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voidtreckerexpress2020-04-21 08:40 pm
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BACKDATED: Egret 17-20
Who: SXT-2 and open
What: SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good ol' delinquency.
Where: Stores cabin and Sleeper 5A
When: BACKDATED to just after mission 1, Egret 17-20
Warning: Possibly mild wound descriptions?
Stores L2
[Occasionally, about a few hours every day or so, there is a rattling and rustling on the second floor of the Stores carriage. SXT-2, with battered feathers poking out of her orange team sweater, has wedged herself in the highest corner possible and stays there making unhappy chirping noises. The issue is most obvious in the illogically organic parts that's taken root in her head and back- chunks of the plumage is gone and the gaps are shedding powdery debris. She's been dinged up from the previous mission, basically, and unlike other things she doesn't have a way to naturally repair damage.
She would also much rather have stayed in the system with its decent network and is a little unhappy about being herded back here, but that's secondary. Either way, SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good old delinquency- so she's holing up here, and carefully scratching out a part of the train wall for parts. Whatever upholstery or metal panels she loosens, she slides into the damaged parts of her feathers- seeming to act on some half-formed preening instinct.]
Sleeper 5A
[This exact same thing happens in Cabin 5A. In fact she usually moves to the stores after the others kick her out of 5A, presumably. It can’t be easy to relax with a monster-under-the-bed situation.... but over the bed. ]
What: SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good ol' delinquency.
Where: Stores cabin and Sleeper 5A
When: BACKDATED to just after mission 1, Egret 17-20
Warning: Possibly mild wound descriptions?
Stores L2
[Occasionally, about a few hours every day or so, there is a rattling and rustling on the second floor of the Stores carriage. SXT-2, with battered feathers poking out of her orange team sweater, has wedged herself in the highest corner possible and stays there making unhappy chirping noises. The issue is most obvious in the illogically organic parts that's taken root in her head and back- chunks of the plumage is gone and the gaps are shedding powdery debris. She's been dinged up from the previous mission, basically, and unlike other things she doesn't have a way to naturally repair damage.
She would also much rather have stayed in the system with its decent network and is a little unhappy about being herded back here, but that's secondary. Either way, SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good old delinquency- so she's holing up here, and carefully scratching out a part of the train wall for parts. Whatever upholstery or metal panels she loosens, she slides into the damaged parts of her feathers- seeming to act on some half-formed preening instinct.]
Sleeper 5A
[This exact same thing happens in Cabin 5A. In fact she usually moves to the stores after the others kick her out of 5A, presumably. It can’t be easy to relax with a monster-under-the-bed situation.... but over the bed. ]
no subject
[SXT-2 looks up from the ground and stares at the outstretched hand. And she reaches her own hand out . . . and releases whatever she was holding into Alice’s palm, which is mostly a handful of debris. Then she works on standing up on her own, which she at least seems to know how to do. She doesn't get the point of it either.]
Yes... I'm not well-functioning. I don't know what the issue is.
[Yes, she really hasn't noticed the feathered growths sticking out of her face, listen, she wasn't programmed to look out for that sort of thing.]
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Is there no one here on this train who knows more about how you function?
[ Like the person who made SXT-2. If she was made at all? Alice honestly has no idea about her origins, and she couldn't even guess. But surely there has to be at least someone around who'd be marginally more competent in this situation than an unstable girl from the Victorian era. ]
no subject
The people on this train are from places I have no idea about. None of them have any recognizable qualifications, or the passenger roster doesn’t show that information.
no subject
[ Doesn't that just make them two peas in a pod right there. Although Alice is pretty sure that there isn't anyone around even back home who would know how to fix her at this point. That, and she's trying to keep the weirdness to a minimum. She really is. ]
I don't know a thing about how you function, so I couldn't even begin to tell what's off. But I do know that sitting up there like that doesn't seem normal for you. And that it shouldn't continue.
no subject
[It seems to be having an effect? Or maybe Alice has just repeated her question enough times, and SXT-2 is finally understanding the issue.]
... I don't know what the problem is, decisions just appear without prior context. I can stop? But i̢t̕ starts again after some tim̨e̷̶͡..
no subject
So you're saying things are happening outside of your control. [ That much was clear already, at least, considering SXT-2's earlier confusion.. But it seems that now they're both aware of it. ] Do you think it's the train influencing you in any way?
[ Because that could get really dangerous really quick. ]
no subject
[She interrupts herself with a series of bird noises.... it sounds positive, maybe.]
Is “the train influencing you” a problem? Has the train influenced you?
no subject
[ While bluntness is pretty normal for Alice, it's not as normal that she's this direct about a personal matter. After all, it's easy to interpret her saying that as her being bothered by it, which is not something she'd just want to give away to anyone. But she's figured that being direct with SXT-2 is often better than the alternative, and if there's anything Alice would like to never discuss, it's her feelings about the train. Or about things influencing her.
She shakes her head to completely dismiss it. ]
Did anything out of the ordinary occur 695 days ago? [ And more importantly, why would this train draw in a malfunctioning bird.. robot.. person.. Whatever SXT-2 is! ]
no subject
[SXT-2’s response is chipper- she is indeed gratified someone’s telling her shit directly. She’s curious if this applies for right now or for forever, but Alice has moved on to ask her for more details, and this-
It gives her pause. It’s always given her pause. The uncertainty may be palpable in her response.]
...yes. I was shut down for an unusually long time: 19 days. My automatic restart activated after that. Afterwards, the humans I was working with- I haven’t been able to find them. :̨͜(̵͡҉ ̢̕͡:̵̧(̨͘ ̨:̵̸(̸̸͘ ̀͜:̧̡(̢͠
no subject
Especially if it might render her more able to sleep again at night rather than have to endure these strange noises.. ]
Was anything about your surroundings different from before after your restart? Other than the fact that you couldn't find those humans?
no subject
[She looks down for a moment. The words aren't coming- well, they're not there at all, she doesn't have the vocabulary to say these things- and she's irritated about it.]
-many things were different. I'm not sure how. I wasn't built to sense those things. But there were no humans. Before I came to the train, I hadn't seen any humans in 259 days.
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[ Although she doesn't really know the full extent of it. Honestly, Alice doesn't have the faintest idea how much machinery works, let alone something that seems as odd as SXT-2. But something has to be off. Especially considering those strange circumstances. ]
Perhaps someone or something messed with you while you were shut down. Maybe the same thing as what caused all those humans to disappear. [ Whatever that could be. There's too many possibilities.
And honestly, maybe Alice shouldn't be thinking about this so deeply. It's technically none of her business, other than this ruining some peace and quiet. But it's the hero complex within her playing up, causing her to try and help (even if just by thinking along) before she consciously realises it. ]
no subject
Whatever the problem is, I don’t know how to fix it. For now I can just go somewhere else as you said.
no subject
[ So Alice can.. you know. Maybe actually sleep for once. It's still up in the air, considering she has a hard time sleeping even under the ideal circumstances..
There's a slight pause, some hesitation, but then she adds: ]
You should really look into whether there is someone present on the train who does know how to fix it. Or who could get it figured out. [ Of course that comes much too close to openly caring, so Alice quickly covers it up with: ] So no one will have to deal with the train falling apart thanks to you clawing at it.
[ Yes, clearly that's the only reason. ]