Roaming, restless [After Dungeon Keeper]

[morganknight]

Morgan was restless.

When restless, he tended to roam the ship, checking on things he knew of, or seeking out places he didn't out of curiosity. Today was a little of both. After the pitched battle in Hydroponics, he felt a particular obligation towards one plant in particular: the apple tree he'd helped Applejack grow from a seed. For all that he'd done his best to contain Hydroponic in the fight, he hadn't been able to do anything specific to protect that plant.

Done there, he headed back down in the City, off to one particular place that had caught his interest when he had heard about it: an 'air temple'. Not on the map, not listed in the directory, or he'd have wandered over just to take a look a long time ago. Now that he'd heard about it, well...

Time to investigate.

[OOC: Just say where you find him; it can be pretty much anywhere, since his trip covers a lot of ground across the ship.]

Comments

[morganknight]

"Not being determined to kill us or cause us suffering would also be a plus," he added, nudging a discarded shred of circuit with one foot. "Be pretty cool if you can manage it, though!"

[snarkingscribe]

Another chuckle, then Veronica dumps the head of a Saint in a bucket. "Yeah, it would. Having a robot around always sounded neat back home, but never really had the time or resources to try and work out the kinks."

Except that incident with FISTO, but let's not dwell on that for too long. The things people do for caps...

[morganknight]

Don't tell Morgan about FISTO. He'll giggle immaturely. Hee hee, FISTO.

"Somehow of all the people and things I did know, I can't remember a robot ever being one of them. A couple of cyborgs here and there, but that's nowhere near the same."

[snarkingscribe]

The only mature thing about anything involving FISTO is his content rating.

"I knew of some robots back home, but most had all the personality of a can of rocks," Veronica comments. "Those that weren't were generally annoying, or stuffy security robots." She rolled her eyes a bit.

[morganknight]

"Sounds like more of a failure on the programmers' part," he said, crouching down to poke carefully through the parts as if he had any idea what he was doing. "I guess AI has proved a pipe dream thus far?"

[snarkingscribe]

Veronica nods. "There's some really simple ones out there, and rumors of better ones, but I haven't seen much of it myself - though at the same time, I'm kinda thankful for that. Last thing I'd want is a machine that would get too smart and decide that I'm obsolete."

[morganknight]

"The few I've met were reasonable personable. Maybe a little alien or smug about being machines, but personalities, with their flaws and good qualities all the same. Not that I claim to have that much experience, mind." He shrugged.

[snarkingscribe]

"Huh. Who knows, maybe there's hope for robots yet, then," Veronica answers with a chuckle, standing up.

[morganknight]

"If there's hope for people, there's gotta be hope for their creations. Although this IS all coming from the perspective of a guy who, not so long ago, was part of a pitched battle against an evil insane AI in this very ship, along with everyone else..." Morgan chuckled a little awkwardly.

[snarkingscribe]

That got an awkward chuckle from Veronica as well. "Guess that all depends on the person, and the creations, really, now that I think about it." Hello there all-too-fresh memories of Elijah, what are you doing here?

Veronica bit it back and swallowed, forcing a smile. "Can't let one bad experience ruin the whole thing, though."

[morganknight]

"So artificial intelligence is like dating," he said, grinning broadly. "If you have a bad experience, keep trying until you find one that isn't batshit crazy!"

[snarkingscribe]

And that comment blows that forced smile into a genuine one as Veronica laughs openly, having not expected the joke.

"Hah, that's definitely one way of putting it!"

[morganknight]

There we go. Smiling and laughing. Much better! "But is the lesson to avoid dating an AI, or to definitely do it? After all, if you find one that isn't nuts..."

[snarkingscribe]

The laughter winds down into a bit of a chuckle and a grin. "Guess that all depends on what you're into. Cold metal is kind of shit for cuddling, after all. And I can't imagine a robot being good at pillow talk."

[morganknight]

Morgan snickered, then dropped his voice to a flat nasally monotone. "ACCESSING SUBROUTINE B15. ENGAGING TRADITIONAL POST-COITAL-CONVERSATION BEHAVIOR PATTERN."

Then Morgan shut his eyes and pretended to sleep.

[snarkingscribe]

That got a small snort and more chuckling. "Well, I suppose none is better than a bad attempt." There was a beat as she folded her arms and smirked a little. "Good to know that there's some others here with a decent sense of humor."

[morganknight]

Morgan shrugged broadly, still smiling. "If you can't laugh, you'd go crazy, right? If I'm going to be the last salvation for a doomed universe, I at least want some laughs out of it."

[snarkingscribe]

"Either go crazy, or wind up a grumpy mess with a flagpole rammed up my ass. And quite frankly, I have no interest in that ever happening. I'd rather be dead than be boring." She smirks a bit, then holds out a hand. "Name's Veronica."

[morganknight]

"Morgan Knight," he said, giving her both a smile and a handshake that politicians and CEOs dreamed of having. (He was the latter, and he'd practiced it.) "And given where we are, I don't think 'boring' is anyone's fear."

[snarkingscribe]

She nods, and while her handshake lacks experience, there's some definite strength to it. "I don't know - I know a few people who would manage to be boring and indifferent when faced with something like this."

[morganknight]

"Oh, there are always people like that, but here? You can just leave them behind and go find someone more interesting!"

[snarkingscribe]

"And from the looks of things, I don't have to brave a wasteland to do it!" She grins a bit. "And there's the handy comm things. That'll definitely make finding interesting people easier."

[morganknight]

"Or sometimes you can just wander the City and run across interesting people out scavenging for robot parts?" He arched an eyebrow, smiling.

[snarkingscribe]

"Or that," Veronica answers with a half-grin. "Hopefully that's a good interesting."

[morganknight]

"Well," he said, smile growing more broad, "no complaints so far."