Re: The Grand Battle [Round 4! Pop-up Land!!]
10-12-2009, 06:12 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.
Diagnostics complete, Eximo thought. To the extent it still could think, now that only its mechanical brain was functioning. Systems affected by failure of organic components: Defense system, vocal processor, lifeform scanner, higher recognition functions, prioritization protocols, memory banks.
Eximo no longer truly understood what most of the words meant; now, it was only concerned with the cleansing. It could no longer speak, and would not even recognize its own master if he were to appear. It remembered nothing that had happened to it so far. Its defenses no longer functioned, and even if they did, it was no longer capable of detecting any threat in advance, nor of setting its own defense to a higher priority than the cleansing. If there was no cleansing to be done, it would automatically revert to standby to conserve energy - even though it had no real concerns with energy use.
The diagnostic had been triggered automatically upon entering standby mode, and continued even as Eximo began cleaning - it could not be stopped once begun, not with Eximo's programming stripped to its most basic. None of the malfunctions would directly interfere with the cleansing, so the vacuum now considered them irrelevant.
It quickly swept up the remnants of Nathan's first strike, and moved on to the second. The paper-thin quality of the filth did not strike it as unusual; it no longer had the capacity to find anything unusual.
Diagnostics complete, Eximo thought. To the extent it still could think, now that only its mechanical brain was functioning. Systems affected by failure of organic components: Defense system, vocal processor, lifeform scanner, higher recognition functions, prioritization protocols, memory banks.
Eximo no longer truly understood what most of the words meant; now, it was only concerned with the cleansing. It could no longer speak, and would not even recognize its own master if he were to appear. It remembered nothing that had happened to it so far. Its defenses no longer functioned, and even if they did, it was no longer capable of detecting any threat in advance, nor of setting its own defense to a higher priority than the cleansing. If there was no cleansing to be done, it would automatically revert to standby to conserve energy - even though it had no real concerns with energy use.
The diagnostic had been triggered automatically upon entering standby mode, and continued even as Eximo began cleaning - it could not be stopped once begun, not with Eximo's programming stripped to its most basic. None of the malfunctions would directly interfere with the cleansing, so the vacuum now considered them irrelevant.
It quickly swept up the remnants of Nathan's first strike, and moved on to the second. The paper-thin quality of the filth did not strike it as unusual; it no longer had the capacity to find anything unusual.
Spoiler
There's no reason for this | Or this | Death is inevitable | You can't challenge fate | The smallest change | I'm overwhelmed
I'm serious | It makes perfect sense | Easy as ABC! | I can't even explain it | Cleaning up someone else's mess
I suck | I rule | I've got it made | Really, I'm serious | This bugs me | It's all lies | I want to believe | Beauty is a curse
I'm serious | It makes perfect sense | Easy as ABC! | I can't even explain it | Cleaning up someone else's mess
I suck | I rule | I've got it made | Really, I'm serious | This bugs me | It's all lies | I want to believe | Beauty is a curse