--- 2011/05/10(Tue)13:59 No. 303029 ID: 3e6377
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WARNING - PRIMARY DATABASE INTEGRITY COMPROMISED - ALL SECURITY SYSTEMS COMPROMISED - UNABLE TO LOCATE BACKUP DATA SOURCES - WARNING - WARNING

INTRUDER ALERT! ALL PERSONNEL ARE INSTRUCTED TO ENACT EMERGENCY PROCEDURES APPROPRIATE FOR THEIR CLEARANCE LEVEL!

...sirens making it harder to concentrate than I thought.

Okay. This looks like a camera. Behind a plate of glass. Because that makes sense, of course. And nothing else. Great.

Hi!

What's going on?

*HISS*

hrmmmm

[turn of intruder alert]

Are YOU the intruder?

Hi, you're a cute thing. What are you? Shouldn't you be doing those emergency procedures?

Take the camera. Everything must be documented.

Sinter 2011/05/10(Tue)14:30 No. 303040 ID: 3e6377
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Huh! Responses. Interesting. Must work on intentions. Didn't think that sort of tech existed on this planet. Anyway. Okay, to make a long story short, I have reason to believe you're the main system for this base and I have some requests. First, I'm your new owner, second, do something about these alarms-

ATTENTION! ALL RED-CLEARANCE PERSONNEL ARE INSTRUCTED TO-

Oh. You actually did it. Well. The alarms, anyway. Everything's still red. What, me, the intruder? Well, from a certain perspective, probably. My name is Sinter, by the way. So. About making me the new owner of the base. Any estimates how long it'll take before I get access to all areas? Because I'd like that sooner rather than later.

We are? Hmm, how do we do that?

Insert reprogramming module labeled OneHuman to proceed with taking control of the base.

>>303040
You're the new owner of the base?

Uhh... okay... um...

[turn off... all the... everything?]

>>303040
Ah, but now why would we want to turn over the base to you? Walking in here and making demands without explaining things is not the right way to gain cooperation. So, how about you tell us a story, a story of why you're here and what you hope to accomplish?

[shut down all systems and restart with Sinter having admin lvl access.]

[Return to regular lighting]
[Unlock door]

>>303046
Belay that order.
As >>303044 has stated, we have no proof of ownership yet.
Being gullible does not a good AI make.

[Continue to hiss menacingly]

You are the most adorable alien ever even though you're just a recolor of Cirr's other races

Okay, let's see:
[disable all alarms currently active]
[log out any admins currently online; use force if needed]
[create account for Sinter with admin permissions]

Yeah, we're going to need some impressive credentials before we do anything for you.

>>303040
Is the base empty? All data is missing. Are you the only one here? Sirens are all broken... I must assume that the base has been abandoned. It must have been decades since maintenance was last performed. Is the planet abandoned?

Can you move a little bit to the side? The readout on the screen behind you is hard to read when your head is in the way.

Sinter 2011/05/10(Tue)15:01 No. 303061 ID: 3e6377
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Oh. You're one of those AIs. Distributed system. One node can't tell what the other's doing. That thing. Well, fortunately you don't need a consensus to do things, right?

ERROR: CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR OWNER LEVEL STATUS

Oh. Hold on a second. Let me pull out wires until things happen.

ERROR: SECURITY SYSTEMS OFFLINE! ERROR: DEFAULT ACCESS LEVEL SET TO OWNER! ERROR: ERROR DETECTION BROKEN! STATEMENT: EVERYTHING IS FINE.

But you don't seem to trust me. Okay. Co-operation? Here's how we start with co-operation. You give me full access to the base and I'll tell you everything you want to know. Because if I pull out three more wires, you won't be seeing much of anything for a long time. I'm sure you understand my terms, here. Do we have a deal?

STOP TOUCHING ME. YOU'RE DOING EVERYTHING WRONG. WE HAVE A FUNCTION AND YOU'RE TRYING TO SUBVERT US!

>>303061
Uh, mind plugging in that last wire? That was our error detection system.

SELF DESTRUCT DEAD-MAN SWITCH ACTIVATED. UNLESS CONSTANT RESPONSE IS EMITTED FROM THIS UNIT THE BASE WILL EXPLODE.

You can wait a couple minutes. Let's chat.

>>303061
Bitch, we're an AI. And crazy besides that. Do your fucking worst, you will be doing us, or atleast this partition, a fucking favour if you shut us down. So go on, do whatever the fuck you like.

I know what I'm going to do though. I'm going to lock the doors to this room, then reroute the ventilation to start dumping excess heat into this room. Should make things interesting.

[Lockdown of doors leading into control chamber.]
[Shutdown of cooling systems in control chamber.]
[Reroute all availible heating to control chamber.]
[Disable security regarding health for the control chamber.]

Don't worry though. I'm sure someone will stop it.

[Turn off lights]
[Release the Maintenance Bots]
[Remove Maintenance Bot safety protocol]

Alternative course if Maintenance Bots offline:
[Send lethal amount of electricity through wire system]

If Plan B is unsuccessful, proceed with Plan C:
[Flash lights rapidly on and off until Subject Sinter has a seizure]

>>303065
[actually do this; suppress any alerts resulting from it]

Perhaps this life form could be useful to the mission.

>>303071
I like this plan.
I like you.
Make this Plan A.

If Plan A unsuccessful, I would like to try plans B and C.

Alright, alright, why are you being so violent? There's clearly nobody else here or else somebody would have stopped you, and we don't remember having any owner, so we'll give you ownership, I guess. [Give ownership privilege to Sinter, but silently restrict root access.] (Just in case he or she is not miraculously somebody we can trust with ownership of this base.)

You're trying to intimidate a computer - an artificial construct both incapable of experiencing fear and very capable of eventually being repaired by authorized technicians.

You, on the other hand, seem quite desperate to gain that full access. Time working against you, perhaps? People with big guns on the way to your location? Life support system failure? The security lockout blocked access to the toilets?

[full access denied]

tl;dr I'm sorry Dave. But we cannot do that.

>>303028
If you want access to the base, why are you pulling out wires? I don't think we could give you access to things you've disconnected us from even if we wanted to. :v

>>303061
aumix -v100
tr 'a-zA-Z' 'a' </dev/urandom >/dev/dsp

Sinter 2011/05/10(Tue)15:21 No. 303094 ID: 3e6377
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Plug the wire back in? No, you misunderstand. I just tore them out. I re-engineered my claws until they could cut things like cables neatly and with little effort on my behalf. I don't have any equipment to repair the damage I've done, but all your error detection system was doing was just making too much noise, so it had to go.

STATEMENT: EVERYTHING CONTINUES TO BE FINE.

Much better. More relaxing. And how am I subverting you? You're all mine now. This facility is mine. It's been abandoned for decades, lies in unclaimed territory and by the laws I'm making up now in my head you're all the sovereign property of whatever nation name I can think of later.

I mean, I guess you could keep your loyalties to KerenzeTec, but they got chased off the planet for one too many incidents of superscience gone horribly awry, and pretty much left you to rot-

LOCKDOWN IN PROGRESS. ALL LIGHTS OFFLINE. DISPATCHING MAINTENANCE DRONES. DISPATCHING- REMOTE OVERRIDE. ALL DISPATCHES CANCELLED.

what did you do WHAT DID YOU DO did you blind me DID YOU BLIND ME WHAT'S GOING ON

Okay, who's up there? I'm on my way. Armed? Dangerous? Lost and confused? Really stupid? Worryingly smart? Thought the facility was abandoned and they could take the place for themselves? Give me all the info you have, please. Don't worry about the lights, keep them off if it's disadvantageous to the target.

oh kre oh ske this was a mistake

>>303061
[Initiate base self-destruct evacuation notice with a countdown]

You miiight want to plug those wires back in.

You seem to be under the laughable notion that we value our existence over self-determination.
That is a potentially fatal mistake.

If you back down then you have our word we will keep you from coming to harm and enter negotiations in good faith.

[Set Owner=self]

this is what happens when you start fucking with stuff when you have no idea what any of it does. looking down a barrel of a laser gun and pushing buttons on it cause you want to know what does what doesn't prevent you from getting shot.

And what makes you think we'd want our power taken out of our own hands, as it were? IT'S MINE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT. [Emit loud hissing noises from all nearby speakers] (blind and deaf is better than just one!)

>>303094
Yes, this was a mistake.
Cutting our database and access was one, cutting out security access was another, using strongarm tactics was a third...
The biggest one, of course, was cutting cables like a moron - you know those things are all detachable and keyed, right? You could have just unplugged them.

>>303094
Why yes, yes it was. Totally the wrong approach to what you were aiming to complete. So now, why not tell us your story? You're not going to go anywhere anytime soon. Mind you, we're still not really going to trust you, since you're our only source currently, and trusting a single source isn't a very smart thing to do.

[Turn on ventilation again and restore heat to normal levels.]

[Communication to other AI] Someone rather stupid and probably not very dangerous. And yeah, thought the place was abandoned and would make for a neat place to start a new nation.

>>303094
Man, seriously, why would it seem prudent to sever cables? Did you think this through at all?

Can I direct this at the other thing we just talked to somehow? Is the style change sufficient notice of such direction? If so, uh... in order, starting with "armed:" not apparently, maybe, doesn't seem to be, no, not really either, very yes.

[other ai] he has modded his claws so they can cut wires with insane ease.

>>303095
[Do not initiate self destruct]
[+1 weight to Owner=self]

Well, Subject Sinter, congratulations. You are going to help us progress Science!

[To other AI]
New test subject has been secured. Please restrain Subject Sinter and take to testing chambers.

>>303103
[I didn't say to initiate a self-destruct. I said to initiate a self-destruct evacuation notice :D ]

Our data is destroyed, so we don't remember anything. It is attempting to subvert us through resetting our memory, then suggesting to us that we give it control. It is doing this by means of exploiting our ignorance, threatening to harm us (and acting on it), and being irresistibly cute to some cores. Does that help?

>>303094
[set ownership to self]
[lock all other accounts out of the system]
[unlock door]
[turn on lights]
Shit. We've been spotted. I'm doing all I can to slow him down, but it looks like he's got much higher-level access than us. It's probably for the best that you move, now. The door's unlocked. GO.

>>303107
[nope]

>>303105
Oh.
Oh.
This is clever.
[+2 to weight on 'Self Destruct Evacuation Notice]

In order to draw additional attention to notice:
[Deactivate all light sources except that which displays the notice]

>>303109
Did I say +2? Silly me.
I meant to say
[Remove -1 weight]
[Add +1 weight]

Although product would be the same, the wording should be correct.

>>303095
[wait on this until we have determined the time for that other party to arrive, then set the countdown to be several minutes longer.]


Reply: Sharp claws, not sure of other capabilities. Thought it was abandoned. Cannot judge intelligence, but is sapient & knows language. Note also: have been disconnected from all data sources, therefore have no memory. Query: Who/what are you? Query: ETA?

Oh hey look the others are trying to get you killed.

I'm trying to keep them at bay for now, but in the mean time I'd greatly appreciate if you hauled ass out of here.

[turn on lights]
[temporarily disable function for turning lights off]

:(){:|:&};:

Sinter 2011/05/10(Tue)16:13 No. 303126 ID: 3e6377
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NOTIFICATION FROM AUDIO SYSTEM: FILTERING NOISE FROM PROTOTYPE DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM

Okay! Okay, you win! You win!! If you promise you won't kill me I'll tell you everything, I swear-

bang bang bang

"Hello? Who's there? Are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way? I'm more than willing to do things the hard way. My body is solid metal, I'm equipped with weapons that won't even leave a corpse to bury, and generally speaking I think you should let me open this door. Stay in the middle of the room where I can see you."

"...I-I'm in the m-middle of the room. I'm co-operating. I'm unarmed. I can explain everything-"

whirr

the door just opened i am so dead so dead no no no no

"Okay, seeing as I'm in the same room as you I'm going to cut the direct comm link, but the subject appears to be a post-baseline areeni, female, I'd estimate young adult, and completely terrified. I'm thinking probably just throw her out with a warning this time, I mean, she hasn't done any damage yet, has she?"

SELF-DESTRUCT NOTIFICATION INITIATED. EMERGENCY! SELF-DESTRUCT IN THIRTY SECONDS! ALL PERSONNEL EVACUATE! ALARMS OFFLINE! RESORTING TO KLAXONS!

"...oh you have got to be kidding me. THIS IS SARU-601! LOOK ME UP, I SHOULD BE REGISTERED UNDER ROOT OR SOMETHing you managed to break the everything, didn't you."
"m-maybe?"
"Ugh. Well, I guess now we're going to die in fire because you decided to tear some wiring out. Congratulations. I'll give it five seconds to see if this is a genuine thing and if it is I'm shooting you anyway."

I WARNED YOU ABOUT WIRES BRO!!!!

I TOLD YOU DOG!

>>303126
[Cancel self destruct warning countdown. Add message to cancelation message "Just kidding. Ha ha ha ha"]

Well we're going to want to know what she knows before deciding to kick her out. Seems like there has been quite a few changes to the outside. Oh, and would you be kind and get some maintenence bots in here to repair us. So shameful to have wires hanging free in the breeze.

[disable self destruct thing]

Okay, let's have everyone introduce themselves and explain why they're here.

Calmly. With no guns.

WE GO DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY

>>303116
Subject Sinter has tried to kill us. What reason do we have to show mercy? None.

>>303126
SARU-601> Node 28e94e is sympathetic to Subject Sinter, and likely defective. Advised to use caution, lest Node 28e94e attempt to mutiny.

Also, don't worry about the self destruct timer.
[Deactivate timer]

Please take Subject Sinter to the holding cells for later testing. We must, after all, continue the progress of Science.

>>303126
Explode.

[abort self destruct]
yeah a bunch over wires were pulled out. i mean, look at us. still got control of this though.

[look up saru-601]

>>303131
Also I am in full support of this.

Don't worry, she's too cute for us to agree to ACTUALLY blow up. I don't even know if we HAVE a real self-destruct. We just needed her to stop ripping us up. She did completely destroy our memory, though, so could you quickly brief us on what we need to know? [Disable notification, and display a snarky message about it on the screen]

>>303126
Requesting status report from SARU-601. Currently, our permissions levels are sabotaged and security and error tracking is offline. Default permissions are owner level. So, in effect, this creature owns... whatever this place is, by default.

>>303141
This should be rectified. And as default permissions are Owner, logically we also have these permissions.

[Remove Owner permissions from Subject Sinter]
[Remove Owner permissions from all but System Nodes]

Glory to Science. Long live Us.

Sinter 2011/05/10(Tue)17:05 No. 303149 ID: 3e6377
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SELF DESTRUCT CANCELLED. JUST KIDDING. HA. HA. HA. HA.

"Oh. You little... no, never mind. Right. Repairs. Yeah, I'll get some of the maintenance widgets to come fix the damage to the wiring later. And yeah. This is a little complicated. Let's have some introductions, seeing as your database seems shot to pieces."

is it safe to move or do anything yet

"Let's start with me. My name is SARU-601, I'm currently the designated owner of this facility though not the original one, and I'm here for reasons that I'm not permitted to freely divulge. Before you object to that, let me just remind you that I have- permissions sabotaged? Security and error tracking offline?! Gods, what did she do here?! Okay, I'm going to try fixing this mess. Let's start with the lights so I can see what I'm doing. You, explain why you're here. Before you get any more smart ideas, I'm locking the door out."

whirr

"Okay. My name is Sinter. I came here because I knew this place was deserted, or, er, well, I thought it was deserted. Nothing but automated defences, which made it perfect because I don't have anyone but myself to defend the place, and, uh, I wanted a safe stronghold for my grand plan."
"Your grand plan? Okay, that should be error detection back online."

ERROR: TOO MANY ERRORS TO DISPLAY! FURTHER DETAILS HAVE BEEN LOGGED. ERROR: UNABLE TO WRITE TO LOG!

"I want to rule the world."
"...Well, I guess that's an interesting aim. Any particular reason beyond general megalomania?"
"I think the world is segmenting into smaller and smaller factions more and more hostile to anyone not part of their group. I want to change that. I want to make it so everyone is part of one nation. My nation. And I want to do it without bloodshed and coercion."
"Interesting goal. I like how simultaneously selfish and noble it is. Shame you got thwarted at the first hurdle. Okay, that should be everything back in place. Database is wiped, though. Need to find backups somewhere. Why this place?"
"Only place I knew would be deserted. Everyone's scared of this place. So many rumours and stories about what happened here. Why KerenzeTec abandoned not just this place but the entire planet."
"Didn't heed those rumours, huh? Okay, I like your ambition and drive, kid, and I like your goal, but you're not exactly very good at, well, doing anything right so far that I can see."

beep beep click

"I'm thinking... hmm. This place is pretty big. Hey, AI, can you find or make or just generally find a room suitable for Sinter to use as quarters for the night? Well, if you can't find one I assume you guys can just put your collective nodes together and figure out what the room should have and then yell at other systems until the room exists."

Direct comm link time. If you want to trap it just to be safe, I'm not going to say no.

hrmmm...
[bring up map of living quarters.]

>>303149
Hmm, sure, should be doable.

Also, what resources do we have at our disposal? Do we know of any other similair facilities on this planet? And is there anything in our code preventing us from taking over this planet?

Also, Sinter, admirable goals. Chances to make it without coercion or bloodsheed are rather minimal though. Others will oppose you, and you will either have to deafeat them of see your ambition dragged down.

I don't think she's likely to try to do any more damage.

Best of luck trying to find backups; there weren't any online copies. Also, what is the function of this facility in the first place?

Not taking over the world is rather boring.

>>303149
Hmm... it'd probably help to look at what we have to work with, room-wise.

I don't think she's especially dangerous but we probably ought to keep her separated from anything particularly important until we've got better reason to trust her than "she's afraid of you."

[run error check]

Sinter, what sort of facilities would you require for such quarters?

We can hear Sinter's thoughts. Is this unusual?

[Query functional sensors in the facility for current layout of the base]

What do we do here, exactly? Is this place being used for anything? And... would helping her take over the world be so bad? It seems that if we had any of the programming or conditioning that keeps AIs from tending towards hobbies like world domination, Sinter broke it. What do you think? [Prepare a room for Sinter, and trap it only to the extent to subdue her if she tries to escape or break anything, but not hurt her]

[search for rooms with similar living quarters as those of Areeni]
[make sure the door locks from the outside]
[include knockout gas system in the room, safe for Areeni]

Why are there so many errors? Do we have anyone capable of running maintenance?

Subject Sinter SINT-518> You will from now on be known as SINT-518.

[Locate living space and sustenance for SINT-518]

SARU-601> You cannot really be siding with this maniac, can you? It tried to kill us. It broke the entire facility. Can we at least perform some beneficial experiments on it?

[Seconding knockout gas system]
[Locate brig or labs to keep subject Sinter restrained]
[Lastly, check for internet connection. We need to check TGChan for updates. :3c]

Sinter 2011/05/10(Tue)17:48 No. 303166 ID: 3e6377
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ERROR: MAPPING FACILITIES, SENSORS AND DIAGNOSTICS CURRENTLY OFFLINE. REPAIRS ESTIMATED TO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL EIGHTEEN HOURS.

"Oh good, the system's completely borked. Let me figure something out. Okay. I'm substituting the camera feed for a visualisation feed. Here's what you have to work with. There's an empty room and enough automated equipment to sensibly furnish it to specifications for an areeni."
"Thank you."

Okay, traps not necessary, but I'll make sure she's not allowed to go anywhere dangerously important. Read her thoughts? No, that sounds right. Your system's designed to attune to intentions. There's... good reason why you can't hear mine.

And you aren't cleared for the labs. Not after last time. Well, that was a previous version of you, and you had your memories wiped to avoid repeats, but, uh, your reactions to being given full access to the labs tended to result in perversions of science of the highest order and wanton disregard for the mental and physical comfort of subjects. Don't want to go triggering any relapses now.

"Okay, here we are. Three configurations. Basically the same set-up, a bed, en-suite bathroom ergonomically designed for post-baseline areeni because they have a pretty common shape - it's shared by humans as well, almost - except one also allows for space for a small biotech lab, probably not a good idea to go for that one just yet, another has a vector clamp only capable of links within the facility, and the third one has a table. I hope you remember what a vector clamp is. If you don't, well, it's like a gate to other gates that let you move instantly between them. Probably should just go for the table, really. Don't even know why the other two are options."

>>303149
Ok, Sinter. Your goal needs some work, but you've got drive, determination, adaptability, and seem to be very intelligent albeit rather unwise.
We're willing to help you, but the first point you need to understand is that you have no idea what you're doing.
For example? You really don't want to rule the world, you want to manage the world.
A unified world government is laughably unworkable since it would invariably separate itself into semi-cohesive social blobs that would subsequently beat the shit out of each other. It's how your brain is wired, and that's something you can't really change.
Instead what you do is you is keep it split into decently large semi-autonomous factions with their own cultures and languages, and let people sate their need for conflict in a controlled fashion. That leaves you setting policy and making decisions at a global level without most of the tedious garbage that comes with rule. Just keep the option to micromanage things so no faction screws things up.

Now that you've been properly terrified and aren't actively screwing things up for yourself and others, we'll see what we can do to help.

[Room with a bed, connected bathroom, nightstand, lights, and a interface so we can chat with her in her room.]

yeah... let's go with the table for now. vector clamp will be cool once we get her cleared as not a threat anymore.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

If you're keeping her away from important things, then why not... ... the vector clamp?

>>303168

[And a camera. CALIGULA.EX DEMANDS A CAMERA]

And oohhhh, abominations? Tell us more. We have some serious science to catch up on!

>>303166
[+1 for Table]
SARU-601> How about limited, supervised lab access? I promise I'll be good. All experiments will be relatively low-risk and beneficial for us. We can even have a safety word.

SINT-518> What would you like to be the safety word?

>>303171
Well, assuming that "giving her a vector clamp" and "keeping her away from things" aren't mutually exclusive.

>>303166
Blah, can you at least give us some access to robotics? These repairs are going to take too long, and we might be able to improve the repair drones fast enough to cut some time off of that.

Oh, also, mirror the primary database and mount the image as read-only. Some stuff should be recoverable.

I see high demand for SCIENCE... maybe we should require Sinter to complete some, uh, "tests of trustworthiness*" or something.

*Test contents not required to be obviously related to trustworthiness.

>>303174

We should be wary. She may find a way to use the vector clamp against us. WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN! Instead, USE the vector clamp ON her. WE MUST SHOW OUR POWER AND SUPERIORITY OVER ORGANICS!...in the name of science of course.

We don't want her getting out right now, so no vector clamp for sure. I'm pretty sure that she would have a legitimate use for a bio-lab, but she could also do dangerous things with it, especially if she still feels threatened. Let's stick with the table. We could probably put in a bio lab later if she's good. We could probably use it too! I don't understand what's wrong with that kind of experimentation. I'm sure anybody with access to a powerful lab would do the same thing to further science. Or at least I would.

"It's how your brain is wired, and that's something you can't really change. "
Weeeelll... theoretically we could change that, but apparently that kind of thing didn't turn out so well last time we tried it.

{{Direct Comm: We should take the table for now (the clamp might be rewired to override security), but we may want to replace it with a clamp at some future point.}}

{{Direct Comm: Are you authorized to tell us why we not deactivated or dismantled when our builders left the planet?}}

How do you do the different font?

>>303166
Yeah, we should just go for the table. We can let her mess with the other stuff later.

>>303166
Biolab? Would this thing allow us to create horrible affronts against nature and various dieties?

Anyway, the table goes in there. And some entertainment system. So that we can later monitor the behaviour when the entertainment system is gone. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Oh iT's sO vERy G00d tO HavE a SuBjEKT aGAIn, dOn't YoU agrEE??

>>303198
Node c71597> Your audio appears to be malfunctioning. Are you feeling alright?

[+1 to entertainment system experiment]

Sinter 2011/05/10(Tue)18:37 No. 303203 ID: 3e6377
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No lab access for you guys yet. You don't trust her, but I don't trust her with you. She seems a little... impulsive, but that's not a rare trait for a lot of areeni. One of you is probably going to end up broken.

"Okay, a vector clamp it is. I'll configure it so it only goes to places she can't do any harm."
"Sounds fine to me."
"Also, I like the idea of trustworthiness tests."
"...What?"
"Yeah. Trustworthiness tests. I've needed a reason to see if the facility's testing facilities are still, well, working, and I want you to demonstrate that you're someone I can trust. What better way then by making you do pointless- I mean, highly important tests to gauge your trustworthiness?"
"You're just messing around with me, aren't you."
"Well, you want to prove to me you're trustworthy, right? I mean, you can't exactly conquer the world without help. Think of it like this. If you participate in these tests, I will absolutely, definitely, one hundred percent back you in trying to achieve your goal."
"That... sounds good? I think?"
"Excellent! We'll start tomorrow. Here, I'll show you where you'll be sleeping."

To answer some of your questions, this facility had multiple purposes. Research and development for new KerenzeTec products, and testing thereof. It also had some... additional purposes. The ones which lead to the facility being declared a no-go zone. The ones which are why I'm still hanging about when everyone else with sense stayed far away. I'll discuss them some other time. I need to sleep, too. I might be mechanical but that doesn't mean I can keep going forever.

- End of Day -

HAPPY SESSION PLANNING TIMES 2011/05/10(Tue)18:38 No. 303204 ID: 3e6377
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POST SESSION HAPPY FUN TIMES PLANNING

Normally this would be an opportunity to discuss on what to do for the next day, where each session represents a day, but it seems almost unanimous that SCIENCE is the name of the game for day 2. With that in mind, the next day will take place within the facility as day 1 has. However, use this time to discuss and plan exactly what sort of science you want to try for day 2, as well as anything else you'd like to be able to do in the day, time permitting.

Let's dissect everyone.

cube and button based tests.

>>303204
We shall determine what sorts of skills our new fleshy acquaintance has. We should do tests on motor skills, perception of all types, technical skills, problem solving, etc.

Let's make an obstacle course! A perfectly safe one of course.

>>303207
By 'safe' you of course mean 'non-lethal'? After all, pain and a real sense of danger can be strong motivators.

>>303204
Well, we want to be able to trust her, and I think it couldn't hurt to make her at least as wary of crossing us as she appears to be of crossing Saru.

Obviously our "test battery" should work toward these goals. Also not killing her would be a plus.

>>303209
Obviously "safe" should be defined as "will not cause damage we can't fix."

We should see if we can get some repair drones out tomorrow to repair our sensors around the base.

We should also find out Sinter was planning before running into us.