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Hey there! I know things are really hectic right now and everyone's got a lot to do but I'd really like to borrow an ordinary flesh and blood human of reasonably durable constitution for a very short time.

Let's be straightforward: I want to hit you. I promise I won't try to kill you or anything like that, it's just once, and I'll get you something nice to make up for it afterward, I just really really need to hit someone who qualifies. Please don't be unusually fragile or something, I don't want to explain that to whoever might be in charge of organic repairs.

This won't take long I swear. And then we can go back to doing our much more important things!

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[That makes more sense than Yori feared, but leaves her with no good argument against it.]

Sparring hasn't been a problem for me, but it's a good test if you find one to agree and you're polite. Just don't hit them in the head, those are fragile and we can't afford to lose anyone useful right now.

I don't really want to make enemies out of it. I thought about just ambushing someone at random, but that'd be really rude and get a lot of people angry so this way might work better.

Is everywhere else okay to hit? I don't know much about their designs. Who do you spar with? I was under the impression you were a complete noncombatant!

Wise not to start trouble. Some Users like to practice fighting as much as combat programs do, so I'm sure you'll find a combat partner. Should be all right. You'll have to see how your strength levels match up. Hard to tell for any given individual without testing.

[Programs and Users both have such a wide range of possible designed strength.]

I'm not written to fight, but I've learned some things, since I keep running into situations where I need to.

[Years of being thrown from one odd situation into another will do that. Yori recalls her earliest lessons in Survivalist Club self-defense and Taekwondo fondly.]

Oh, that reminds me. Don't hit a User between the legs unless they're a serious threat, they react badly.

It seems so. I haven't gotten a name yet but he says he's a soldier, so we'll see how it goes.

It's good to expand your base a little anyway! Without the proper amount of local defensives so not everyone HAS to fight, being able to at least evade or fight back long enough to escape is a very good idea.

A lot of programs don't usually have that sort of flexibility. I am impressed! Maybe ENCOM's just got a lot more wiggle room given all the other things going on!

No between the legs, throat, or punching whatever a heart is! Or faces! There's so many places you don't want to hit on a User, they must be very fragile. Wow.

Good. Encom was very strict about roles, and the MCP would try to force anyone nonessential to join the army--I was on a factory line. The MCP is gone now. I hope the system improves. It's nice to be able to learn what interests me instead. I find Users to have about the same likelihood of damage as most programs, excluding designed combat functions, but in general they take a long time to heal if they get hurt.

With no real system to speak of here, there's even less harm in doing what you like sometimes. Life is for experiencing, and there's a lot of experiences to be had out here!

I guess it's not really possible to just pop open a User's code and repair damaged files. That's too bad.

It's important to find things to enjoy, with the number of messes we also get into. Some User healers have more resources than others, but it's always a complex problem, mending damage. Not like code at all.

That's very true. So of course if you have any recommendations for things someone might want to try, feel free to leave them here!

On the other hand they do have a very nice self-repair system, even if it takes a long time to work. All built in and automatic too!

Even when we're stuck on the station, you could ask Users about their music, some of them are sure to have examples. You're already making connections to practice fighting. Not as automatic as I'd like in cases of significant damage, but still fascinating. I tried to learn a little from various healers.

Oh music! Why didn't I think of that? I'd love to hear something new. Of course Flynn brought some of his music onto the Grid, but there's probably a lot more!

With so many organics around that sounds like a useful skill to have. Moreso than knowing what to do about a damaged program, really. What about the robots? I heard they're made of metal. Can you do anyting about those?

I learned some basic things about repairing systems that might apply to robots, but no, not much. The ones who call themselves Cybertronians are extremely complex and I haven't had a good source to learn from.

[As much as Yori likes Sideswipe, in a half-amused, half-annoyed way, her fellow resident in Shepard's protection isn't often a reliable source.]

I hope someone around here is able to help them if they get hurt. Damaged? Is it damaged, or hurt? Maybe it's the same thing.

What are they like anyway? So far every alien I've met has seemed pretty much completely normal for a program and just looking different. And being made out of different things.

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