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ataraxionlogs2013-07-27 11:43 pm
functioningperfectly) wrote in ataraxionlogs2013-07-27 11:43 pm
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CHARACTERS: HAL 9000 & you!!!
LOCATION: One of the media libraries.
WARNINGS: Nothing so far, maybe some discussion of risque literature since, y'know, romance novels exist
SUMMARY: HAL is feeling a little restless, so he decides to try digging through the media library for anything that might be helpful.
NOTES: anyone can join in, anyone can think he works in the library somehow, who knows whatever you want lets go for it u3u
It takes a lot for HAL to feel overwhelmed. He thinks he's done a fairly good job of stemming off the anxiety that permeates most of the Tranquility and its crew - there have been some... problems, of course, but generally, it's gone well. Lately, however, things have felt more and more unmanageable; without anything to distract him, especially after the catastrophic pirate infiltration, HAL hasn't been able to find something distracting enough to take away from the hopelessness of the situation.
HAL, of course, is nothing if not resourceful, though, and so he immediately recognizes the signs of stress and anxiety and decides to find something to distract him. He'd been considering attempting to go through the media library for some time, but without his processing power, the task had seemed more than a little daunting. With no better time than now to attempt sorting through the massive library for potentially helpful information, though, he makes himself go to the library.
He starts at the first aisle and begins downloading several books and movies to his pad before pausing to flip through, speed reading as best he can. He shifts from foot to foot as he reads, and he may be chewing on his thumbnails. Not that he recognizes it, or anything.
He wishes he still had his language databases; the bits of language he does remember isn't doing much good on some of the books written in other languages. He's not even sure if all of them are Earthen languages, at this point.
LOCATION: One of the media libraries.
WARNINGS: Nothing so far, maybe some discussion of risque literature since, y'know, romance novels exist
SUMMARY: HAL is feeling a little restless, so he decides to try digging through the media library for anything that might be helpful.
NOTES: anyone can join in, anyone can think he works in the library somehow, who knows whatever you want lets go for it u3u
It takes a lot for HAL to feel overwhelmed. He thinks he's done a fairly good job of stemming off the anxiety that permeates most of the Tranquility and its crew - there have been some... problems, of course, but generally, it's gone well. Lately, however, things have felt more and more unmanageable; without anything to distract him, especially after the catastrophic pirate infiltration, HAL hasn't been able to find something distracting enough to take away from the hopelessness of the situation.
HAL, of course, is nothing if not resourceful, though, and so he immediately recognizes the signs of stress and anxiety and decides to find something to distract him. He'd been considering attempting to go through the media library for some time, but without his processing power, the task had seemed more than a little daunting. With no better time than now to attempt sorting through the massive library for potentially helpful information, though, he makes himself go to the library.
He starts at the first aisle and begins downloading several books and movies to his pad before pausing to flip through, speed reading as best he can. He shifts from foot to foot as he reads, and he may be chewing on his thumbnails. Not that he recognizes it, or anything.
He wishes he still had his language databases; the bits of language he does remember isn't doing much good on some of the books written in other languages. He's not even sure if all of them are Earthen languages, at this point.
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Nonetheless, HAL is still perfectly polite and nice to AM. Even if there's a hesitancy there that seems to be present in so many people AM interacts with.
"Ah... The library can indeed be interesting. So many cultures from outside of Earth..." He pauses and looks at the shelves of material, evaluating the mass quantity of information at his disposal. But really, the humanoids on other planets hardly differ from Earth's humans. It's not that interesting, aside from the differing technologies. "So much untapped technology right at my fingertips." He assumes that's what HAL means, of course, by 'being productive.'