NETWORK - Help Wanted/Offered

[outofthepast]

Who: Nick Valentine
Username: valentine
Warnings: Discussion of robot parts and the repair thereof, robot existentialism + objectification

Hey folks, it's Valentine here. Now that I've had a taste of nitty gritty fieldwork, I think it'd be prudent of me to take a few precautions. I'm looking for a good mechanic. And I'd prefer not to involve ADI at this point, so please don't suggest I just consult with the Technology department. Let's keep this one on one for now.

The parts are proprietary and you won't have seen them before, so I need a quick learner. Advanced experience is a plus, but I've done just fine with regular Joes and Jills up to this point. The absolute most important qualification, though, is that you let me buy you a drink and have a chat with you first. Amateur transhumanism philosophers need not apply, thanks.

I'm willing to either pay or trade what you think is fair. Favors, errands. Maybe I can teach you something.

You know what, let's make that a general offer. Even if you're not a mechanic, I'm happy to teach what skills I can to anybody interested. Want to learn to shoot a gun? Use a computer? Make a theory corkboard? Swing dance? Hit me up and let's make it a date.

Really, I can't stress enough how much extra time I've got on my hands.

Comments

[whisperedone]

Oh. I don't know that it would be for me much, in that case. However, if I could sit in on the edges of one of your lessons sometime, I would appreciate the chance to experience it.

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You seem surprised to have the knowledge. Was it not something you learned first?

[outofthepast]

No. I don't remember learning it.

But I've been around a long time now, longer than I can actually remember. Sometimes I get some old memory bubbling up that still surprises me.

[whisperedone]

Then your species is usually long lived? Must be quite long lived if there are things you forget.

Unless the information was placed in your head? There is some magic that can do that.

[outofthepast]

Well... "species" is a bit of a stretch. [So is "lived" for that matter. How do you explain this situation to someone from so long ago?

And yet, Garner doesn't know how right he is.]

Yeah, it's something like that.

[whisperedone]

[That...he has to think on that. A moment.]

Are you a construct? Like a golemn

[outofthepast]

Yeah. That's not a bad comparison, actually.

The term is "synth." Or "android," is a more common word to most people.

[whisperedone]

Synth as in synthetic? That makes sense. I'm unfamiliar with the other one, though the term 'AI' has come up in some searches I've indulged in.

I am sorry that you are without the proper tools for your maintenance, then.

[outofthepast]

I don't know if I'd consider myself an AI, necessarily, but yeah. Close enough.

The tools aren't the problem. The folks who made me don't exist in this time, and neither does a lot of the tech they came up with. So I'm in need of somebody with improv skills, see.

It's not so different from back home in that regard. Just that here, the parts don't exist, as opposed to me having to find them busted up and broken in the garbage.

[whisperedone]

I understand.

I've little in mechanical experience, but if there is some way I could help through the al- through chemicals and chemistry, I would be eager to see if I could make whatever might help.