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[abculatter_2]

Reading through only this last page, this seems intriguing.

I'll read the OP now and fill out whatever I need to join.

Command: Begin existence, observe surroundings.

[Demonic Spoon]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Resume control of the robot, explore, attempt to find a part of the probe that is above the mud.

[Armok]

Spoiler: Abculatter (click to show/hide)

You can not begin existence, because you already exists!

You can't really examine your surroundings all that much either, because they only consist of a white ">_" on a black background that fils your entire feild of vision, some incomprehensible sounds, and one comprehensiblle sound of somone saying "Probably yes.".

You somehow know how to do two posible actions: inputting something into that console in front of you, or speaking.

((From now on, please post your actions in spoiler tags, so you dont tip of others about what's going on. Except for the speaking because everyone can hear what the others are saying. And don't read other peoples spoiler tags!)) 

Spoiler: Demonic Spoon (click to show/hide)

Back to kineticMind and back to the bot. Nothing seems to have changed since you left.
You quickly orient yourself, and then uncoil, worming slowly along the hull constantly keeping in contact with it in order to not get lost. After maybe a meter, you feel the temperature of the mud drop and the texture change, and a few centimetres further you breach the surface into cold air.
Extending yourself about half your length up, you open your tentacly corona and look around. The sky is overcast, a dirty brownish grey in colour. The black mud plain you're on seems to stretch on for miles, dotted with puddles and pools, but hard to discern beyond the mist mountains seem to loom. The proble towers much nearer, reminding of an immense, strangely shaped chrome egg, he kilometers long chared trench formed by it's impact slowly filling with water, and a wall of evaporated steam is raising above it. You realize the faint reverberating thunder you hear is also a remnant of it's fiery decent.

[Demonic Spoon]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Climb to the top of the probe.

[Armok]

Spoiler: Demonic Spoon (click to show/hide)

You pull the rest of you out of the ground, and grab the probes side. Ow, it's hot, but luckily not hot enough to damage you. You grab it with the other end, release the first, grab with the higher up, etc. until you've gotten to the top. You see nothing you didn't see before, the mud plain just extends for kilometres in every direction.

[Demonic Spoon]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Explode.

[Armok]

Spoiler: Demonic Spoon (click to show/hide)

Even if it was possible and you knew how, that'd be really stupid and destructive.

[Frajic]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

C:\dir(print the available files and folders)

"Hello?"

[Armok]

Spoiler: Dwarf Midget (click to show/hide)

If not for the training you can't currently remember well this would have been the most archaic system you had ever seen. At least the phsycoadaptive data presentation system is working, giving you a nice and basic overview without to much clutter for your current damaged state to handle. Makes you wonder why they didn't integrate more systems into the simulation that way. Probably the lack of time...

((Wow. Finaly what appears to be a sensible player!

Also, EVERYONE should do that thing where you list after the command what you hope it'll do, it's amazingly helpfull!))

[Frajic]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

C:\cd usr\share\doc\howto\(changes the folder)
C:\usr\share\doc\howto\dir(dir actually puts on screen the files and folders available from the current location, but whatevz)

[Armok]

Spoiler: Dwarf midget (click to show/hide)

Could not find /usr/share/doc/howto. Current location now   /usr/share/doc.

((Yea, I realize this is inconsistent with the image, but someone used the same command earlier so I have to give the same response as I did then. You're doing better than any other player has so far.))

[Frajic]

Spoiler: Dwarf midget (click to show/hide)

Could not find /usr/share/doc/howto. Current location now   /usr/share/doc.

((Yea, I realize this is inconsistent with the image, but someone used the same command earlier so I have to give the same response as I did then. You're doing better than any other player has so far.))

>10 pages in
>in two posts I'm the player who has done the best

Guys, I am disappoint.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

C:\usr\share\doc dir
(gotta find out what I've actually got, right?)

[Armok]

Spoiler: Dwarf midget (click to show/hide)

For some reason there is a sudden switch to... is that interface GNOME?! Must be some odd artefact of some learning system that it opened it.

In one window, random samples from every piece   of art or science ever made by humanity flashes past to fast to be seen.
Another,   a wiki start page is opening.
A third one is loading a non-linear   holo presentation file named "mission statement"
A forth one lists   some technical files you seem to have forgotten with your   damage.

Well, I took the longer time into acount. The others have obviusly discovered more, but you are where they were when they had 10 posts or somehting.

[Frajic]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

C:\usr\share\doc\mission statement(this should open/view the file)

[Armok]

Spoiler: Dwarf midget (click to show/hide)

"Nonlinear holo presentation" = a bunch of 3d video snippets with   hyperlink like functionality on some words and objects featured in them,   and some interactive elements and etc. You're currently at the index.   Most of them are jut of a virtual avatar representing the UWD (Unions of   Western Democracies. More or less what it sounds like. China, most   third world countries, and a few outliners like Canada and Iceland short   of being a world government).
 
  Most of the listings in the index are either things that don't really   make sense out of context provided by snipets that link them, or speches   for specific situations.
  The one of those that seem most aplicable is "Damage in transit -   Mission in jeopardy - intr"