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[flashdrive]

[Whoa, Rewind, you look like you've seen better days. The feed cuts to the library, with a flash drive huddled up on one of the many seats littered about it. Ambus, his acolyte seems to hover over him, books held in its hand. There's soft coughing coming from the flash drive, attempting to sit up and look at the screen.]

เ ђคשє ร๏๓єtђเภﻮ เ ђคשє t๏ รคא...

[Cough cough. Wow, Rewind, you sound all modulated and awful. Ambus seems to notice, leaning over further as if to mother hen. Rewind, stick to typing.]

[So he will. Fingers reach out to the keys of the link, typing things up as best he can.]


If anyone has a problem with the A.I. members of our community, you're going to answer to me.

I've noticed their treatment over the Link.

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[letmefixyou]

Awfully accepting of lesser beings, aren't you? What an admirable trait.

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[flashdrive]

Do not talk to me about lesser beings.



None of them are.

I. HATE. THAT. PHRASE.

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[letmefixyou]

[too bad this isn't video/audio, because he bursts out laughing at that.]

Sounds like someone's been on the receiving end of it! Are you one of those drones, too?
What'll you do? Malfunction at me? Please.

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[needlefingers]

Rewind!

[Chromedome drops whatever he's doing and leans in as close to his device as he can possibly get.]

A-Are you okay? Do you need me to take you to a medic? Should I bring a medic to you? How'd you get sick? Wait, don't answer any of that, I'm on my way!

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[flashdrive]

ςђг๏๓є๔๏๓є! เ'๓ Ŧเภ--

[More coughing. You're not doing yourself any favours, Rewind.

Ping! A text.]

I have work to do. It's nothing.

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[needlefingers]

What?

That's it?

You have work to do?

You're not going to do any good deliberately keeping things from me you know! I'll be there in a bit.

[loyalflier]

I agree with your friend. You should to see one of the medics.

[flashdrive]

[He's about to speak, but all that comes out of his vocalizer is a modulated tone. Jeeze, robot sore throats suck.]

I'm fine. It's just a cough.

[loyalflier]

Given that there was a widespread illness a few weeks prior? Knowing that something is amiss at the moment?

You really should get yourself checked out.

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[thxforthememories]

[Thank you Stumpy for texting for your stupid master.]

Rewind...!

What happened? Are you all right?

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[flashdrive]

[What else are you going to use those things for.]

I'm fine. Just really annoyed.


They're not bothering you too bad are they?

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[eyestothesky]

You okay there? Sounds about like when Rabbit tried to eat that maple syrup candy on a dare.

[Video]

[flashdrive]

[There's a couple of coughs, although he waves his hand dismissively before going back to the typing.]

Just coming down with something. It's nothing big.

[nobody_number_8]

[Axel sees Rewind looking sick.]

Lemme guess... brown energon, right?

[Because he's not counting this as a coincidence.]

Anyway, though, I'm probably just gonna prove how little I know about robots by saying this, but to be perfectly honest, I can't tell which ones of you guys are A.I.s and which aren't unless somebody points it out to me. So if I've I've been messing with any of them more than I normally mess with people, it's kind of by accident.

[flashdrive]

[He goes to answer, but all that seems to come out is a weird sort of garbled mess. There's a sigh (also garbled), so he'll move it back to the text.]

It could have been. I've been busy so I haven't noticed.


As long as you're not calling them lesser beings, we have no problems. That seems to be the thing around here.

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[nobirds]

i'm curious just what it is you'll do about it.


call me an interested party.

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[flashdrive]

Let's say I've got 4 million years worth of ideas.

call -me- a creative person.

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[badboybikerbot]

You know, that might have been a little more intimidating if you didn't sound like you were gargling gravel.

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[flashdrive]

You're one of the A.I. right?


I thought you'd enjoy this.

[raceme]

Rewind? Are you alright?

And if someone mistreat those members let me know, I'll kick their afts. [High on green energon Blurr, get.]

[flashdrive]

[There's a garbled response from Rewind's vocalizer, mainly what seems to be cursing. He really hates not being able to speak, okay.]

I'm fine. Just need a little rest. This comes first, though.



Really now. That's...reassuring.

[megaton]

Tell me more about this mistreatment.

I consider myself a collector of such causes.

[flashdrive]

[Well...it's not like it's not public information...Rewind can spare a little to this.

Hopefully this doesn't backfire.]

A.I.s made by humans are kind of treated like second class citizens here. Despite being just as functional as us.

[skylynx]

AI members? What are AIs?

[Seriously, he's genuinely confused at this one. Educate him, Rewind.]

[flashdrive]

[This is slightly comforting, actually. It only proves that there's not a noticeable difference.]

Robotic beings that were created by humans, not born like we were.