thisavrou | audio; march 7th

[The recorded voice that addresses the crew through the MID is affable and slightly apologetic.]

Hello everyone. This is Alan Bradley speaking. I have a couple of questions for the crew, and I think I might as well use this opportunity to introduce myself to those I haven’t met yet: As I said, my name is Alan Bradley, and I’ve been assigned as one of the ship’s MID Technicians. I’m afraid I don’t have any particularly interesting abilities outside of computer programming, but that should be enough for me to do my job here. Some of you may have already met Sam Flynn, my godson from back home, as well as Tron and Rinzler, two, ah, programs that I’ve written. [Is that how he’s supposed to introduce them? It’s quite clear from the misgiving in his tone that he isn’t completely sure. He isn’t even certain he can correctly refer to them as two programs if you want to get technical, but explaining that would be far too involved for a simple introduction, so he’ll have to settle for the potential inaccuracy.] If you ever need to contact me, I’m always available at my personal inbox. [A slight chuckle.] I guess we all are since these things are strapped to our wrists.

Introductions aside, I was hoping someone could tell me who I should see about getting a new pair of glasses? Mine seem to have been lost as I was coming through the portal here. And seeing as my job on the ship will probably require spending most of my day staring at lines of code, I’d like to get a replacement sooner rather than later.

Speaking of my job here, I’m also looking for suggestions for programs people would like added to their MIDs, or improvements made to the interface. I’ll admit, the technology here is quite a bit more advanced than what I usually worked with back home, so anyone with more technological know-how is welcome to offer guidance: other programmers, engineers, AI… I’d be grateful for any advice.

Just leave a reply if you want to get in touch. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

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My chorebot keeps bumping into walls. Can you program it so the pathfinding is better? But without all the creepy AI stuff.

[not even remotely related to what alan said he'd be able to do, but riptide figures it's worth a shot.]

[Alan is momentarily startled when the face of what appears to be a very large, expressive robot appears on his screen.] Chorebot? [A little embarrassing to say, but that’s already a little exotic for Alan. Right now he’s picturing a Roomba.]

I can take a look at it, but I’ll have to see how it’s programmed before I make any promises. [Here’s to hoping everything is programmed in the same language used on the MID? And that the MID’s programming language is at least somewhat easy to work with itself.]

[riptide shifts the video, showing the poor chorebot going into a wall for a few seconds before going back to himself.]

This guy. He's called Stumpy cause of the no hands thing. I don't... actually know how to switch it off for you to have a look at it. Maybe I could--

[he looks away from the camera.]

Hey, Stumpy! Go sleep! [a pause. there's the distinct sound of something falling over.] Oh. He fell over.

Oh. [Well… Alan supposes that counts?]

And you’re sure the pathfinding algorithm is the only thing that’s wrong with it?

I'm just assuming. You know, unless he saw the mess I asked him to clear up and that's his way of banging his head on the wall because he doesn't really have a spine.

[riptide wouldn't blame poor stumpy, honestly.]

Must be quite a mess, [Alan notes with a slight smile.] Would it be too much to hope that the chorebot has some sort of connection with your MID?

I mean, there's a wall missing, so yeah.

[riptide pokes at his mid - and by extension, the camera - a few times. enjoy that large finger blocking the screen for a moment.]

I can say, with absolute certainty... I have no idea.

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