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You are on a spaceship.

Most of your time will be spent on the bridge, which is exactly as fancy as you’d expect it to be — it looks a little like this. (The chairs are super comfortable!) Your brand new artificial intelligence — which, if you investigate, you’ll find is housed in a small computer chip — has been implanted into the computer terminal on the back wall. The diagnostics readout displayed along the bottom of the screen tells you that the AI has only been outfitted with the most basic of Stability Cores, and is currently Critically Unstable.

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[mentally crossing allowing anyone to donate themselves off the list, it ain't happening]

Still, we'll want to try and make sure it doesn't get one, right? But with the money we've got...

I wonder what kinds of jobs you can get in space.

[ ... sol... ]

Unless we can pass around viruses, I don't think that's going to be an issue. [ a pause. ] Well, pilots? Engineers? Scientists? Military is a big one. Probably bartending. There's lots of shit in space.

[he has Issues okay, plus he died yesterday]

I'm just sort of thinking, if we got a job somewhere and got more credits that way, that'd let us get more, better cores, right?

Yeah, but do we have time for that? And... it'd depend on the job. Can you think of a good one? [ Hmmmmmm. ] I want to try and talk to the program. Maybe it'll tell us what kind of shit it wants.

We get two actions per round, right? So we could spend one of those doing some kind of job for money, or something.

Talking to the AI sounds like a good idea, though.

Dunno if it'd count as an action, though. [ hhhhhhhhhhff. ] A job sounds good.

Can't hurt to have more of an idea how to help out, right?

Right. [ deep breath. ] Okay, I'll be back in a second.

[ And now he's lurching out the chair, rubbing his back because ow, he is out of fucking shape, and leans against the wall next to the CRITICAL!!!!! ]

Hey, you. Do you want a cat? Specific Core? Some TV? Porn?

[ The AI mumbles something ]

[ it sounds like it's speaking backwards, upside down, and inside out. Gosh! Poor thing isn't in good shape.

[ w h a t ]

Alright, TV it is.

Mostly tech stuff, but we could go around being super awesome merc types. More fighty.

Or diplomats! Negotiators?

Oooh, mercenaries could be fun. We could go around being heroes and fighting bad guys!

[ MENTALLY FACEPALMING SO HARD BUT. HE WON'T DO IT. ]

[WHAT DO YOU WANT. AT LEAST HE'S NOT SAYING "LET'S FIND A GASOLINE PLANET AND SET IT ON FIRE".]

[ that is a mercenary job!!! ]

Yep! Though might want to do more oft he diplomacy thing first? Fighting should be last resort.

All around mercs?

Sounds good! We can help people without fighting, too.

Right! So look for anywhere that needs some peace talks.

And...you know, I DO work well with AIs...

Between you and Eps, you guys can probably help the AI out pretty well.

...Think it'd work to just fly around looking for a place, or should we get a newspaper, see what's going on?

A newspaper might work. Oooooor I could put out a program to like hunt the internet for info like that. See how much freedom we have in choices.

[this is where you are amazing ~~and he's just some kid who can set crap on fire~~]

If you can do that, even better!

Of course I can!

Program like that would be easy.

...so, would you freak if I donated myself and most likely get an AI in my head?

[aaaaand there goes everything screeching to a halt in his head.]

.........why would you want to do that...?

Because it would help the AI be more than a war machine.

[...on the one hand that's. actually an okay reason in theory.

on the other hand ISSUES.]

...........

...well I mean, it's not a question of whether I'll freak out or not, it's gonna happen, it's already happening because you're thinking about this.

But if you... if you think you can handle it without...

[vague hand gestures that he sort of means to indicate 'getting possessed/taken over/etc' because hell if he can actually articulate these things]

...and if it's to help the AI, then...

[insert mental keysmashing here, why are you asking this of him]

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