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thelegion2017-06-03 04:31 pm
goddamngrenades) wrote in thelegion2017-06-03 04:31 pm
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[ TEXT ] SENDING OUT AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD
Quick Check in for Members of Project Freelancer, the UNSC, and our mutual associates- or anyone that wants to get word out about themselves having changed or not changed or...whatever. Has questions? This is Agent York and Delta, so far we're unaffected by this time ripple thing. Connie, North, Wash, Grif, Chief, Theta, Cortana, Locus, Azucar, Parker, Pidge, Fareeha, Amélie - and anyone else I'm forgetting, shoot me a text back, alright?
I'll deliver pancakes and blankets or other care package items if needed. If you'd rather come talk in person swing by my habitat, I'll be hanging in the bar. Directions are below. Also, Jason- buddy? Swing by, I feel like I owe you a beer.
[ In neat green lines there's a little holographic map showing how to get to York's dive bar from the recipient's current location, wherever they might be. ]
Specific refreshments are available upon request.
I'll deliver pancakes and blankets or other care package items if needed. If you'd rather come talk in person swing by my habitat, I'll be hanging in the bar. Directions are below. Also, Jason- buddy? Swing by, I feel like I owe you a beer.
[ In neat green lines there's a little holographic map showing how to get to York's dive bar from the recipient's current location, wherever they might be. ]
Specific refreshments are available upon request.
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[ John disapproves and is, for a moment, very very very fifteen. ]
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Give me a little credit, Spartan. The training facilities here are excellent, and there are extensive artificial biomes if you're more interested in challenging the environment than an opposing force.
[She then gets much less Halsey and more herself:]
You desperately need a firmware upgrade, anyway, and that'll take some acclimation time.
[Nothing against her creator circa 2526, but Cortana's got a quarter-century of Mjolnir improvements to work from, and she can give even the earliest iteration of the Mark IV a nice tuneup.]
[private]
It was current four days ago.
[ He'd accept that maybe something new ha been put together quickly, but the desperately seems odd. ]
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Yeah...I'm a better programmer than Dr. Halsey.
[Sorry Mom but it's true.]
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[ He's... feeling this situation out. John knows how smart AI's are made, and that's sort of worrying now that he's established nothing is on fire right now. ]
[private]
[He might be able to figure them out, though.
It really is a sign of how desperate they were during the late war years that no one questioned the smart AI who was a near-twin of the still-living Catherine Halsey.]
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[ And he's off and chewing that over. ONI doesn't think he needs the details, fine, but that doesn't mean he's not curious. There's always a certain satisfaction in figuring out something people don't want him to know, even if those people aren't the enemy.
But for now... ]
I'll... train.
[ Fine, he'll go to his room and play with his toys, but you can't make him like it. ]
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Well. There's also the cafeteria.
[She knows you like dessert, kid.]
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[ ...That does make things a little better, though. ]
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[Translation: don't call her "ma'am" it weirds her out when you do it.]
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[ ...Wait. ]
-Cortana.
[ He's trying. ]
[private]
[That's cute, and it's not really an adjective she'd considered applying to him before.
Annnnnd she's just not going to think about how ridiculously young he is.]
You need anything at all, just yell. I can't promise these temporal distortions won't affect me, but if I'm able to answer, I will.
[Even if she reverts to a time before meeting him, Cortana thinks that she'd at least respond out of curiosity, and her younger self will be able to evaluate their comms logs before he can finish phrasing a question, even a laconic Spartan one.]