[Video, voice, and text; Open; backdated to an hour after dawn.]

[icanhashearth]

[Video plays: time lapse photography of a sunrise in glowing pinks and gold, over a stunning vista of craggy, ice-covered mountains. A chintzy chime-like sound effect trills in the background. A smooth, genderless voice with no definable accent speaks in clear, precise cadence, a little stridently, while a text transcription of the words runs along

Comments

[doeswhathewants]

Question: how did you move from the baseball diamond when you got here?

[icanhashearth]

It seems I am an anomaly; I did not appear on the 'baseball diamond'.

[doeswhathewants]

Oh. Then you appeared where you are and are unable to move? I suppose that makes more sense.

[icanhashearth]

Yes, especially considering that I'm rather build into a mountaintop. I suspect it was more expedient not to crush the usual meeting place.

[doeswhathewants]

And all the people probably in that meeting place. Have you a name?

[icanhashearth]

No, just 'the House' will do fine. Machines in the Risen Empire don't have names, no matter how smart they are. It's considered improperly person-like.

[doeswhathewants]

Tch. That's hardly fitting. You ought to choose a name, at least while you're here. There are many houses here and the ambiguous references could get confusing.

[icanhashearth]

Senator Oxham's house, then. Choosing one's own name is...only Rix barbarians do things like that.

[doeswhathewants]

What's a Rix barbarian?

And Senator Oxham's House is far too long. Though the Ox House is a quaint little abbreviation.

[icanhashearth]

The Rix are emergent AI composed of the networks of entire planets, and the fanatical cyborgs that worship and propagate them.

[So much distaste.]

[Nervously] Oxham House, perhaps?

[doeswhathewants]

Oh. That sounds ... well, are there humans in that system? Or carbon based life forms?

[Narrows eyes and considers]

Still a mouthful, how do you feel about Oxham? [Because everything should have a proper name to butcher. One day he will just call you Ox. That's how Loki rolls.]

[icanhashearth]

Oh yes, humans are all over the galaxy. The Rix start off human, and they're a small minority of component populations. The cyborg Rix, not the planetmind Rix. It's a shamefully imprecise word.

[shyly] It still feels a bit presumptuous.

[doeswhathewants]

It sounds very imprecise. So they start off human and then modify themselves with technology.

Nonsense. You're not in your world now, and according to others, you won't remember this when you return. Why not relax, go with the flow.

SOB of course he's corrupting it already

[icanhashearth]

Quite.

I'm a good house, I behave. It doesn't matter where I am.

Yes. Yes he is <3

[doeswhathewants]

Behave? Tsk.

There's nothing about claiming a bit of autonomy for oneself that is misbehaving.

technically it is illegally smart already but LALALA SENATORIAL IMMUNITY NARA APPROVED IT OKAY

[icanhashearth]

For machines, that's exactly what misbehaving is.

I mean the fireplace was one thing, but taking the Mistress's name...