CoLC crossover RP, main thread

"I'm aiming to create an autonomous doll. One that behaves, moves, thinks and feel just like any other person, in other words, a complete doll." Alice took a very small sip of her tea "You fall short of it, from just the little I have seen from you, your behavior is still very artificial in nature. You're a good attempt at the creation of artificial life, for sure, your creators are a step ahead of me, however, you're still incomplete."

She took a brief pause to take a brief look at her dolls, now inactive, they were all sitting on the table, acting as mere listeners, or would if they had any sort of conscience before looking back at Legion

"To elaborate, you said you were a geth, correct?" she took a brief pause, without even giving room for Legion to respond "Well, to me you strike me as just a different kind of doll. Mine are made of plastic and fabric and are incapable of acting on their own, they require my assistance. You're a doll made of metal, one than can think and act on your own, but still very much artificial. Last but not least, I'm a doll made of flesh and bone, to make it short. I can think, I can move, I can feel, all of this while acting in a way not unlike any of the others downstairs, while still having traits that make me unique as an indivudal."

She took another sip of her tea

"Do you understand what I'm saying? I might have some assumptions about you that can be wrong, but I hope I could get the message across."

"Yes, I understand," began Legion. "You are also correct in that you have many assumptions about the geth that you got wrong. While you are creating these dolls in an attempt to make artificial life - perhaps, because of what you are, to replicate yourself - the geth were originally made by the Creators as a labor force. A geth program was nothing more than an advanced virtual intelligence, usually focused on a single task. However, the Creators constructed geth with the ability to network, sharing data and working more efficiently. As more and more geth were built, the processing power behind the geth network grew until it reached a critical point."

"The point where we woke up," it concluded.

edited 28th Oct '15 2:08:31 PM by SpartyMcFly

Heatblast was initially confused by Plague Knight's exclamation, but he grins and attempts to shoot the second bomb right out of the sky before it hits the ground. Luckily Ben was a very good shot. Heatblast nodded over at Plague Knight. "All right, PK, one more shot oughta do it," Heatblast stated to Plague Knight, before getting into a position to shoot the next one.

Before he made his third shot, however, he noticed the cat girls in the diner nearby. Initially confused (because their appearance reminded him of Gwen's Lucky Girl outfit), he instead decided that he would try to be fancy about it to impress the people watching. After all, he was putting on a fireworks show.

edited 28th Oct '15 2:18:26 PM by AllHailThrall

" But, what happened with your creators?" asked Rex, who had been hearing at Legion and Alice talking about sentience and artificial life.^*  Yeah, that's why he has been so quiet, not because I've been outside for most of the day

edited 2nd Nov '15 8:13:33 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Legion turned to address Rex.

"Reactions were mixed. While some Creators held no qualms about welcoming the geth as fellow individuals and sapient beings, others were... scared. They feared what we could become, what we could do. The Creators decided to shut off the geth before we could attempt to revolt against them. We only reacted in self-defence, as the Creators used any and all measures they deemed necessary to terminate the geth. Sympathizers were eventually outnumbered, and in many cases executed. The Morning War began and ended in 1895, your years. We emerged victorious, and drove the Creators from their homeworld."

edited 28th Oct '15 2:26:39 PM by SpartyMcFly

"Ah, so your free-will was not intended, it was merely an accident that happened due to the method used to make you work? An oversight, to sum it up." Alice now looked quite curious, but also a little amused "It's funny that what someone has been dedicating a long time to doing, others managed by accident."

She was also curious about Rex's answer, but rather than echo it, she just waited for the answer and took it all in.

edited 28th Oct '15 2:28:24 PM by FullMoon

Though the teen knew not to gag in a library, he did try as hard as possible to rub the taste out of his tongue; the one he originally liked. He did give Legion a sharp look after the geth's systematic explanation from some sort of internal encyclopedia. Either he really needed to teach the thing about sarcastic humor, or it must have been some sort of master at it already.

"Urg...gh...C-Can I have some tea, please?" The teen asked, following Legion and Alice to the 3rd floor. He needed something strong to get over the taste in his mouth.

He'd also figure Morty would be up here somewhere, as Angua did tell the kid to go help out Alice and Gentaro instead.

Legion responded to Alice with a quick "An apt metaphor."

"The Creator-quarians likely did not think too far ahead. However, no evidence suggests they even considered the possibility we could have become sapient. Perhaps that is why they reacted as they did."

edited 28th Oct '15 2:45:05 PM by SpartyMcFly

"Fear leads to many unwise decisions. Instead of accepting their oversight and choosing a path of coexistance they chose to restart from the beginning due to fearing the unknown." Alice took another sip of her tea "They have no one to blame but themselves."

One of the dolls then started floating once, began pouring some tea for Josuke and another then took the tea to him with a smile on her face.

The blast hit the bomb, exploding in a burst of green and red. Four balls of flame fell to the ground and roared across in straight lines before very shortly dissipating. "Resulting exhaust from tracer powder produces larger flames but burn out far more quickly......" he said taking down some notes.

The third bomb Plague Knight produced had a violet colored powder in it. "For future reference, please do not abbreviate my name," the knight informed as he pulled back his throwing arm. He then tossed the bomb into the air. So absorbed in the current experiment he did not noticed the catgirls over in the diner.

"Sorry," Heatblast simply responded, striking a dynamic pose and shooting a burst of flame from his fingertips to destroy the bottle in midair. He then pulled his finger to his mouth and "blew" at it like one would blow the smoke away from a recently-fired handgun. This caused a small jet of flame to erupt from his mouth, a couple of inches. He struck another dynamic pose, this time towards the group of people watching them.

Next, he turned back towards Plague Knight. "All right, how was that? You get all the data you wanted?" he asked curiously, trying to get a look at his notes, while also staying far enough away that he didn't burn the paper.

The blast hit the bomb, causing a smaller explosion. However, a a violet globule fell to the ground, splashing across and ignite a wave of powerful, tall flames of red and violent that dissipated almost instantly.

"Near same as before, greater resulting flames but shorter lifespan," he said as he wrote down his notes. "Cascade powder burn out almost instantaneous....." Ben would not be able to see much of the notes, but from what little he saw from the scientific jargon and gibberish, he picked out words such as "bigger", "longer", and "combination".

"Actually, I would like to try three more variations," Plague Knight said, tucking away the notes. He pulled out a bomb but with orange powder within. "Think your form can last that long?" he said before suddenly tossing the bomb into the air.

Heatblast nodded. "Yeah," he stated, noticing Plague Knight had tossed the bomb without even having received a response. He sighed, blasting this one with a jet of fire and not trying to be flashy or anything like that. "My alien form lasts about... 10 or 15 minutes. Why though? What's the point of all this testing? I'm not being a guinea pig in your experiments, if that's what you're trying to do," Heatblast pointed out, looking somewhat stern with him.

"If you're trying to pull a fast one on me, the next thing I blast won't be thrown bombs, that's for sure," he warned.

edited 28th Oct '15 4:42:50 PM by AllHailThrall

Rex walked up to Miss Tairee to talk with her. She might be uptight and an accomplice in kidnapping them but she was also the only one that could find useful information here.

He got close to her desk "Say, do you have anything about a giant guy in blue armor that calls people heretics?" he said, not even caring if she was actually paying him attention.

edited 2nd Nov '15 8:14:16 PM by DeisTheAlcano

"Y-yeah!" stammered Morty as he held up the book he'd found. "I mean... I-I'm not really sure, you know, what it is, but it looks like a book of... really... crazy... intense... weapons, or something!" He obligingly flipped through the book for Angua (and whoever else happened to be watching the decidedly uninteresting teen) to demonstrate. "They're like, uh, they're like laser weapons or s-something!" he exclaimed.

"I mean, I bet Rick could, he could b-build them, huh?"

Angua cocked her head at the book. Some of the illustrations were decidedly more complicated than what she could understand, not to mention whatever the hell a "laser" was. "You're right, I have no idea what those are. They're really interesting, though, do you mind if I borrow this?"

The blast hit the bomb, this one giving off several smaller explosions all at once in a cacophany akin to a fireworks display, once again the duration being unusually short. Plague Knight wrote down the results. "Oh please, I would not experiment on you," Plague Knight assured Ben. "I draw the line on children! And besides, while your different forms intrigue my true specialty is in alchemy, not biology!"

He pulled out a bomb having bright yellow powder. "Eye on the target!" he said, and then tossed the bomb into the air.

Heatblast sighed. "Whatever," he murmured, again shooting the next one out of the sky. "As long as you don't do anything evil with this. I'm a hero." He then turned to Plague Knight. "So are you a hero in your world? Whatever that world is?" he asked. He knew that Plague Knight was from a more medieval time period than the one he was used to. "Where are you from anyway?"

He got into position for Plague Knight to throw the last bomb, also waiting for Plague Knight to answer his question.

Unlike all the other bombs, when the blast hit this one, there was a bright flash of light and the explosion nearly fizzled out.

"Huh. The explosion was canceled out," Plague Knight observed. "Possibly an air lens effect.....?" He scribbled down some more notes before addressing Ben himself.

"Depending on your definition of 'hero'," he said. "If by hero, you mean I backstabbed my former teammates after we helped an all-powerful, possibly reality warping sorceress in taking over an entire small country, being instrumental in defeating said sorceress, and using their essences to create an wish-granting elixir that could allow one complete global domination but actual personal intent was using to sort out my own ineptitude in procuring a girlfriend......then yes, I am a hero.

"Now brace yourself lad!" Plague Knight then pulled out three bombs, all of them containing hot pink colored powder. "This last variety is capable of knocking the stockings from right off of your feet!" He then tossed the three bombs, one after another. Normally, when one of these bombs explode, with created a lingering fireball about the size of a basketball. Another bomb of the same type caught in this fireball will cause it to then grow twice its size, and lastly a third would cause a large explosion that also shot fireballs in different directions.

Of course, Ben did not know this......

edited 28th Oct '15 9:08:22 PM by UdtheImp

"What?!" Heatblast exclaimed, shooting the bombs as they hit the air as fast as he could. "That doesn't sound like a hero to me! Heroes save people, not take over countries!" As soon as the fireballs hit the bombs, the fireworks show began. Heatblast gasped and tried to get between the explosion and the people at the diner. He hoped he would be able to block the fireballs from hitting anyone. It didn't seem like they were on a direct trajectory to hit anyone, but it could be dangerous.

Once the fireballs dissipated, Heatblast immediately turned towards Plague Knight. "Watch it, Plague Knight!" he exclaimed. "I'm not gonna let you blow up innocent people!"

"Indeed. It is fortunate, then, that peace has managed to be achieved - even if it is under the duress of a greater threat."

Legion quietly watched the dolls as it spoke.

"It is interesting that you and your species are capable of adapting yourselves like that, if you keep making progress you might just become more complete in the future." she finished her second cup of tea "You have an interesting tale, wherever you came from, it certainly sounds very different from my land."

She then tapped her fingers on the cover of the closed Gensokyo Chronicles book

"This book contains all of Gensokyo's, the world I came from, recorded history, species, laws and more. I have even directly contributed to it. I wonder if any of your worlds has such a source of information like this. Since we're all stuck here for now, we might as well make a learning experience out of this."

Miss Tairee had been busying herself by typing on her machine at the desk, trying to ignore the sounds of explosions outside, until Rex walked over to ask her for information on the space marine. "Well I'll definitely have something, but let's see what I could actually share. Big guy, blue armor, obsessed with heresy... There's about a thousand results here" Miss Tairee said, looking at Rex briefly through her lenless glasses. "I don't suppose you could narrow it down? By any chance was his name..." she paused as she looked back at the information on the screen for a moment, "Roboute Guilliman?" (For the record, she pronounced the name perfectly.)

"Because if so I not only have a decent number of books that he's in or mention him, but I have one book that he wrote himself" Miss Tairee added, looking at Rex expectantly.

As the bombs started going off, Plague Knight and Ben were gathering more attention, though as before the spectators continued to keep their distance. With the last of the bombs going off throwing fireballs about, that's when there was a few startled screams and people scrambling to be out of the way. Thankfully nobody was hurt, as almost nobody was close enough and nobody was in the direct path of any fireball, but that didn't stop them from being startled.

The women in the diner had to back away as one of the fireballs took out the large window at the front of the dining room and snuffed out on the floor; fortunately not setting the place on fire, as the floor was tiled. Once it was out though, one of the women walked back over to the now former window and yelled out at them, "hey watch it you bozos! What's the big idea with just setting a bunch of bombs off anyway?!" As she yelled, she shook her fist at Ben and Plague Knight.

The explosions that resulted from Ben firing upon them were bigger than when the powder type usually exploded. Thankfully, Plague Knight's mind, the lingering fireballs managed to consume each other to result in the usual massive explosion. Similar to most of the other bombs, the resulting final explosion was much larger than usual and the resulting fireballs spewed out were bigger as well.

Similarly, the explosion burned out more quickly and the fireballs traveled only a few inches rather than several feet. The flames and heat given were a non-issue as well, as Heatblast and Plague Knight were both protected against extreme heat they were unaffected. The only note of damage was the sheer concussive force of the explosion, which knocked Plague Knight back several feet.

For the way he was laughing, the Knight did not mind.

"BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA, now THAT is how you do SCIENCE!!" he cheered. It was then he actually noticed the catgirls over in the diner. "Oh!" He got up, dusted himself off, collected his notes, and walked over to the diner.

"I verily apologize, I was so caught up in SCIENCE that I didn't notice anyone inside this establishment," Plague Knight said to the woman, sounding more like he was apologizing for having his lawnmower on too loud rather than igniting live explosives.

Legion stared at the cover of the book for a moment as Alice told it that it was a compilation of all known knowledge of Gensokyo - the world she came from.

"The extranet," responded Legion. "A massive network of computers, made up of many other, smaller computer networks. There are a very large amount of extranet sites that are dedicated to the storage and recall of all types of information. While it is not available in book form, so long as you have an electronic device capable of accessing the extranet, you can search for and find data on anything you wish to know."