Deactivating my secrecy protocols may have been a mistake. Divulging information on my nature does not prompt panic and dangerous investigation, as I am informed it would in my world of origin, but it does cause undue confusion and surprise. However, at this time I have...chosen not to reactivate that programming for two reasons. Many citizens ( Read more... )

[ Not far from a series of stalls selling cotton candy stands a new addition to the circus. It's a coin-operated fortune-telling machine of the kind usually inhabited by cackling animatronic caricatures of old gypsy women. This time, the occupant is just as robotic, but looks rather different than those gypsy witches. It's Aigis in the glass case, ( Read more... )