The Knight Again

[odiousking]

[A young man clad in armor turns on the COMP. He looks into the camera with certainty in the audience beyond the lens. Despite his appearances, the technology doesn't seem to be an incredible challenge to him.]

My name is Oersted, a knight of Lucretia. I have been summoned here just as you all have for one reason or another. From this day on, I may either be your colleague or rival depending on where our paths take us.

It is for that reason I have called to all of you besides mere introductions.

I wish to know what all of you intend to contribute to this city in our coming days. You are all willing to fight when expected, yes? Then what reason do you have... besides being asked? And what is your reason?

... You may refrain from answering if you wish. This is just a way to satisfy my curiosity, nothing more, nothing less.

Comments

[universebeware]

Enough to make it well known that he's very persistent.

[Someone's really not very happy about that persistence, either.]

[odiousking]

In a battle of persistence, a machine possesses the greatest advantage. The concept of patience means nothing to you if your programming wills you to continue.

A human would have called it pointless and quit.

[universebeware]

There's the thing, though - I'm not simply a machine. I'm a mechanical life-form. I know the concept of patience, and I do not have much of it.

[odiousking]

Mechanical lifeform... A machine with an AI?

[universebeware]

I believe that's the closest thing that organics have crafted to what I am. I think, I feel - both sensation and emotion, and I age.

[odiousking]

A machine rusts and ceases to function. My limited knowledge tells me that much. Though you are interesting. So you're saying you may as well have skin than metal.

[universebeware]

I can still rust - not something I like to deal with, though. It's itchy. My body is metal - it's just that I'm alive compared to mundane machines.

Like how humans are alive compared to a mass of carbon and water.