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RATATOSKR

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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...Are you really sure about this?

[you know he has to ask]

[She nods.] I am.

I want to help the AI. And...I think it'll be good for Iota.

[ A small pause. ]

It'll be fine. Just prepare to be sick.

Will do.

[ Awkward pat on the back. ]

I don't even want to know what the hell putting a program in my head would do. Probably nothing.

Probs for the best to not tempt it.

[Considering what happened when YOU were put into someone.]

Whatchu think of getting a med core?

[ THAT WAS ONE TIME AND AFTER THAT IT WAS FIIIIINE. ]

Sure. More power usually means better AI.

[LISTEN, SHE HASN'T SEEN YOUR CAROLINA MEMORIES SO]

Got it.

...Then okay.

[he's gripping that bandage you tossed him though]

...Should we look for another job, in case it's more than three rounds?

....couldn't hurt.

I mean, it's either that or get a medium core, but...

[since going to the black market worked so well]

....

Well, if it IS the last round, a medium core would bolster our AI....

If it's not, we'd be pretty much out of money, though...

Then it'll probs be five rounds and we can look for work.

True...

So, my totes good decision and core?

[this is not a good decision at all and you know it]

...Sure. If that's what you wanna do... then sure.

[She knows.]

Yeah. I do.

Thanks for trusting me.

Gotta trust your team, right?

[and you're also one of the people he trusts the most here, but]

[Nods.] That's right. And I'm grateful for it. Really.

[She knows she's asking something pretty seflishly of him.]

[He's trying not to freak out. He's trying not to be a problem here. Really he is.]

As long as you try to be careful...

I will. You know me. You'll know if I'm acting really weird.

[he'll just nod

he's still not okay with this but he does trust you]

[it's all good.]

[I mean, I'll probably lick a wall, but]

[...okay, licking a wall is... harmless, he guesses...]

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