[Deck Thirteen: the Tachikoma has decided to explore, and what should it find but FLOWERS? This calls for off-road investigation, which quickly turns into high-speed racing through the blossoms with manipulators flung upwards and clouds of petals flying in its wake. The communication device gets dropped somewhere in the melee and is activated. The ( Read more... )

[Now here's a familiar voice, for some of you.]

Hmm...Wow.

This network is really low-bandwidth. It can't even hold video!

[There's a sharp, tapping sound, as if someone were poking the mic with a pen.]

I never realized systems like this were still in operation...Okay, I get it now! I just have to contact the major and then this'll all turn ( Read more... )