from a different android some time ago. Even now he was unsure as to why he had kept it. He knew full well what it was and its function too. Perhaps as a spare? Plugging it in would be the very antithesis of his programming but he had done that too. For a time it had been hard, having to hide his new abilities from the other Sinows, always fearful of deactivation should his deception be uncovered.
It had been fun to mix with humans, newmans and androids and be treated as an equal instead of an enemy. Indeed, when one costume came to life, literally transforming its wearer into a Delsaber, he had fought along side those people. It had given him a feeling of exhiliration, a sense he belonged and was accepted even if he suspected that by the end some of them might have known the truth.
Fred knew that it was only the fortuitous event of Halloween that had allowed him to make this deception, he would never be accepted for long and so there was only one course of action available to him. A life without choices was no life at all, ironic then that he had no choice. He pulled out the chip and stared at it for what seemed an eternity. Fred's eye-lights changed from a deep blue to a much lighter shade and in one swift motion he crushed the chip.
Crouching slightly Fred activated his optical camouflage and proceeded back in the direction of the Central Control Area. There were routes to patrol and intruders to repel.
Within a few minutes the lapping waves had faded his footprints to nothing as if he had never been there...
A Sinow Berrill reminisces the morning after the party....
This was supposed to be an epilogue for a character from the 'Halloween Vaction' group-fiction but that thread was locked before I could post it. I posted it in the 'Welcome To Ragol' group-fiction thread but how many people read that eh?
--- Version 1.1 ---
Fred looked across the sand at the slowly collapsing sand-building some distance away. The slowly brighting sky illuminating the derelict building as the few remaining stragglers stumbled bleary-eyed into the open. Here and there small sections of wall lost integrity and disentegrated in small puffs of dust. A testament to its constructors that it lasted as long as it did.
Fred delicately peeled off the RAcast 'costume' taped to his exterior and dicarded it on the ground before him. Not so much a costume as the armour plating removed from a destroyed RAcast intruder. It had felt 'weird' to be wearing another robot's 'skin' but imagination was not a design consideration when he was created and he needed something quickly in order to move about unnoticed. He touched a tiny panel on his chest and it opened to reveal the reason he was there... an emotion chip.
The chip had been recovered from a different android some time ago. Even now he was unsure as to why he had kept it. He knew full well what it was and its function too. Perhaps as a spare? Plugging it in would be the very antithesis of his programming but he had done that too. For a time it had been hard, having to hide his new abilities from the other Sinows, always fearful of deactivation should his deception be uncovered.
It had been fun to mix with humans, newmans and androids and be treated as an equal instead of an enemy. Indeed, when one costume came to life, literally transforming its wearer into a Delsaber, he had fought along side those people. It had given him a feeling of exhiliration, a sense he belonged and was accepted even if he suspected that by the end some of them might have known the truth.
Fred knew that it was only the fortuitous event of Halloween that had allowed him to make this deception, he would never be accepted for long and so there was only one course of action available to him. A life without choices was no life at all, ironic then that he had no choice. He pulled out the chip and stared at it for what seemed an eternity. Fred's eye-lights changed from a deep blue to a much lighter shade and in one swift motion he crushed the chip.
Crouching slightly Fred activated his optical camouflage and proceeded back in the direction of the Central Control Area. There were routes to patrol and intruders to repel.
Within a few minutes the lapping waves had faded his footprints to nothing as if he had never been there...