[Holding up a rubber duck thanks to the works according to
this post 17 looks rather perplexed. It isn't every day you see an army of bright yellow floating merrily down the stream. And every other source of water one could encounter.] Is this some kind of a joke? It's a little funny, but I don't get the point.
[No, he's not joking. He wants an exact count. THIS IS IMPORTANT TO HIM OKAY?]
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If that's too hard for you, I can settle for pictures or a recording too.
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[Time to put those android abilities to use. For a moment there's a pause over the feed as he scans the incoming set of ducks in the water, counting them quickly and adding them up in his computerized brain. It doesn't take long--]
In this particular spot there are an average forty-two if you consider the exchange of units arriving and leaving in my span of view as an equal constant, averaging each other out.
[SPLASH! Something just got 'shot' out of the water.] ...Forty-one.
Back to forty-two.
Forty-one...
....forty-one and a half.... forty....
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However, this is first he's seen such a display of superhuman mental abilities.
Congratulations 17, you have officially tied with your fellow ducky friends in terms of catching Near's interest.]
Yes, that should suffice.
[Private mode!]
Impressive. Do all of your kind possess such talents?
[That would refer to both the unnatural rate of computation and the whatever he had just used, assuming it wasn't a weapon, to destroy that poor, unsuspecting duck.]
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How sad it must be for the people who live in places where there aren't any flying men or lizard creatures who shoot purple rays out of their mouth.]
As it stands, I'm the only one of my kind here. Had there been another I would have been able to detect them immediately. [Dr. Gero would have never made someone after him he wouldn't already know about... right?]
You're talking to the only one.
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And is speed-counting all you can do?
[Near says this very matter-of-factly.]
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Oh well, if you're not capable of anything else, then I suppose I'll leave you be.
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But for what? What do you have to gain from seeing anything, anyway? [17 is definitely too selfish to use his abilities for someone else.]
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[Though of course that won't stop him from continuing to stalk you and those from your world. :3]
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Bunch of garbage. No need to collect all that information if isn't going to pertain to you or if you don't plan to use it. Who seeks knowledge for the sake of just knowing more? [Being the product of an experiment of sorts, 17 isn't going to go easy on this.]
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