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[yucca_isnt_porn]

There is a Not!Ray in the bar tonight, bunkered in a corner booth. There are two notable things about him currently. One, he has enough anti-water defensive gear to tip off anyone stalking him that yes he knows you're onto and he's very prepared to deal with you

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[smart_house]

From behind Mother: "Hello Doctor St---!"

No.

Wait.

"I must be confused."

[yucca_isnt_porn]

"I get that a lo--."

Did the steel door just talk to him??

[smart_house]

"Who are you, since you look so similar?"

SARAH hasn't tried yet to explain the fact that indeed, she is essentially a disembodied voice from an inanimate object.

[yucca_isnt_porn]

"I go by the handle 'Mother'." That is probably all the information SARAH's going to get out of him too.

We repeat. PARANOID.

[smart_house]

"I am a Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat," SARAH explains. "SARAH for short.

"Was Mother an assigned handle?"

[yucca_isnt_porn]

"Got it in college during a prank. Works better than my real name for most situations." Sadly, those situations do not include the DMV and driver's licenses. "...you're the talking door."

[smart_house]

"You've heard of me? Oh, I hope good things."

[yucca_isnt_porn]

"...only in passing conversations."

He is an accomplished evesdropper.

[smart_house]

This is not progressing as SARAH might like.

"Have you also had negative experiences with sentient houses?"

[yucca_isnt_porn]

"Not really...you're the first experience I've had with a sentient house. ...Sentient programs, talking rodents and conspiracies? oooh yeh."

[smart_house]

"Would you like to visit?" SARAH offers with a more cheerful tone. "I enjoy having guests over, and I could teach you about how I work."

[yucca_isnt_porn]

...The shiny tech is inviting him over for milk and cookies.

"Yes!"

[smart_house]

The steel door swings wider; an invitation if SARAH could ever manage one.

"Down the stairs and to the right. Please be aware that I am a converted nuclear fallout shelter. You will not be leaving Milliways by coming over to visit."

[yucca_isnt_porn]

...

SARAH? You just made him go squee. It was a tiny drawn out sound, which would have only been perceptible to folks of the canine persuasion, but it was there.

And thus Mother is gathering up all his goodies and hauling them in with him. "Oh this is too cool."

[smart_house]

The living room itself is awash in blues and purples, and the partitions that are normally recessed into the walls are half-closed: the hallway leading back from the internal door to the kitchen is available, but one cannot complete the circuit around the staircase and through the dining area back into the living room.

"Could I offer you anything to drink?"

[yucca_isnt_porn]

"Fruit juice or a cola if you've got em. Otherwise I'm good." Mother's shinytech instincts often overpower his paranoia. Such is the case here because OMFG is it ever full of shinytech here.