duck tales, oo-ooh!

[frigidaire]

Who: Crew & Visitors of the Wonderduck
Action: The Wonderduck
When: a mingle for the month of January!

[ come one, come all, crew members and visitors alike. come play terrible rec-room games or eat awful, overly processed food! or just mingle! ]

Comments

[feathery]

I don't really, either, but it's just one of those world mechanics.

[He's well aware his life doesn't make sense and he shrugs, because it's easier to be irreverent about it.]

Suffice to say, I used to be a floating orange ghostbird with more useless digital wisdom than an unmoderated message board.

[thezerothlaw]

[He stares for a long moment.]

... That seems improbable.

[feathery]

[Davesprite stares back.]

But not impossible. [Right. Right??????]

[thezerothlaw]

Evidently not.

[He'd say it was impossible. Apparently he's the only one.]

[feathery]

[You're a bro, Daneel.]

Thank you. But ok, so you're a robot, right. There's got to be some impossibility factor to that from my perspective. Probably. Maybe. Ok, maybe not, but I'm trying to be generous and limit my pandimensional expectations.

[thezerothlaw]

Indeed. What you describe would be impossible from my perspective, and perhaps I am impossible from yours. The multiverse is more complicated than I once thought.

[feathery]

I guess. I know there were some robots and AIs running loose in the shitheap that spawned me and my friends, but I dunno where they stand in the grand scheme of Terminator tech.

[thezerothlaw]

Pardon me. Terminator tech? I'm not familiar with the phrase.

[feathery]

You know, like the movies. Or do they not make it that far into the future with their cultural relevance. Can't say I'm really surprised if they don't.

[He tilts his head as he looks at Daneel, before rubbing at his nose in an attempt not to sneeze again.]

Or maybe you're just from an alt reality, wholesale. I dunno.

[thezerothlaw]

Either of these is possible. Is this a fictional account of robots? I have heard of a few old folktales about the early days of robotics.

[feathery]

Yeah. Maybe less fictional if there's a company called Skynet around. What's the state of robotics where you're from, anyway.

[thezerothlaw]

On Aurora, the world of my creators, robots are ubiquitous. Most households own anywhere from five to a dozen robots. Most do not resemble myself, of course. Other worlds choose not to have robots at all.

[feathery]

[That gets a look of mild curiosity from Davesprite.]

Oh, so the space travel deal is standard for you. [A beat, before he adds:] Assuming those are planets and not dimensions, anyway.

[thezerothlaw]

They are planets, yes. I had been to a number of planets, before my time in the Fleet. Still, it is... rather different. This sort of travel is... rather aimless and slow, for one.

[feathery]

Christ, yeah. Isn't the future supposed to be filled with faster-than-light travel and hyperdrives and shit.

[thezerothlaw]

Hyperspace jumps are the usual mode of travel where I am from. A long trip may take several jumps, with perhaps a few days in between, but the jump itself is instantaneous. It is... not like the Fleet at all.

[feathery]

Ugh.

[He rubs at his face with his hands.]

No kidding. I mean with the Fleet, does anyone actually know where we're going. Have we even got a destination in mind or is it all spur of the moment, fickle whims from the Marsiva.