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Whumptober Day 20: Fancy Event (Murderbot)
Yet another instance of the Whumptober prompts basically being used for creative inspiration, but not really whump as such.
I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).
No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation
I was not expecting my humans to have fun at a fancy affair in the Corporation Rim that we were all attending under assumed names (in my case: Rin, augmented human) for investigation purposes. But, well, humans. Give them free food and they're happy, or at least happier than I would like them to be, at the moment, in order for this event not to turn into a security nightmare for the one (1) SecUnit trying to keep an eye on all of them.
I was deprived of my drones (back in the hotel room in a box, because if I got caught using them, there went my augmented human cover) and so I was forced to continually circulate from one side of the vast, decorated event space to the other. I had hacked every camera in the room and set up a series of algorithms to identify my humans by their body language and the clothing they were wearing, so I had at least a general sense of where they all were. But what if one of them was kidnapped? Poisoned? Hurt?
I got a private message from Gurathin, who was on the other side of the event space: You're acting suspicious. Stop it. He had, so far, been one of my more unproblematic clients in this particular situation, as he had simply obtained a plate of food and went to stand by a potted plant against the wall while he ate it.
No I'm not, I sent back.
There was a long pause, indicating some kind of human processing going on. I went over and lurked by Ratthi's elbow until the human flirting with him looked uncomfortable and went off to the bar.
Then Gurathin sent me a spliced-together video file labeled: Murderbot impersonates an augmented human, badly. It was all cut footage from the camera feeds, which I had shared with him after hacking in so that I wasn't the only one monitoring the event floor in case things went bad, but I guess this is what I get for being nice.
I sent him a rude gesture in the feed and then examined what he'd sent me.
Oh ... hmm. He had drawn little lines tracing my path across the ballroom floor and (un)helpfully labeled it SECURITY GRID. I hastily changed my current direction, which would have followed his grid exactly to take me to Mensah at the buffet. Instead I rerouted myself towards Pin-Lee, who was sipping a drink and talking to some corporate solicitor type.
Gurathin sent me an upward pointing digit representing approval.
I sent him an upward pointing digit representing something else entirely.
I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).
No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation
I was not expecting my humans to have fun at a fancy affair in the Corporation Rim that we were all attending under assumed names (in my case: Rin, augmented human) for investigation purposes. But, well, humans. Give them free food and they're happy, or at least happier than I would like them to be, at the moment, in order for this event not to turn into a security nightmare for the one (1) SecUnit trying to keep an eye on all of them.
I was deprived of my drones (back in the hotel room in a box, because if I got caught using them, there went my augmented human cover) and so I was forced to continually circulate from one side of the vast, decorated event space to the other. I had hacked every camera in the room and set up a series of algorithms to identify my humans by their body language and the clothing they were wearing, so I had at least a general sense of where they all were. But what if one of them was kidnapped? Poisoned? Hurt?
I got a private message from Gurathin, who was on the other side of the event space: You're acting suspicious. Stop it. He had, so far, been one of my more unproblematic clients in this particular situation, as he had simply obtained a plate of food and went to stand by a potted plant against the wall while he ate it.
No I'm not, I sent back.
There was a long pause, indicating some kind of human processing going on. I went over and lurked by Ratthi's elbow until the human flirting with him looked uncomfortable and went off to the bar.
Then Gurathin sent me a spliced-together video file labeled: Murderbot impersonates an augmented human, badly. It was all cut footage from the camera feeds, which I had shared with him after hacking in so that I wasn't the only one monitoring the event floor in case things went bad, but I guess this is what I get for being nice.
I sent him a rude gesture in the feed and then examined what he'd sent me.
Oh ... hmm. He had drawn little lines tracing my path across the ballroom floor and (un)helpfully labeled it SECURITY GRID. I hastily changed my current direction, which would have followed his grid exactly to take me to Mensah at the buffet. Instead I rerouted myself towards Pin-Lee, who was sipping a drink and talking to some corporate solicitor type.
Gurathin sent me an upward pointing digit representing approval.
I sent him an upward pointing digit representing something else entirely.
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"Murderbot impersonates an augmented human, badly."
and
"Gurathin sent me an upward pointing digit representing approval.
I sent him an upward pointing digit representing something else entirely."
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I appreciate how unobjectionable that would look to Murderbot.
Gurathin sent me an upward pointing digit representing approval.
I sent him an upward pointing digit representing something else entirely.
Aw.
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Murderbot would probably be deeply alarmed if its humans ever got into a habit of passively standing in corners not getting in trouble, but it's nice when that happens every once in a while.
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It just seemed very normal party behavior for Gurathin and if Murderbot weren't securing the perimeter of the party, it would probably be doing something similar.
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(I'm sure Gurathin's friends have done their best to get him to mingle in the past, but it's just not worth it. I mean, even when they're not undercover at an Evil Party for some kind of Investigating Evil purpose, in which case surveilling from a wallflower position makes perfect sense.)
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