Drive In Movie Event Post

[bogusmagicker]

[Yuki blinks.
The book that she had made so certain to hold onto all day is not with her.  Alas.
She swivels her head sideways to look at the person next to her.  Nods.  Then swivels her head downwards to examine her lap.

She is content to stay like this for the next ten hours.]

Comments

[flyawaysage]

[Harpuia's a believer in keeping calm in strange situations. There's calm, however... and there's comatose. He tries to follow this girl's lead and stay quiet, but it doesn't take long before curiosity gets the better of him.]

...You certainly don't seem very surprised by all this.

[bogusmagicker]

It is a repeat of what happened the previous year at the same time.

[flyawaysage]

This has happened before?

[Another pause. Two utter strangers. Some insipid ancient movie or another. No escape? He cannot, for the life of him, fathom any sort of useful point to this scenario.]

...Why? What, exactly, do they intend for us to accomplish?

[bogusmagicker]

Fornication.

[flyawaysage]

[what]

Absolutely not.

[bogusmagicker]

[Yuki glances up at her partner.]

It is undesirable, yes.

[flyawaysage]

Forgive me for my rudeness, but I'm afraid I can't comply with this town's wishes. Even if we weren't strangers, I'm a reploid. I hardly feel it would be appropriate for us to... attempt to procreate.

[bogusmagicker]

Yes. You are from the world of Zero and Steel Massimo. You are . . . Harpuia?

[flyawaysage]

[He nods.]

You know of me?

[bogusmagicker]

I do.

. . .

You, too, are possessed of emotion?

[flyawaysage]

I am.

[bogusmagicker]

Ah.

[Yuki turns here head away and gazes silently at a spot somewhere to the left of Harpuia's head.]

It is . . . unusual.

[flyawaysage]

It may seem strange, but it's quite normal in my time. It would be stranger to imagine a reploid without feelings, honestly.

[bogusmagicker]

[Yuki's gaze shifts back to Harpuia. She blinks once. Her hands shift in her lap.]

They are programmed . . . ?

[flyawaysage]

[More nodding!]

There are still mechaniloids -- unintelligent machines -- but those with a sentient AI are written with the full emotional spectrum.

...It would be possible, theoretically speaking, to erase the ability to feel, but that would be unspeakably cruel, don't you think?

[bogusmagicker]

. . . Yes.

[It is cruel to regain a body without emotion after once having experienced it fully. It is cruel to go through that yet again for only a few days. But cruelest of all is the knowledge that one is developing irreversible 'internal errors' . . .

Yuki's head lowers slowly back to gaze at her lap. After many more awkward seconds pass, she speaks.]

Perfect efficiency does not require the utilization of emotion. Sentient AI without emotion may therefore operate unburdened by corrupted human influence.

. . . Is this statement agreeable?