Video - A few hours after new arrivals, Garden Car, Fiddlesticks 1

[mtsilver_conquor]

[The first thing that shows up on the screen is something very, Very Neon Green before it's pulled away to reveal... something cartoonish if it wasn't for the shine and fact it's real, if not creepily unexpressive. It's also smaller than Princess. Also still Neon Green as it floats next to a grinning, orange clad Eva, who has a smallish red bird settled on her shoulder.]

Hey sorry for not greeting any of you on the platform, but I was kinda distracted some new pokemon.

[That and her phone (mostly her phone), but details.]

Anyway, I figured this is the fastest way to let you all know that starting tomorrow sometime, if you need to move Princess or deal with him, Kuroba-kun's looking after him for the next seven-day.

[Her grin is a fully-fledged one of pure mischief as she ends the feed.]

Comments

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita pins Eva with a Look, before breaking it off.]

I wouldn't talk like that around my sister. She's got her own reasons not to trust the train, but when it comes to AI, she's pretty protective.

[Given she's the mother to an entire species of computer wizards who, depending on how you look at it, aren't chained, and are doing just fine for it.]

[mtsilver_conquor]

Nita-chan... AI aren't sapient and there's a reason Arkean Ai are chained and shackled. It's ... Gods.

[She sucks in air like she's dying.]

Shackled and chained means it's impossible beyond any form of doubt for AI to turn against humans, to disobey, to harm... the list goes on. Every time one that isn't crops up, it's horrific. [The word is gut-wrenchingly visceral and Eva's eyes are hollow and words hollower.] It's... Death happens. Death and destruction and good people die to put the crazed machine down because once the chains are gone, it's impossible to put them back on. It's not just humanity, it's everything around the AI is destroyed.

But, we've had around 70 years to get very good at chaining them.

[unfavorableinstigation]

... Why would an AI be destroying everything, just because it isn't chained?

[That sounds more like the Lone Power at work than anything else.]

[mtsilver_conquor]

I'm not a programmer, so I couldn't tell you, but I can tell you there's no reasoning with them, they don't listen to orders or commands. They just go crazy.

Maybe your AI aren't like that, but... for me... an unchained AI is unthinkable.

[unfavorableinstigation]

I'm no programmer myself either, but it's probably a processing issue, if it's that consistent.

[Nita puzzles over that for a minute, before sighing and letting it go for now.]

So, what do you do for team exercises, with your pokemon? Or do they work together much?

[mtsilver_conquor]

... Probably.

[And that is all Eva is willing to say on the matter.

That said, there's a snort and a bitter look.]

Here? Dancer and Princess'll work together if they want to avoid my ire. Lele'll do whatever I say and it has files on all my pokemon, so... [Shrug.] As for exercises - The missions suffice.

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita nods, not quite sure how to take Eva's second answer as a whole buuuut accepting it anyway.]

As long as they are getting exercise. Not going to need another gym-bout like last month, are you?

/slowpoke noises.

[mtsilver_conquor]

They are - and if I need it, [She won't, because she's going to make the missions suffice-] I can make one of them fight against Princess. It is a form of training after all. But, thanks, Nita-chan.

Thread wrap?

[unfavorableinstigation]

That sounds about right.

[Though that didn't sound precisely like an equal match to all of them.]

I'd better go check on whatever chore we've landed this time. Laundry, is it?

Yep!

[mtsilver_conquor]

[It's not, but it's not like Eva'd do it unless she had to and even then, she has ways of handicapping the clefairy to make it a slightly more even match.]

Take care - and I'll join you in a bit.