innercactus: (07 Hiding Is An Option)
Asteffiel ([personal profile] innercactus) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-06-08 09:00 pm

03 - though shadows fall

Who: Asteffiel
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Tourist
When: June 9th

Guess who hadn't noticed the planet had a hold on him? The plantman!

Guess who just figured out that his fascination with it wasn't just because they finally got to another planet.

Asteffiel's use of video is probably not good for anyone's stomach. He's shaking (like a leaf, hahahaha-), and appears to be hiding under a table, given that it's not night time, and he's glowing. It just has the side effect of making his eyes appear particularly bright off-white, which doesn't help his nervous rambling at the video. Which he managed to turn on after he started talking...

"-t just me, or was it others? I don't want it to be just me, I don't I don't! If something could talk to me, does that mean that other things could talk to me? I was fine against Mor... Mord... More Dead Moths, but is it because I am not home? Am I too far from Mother? Mother I am sorry I made bad friends, I don't want More Dead Moths to get me like Lilac!" Is more or less the gist of his rambling into the device. There are repeats, but it's pretty clear that he's rather terrified of something being able to mess with his head.

So he's hiding in one of the medical bay cabinets.
thezerothlaw: (neutral)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-06-21 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
What of a central nervous system? Plants, to my knowledge, do not include such structures, and yet you are clearly sapient. That intelligence might arise in such circumstances is a surprise to me, but then I confess I know little of botany.

[He draws back suddenly, aware that he is dealing with an unknown. While he's learned something of how humans behave and react, he doesn't know how Sylvari might react.]

I apologise. I don't wish to offend, and perhaps you find my interest unpleasant. To be quite honest, I am not human either, nor am I made of flesh, despite how I might appear. I am a robot.
thezerothlaw: (calm)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-06-21 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
I have no desire to cause you any sort of distress or harm, Asteffiel. Still, a mind without a brain is quite an extraordinary thing.

[Which is quite true. Perhaps Sylvari aren't covered by a robot must not harm a human but there's no reason to want to hurt him, either.]

I am not familiar with the term "golem," nor "asura," but I am made of a combination of metals and plastic, designed in such a way to very closely mimic a human being. It was humans who made me, in fact.
thezerothlaw: (thinking)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-06-21 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
A form of teleportation, then, or a sort of small-scale hyperspace jump. How fascinating.

[This is all... slightly off-topic. He came here to help?]

I would be be interested in what you can tell me of this Mother, and of the Sylvari in general. Perhaps it may help me understand how to help you.
thezerothlaw: (concerned)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-06-23 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all. That is wonderfully informative.

[It's a fantastic story -- a sentient tree, and her human-shaped plant 'children.' Daneel can hardly be accused of being overly imaginative, but he's certainly trying.]

There are only humans and the robots they have made, where I am from. It is very different.
thezerothlaw: (listening)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-06-23 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Does it seem this way to you?

[Interesting. He can... see why.]

I have been to several planets, and there have been great differences between the human societies on different worlds. Earth builds partly underground in domed Cities, in densely populated metropolises. On Solaria, however, there were no cities at all, as everyone was spread out as far as possible from each other over the entire world. Still, they are all human. I am forced to imagine that a Sylvari city would be very different from either of these two societies.
thezerothlaw: (listening)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-06-24 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I would be interested to hear anything you care to share.

[He's very earnest. Daneel is good at earnest.]

Also, I am willing to answer any questions you may have for me.
thezerothlaw: (interested)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-07-16 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Your city is grown, rather than built, then?

[It's a fascinating idea: an entire city, organic and growing. He'd rather like to see it for himself.]

Are outsiders ever permitted to speak to your Mother?
thezerothlaw: (i'm on the phone)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-07-18 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak to such an entity as your Mother, though of course, that is impossible in any event so long as we are here.
thezerothlaw: (curious)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-07-21 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
You have given me much to think on, Asteffiel, and I thank you. Still, I did come here to help you, and I fear I have not been helpful.
thezerothlaw: (alert)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-07-25 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps I should try a different tact. Are telepathic skills known in your world? Are they common in your species, to any degree? I believe the potential is present in human minds as well as robotic. Your mind is... different, but it is still a mind. If you wish to learn to resist a push, I would hesitate to try something for fear of harming you, as minds are very delicate, but I could.
thezerothlaw: (concerned)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-07-25 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! So there is some level of connection between you and others of your species. How fascinating.

[Then... perhaps he can work with this.]

Perhaps if you imagine what it is to feel along these lines, and then try to not do it, I can tell if you become harder to read?
thezerothlaw: (chinscratch)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-07-26 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Daneel listens, head tilted to one side.]

It is a subtle difference, but you do seem harder for me to read clearly. With practice, the technique could very well be improved.
thezerothlaw: (listening)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2015-07-27 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
I believe so.

[Yeah, he knows this isn't very helpful.]

I am sorry. I fear I'm not as useful as I hoped to be.

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