Alright, rolling for two things: Sab's understanding of Thoc's language, and a virtual (i.e. I'm not gonna risk destroying) dissection of a translator.
Respond to Thoc by repeating Thoc’s language
6 (Ingenuity) + 4 (Knowledge) + 1 (scanner) + 4 + 4 = 19
Roll to scan the device
6 (Ingenuity)...
Thoc turned, raising his pistol to deal with the sudden intrusion. Sab quickly floated back a meter. The reptile growled in its strange, snarling language at him - a response expected by Sab. The blue light of the scanner washed over Thoc several times as he spoke, stopping when he finished...
>>query: Torrey(V)=“sorry, I can't remember the number. D'you have a short version?”
>>Searching...searching...
>>!ERROR!
>>Expand: ERROR=file.corrupted, access.path=1
>>Expand: Memory.file=31546513512453
Torrey’s question sent a quite literal jolt through Sab’s memory circuits, jump-starting...
Sab followed the pirate as he moved, maintaining what his data indicated was a polite distance but what a human would likely feel as encroaching into their personal space. The robot idly processed through the information Torrey’s scan had provided as he floated along: a human, with high...
Apologies for the lack of posts! I didn't realize that other people had posted, as I've been relying on the emailed notifications (which apparently are not reliable).
I'll try and sort something out on Saturday.
Sorry, didn't get the email notification that someone had posted in the OOC chat! Nice to meet you @Yngwie Schutz :)
Also, I finished doing the pic of Sab! :D updated his character sheet with it.
[A few minutes ago, before the battle…]
Van Stiver paced awkwardly around his small cabin aboard the Zenith. He had spent a considerable amount of time securing this room against both enemies and allies, a safehouse where he was free to relax and truly be himself. It was clean and unadorned...
“Pray tell, who is ‘him’? I would most certainly like to be of assistance, but the only 'hims' I have seen are those present,” the human responded. A wave of emotion swept through Sab’s circuitry; an unexpected, yet strangely familiar awareness that he was...tired. Or rather, that he had been...
The veteran engineer welcomed the attempted hack, easily reallocating the heat to be dispersed at various points throughout his equipment. The others would barely even notice him being slightly warmer, although it would take half an hour for the boiling temperatures to be vented. He glared at...
Hmmm, yeah I guess. I would have put it in as another Area of Expertise but I guess there's so many universal language translators out there that it won't really change anything.
>>systemsstartup=1
>>memorycore1=0
>>reset:memorycore1...resetting…
>>1%... 5%... 15%... 37%... 78%... 97%... 100%
>>memorycore1=1
>>SYSTEMS_OPERATIONAL
>>setX=27
>>setY=45
>>setZ=178
>>calibrationXYZ=1
A distant blue light shimmered to life behind the bot's single, slightly offset-from-centre...
@Dannigan Awesome first post! Feel free to carry around Sab for a little while yet, or even tinker with him a little (he has two mysterious symmetrical hatches on his left and right, containing long thin arms with three fingers at the end, and a single large optical lense limits to a camera on...