01 | Text | UN: Eden

[rogue_sec_unit]

[ It's actually unusual for a bot to communicate this way, but since text on a screen allowed it to have a comfortable distance from whoever it was communicating with, that was the default that it was using. ]

Since I've learned there is a whole bunch of humans that are already here, I have to figure that a lot of them already have their own ways of protecting themselves, since there is no possible way I'd be able to deal with that many clients all by myself. If you don't, though, and the humans all decide to do something that is borderline suicidal, then more power to you as long as I don't have to clean up after it.

I did see that it was common for a job to be done in exchange for a hard currency card. There are way too many of you for me to be able to call all of you my clients, but I'd be willing to rent myself out as a security specialist for smaller groups again? Although, as a security specialist, I'll tell you right now that most of you humans are way too fragile to be doing repairs to buildings that are not structurally sound.

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text | un: leonhart

[lyingheart]

Is that taking into account the magical powers or is that just looking at the straight honesty that humans are both surprisingly sturdy in ways and also incredibly breakable?

Not disagreeing, just curious what was factored in or not. Has anyone told you about Safety Pins?

[rogue_sec_unit]

I am still not used to factoring in the seasonal abilities, but as a general rule, humans are pretty fragile. I think the sturdy part comes in for psychological reasons.

[lyingheart]

They are, which is why one of my friends keeps telling people to pick up a Safety Pin. Creates a barrier that lasts for hours around a person.

Not wrong about being mentally stronger or more adaptable, within reason.

[rogue_sec_unit]

Then you must be damaged often if you are in need of that sort of personal barrier.

Creativity and flexibility are generally what I observe in humans.

[lyingheart]

Not usually, but it's a good tool for the people who do tend to get injured often. Also for unexpected incidents on quests and expeditions, or whatever you want to call them.

I can recommend you to Jean Kirstein and Reiner Braun to see if they'll want to commission you for your services in the future. They're running a company that works parallel to what the Season Guilds do here, focused on keeping people safer when they're venturing into the Segments. Is that useful?

[rogue_sec_unit]

[ Since it is already part of the Winter guild, it had taken a moment for it to mentally access any data on what the Segments were. Since it doesn't know Annie, it is being careful to be polite, too. ]

Since it is part of my function to keep groups of humans safe while they are on a planetary survey, that would be ideal. Part of my function is also to act as a bodyguard for a single person while my client is on a station or ship. Are Jean Kirstein and Reiner Braun humans? Because it is less than ideal for humans to be doing security, they are just too fragile.

[lyingheart]

( SecUnit is being so much kinder than it needs to be. )

I'm so sorry for how this place is going to make you feel. Humans are terrible at security, and also not being reckless, which can amount to about the same thing.

Jean Kirstein is standard human. Reiner Braun is not, and his nature means he's very difficult to render incapable of surviving. Most those involved with their Guild-adjacent group are standard for their species, and I think that's by majority human.

un: abnormalitylover, text

[abnormalizes]

You're not wrong, but having magic and appropriate gear DOES help a lot. Also, while there are a number of nonhumans around, a lot of them aren't that much tougher than humans are, and leaving all the dangerous stuff to the few that are would be impractical.

[rogue_sec_unit]

You make a good point about it being impractical to rely on a handful of other people when the population at large is expected to do something. That something would be a good reason to contract with someone who is more durable, though.

[abnormalizes]

Do you normally see humans getting injured a lot at home?

[rogue_sec_unit]

My job was to make sure that the humans didn't get hurt.

[ It's job and the whole reason that it even exists. SecUnits were supposed to be used as a useful, but ultimately disposable, interactive part of the security system that would be rented out to the various survey teams that explored planets. ]

[abnormalizes]

I see. You have the option of doing a different job here if you want, but if you’d prefer that one, taking on smaller groups or individuals is definitely the way to go.

Humans are going to get hurt sometimes. We’ve had a few deaths, although they’re temporary here. (It still sucks, I recommend avoiding it.)

[rogue_sec_unit]

Since I was built in order to keep groups of humans safe, I am going to stick with that job. And it is a lot harder for me to get killed, but thanks for the warning, I guess?

Although you are going to have to explain a bit further about death being temporary.

[abnormalizes]

If you die here, your body disappears after half an hour and then you reappear alive in one of the flower yards in the segments after three days. It happened to me, it was weird as hell.

[rogue_sec_unit]

Like your whole body or just the organic parts? Asking because this might turn into a horror movie if it's just 1 part of me.

[abnormalizes]

Whole body. No weird half-corpses that I've seen, thankfully.

[rogue_sec_unit]

So are the flowers in the flower yard the same as that weird charm that's on this solid-state screen device?

[ It means the phone, and the flower charm that it has is a dandelion. Yes, it's flower is a weed. ]

[abnormalizes]

Yep! If you die, a giant version of the flower you have a charm of will grow, and you'll pop out of it a couple days later good as new.

[Hers is coriander, which isn't exactly known for its flowers...]

[rogue_sec_unit]

So, do you keep gaining more and more damage until you finally die before you are able to be fully restored? Because that could take a really long time in my case.

[ Not to mention, it sounded really unpleasant the more ragged that it got. ]

[abnormalizes]

I mean, in your case, it would either be a relatively quick process or you would have time to see someone for repairs? There's people here with robotics experience.

text UN: Sourpuss

[luckynumber13]

Soooo do you not like humans or are you just sick of cleaning up after them?

[rogue_sec_unit]

I'm sick of humans doing stupid shit that I end up having to clean up after. Not sick of all humans.

[luckynumber13]

Yeah that's a feeling I can get behind.

This is a bit of a long shot but you're not a morph are you?

They're a species from my world who work for humans.

[rogue_sec_unit]

No, I'm a SecUnit, a bot and human construct. I've never worked for anyone but humans and augmented humans, though.

[luckynumber13]

Oh. I don't think I've met a bot before. I'm a cat morph, I guess a good way to explain that for you is I'm from a breed of cats that's been augmented to me more like humans and to help them out with tasks.

My name is Dick. Or Fords if you prefer.

If I hear about anyone needing security I'll let them know about you.

[He's about to ask the bot's name when he realised that maybe the reason they hadn't introduced themselves by name was because they thought they already had.]

Is your name Eden like your username?

[rogue_sec_unit]

[ Well, the answer to that question is no, but it's name was private, so it didn't tell anyone that it didn't know well what that was. So what it says is less of a name or more of an identifier. ]

I'm a SecUnit, but my name is not Eden. You can just call me SecUnit.

[ It was going to stick with "Fords" right now, and reserve the right to call this person "Dick" later if they did turn out to be a dick. ]