[video: junk pile]

[glacius_passio]

So who do we thank for the gifts?

[She holds up the cybernetic penguin.]

Because he's really adorable.

Also I found something rather...large out here for someone named Fortress Maximus, if you'd like to come claim it.

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[audio]

[sword_redemption]

It's not dangerous is it? The penguin thing?

[Trying to change the topic. But failing.]

Yes. I did. It was hard to miss: it was on my window ledge.

[He'd thought it was from Wing.]

[audio]

[glacius_passio]

Oh no, far from it. It just keeps following me around.

Ah, at least it was easy for you to find it.

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At least she's not asking what it was.]

[audio]

[sword_redemption]

Do you want it? I'm sure you could find some way to take care of it. Or someone should.

[A shrug.] Yes. Easy to find. [That's true.]

Where did that one find you?

[audio]

[glacius_passio]

I'll keep it. At the very least, it'll be nice to have something my own size around.

Here in the junk pile. I actually didn't find it, it just turned on and started following me when I walked by it.

[audio]

[sword_redemption]

Is that something that troubles you? That so much here is so much larger?

[He hadn't thought of it before. It might be worth mentioning to Wing.]

[audio]

[glacius_passio]

A little bit. I mean, I'd always been one of the smallest Reploids around, but I was used to being able to take care of myself. Even the Mutos Reploids, which could be twice my size, weren't a match for me.

[Or as she refuses to admit, she feels quite helpless.]

[sword_redemption]

[All right. He has to ask.]

... what's a Reploid?

[glacius_passio]

Humanoid robots with free will. Mutos Reploids were different in that their frames were based on beings from myths and legends, so they didn't always look like humans.

[sword_redemption]

So. There are robots that don't have free will?

[glacius_passio]

There were before Reploids. They were sentient and quite human-like themselves, but they operated under the Three Laws of robotics that constricted their ability to make decisions. Every decision had to be run through the algorithm of the laws and if it came back that it violated one of them, they couldn't carry out the action. I'm not sure what prompted the change from the old robots to Reploids, but we've been the type produced for two hundred years now.

[sword_redemption]

So they were sentient, but not free.

Are you?

[glacius_passio]

I am. I'm only about a hundred years old, so I was made long after the laws fell out of use. None of those robots even exist anymore.

[sword_redemption]

...what happened to them? [You're just a baby!! ;_;]

[glacius_passio]

I'm not really sure. There were several uprisings and cataclysmic events that occurred before the final war that happened before I was built, so I assume they were slowly destroyed over the years. A lot of our history was lost in the last war, so all we have is speculation and what little my master told us about them.

[sword_redemption]

Is that why you were built? To fight their wars?

[glacius_passio]

Well, it wasn't my original purpose. My brothers and I were built to help cleanse the planet outside the biodome so that the humans could eventually live outside it again. I was in charge of de-toxifying the water sources.

[sword_redemption]

Oh. [Well that's a different take on robots than he's used to.]

Can you do that here?

[glacius_passio]

Yes, I can. Generally, as long as something is liquid, I can purify it.

[sword_redemption]

Any liquid? Even energon?

What about a venom? Could you make it harmless? [Not that someone in this conversation's had any experience with spiderthing venom.]

[glacius_passio]

I haven't tried it. It would be interesting if I could, so I might have to try it with energon just to see if I can do it with something that doesn't contain water.

It'd be really awesome if I could do it to venom, but I don't exactly have samples to test.

[sword_redemption]

Maybe you could meet up with Jetfire or another of the scientists who could check it for you. I'm sure potable water would be good for the humans, too.

[He grins.] I can always get you some.

[glacius_passio]

That's not a bad idea. I'm sure one of them would know something useful I could do if I actually can purify energon.

Is there not enough potable water for the humans? [Excuse her minor fretting.]

That would be...great, but do I even want to know how you're able to get me some?

[sword_redemption]

They'd be glad of the help, I'm sure.


[As for water, well he was just thinking aloud.]
I, uh, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure we could always use more.

I can get some if you need it. Done it before. And if it could maybe save someone else's life, it'd be worth it.

[glacius_passio]

I'll ask around. I don't really know where their water comes from.

[She's squinting really hard at the Link.]

Well...if you can do it without putting yourself at too much risk, then do it. And do I even want to know where you're going to get that stuff?

[sword_redemption]

Neither do I. All the more reason that your skills might be needed.

[Risk? Did you say risk?]

It's no trouble. I could use the exercise, anyway.