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[Rolepgeek]

3

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

3, because it's fun!

Or 1 would be good...

[FelixSparks]

I say 2.

[NRDL]

2

[Vgray]

All throughout college, you kept finding excuses to be with Josh. You would play video games together, watch Kevin Smith movies together, even go to dances together "as friends," as in this photo. But somehow, he never quite got that you were really into him, and you just couldn't force yourself to make that terrifying leap into the unknown. What you had was comfortable. Eiji was always encouraging you to be brave, and at this dance in particular, he played a lot of the "Ada is so wonderful" game for you. No luck—Josh wasn't going to bite unless you flat out told him, and that is the one thing you were terrified of doing.

You notice that Eiji also left you a text. Eiji wants to meet for dinner at a jazz and sushi place in San Francisco, which is about an hour north of you. He also has tickets to a rendition of the musical Pippin in which most of the characters are robots.

Sounds like a date. That's a little terrifying.

You text back…

1) "Sounds great, see you then!"
2) "Afraid I can't tonight, sorry."
3) "Busy tonight, but do you want to come by tomorrow to see the robot?"
4) I don't reply—I'd prefer to pretend I missed the text.

Spoiler: Current Stats (click to show/hide)

Year: 2019

24-year-old Ada Doniec
  Humanity: 90%
  Gender: female
  Fame: 0 (Who?)
  Wealth: 0 (Broke)
  Romance: none

Your robot

  Autonomy: 1 (Buggy)
  Military: 0 (Nonexistent)
  Empathy: 10 (Stable)
  Grace: 0 (Nonexistent)

Relationships
  Professor Ziegler (Good): 52%
  Eiji (Good): 56%
  Josh (Good): 60%
  ?: 50%
  ?: 50%
  ?: 50%
  ?: 50%
  ?: 50%

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

1.

[FelixSparks]

1!

[NRDL]

1

[Vgray]

"Great!" Eiji texts back. "See you then!"

You spend the rest of the day drilling holes, polishing surfaces, cutting parts, and screwing things together.

When you are done, your robot's body stands before you: a wooden bipedal robot with a puppet head and Inspector Gadget arms. The whole thing is about three feet tall.

Now it only needs a name. What will you name your robot?

1) Pickle.
2) Curry.
3) Miku.
4) Sapling.
5) Daneel.
6) Gadget.
7) Beast.
8  Killall.
9) Ariel.
10) Caliban.
11) Famulus.
12) Gardyloo.
13) I'd prefer to come up with my own robot name.

[FelixSparks]

Hmmmm.... 10.

[NRDL]

+1

[Donuts]

1 or 2.

[Vgray]

It's a rough thing, your robot, and you name it for the rough beast of a man in Shakespeare's The Tempest, who served his magician master unwillingly.

Now that Caliban has a body, it might be time to treat Caliban more like a person. With what pronouns will you refer to Caliban?

1) "It" is just fine. It's not human.
2) I will refer to her as feminine.
3) I will refer to him as masculine.
4) I would prefer to use entirely new pronouns for robots: rhe, rer, and rhim.

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

3, because it matches the starting dream.

[Ama]

3.