Moe Tank

[girlfriend_dot_exe]

 1-[Driver recruitment]

Good morning everyone! I need some help testing out Clementine, now that it's complete. I'll need sample human drivers to copy the movements of, and also take over if I make any mistakes.

2-[Later in the day, ALICE took the tank out for a spin on her own. And it's not too long before she sends out an emergency distress call...]

Um, please come quickly! I need help!

[And indeed she does need help. Clementine has landed in a city pool, the tank's back half under water in the shallow end, while the front half sticks out of the water, propped up by the edge of the pool.]

Aah! Don't climb on that!

[Alice's plaintive cries do nothing to stop the local children from climbing all over the bright orange tank.]


3-[Well, Caulder had to pay a fine for the damage to the pool. It was reduced a bit by agreeing to have Alice perform 50 hours of community service, which she is now carrying out. You can find her and the tank working in a quarry blasting rock, pulling loads of junk at the landfill, or working in town as part of the special transit service-that is to say, impromptu public transit for the elderly and disabled.]

I wasn't made for this at all...

Comments

3

[link_to_revival]

[And the newly-repaired VeHA's now just standing over to the side, watching Alice work off the damage.]

You're an AI with human-level intelligence. Growing beyond your original intent comes with the territory.

Besides, this isn't too bad. You don't have to sleep, so you can get your service done in just a few days.

[The VeHA then plants a Fragarach in the rocks and detonates the sword, blowing some more out. AIs had to stick together! Besides, volunteering to help out felt like something Lynn might have suggested.]

Re: 3

[girlfriend_dot_exe]

I guess so.

[Boom. There goes another shelf of rock. They'll come in way ahead of schedule on this job with the robots' help.]

I'd still rather be working the financial markets, though. There's just so little information here...

[link_to_revival]

Be patient. And think about the applications of what a new quarry might have.

Besides, how good are you playing the stock market?

[girlfriend_dot_exe]

Extremely! My shorts are accurate 95% of the time, and I've been able to grow IDS's investment portfolio by several million dollars. Of course it's a multi-billion dollar company, and they never let me have everything in my hands, but it's pretty fun.

[link_to_revival]

Probably made quite a few people's Christmases though.

[The VeHA then gets a whole bunch of rubble in some scaffolding before starting to pull it along.]

Alright. We're almost done with this job.

[girlfriend_dot_exe]

Perhaps, but there are always losers on the other side of the bet...

Ah well. Next up is disability services!

[link_to_revival]

That's not your fault though. Regardless of your investments, they still would've lost out.

[girlfriend_dot_exe]

...

...Yeah.