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[What was that? Oh nothing, just the feed flicking on to the sight of one big green eye, before a pink kitten nose was nudging at the lens of the drone’s camera. How did S’mores manage to turn that feature on? Who even knew? It wasn’t like she was telling, just starting in on nuzzling on the drone, her purr sending a nearby glass vibrating across the table it was sitting on. Other than the light filtering in through the partly-drawn curtains? The room being shown was dim, the mood entirely gloomy.

Which of course seemed to match the mood of the bot sitting in an armchair with a book in his lap, though he wasn’t paying the open text much mind, just frowning in the direction of the window, unaware that he was being filmed.]

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[S'mores thankfully liked belly rubs and so purred mightily, relaxing for the attention that was rightfully hers as resident feline.]

...Not... not even really sure where to start, to be honest. [Better than pretending everything was fine at least?]

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That makes two of us. I mean, my first instinct to start is 'what the shit' but that's impolite and also not helpful.

[Sam glances over, offering an apologetic shrug and a crooked little smile.]

Sorry. Guess I'll stay on the sentiment and ask, what was that? There's what it looked like... but that's the view on the juju side of things, Xan and I concurring. Not the same as an actual answer.

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It was... [He huffed a sigh of steam, trying to think of how to describe things accurately.]

Basically bad memories. Been functioning for over a hundred years, and... not all of em were very nice.

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[Sam nods... and for want of better ideas, says the first thing that fits.]

I'm sorry.

You'd been starting to say something on the network, prior?

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Mostly was looking for someone to do maintenance.

[A slight grimace, and a shake of his head.]

A little late, but...

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The episode related? Like, [ah, what's a good way to word this?] anything red-flag for you?

I'm sorry---I don't really know how to ask what I want to ask. Or what I should ask, for that matter.

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Yeah. Sometimes malfunctions... when I boot back up it's with the wrong file. Sometimes it's minor, like default language settings getting mixed up. More rarely it's like... well, what happened here.

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Was there anything flagging this episode for you, to prompt the broadcast you'd started in on? Also, I just... don't want to ask anything insensitively, it's just that a lot of this is way outside my areas of expertise.

[Some, but not all. She's at least got The Spine to let her in, and to agree to answer her messages from here on out, and to talk. The science behind The Spine might be stuff she can only turn her hands up at, but she can at least be supportive.]