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"Hey, buddy, Pal, friend-o-mine. Don't forget to pump the breaks, alright?" The machine removes a cable trailing from the navigation computer to his wrist. "You've done two Jaunts within... less than 2 hours! Color me fucking impressed, actually. These engines and thrusters are on another level of tech."
[PARANOIA] "How do you always know such things?" Because this thing has always known things which should not be known so easily. It has the shape of a man yet speaks from a place of superior knowledge. An Agent of the ENTROPY? LOOK INTO THIS NOW.
"I am becoming very tired of your face." A personality "shit-test" is required, and thus acquired. Appearance, you have heard, is a tender insult.
"So am I!" The robot adjusts his tie with deliberate precision. His fashion is... utterly anachronistic to say the least. "I plugged myself into your machine and read the logs, alright? You know, I'm bust my ass out here and this is the thanks I get? AM I GOING TO GET THROWN OUT THE AIRLOCK AGAIN?"
[PARANOIA] Your thoughts rush into your head - this thing clearly has not been given access to your systems, do I call everyone in here, yet has interfaced with them to...
>Fortuna rolls 2d20. Higher gets a better reaction.
>[NETSPAWN -> UNCANNY] DISADVANTAGE! Take the lower dice.
"..." You say nothing...
"..." Jack stands around as if waiting for something, mechanical joints of his hand clicking in open complaint.
[You pause too and refrain from clicking on the dice at the top of the screen.]
... and the conversation turned to other things.
[INDRA-PHI] You sigh. You've been thinking quietly to yourself. Your mind is clearer than it has ever been before due to your divine *clarity.* Because Jack is outside of the INTERSYSTEM hierarchy... your only claim over the actions of this unit is your own goodwill and oppressive force. You simply don't care enough to go on and fight him.
[The dice recedes from the top of the screen.]
"..?"
>NO! WHY!
"Tell me about FORTUNA, Jack," you say in this liminal moment. "You are a tour guide. Therefore you would and should know things that we tourists do not. It is not a coincidence that you happened to dock with our ship, out of all others."
