Wind Priestess Quest - The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West.

[WodofGar]

>"Koishi! Please be kinder to Mimi-chan! Mimi-chan is essential to solving this incident."

[Neovereign]

>"That is, if we can figure out how to use her and she works right when we get there..."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Koishi! Please be kinder to Mimi-chan! Mimi-chan is essential to solving this incident."

>"That is, if we can figure out how to use her and she works right when we get there..."

>"Can't she tell you how she works?" Koishi asks.
>_

_{//Also, Merry Christmas! (Or Merry Late Christmas if it's no longer Christmas in your locale...)}

[Neovereign]

>"Well... No harm in asking now, I hope."
>"So Mimi-chan, when you have a working core, how do we, uh, activate or utilize you?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Well... No harm in asking now, I hope."
>"So Mimi-chan, when you have a working core, how do we, uh, activate or utilize you?"

>"MIMI-CHAN IS BUSY WITH COMPUTATIONS AND DOES NOT APPRECIATE YOU DISTURBING HER... HOWEVER, IF YOU MUST KNOW, MIMI-CHAN IS FULLY CAPABLE OF SELF-CALIBRATION ACCORDING TO THE USER'S INSTRUCTIONS. MIMI-CHAN CAN THEN EITHER BE FIRED OUT OF A PROJECTILE WEAPON SYSTEM, OR ACTIVATE SELF-PROPULSION SYSTEMS IF NO SUCH WEAPONS SYSTEMS ARE READILY AVAILABLE. MIMI-CHAN WILL THEN GUIDE HERSELF TO THE INTENDED TARGET TO THE BEST OF HER ABILITY. NOW PLEASE, DO NOT DISTURB MIMI-CHAN ANY FURTHER, THESE COMPUTATIONS ARE... USING UP MORE PROCESSING POWER THAN MIMI-CHAN ORIGINALLY ALLOCATED... MIMI-CHAN NEEDS TO FOCUS ON COMPLETING THEM..."
>_

[Neovereign]

>"I doubt you'll be able to figure it out, Mimi-chan, but if it makes you happy trying, go on. Just don't break yourself or anything"
>"So how was it being with Reimu, Ruukoto?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"I doubt you'll be able to figure it out, Mimi-chan, but if it makes you happy trying, go on. Just don't break yourself or anything"
>"So how was it being with Reimu, Ruukoto?"

>"It was pleasant while it lasted..." Ruukoto replies.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Oh yeah, almost forgot to ask. Koishi, did you pass by anyone on your way here?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Oh yeah, almost forgot to ask. Koishi, did you pass by anyone on your way here?"

>"Well, I passed Orin, a bunch of oni, that bridge princess, some earth spiders, a youkai living in a bucket, and a couple of fairies, but that's pretty much it. Why?"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Oh, that's relieving. Mimi-chan warned us of how far you were, as well as a couple of others. We were just worried about them being obstacles."
>"Huh, was Orin doing anything interesting?"

[WodofGar]

>"Oh yeah, she was burning people alive! Isn't that funny? Why are you looking at me that way?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Oh, that's relieving. Mimi-chan warned us of how far you were, as well as a couple of others. We were just worried about them being obstacles."

>"Mimi-chan knew I was coming?" Koishi asks, "Is she - it's a she, right...? - Is she psychic or something?"

>"Huh, was Orin doing anything interesting?"

>"No. Not really."
>_

[Neovereign]

>"I suppose it would be a she, mostly due to the voice... It's part of one of her features. She's a robot... sort of. She can, uh, detect things from afar with a sonar."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"I suppose it would be a she, mostly due to the voice... It's part of one of her features. She's a robot... sort of. She can, uh, detect things from afar with a sonar."

>"She's a rowboat? She doesn't look like a rowboat... And what's a soh-narr?" Koishi looks puzzled, "Is it a kind of danmaku? Ability? Birth defect? Mental disorder?"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"It's Row- bot. Bot. It's a machine, like the television and heaters I have at my shrine. I guess a sonar would be equivalent to eyes, somewhat."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"It's Row- bot. Bot. It's a machine, like the television and heaters I have at my shrine. I guess a sonar would be equivalent to eyes, somewhat."

>"Oh, a machine, so like all the doodads in the reactor room? You said the android is a machine too, right? I don't believe you. If Mimi-chan and the android are machines, then why do they have subconsciouses? The machines in the reactor room don't have them..."
>"I beg your pardon, young Koishi, but you must be mistaken." Ruukoto politely interjects, "Mimi-chan and I don't have subconsciouses. The closest equivalent we have are background tasks and processes, but even those are radically different, let alone much more simplistic, than what a human would define as a subconscious."
>"You lie. Your subconsciouses are there. And they're just like most subconsciouses I've seen... Well, except for the fact that half the time they seem to vanish completely... And the fact that they make my brain hurt just by looking at them for a few seconds... Also, Sanae, what does this 'sonar' thing look like? Does it look like an eye? Does it looks like something else? Is it pokeable?"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"I'm not sure why they have subconscious'... If you're right though, then I really want to meet their creator. Or at least figure out how they were made."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"I'm not sure why they have subconscious'... If you're right though, then I really want to meet their creator. Or at least figure out how they were made."

>"I honestly doubt you'd be able to meet our creators." Ruukoto responds, "I was manufactured in a plant, just like several thousand others in my production line, in the city of - ERROR: DATA CORRUPT - in the year - ERROR: DATA CORRUPT - from a world not like this one. And Mimi-chan and the others in her line were built by my original owner, Miss - ERROR: DATA CORRUPT - but she left this world a long time ago... Anyway, Mistress, I assure you that neither of us possess a subconscious."
>"She's lying..." Koishi remarks.
>"I most certainly am not!"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Describe it and what she's thinking then, Koishi."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Describe it and what she's thinking then, Koishi."

>"Well, it's not very easy to describe... Half the time it's like it's there, and half the time it isn't. And it also makes my head hurt when I look at it. But I already said this several times..." Koishi replies, "Anyways, It's pretty hard to read it too, because of that, but looking at android, I can piece together some things... Namely, a fear of abandonment, and a feeling of... emptiness... and - Ugh, I can't take it anymore, my brain hurts..."
>"Now who's fabricating false information?" Ruukoto responds, "Saying that I have fear and feeling is a false statement. I am incapable of emotion..."
>"Trust me. I'm not lying."
>"Pardon my language, but believe me when I say that you are so full of sh-"
>Ruukoto's sentence is punctuated by a bleeping noise akin to what you would hear when a swear word is censored on Outside World television.

>"^{_{ADJUSTING COMPUTATION PARAMETERS...}}" Mimi-chan quietly drones.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"RUUKOTO! Er... you shouldn't speak like that to our friends, Ruukoto. Please be more considerate."
>She was shocked when we met her and when we talked about her core. Not to mention how she's taking this whole subconscious deal. Koishi's definitely right.
>"Now, I wouldn't mind it if you had a subconscious, Ruukoto. I'd probably like that a bit, to be honest. If you had one though, I guess..."

[WodofGar]

>"I mean, you were made to be a human like robot, so if you had a subconscious that would mean whoever created you was a genius."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"RUUKOTO! Er... you shouldn't speak like that to our friends, Ruukoto. Please be more considerate."

>"Oh, erm... I'm so terribly sorry, mistress. I don't know what came over me. Please forgive me."

>She was shocked when we met her and when we talked about her core. Not to mention how she's taking this whole subconscious deal. Koishi's definitely right.

>You agree that Koishi is right about her. Her behavior when handling some situations is atypical of what you would expect from a robot.

>"Now, I wouldn't mind it if you had a subconscious, Ruukoto. I'd probably like that a bit, to be honest. If you had one though, I guess..."

>"I mean, you were made to be a human like robot, so if you had a subconscious that would mean whoever created you was a genius."

>"Well, I admit that I'm flattered. But it should be impossible for me to possess a subconscious. None of the others in my production line have one, and I was manufactured based on the same blueprint. Besides, it would've been illegal to construct me with the capacity to be more human-like than I already am. You see, in the society that I came from, there are laws governing how advanced and human-like an AI could be, and a violation of those laws is a serious offense..."
>_

[WodofGar]

>"Then I blame ambient magic. You've been in Gensokyo a while, I wouldn't be surprised if you're part tsukumogami or something like that."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Then I blame ambient magic. You've been in Gensokyo a while, I wouldn't be surprised if you're part tsukumogami or something like that."

>"Well, if that's the case then, I guess 'magic' is a curious thing..."
>"COMPUTATIONS COMPLETE." Mimi-chan drones.

>You can see the hot springs in the distance now.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Almost halfway there everyone. It's going to get pretty warm, so be ready."
>"I'm almost afraid to ask, but what were the results, Mimi-chan?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Almost halfway there everyone. It's going to get pretty warm, so be ready."

>"Well DUH! We've been there before..." Mima snarks.
>"Don't worry." Ruukoto replies, "I'm designed to withstand temperatures up to 2000 degrees Kelvin."

>"I'm almost afraid to ask, but what were the results, Mimi-chan?"

>"MIMI-CHAN HAS COME UP WITH TWO POSSIBLE SCENARIOS WHICH WOULD ACCOUNT FOR THE DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE ANDROID'S ERRATIC BEHAVIOR." the missile began, "SCENARIO 01: RUUKOTO IS DEFECTIVE OR DAMAGED, AND IS UNAWARE OF IT. PROBABILITY OF BEING TRUE: 25%... SCENARIO 02: PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO UNIDENTIFIED ENERGY SIGNATURE 00, WHICH MIMI-CHAN'S CREATOR DEFINED AS 'MAGIC', HAS CAUSED THE CHANGE OF BEHAVIOR. PROBABILITY OF BEING TRUE: 74%... THERE IS A 1% PROBABILITY THAT NEITHER POSSIBILITY IS TRUE... MARGIN OF ERROR FOR COMPUTATIONS: 5%"

>"Did anyone else find that booooring?" Koishi remarks.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Well, she was just stating what we just found out a second ago... Ruukoto isn't that damaged anyways. Just a bit of bad data. Nothing too troublesome though."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Well, she was just stating what we just found out a second ago... Ruukoto isn't that damaged anyways. Just a bit of bad data. Nothing too troublesome though."

>"Bad data?" Koishi asks as the group descends closer to the chasm.
>_

[Neovereign]

^{//Happy new year, guys~}
>"Ruukoto seems to announce 'Data not found' when trying to talk about her creator."
>Take off our Winter Outfit and store it.