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Post by Jess on Mar 24, 2008 22:57:14 GMT -5
The android smiles and nods, "That is a question I may yet have the answer for mother... one moment." She pauses midsentence- canting her head to the side and smiling. Within moments Green runes flash quickly accross those eyes...speckled with red ones every now and then...
Eventualy, the red runes multiply more and more until thats all that clouds her orbs, and she closes her eyes to grasp at her head. "Ah... it hurts..." She says simply, falling to her knees. "Make it stop..."
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Post by Novalyyn on Mar 24, 2008 23:06:42 GMT -5
"Hey, what- why...? What's wrong with you?" Nyx didn't know what to do. Was the thing damaged? Not very useful if it couldn't even tell what it was.
A noise pulled Chaser's attention away. It was a low, heavy grinding sound... She was sure the place didn't have a whole lot longer to hold up. "You know, I really don't think we should stay here..."
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Post by Jess on Mar 24, 2008 23:15:00 GMT -5
Just as the pain... do androids feel pain? Well, this one did... anyway, just as the aforementioned pain ceased in her head, the android felt the rumble in the floor. "Dear go... Mother look out!" She shouted, leaping up in time to catch a large section of slate as the ceiling cracked and it plummetted own upon her mother...
"Go... I shall follow you... you are correct in that this area is no longer safe, its caving it..." The slate is hurled into the machinery- effectively destroying the majority of it. "I shall explain to you what you wish to know... but please, let us leave... I do not want you getting hurt..."
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Post by Novalyyn on Mar 24, 2008 23:28:01 GMT -5
She didn't need to be told twice. Chaser turned back for the door and ran out, glancing back only a moment to see if the living doll was indeed following her. Other bits of debrie started falling too, and the woman knew better than to stop just at the door. She had to get back to a part of the tunnels that she knew was stable, or at least as close as she could get before the cave-in stopped - or she was crushed.
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Post by Jess on Mar 24, 2008 23:33:39 GMT -5
"Mother- LOOK OUT!" The doll says, dashing forward by using a piece of Debris to launch herself forward in order to catch her mother as yet another large piece of slate was about to crush the poor human...
She rolls with the dive, coming up running with an agility which no normal person could attempt to match. "Mother..." She leaps to the side as yet another rock falls, "Which way do you wish to go?"
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Post by Novalyyn on Mar 25, 2008 17:16:40 GMT -5
Chaser didn't much like being grabbed, but she wasn't about to complain about having her life saved. With the lights of that room rapidly being blocked and going out, she went ahead and slid her goggled back down over her eyes and pointed right, shouting the direction at the same time. Walking, it had taken the woman several minutes to get there from the smallish hole between the walls of this tunnel and one of her own. Running, they would get back faster. If they could just get through that, she believed they would be fine - provided the way wasn't blocked.
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Post by Jess on Mar 26, 2008 0:09:45 GMT -5
The doll does exactly as she is told, Bobbing and weaving out of the way of falling rocks and debris. The tunnel entrance ahead however? She leaps, rolls in midair so Nyx was shielded with her own body. Colliding with the wall of debris with such force that the wall crumbles...
And once in the stabler tunnels the little doll stops... sliding along the ground and skidding to a halt several feet thereafter. Ignoring her own apparent injures, she looks down at her mother. "Mother...a-are you alright?"
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Post by Novalyyn on Mar 26, 2008 16:12:08 GMT -5
Checking herself over, Chaser was mildly surprised to find she hadn't received even a scrape - ooh, there was a bruise near her ankle though. But that was it. She looked back at the pile of rubble, well able to hear rocks still falling, though it sounded like the cave in was just about done. Even with her goggles, if was difficult to tell if there were any openings where that hole had been, but she couldn't find anything that anyone could possible fit through, and she was sure the collapse beyond would keep out anything anyway.
A grin forced its way across her face, and the woman began laughing; the sound was not in the least disturbing or cynical, as her laughter tended to be, but good humored. "Well then, that takes care of that! Well done, you crazy piece a'... whatever you are. Yeah, yeah, I'm fine..." She looked over toward the human-like thing and frowned a little behind her mask. "You, however, look like you could use a little work. I don't suppose your capable of, uh, fixing yourself?"
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Post by Jess on Mar 26, 2008 17:35:44 GMT -5
((Wow o.O Goes to show how used to mushing I am... I typed @emit %r%t before I realized what I did... )) The android nods, pushing herself off the ground and dusting off her appendages. "I am capable of self-repair... I just need access to a supply of...well, whatever it was the cradle provided me when you woke me up mother." And with another curt not the android walks over to the collapsed tunnel in order to... collapse it some more. Lifting up a piece of loose slate, a piece of debris that had already fallen, she places it over the exit hole she had created earlier. "It shouldn't take to much... that little ammount brought me back from the land of the dead, so a similarly small ammount should be able to repair any damages to my internal and external chasis..."
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Post by Novalyyn on Mar 26, 2008 17:54:08 GMT -5
Chaser was to say that she had no intention of digging back through all the fallen stone to get whatever it was, but paused when she realized that only one thing had been given to the over-sized doll between her arrival and the thing's awakening. "Wait, you need blood to fix yourself? Please tell me I'm an idiot for even thinking that, because it just doesn't make sense. You're... well, it's rather apparent that you're a machine."
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Post by Jess on Mar 26, 2008 18:03:02 GMT -5
The android tilts her head to the side, "No... I need a substance that is two parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen... Blood is not the subtance that I require to make subsequent repairs to my systems..." A smile, "Blood is the subtance that activates my systems... such is the way you designed me mother..."
((Shorty. o.O))
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Post by Novalyyn on Mar 26, 2008 18:30:41 GMT -5
"Water? That still doesn't really make sense..." Still, Chaser detached her water bottle from her belt and tossed it over. Didn't seem like there'd be any harm in it; if the thing did indeed just need water, maybe it'd also let her actually get some information out of it without the thing freaking out.
"Why do you keep calling me "mother" anyway? I didn't -" She stopped. The thing apparently believed that Chaser had made it herself; unless it was particularly clever, she very much doubted it was there for any sort of infiltration purposes. It could be useful to let it think she was it's master... but it would too soon be painfully obvious that she wasn't. Chaser knew little more about machines and electronics than any other person, only enough to get her by with minimal contact with others. She was no engineer or mechanic - she was a botanist. "I'm not sure who made you, but it wasn't me, and I'm the only living sentient being around for miles."
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Post by Jess on Mar 26, 2008 21:28:35 GMT -5
The doll smiles and nods, "I am aware of this... but you are my mother, wether you realize it or not... without that small gift you gave me I would still be in that prison... so in a way you gave birth to me..." She looks around the cave some more and then takes a stip of the water. "Thankyou for the water mother..."
Almost within moments any apparent injury on her being disappears within the space of a few moments, as tiny nanobots work hard to mend the damages.
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Post by Novalyyn on Mar 26, 2008 23:33:53 GMT -5
Chaser watched as the thing's perfection returned, although her view of it under the circumstances were very limited. The problem was, what to do now? Well, standing there, nothing was getting done. She didn't want to take it back to her home/lab though, not until she could figure out a little more about it. Best to walk. Chaser knew those tunnels well enough, but she could hope that leading the machanical doll down enough redundant paths might confuse it. It... the thing needed a name.
"Come on," she said, intentionally starting with the wrong - or at least, long - way. "You need a name, something I can address you as. Do you have one?"
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Post by Jess on Mar 26, 2008 23:39:12 GMT -5
"You never gave me one mother..." The doll replied simply, following closely behind her new master. She stook close by, "You realize that there is no energy eminating down this tunel for 4.5 mile correct? At the rate we are going, it will take up to nine hours and thirty minutes to reach that signature... would you like it if I carried you?"
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