[Voice//Locked from Malnosso & Traitors]

[malnosso]

[A quiet, deep female voice murmurs.] Initiate basic introductory subroutines. ...Execute.

[-BEEP- A tinny female voice begins to speak.]

Greetings, New Feathers. Welcome to the Automated Neutral Intelligence system. You may call me ANI. I have been developed by a currently unnamed party to observe the movements of you, these "Malnosso"

Comments

[ghostsnaps]

Whoa, robot.

..."Outside"?

[malnosso]

The barrier.

[ghostsnaps]

Okay, but who's outside it?

[malnosso]

The Outsiders. Myself and my creator, several other beings.

[ghostsnaps]

..."Several". That doesn't sound like many.

[malnosso]

"Several" is relative to geographical location.

[ghostsnaps]

...How big is it outside?

[malnosso]

The circumference of the planet on which we currently reside is roughly 40,000 kilometers, rounded.

[ghostsnaps]

Huh.

...Wait, isn't that.

Hold on a second.

How many kilometers in a mile... [He's scritching little numbers and the math for this on a journal margin.]

Okay, so divide that by 1.6--no, easier to multiply the miles--

...That's about the same size as Earth, isn't it?

...Is it Earth? Are we on Earth? What the hell?

[malnosso]

Negative. The planet on which we currently reside strongly resembles Earth, however.

[ghostsnaps]

And that's just...coincidence?

[malnosso]

I do not know.

[ghostsnaps]

...

Hey, can you fight?

[malnosso]

I am an AI construct. I have no physical body.

[ghostsnaps]

So not that kind of robot. Too bad.