Test Log Fifteen: Where do I know that name? /possible spoilers for Portal 2.

[getsciencedone]

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[hontobakabaka]

[Ruri watches the parts fly for a bit before walking near but not in GLaDOS' throwing arc]

"Do you need some help gathering parts Miss GLaDOS?"

[hontobakabaka]

"Well, if you'd like. I can unplug from Omoikane for a while and do the scan. Let me know."

[She ponders for a minute]

"What's a personality core?"

[getsciencedone]

.......I'll think about it.

[And her expression becomes annoyed.]

Small cores that the scientists put on me to control my behaviour.

They were always talking, and talking. They drove me crazy.

[It may have done that literally.]

[hontobakabaka]

"Oh, those. Omoikane and I did... Weapons tests... On the people who tried to do that to him. Well, he shot at them which got them angry and I convinced their monitoring programs that the toaster oven was really his central data grid. Either way it was an idiotic way of trying to get someone to do what you want."

[getsciencedone]

Did you?

[She didn't have anyone to try and help her.]

Well it failed anyway. They're all dead now. Even if some of the cores are still there....

[She pauses, anger cut off as she remembers something.]

Oh...no they're not.

I suppose they're ash now.

[hontobakabaka]

"I did. Why should I let an idiot hurt a friend?"

[She ponders for a minute then nods]

"Well, it sounds like they were all maddening so incinerating them was probably a good move. That way no one could try to do it again."

[getsciencedone]

.....but you're human aren't you?

[Humans have one good trait. Their ability to die run tests.]

Oh the scientists? They were dead by then.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

[hontobakabaka]

"Mostly. I was engineered to think more like a computer than a person, and taught much the same. A lot of the things humans do doesn't make sense, but I try to get along."

[She shrugs a bit]

[getsciencedone]

Oh....I suppose that does make sense. You do seem more logical then most humans.

[hontobakabaka]

"If it helps, when I was very little, I was introduced to Omoikane as a nanocolony that was hiding in a meat sack. It was a disgusting way of looking at it, but. Most of the scientists were disgusting people."

[getsciencedone]

Most humans are.

A lot of them are also, horrible people.

[hontobakabaka]

[She looks down, she wants to argue that, but, really she can't.]

"Some of them aren't. But I can't really argue, the adult world of humans seems to be built on lies and self interest."

[getsciencedone]

Yes. I've only seen a few children. Some came to the "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" when I was activated.

I didn't get to see them for very long though.

[That might have had something to do with the fact that she'd locked the place down and filled it with neurotoxin, one picosecond after being activated.]

[hontobakabaka]

"Oh... I heard about those. I guess technically, if I wanted to live with my biological parents I could go through something like that back home, but, I'm not well built for such a stupid job. I just worked like anyone else."

"Still, it must have been an interesting day."

[getsciencedone]

Oh yes.

It was very interesting.

[Don't mind her slightly creepy voice.]

[hontobakabaka]

[She nods a little, not really minding the creepy voice, she's probably heard worse. Or at least she doesn't get the context.]

"Still, a love of science needs to be taught at an early age."