(The text message initially comes in a bit garbled and glitchy, but fortunately Xanadu intervenes and cleans it up in place.)
Hm. Tricky. Let's see... Sight and hearing are fairly readily replaceable with cybernetic stuff -- at least in my universe/time -- but that's probably cheating under the circumstances, so they're out because they're both pretty vital for my multiversal adventuring purposes (i.e., "noticing enemies and shooting them before they can shoot me"). I like food too much to lose the ability to taste. Touch seems like an obvious solution, given how much time I spend in all-enclosing armor, but no, it passes touch sensations back to me, which is good so that I don't accidentally crush things, so that's out. I think I'd have to default to smell, even with how it connects to taste and food, as the relative best of a range of bad options.
(I think the other abstract "sense"s that other guy who responded above are kind of a cheat-y cop-out, but if I was allowed to do something like that instead, I think I'd go with "sense of homesickness," which is something I've had at least a little bit of for so long that I'm never sure if losing it would be worse than it never going away.)
That's the kind of service we like to provide, here at Blood Gul--- wait, no, that'd be the Black Mesa Defense Facility for the time being.
Mind if I ask just why you were asking? I'm glad that someone else already got assurances of not trying to take them from us, but I'm going to guess there's more than just idle curiosity here, if only because that's more interesting.
I'm sorry to say, but it is mainly idle curiosity, but the long and the short of it is, I do not have access to the normal senses humans possess and I would like to understand them and thereby better myself.
Aha. Well, that's understandable, then. So what are you, if not human? (I'm getting some chatter from someone on my end who should not be tapping my Nexus communications, thank you, but guesses either a robot or AI, on the grounds that "aliens and other organic life usually have their own sorts of senses.")
Ah, well, close enough. You're already doing pretty well.
Yes, thank you, Serina, that will be all.
(Sorry, dude, I think I might have to hang up the line. Someone needs a talking-to about politeness, and I can't do that and talk to you and keep up my end of the fighting I'm in. Good luck with figuring out senses and everything.)
Hm. Tricky. Let's see... Sight and hearing are fairly readily replaceable with cybernetic stuff -- at least in my universe/time -- but that's probably cheating under the circumstances, so they're out because they're both pretty vital for my multiversal adventuring purposes (i.e., "noticing enemies and shooting them before they can shoot me"). I like food too much to lose the ability to taste. Touch seems like an obvious solution, given how much time I spend in all-enclosing armor, but no, it passes touch sensations back to me, which is good so that I don't accidentally crush things, so that's out. I think I'd have to default to smell, even with how it connects to taste and food, as the relative best of a range of bad options.
(I think the other abstract "sense"s that other guy who responded above are kind of a cheat-y cop-out, but if I was allowed to do something like that instead, I think I'd go with "sense of homesickness," which is something I've had at least a little bit of for so long that I'm never sure if losing it would be worse than it never going away.)
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This is very much the sort of answer I had been looking for.
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Mind if I ask just why you were asking? I'm glad that someone else already got assurances of not trying to take them from us, but I'm going to guess there's more than just idle curiosity here, if only because that's more interesting.
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I'm a good mimic and looking to improve myself.
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Yes, thank you, Serina, that will be all.
(Sorry, dude, I think I might have to hang up the line. Someone needs a talking-to about politeness, and I can't do that and talk to you and keep up my end of the fighting I'm in. Good luck with figuring out senses and everything.)
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