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Good evening, Voidtreckers. I'd like to announce a council meeting in three days. It's overdue and I believe we have a number of items to discuss.

Please council members take some time over the next few days to come up with and notify me of topics we need to discuss so I can prepare an agenda. If anyone who is not a council member feels strongly about a certain topic we should consider, either tell me or seek out a council member so they may relay the information.

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Do you want me to bring Lele or Roro to record and then print out the discussion so we have a record?

Though Lele'd probably be better for that.

Who the hell is Lele and Roro?

Lele's one of my pokemon and Roro is my phone.

[A beat, then.]

Lele's a porygon2; an artificial pokemon I had custom made back home. Because it was designed to help run the Battle Tree's security systems, it can record and compile speech into a text doc to be printed out from Roro.

Ah.

[Sounded interesting. He might need to meet that particular pokemon.]

Sure, fine with me.

If you want, you can meet it now?

Well, both of them.

Where are you? I'll.. wait, I understand meeting your pokemon, but I'm meeting your phone too?

Garden car. Trust me, you'll want to meet Roro too.

... You'll probably want one for yourself after.

[She's grinning because this is possibly tech she might let you poke at Tony. Or maybe try and get you one.]

I'm intrigued. See you in a few.

[He shows up shortly after and gives her a friendly smile.]

Glad to see you're well after the last mission.

I'd like to discuss the breakdown of teams into smaller units on missions.

Like more teams or like smaller units within those teams?

Thanks, you too. Can't say I liked being underwater without Helmutt or Tanknator, but...

[A shrug. It was what it was.]

I'll do Roro first. Roro...

[A click of her fingers has something zip up and out from her pocket to hover at shoulder height with a sharp, electronic 'bzztt! Miztrez?'] It's a Rotomi v3.2. You can tell by the eyes.

[The phone spins around and the eye-like logo 'blinks'.] Mum got it for me as a present when I became the Kantō Champion.

Edited 2020-05-26 04:53 (UTC)

Oh! Um, I actually have a list.

Smaller more cohesive units. I have my team leaders and I would like to divide the team into four sections within that.

[That way he doesn't have to worry about his team going who knows where since they don't have established communications. But speaking of..]

And I suppose we haven't been able to retain the radio communication we achieved mysteriously while on the ground?

Are those your toaster and electric shaver?

[He chuckled, good-naturedly.

However, his attention shifted quickly to the new and odd.. phone?

He stared at it for a long moment, unable to quite settle on words.]

Is.. is this an AI too?

We won't know until our next mission unless the train decides to clue us in on that. They don't appear to be working now.

I'll mark the dividing up the team as a topic, though if you decide if is better as a team decision that's completely up to you.

People have approached you about topics already? Good. We can use that.

It has a very basic one that's chained and shackled. We've had a good 70 years to figure out unchained AI are just. Gods no. That's just... no.

[It's a visceral no, a gut-wrenching one that suggests Arkean's have learned the hard way what a Bad Idea unchained and unshackled AIs are.] The rotom that part-power them are speciality-bred for the machinery, and the AI doesn't make them sapient. It can seem like it but it's not. Anyway, if it goes farther than a metre from me...

[Another click and this time, Roro's eyes go 'X!!!' before it moves away from Eva. It gets just over a metre away from the young woman before it clatters to the ground, little more than a phone with basically a dead battery and no sign of any pokemon in it.]

Edited (um tag what....) 2020-05-26 05:39 (UTC)

[He's quiet on the radios. Those would so help improve coordination and less worrying about teams. But he's not going to harp on it, it's out of their hands.]

Alright, that's all I have for the moment.

[He gave Ignis a smile. His side at least was still video]

Good idea, Tiger. Thanks.

Not people, I but I made a list based off of observation.

What? Y-.. what do you mean his AI is chained and shackled?

[He watches as the flying phone zips off and then.. drops like a brick. He went over and picked it up. Looking at it curiously, he walked back toward her.]

My world has had a run in with AI too, but I believe they're still part of our world's future in a very positive way.

I'm in my office if you want us to go over it.

Oh, sure.

Give us a mo'

but going to pop into the kitchen for a cup of tea. Should I grab you a drink?

Edited 2020-05-26 06:19 (UTC)

[As soon as Tony's within range, the Rotomi 'Bzzts!' to life again, though doesn't make a move to leave his hand, or Eva's, when she takes it back.

It simply lays there.]

Oh, they're wonderful things and we use them alongside human labour. 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. What you saw is just one of many safety features built-in. I've got a number of voice commands and ways to shut it down whenever I want. But... now and again, we do get unchained ones and its...

[Eva inhales, eyes hollow and knuckles white as her hands fist around Roro, the phone still eerily silent and still.] It's horrific.

[Nita's taking this seriously, if her expression is any indication.]

I'll be there, no problem.

As for topic suggestions, we really should keep a log of who's been talking to the train, and what they've gotten out of it. Whether it's psychometry like Will Stanton did, or just getting anomalous reactions from the train's text functions-

[Like the shop, or the suggestions post]

It'd be good to know who's done what, how long they've been doing it, whether they could have been flukes and so on.

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