[Video -> TEXT] [TRANSMISSION ORIGINATING FROM: LIEGE'S FORTRESS]

[4_toteachus]

[Well... okay he's never seen anything like this before. Is it like a typewriter? Because he knows how to use a typewriter. Four doesn't really understand what a "network" is, but he's determined to find out. He's been told that this will help him communicate with others, and... as frightening as that is, he really, really, really wants to talk with people.

Even the robots, who he figures can't all be bad...

Right?

He plays around with it a little, and accidentally turns on the video function. Tiny optics blink out onto the network, and he continues fiddling around with it until he manages the texting function.]

areallofyoulostlikeiam?

[Wait, how do you do spaces? Give him a moment, he'll figure this out.]

My name is 4.

There are a lot of machines and living things here. I have never seen anything like you before.

can you answer some of my questions please?

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[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[Honestly, Four has never considered his creation as much of a big deal as others here are making it out to be. This bears some investigation someday.]

I assume you mean how we were created.

The Scientist used to be a toymaker, and his speciality was creating... automatons I suppose you can call them. His very first creation, know as the B.R.A.I.N was given life purely from his own intellect. The Scientist used a mixture of science and magic to give it life, an ancient practice known as Alchemy.

When B.R.A.I.N proved to be flawed and dangerous, the Scientist changed the formula and instead gave pieces of his soul to us, so we would be able tell right from wrong, good from bad.

For that he had to use the Talisman.

[Video]

[angleofscience]

[He nodded, but obviously didn't need to elaborate more than that, as Four continued. And perhaps he should have expected less than... exact terms and not precisely (at all), science. And how had this Scientist partitioned up his soul, if humans indeed had one, since it'd be hard to confirm what Four was saying, without injuring himself..?]

Thank you. Was the Scientist unharmed through giving you and your family pieces of his soul?

[No matter the lack of scientific method in this retelling or the facts or not, he was curious if Four knew this.]

... And being created from pure intellect didn't give B.R.A.I.N the ability to possess, or understand and take to, morals and ethics?

[Tilting his helm curiously, more interested in this currently than the mention of "the Talisman" (but still filing that away), Jetfire frowned thoughtfully. He would think being created from a intellect would give just as large a possibility to understand morals and ethics... depending on the individual said intellect came from.]