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Post by miokalia on Apr 8, 2007 22:34:36 GMT -5
"Well it seems there are some problems which society will work out on its own when the necessity arises.", said Andertol.
"You seem to really like us and yet, a great deal of my people, particularly the integrated, fear you. Not those of you who emulate us, but rather those that seem to think we are a commodity", said Blinn.
"Well seeing that no one is injured, I suppose that went well. Is there anything else? Or is it about adjourning time?", asked Andertol.
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 8, 2007 23:48:55 GMT -5
"Then, if there is nothing further to add..." Wingstin said, pausing to be sure.
Geneec and Rincon stood up, and Rincon said, "We think its necessary to thank our Miokalian visitors for taking the time to be here with us the past few days. We've all been through a lot and it only makes sense that we honor them."
Geneec made the traditional Kazian greeting/so-long gesture of the high-five, followed quickly by the rest of the Panel.
"Then I call this 241st Panel meeting of the New Order, Adjourned." *Crack*
The members of the Panel began moving out, Geneec and Pacen approached Andertol, Blinn, and Itka.
Pacen said to the others, "Nice job there everyone. We saw quite a bit of friction, and I think it was handled pretty well."
Geneec said, "I don't know about you guys, but I'm beat. I need a cold drink, something to eat, and good company." Geneec grabbed Rincon's arm and began rubbing the top of his head on it, and with a big smile said, "Ohh Rincon! We need to get outa here. How bout we 'discuss things' at the Downstream Lounge?," he flipped a foot in the air behind his body.
Pacen gently pushed the fox hanging all over him to one side. "Downstream Lounge sounds good to me. Its uhh.. *ahem* private, and secure. You three wouldn't be in any danger of anything."
Pacen says privately to the other 3, "I have to help this guy clean up," he points at Geneec, who's nonchalantly prancing around in the background, "I dunno, something about not being able to straighten all his fur or something. Its a furry problem."
"Anyway," he continued aloud this time, "meet you guys there at ohh.. say 6? Use the name Geneec Seventyfix to get a room. Hes' the one with the account there."
[Downstream Lounge is an establishment where small groups of people go to do whatever; talk, watch TV, get drunk,.. other things, in rooms, lined with couches, a bar, and soft, bed-like surfaces. Each room is private to the group, and they are not disturbed unless they call for an attendant.]
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Post by miokalia on Apr 9, 2007 1:20:27 GMT -5
(at the diplomatic accomodations)
Andertol shook his head at the fact the sheets he had so painstakingly made into a nest the night before were now neatly tucked around the mattresses of the beds again by the housekeeping staff when they visited while they were out.
He removed them from the beds and then piled all of them back up. Excluding the itchy wool blanket and the frilly comforter with it's fuzzy trim aroung the edges.
"What the hell. Who would want hair in their face all night long? Why do they put this fuzzy stuff around the edges! Everyone except us is insane!", complained Andertol.
"It's supposed to be luxurious.", said Blinn.
"It's not luxurious! It's counter-intuitive.", said Andertol.
"Well this nest seems to be a little thin. Not that I mind.", replied Blinn.
Andertol then picked up the phone for room service and said to the operator, "I want 50 pillows. Yes that's correct. 50. No I don't care if it's exact, I'm not going to count them. I just need a lot of pillows."
Soon a flat-bed full of pillows was rolled up to the room and Andertol unloaded them, much to the bellhop's surprize.
"Thank you, I can unload them myself." he said.
"Might I ask, uh, why you need so many pillows?", asked the roomservice associate.
"Pillowfight, duh", said Andertol.
The bellhop's eyes went wide in disbeleif.
"This seems to be the makings of a pillowcaust", he said.
Andertol chuckled a bit and then said, "roflcular pillowcaust lol"
After the roomservice left and Andertol closed the door, Itka asked, "We're not really going to have a pillowfight are we? I'm not in the mood."
"No, I wasn't actually planning on it. I'm going to use these for supplemental padding and insulation.", said Andertol, "And what's wrong. What do you mean by 'not in the mood'?".
"Permission to speak freely?", Itka asked.
"If you're asking me that question, you can always assume the answer is yes. This isn't the military.", said Andertol.
"I don't like it here. If I weren't a visiting diplomat security, then I would be a comodity here. Some of these people would buy and sell me. They would use me.
I would spend so many dark hours alone... and every once in a while they'd use me to kill things. To destroy other units, possibly of my family or reletives.", said Itka.
He looked up at Andertol. His eyes were black panels recessed beneath his white cover armor. There was only a small glow of red from the bottoms of them.
"I'm just a weapon to them. I might as well be a firearm in your pocket here.
I've never had to deal with this kind of insecurity before. I just want to scream.
I know I'm suposed to be this cold emotionless rock here, and I can do it by simply shutting 'emotion' off like a switch... but It's really hard not to notice, Hiyke. It's really hard not to think about the fact that I know there are other individuals like me out there. Living in constant feral fear.
The way you defended us, even when you said you would try to play the whole matter down earlier... you still had to voice what you thought was right anyway. You couldn't supress that very well, and that means a lot.
That's something that I don't think any less organic-like of an AI could possibly appreciate in the way we do.", said Itka.
"Itka", said Andertol as Blinn took notice of how personal this was about to get and left for a different part of the suite, "Now that your Yamato-security fascade is down, I want to tell you something.
I've been in love with you since the day you were assigned to my office.
It's because of your species that I can even call myself barely sucessful. Phong practically picked me up off the street. I was miserable. I wasn't even around my own kind. I was lumped in with idiots and drunkards simply because I was unusual and dirt poor. It took something like Phong to find an intellectual like me in that wasteland. When he took me up, I decided to myself, 'if these machines want to make me their pet as they execute whatever scheme they have for this terrible world which has wiped itself all over me. Then fine with me. Let them burn the whole bolalos down! These machines were the only ones who were at least honest.'
Of course, that wasn't Phong's intention at all, it wasn't in the nature of the Malych at all. I had been living outside the Fed for a very long time and didn't know these things.
There are Malych who are capable of loving more honestly and more genuinely than many organics. In a way, there are some organics, who are in fact, emulating this behavior which has perhaps been mistakingly attributed to them.
For you though. Even if this is an emulation... it's more genuine than that of many organics I've known.
And for some inexplicable reason, I've always thought of you since you showed up. Whenever I think of how it is you all think, I think of you and it diffuses all the anger or hate I'm holding at the moment.
Itka, sometimes I've simply just wanted to be like you."
The miniaturized EM49 paused a moment and then the two pushed against eachother with the tops of their heads. Itka's glossy iPod-like surface against Andertol's scales.
Blinn peeked around and saw this "kiss" and sat back down again.
He seemed glad to see an integrated unit like Itka expressing romantic feelings with an organic. It was the kind of thing which to put it simply, just tickled him pink.
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(Later on at the Lounge.)
"In the Kohtohkhan language, 'permiscuity' does not necessarily have a negative connotation. In fact, it actually reflects more negatively upon the accuser than the accused. It means in effect, 'I know that this person is loose, because I've spent a great deal of time in their closet or outside their windows, peeking-in. Practicing voyeurism while doing unmentionable things to myself'!.", said Andertol humorously, "If you guys are a couple than I, at least, have no judgement against that."
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 9, 2007 12:08:18 GMT -5
Pacen was sipping a glass of Klac, choked for a moment when Andertol said ‘Couple’.
“Oh that Kliese! He makes me so… so angry! GAH! How can he sit there and talk about our liberal freedoms and then attack my choices?” Rincon could see that Geneec was getting over extended again so he reached over and stroked his tail.
Geneec just sat down and smiled again, tilting his head in a very canine way.
[Obvious as it is, he had been working on Pacen over the last few weeks they’d been together on this assignment, trying to get him to show some more emotion, as that’s what he craves. Pacen believes Geneec is just looking to get ‘under his tail,’ and doesn’t really know how to approach Geneec about it. So typically, he just sits there, nods and smiles. Though, this further shines Geneec on.]
Rincon needed to think of something to say, “Of course not, a bright sparkly pink double strapped, thong-style under cover is perfectly appropriate for Panel.” [Remember from before, an undercover is worn by Kazians, like underwear, whether for formal or informal appearance as the only main clothing. Geneec especially likes flashy designs and bright colors.]
He got a funny look from the foreigners, and did a facial gesture similar to widening the eyes and then shifting his brow in the direction of Geneec.
Andertol mentioned to Geneec that his fur looked exceptionally good. Andertol got a secretive ‘thumbs-up’ sort of gesture from Pacen.
Geneec just ate the comment up. “Oh thank you Andertol! That really means a lot to me!” [Commenting on a fur’s.. uhh fur is one of the best ego strokers one can receive.]
“Do you think the color of my lacey band here,” he points to the strip of fabric around his thigh, “makes my fur more vibrant?”
The group laughed.
Pacen was still petting Geneec’s fluffy tail, when he realized what he was doing, he abruptly stopped and got up. “Who needs a drink?”
In the absence of Pacen on the couch, Geneec flipped over longways on the couch, on his belly, and with one elbow on the cushion, he extended his forearm and finger toward Andertol and Itka. He flipped it back and forth.
“So.. Andertol, Itka, whats going on here? I haven’t seen Itka take leave of your side since Panel. Is there something we should know?” He evilly smiled and raised one brow.
Rincon came back, and needed some couch space, and without really thinking, reached over and tickle-squeezed one of Geneec’s upper, rear thighs.
“Scooch please!” he said.
“Ohhh Rincon!” Geneec exclaimed in excitement/surprise. With that he flipped over right onto Rincon’s lap, squeezed close to his chest, threw an arm around his neck, and proceeded to take a finger on Rincon’s free hand and place it between him, and one of the bands on his undercover.
Rincon = Sweat drop.
Geneec was facing the others still, and said “You’re not off the hook yet!”
Geneec on Rincon's lap got an unannounced 'surprise' and it was not too soon before he squinted in pain and began panting and whimpering up a storm.
There was no outright movement going on between the two, but the others had a vague idea of what was happening.
At that Andertol looked toward Itka, searching for something to say in response to Geneec’s question.
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Post by miokalia on Apr 9, 2007 15:05:31 GMT -5
There was confused silence from Blinn, Andertol and Itka for about a moment and then Andertol leaned forward and said, "I'm not going to pass judgement but... WTF dude? Right here and now? I would say "get a room" but you two already have. And it looks like you invited us to it. The few manners I do have are screaming at me to leave you two to your privacy. I don't care what you do in your privacy, but... it's not that I'm all for free love it's just.
I'd prefer not to watch freaky hairy, touchy intercourse right now.
...
You must be drunk."
"You and Itka don't have to watch. You two can make out to.", said Geenec.
"With all due respect Mr. Geneec, If Itka and I were to make out we would do it in our hotel room. As a matter of taste. I'm not sure if other people want to see it, and I will assume they don't.", said Andertol.
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 9, 2007 15:34:04 GMT -5
Rincon was still sweating scared when Geneec made his comment to Andertol.
Geneec said as he leaned back and let his tongue fall limp, “Well Rincon, you can’t hide it any more, I think they know. Come on!”
Rincon just sat there not moving, with the fox siting there on him.
Pacen needed to think of something fast. “Uhh, look guys, it’s not what you think… he just turned me on, I- I was getting aroused and didn’t want to embarrass myself, so I grabbed the closest thing to cover it up with… Geneec. Then it just .. you know.” He paused for a second, took a deep breath.
Geneec looked at Rincon passionately and inquisitively.
“No, you’re drunk Gen, this isn’t right, and I don’t want to ruin our relationship with them.”
“Oh no no, please! Please! You’re already this far!” Geneec replied as he settled down further, then said toward the others, “and you guys stay, its only the 5 of us, we’re all friends here. Don’t be so private.”
“…Wait a sec,” Rincon said, “you two are together?” As he rubbed Geneec's leg.
“Oh its so obvious, but then again, I-hiii might have a better eye for that sort of thing,” Geneec said.
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Post by miokalia on Apr 9, 2007 15:58:36 GMT -5
"If you had a hard on, I wouldn't have been bothered by it at all. You could have just said 'I think Geneec is hawt', and then I would have said 'LOL'.", then Andertol leaned forward a bit and said, "And considering your species, you would normally be able to hide or contain such a anatomical thing quite easily...
It's called a cloaca.
You must be more than 60% anthropomorphic so maybe you don't have one.
I see."
Andertol then shuddered slightly and almost said something, but then Itka poked him in the side and shook his head. "Nar sokyiychya tsa." "Don't say it, You'll offend them.", he said.
"Basu a. Ciw covotya kchititoyo kaha doysotwiw nipples do cha... cheschty volsch Nargen vuyayo pahai guh... gulinekiw." "I can't help it. Look at them, I could stomach nipples everywhere but I should not have to watch sex... hairy and chesty sex... right here in front of me." , said Andertol back.
"I think these people have pushed your limits further than anyone else ever has", said Blinn to Andertol.
"Pardon me. But... if you want to go through with it. We can leave.
You see, we don't have many formalities where we come from, but you've managed to hit the few we do have.
I don't care what you do to eachother, but I must insist that I not watch.", said Andertol.
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 9, 2007 16:27:24 GMT -5
Pacen took Andertol's words to heart and reached under Geneec's armpits.
Pacen paused for a bit, then Geneec's body riled as he reached the pinnacle of the moment.
He then passed out, his body going limp in Pacen's arms. He picked up the fox as he stood, he then fixed his undercover and laid him down on a couch on the opposite end of the room, he laid him down on his side, and covered his torso with a blanket. His tail lightly fell to the floor under the covers.
Blinn, Andertol and Itka were making their way to the door, when Blinn asked, "Is he..."
"No, No, replied Pacen." As he bade them to sit back down. "Its how it works for foxes.. I think. Don't they typically fall asleep stuck together or something? I just left him with something that should've hit home. Well anyway, please stay. I feel I need to explain myself."
They sit back down.
"I do have a cloaca, and I am in control of what goes on down there. I was just afraid that if I didn't do this for Geneec, he might have done something.. rash, possibly to himself. He'll wake up thinking we did it all the way and be fine."
"At any rate, this is a lounge and we should get to know each other better."
He turned on a holoscreen and then said "So what parts of Miokalia do you each come from? I've been put on this mission, obviously, because I have something in common with, at least you, Andertol."
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Post by miokalia on Apr 9, 2007 17:24:01 GMT -5
"I'm now from the Dorigan Cloustrefich, but I've only recently lived in Miokalia. I spent a great deal of time living outside the Fed amongst humans.", said Andertol.
"I'm from Zye city, and my only family is the CA itself.", said Blinn.
"I was orginally from north of Miokalia... around here. I was rescued by the Malych and then integrated into the species.
Ever since then I've lived in an urban tribe in Zye made up of other O-class units based on the EZ-49 model.", said Itka.
"Pardon them. They speak more mechanically when around foreigners and when they are nervous.", said Andertol. he continued, "And you? how did you end up here?", he asked.
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 9, 2007 18:09:27 GMT -5
"Well to be honest, KZ is not really a place you end up. It seems like it found me, or more specifically, he found me. *points toward the sleeping fox* I was orphaned as a baby and spent most of my early years wandering in and out of various countries, and reading about politics, government styles and things like that. Well, until I came to Killer Zoids. It was in the fall of '42 when I found my way into GSBerg. There was a demonstration being held there, and it turned south. I don't remember exactly what about, but the people just suddenly went nuts. I was mixed up in a violent riot. Trying to get out of the stampede, there I was a lone 'saur amidst hundreds of vulpines. Thats when I met him. Geneec, I mean. He was a riot officer at the time and he approached me, with a wall of other officers. He told them to advance while he checked my injuries. (Being in the middle of a riot of which you're going against the flow of leaves one pretty well banged up) Well we shared this stare, eye to eye for what seemed like forever, and he reached out his paw to help me up. " ~flashback~ "I'm Officer Seventyfix," he said. "I can tell you're not a part of this riot, what the hell are you doing here?" "I .. I'm a drifter, " I replied. "Gen! We need backup, get over here!," came across his radio. "I'll be right there," he replied.
As he stood up to take his leave of me, he saw something I don't think any words could have described. An explosion right in front of the advancing officers, which killed 7. He witnessed the whole thing. He was about 21 at the time, my age. And I cannot tell you the horror I saw in his eyes. It gives me chills even today.
~/flashback~
"Well, after that, he resigned his commission as riot officer. I think he lost 2 extremely close friends and a brother. Thats gotta be hard for anyone, " Pacen continued. "Well, considering he saved my life, and my presence in a way saved his, I figured my drifting days were over. Geneec loved the police and wanted to get back into something where he could help people again, so he became an Ambassador. I wanted to stay with him or at least stay in the same city, so I applied for an ambassador position. However I was turned down since they couldn't verify where I was from exactly. Geneec pulled whatever strings he could and helped me get elected to External Affairs. At least then, we could still get on a few missions together."
He looked over toward Geneec again and turned a bit red, "To be totally honest, before was the first time I ever did.. anything like that. I highly doubt it was his first time but I don't care."
At that point Geneec woke up, but didn't show it, he wanted to hear the conversation. "I owe him really everything in the world," Rincon said with a smile. "I- I- dunno, I guess its love."
Geneec smiled to himself and though 'I love you too' and went back to sleep, with his bottom still sore.
Andertol sat back and asked "you said before you left him something?"
Pacen replied, "Oh, in my species, males are capable of producing an egg and we pass it out, into a female, where it would otherwise be fertilized and then laid later on. Its a way for my species to ensure that we produce offspring in the event the female cannot. Considering he's a canine and would enjoy such an uncomfortable? feeling, I passed him my egg." The others looked at him curiously "In his body, it will just dissolve into nothing and be passed out, but the pleasurable pain must have been indescribable for him. I mean heck, hes still out like a light."
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Post by miokalia on Apr 9, 2007 21:02:48 GMT -5
"Interesting. very interesting.
The process you described is not something all that unheard of where I come from.", said Andertol, "I think that's how his species does it." Andertol pointed to Itka.
Itka looked away and said, "My species has no defined genders."
Rincon pressed a question, "Either your curtness is because you're security or it's because you seem preoccupied with something.".
Itka then said, "A little of both.
I ran away from this place when I was an EZ-49. And it's not like someone would let a zoid with an organoid system run away without a fight either, so it wasn't easy. I had to do some horrible things to get out.
I had to kill countless other, albeit less sentient units, just to escape.
The taste of ozone always reminds me of the most unpleasent experience: vaporizing a hole through an unwilling fighter. Watching the lights inside their canopy glow hot as the innocent pawn of an AI broils into oblivion. I hate the smell and taste of the CPC.
I didn't want to fight your petty battles, and so people from this nation chose to sentance me to death. But not before I would be forced to inflict death upon innocent pawns.
This is why I am uncomfortable here."
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 9, 2007 21:45:39 GMT -5
"Don't have defined genders? That's somewhat strange--well, apart from not having those parts, or having both sets, do you at least, choose to emulate one? Androgyny is fine, but I mean, do you have some feature other than your personality that is unique to you? Perhaps how no two vulpines are exactly alike, no two saurians are exactly alike, but what of your EZ-49? Are you all the same?" Rincon Pacen asked.
"As for killing other beings, you can't blame yourself for that. Especially if you weren't in control.
The Kazian military tries to remove zoids they find to be sentient from duty, but the process for identifying them is far from perfect. Perhaps you have a better method."
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Post by miokalia on Apr 9, 2007 22:15:13 GMT -5
Itka illuminated his eyes slightly and said, "Our process for identifying transcendant units is perfect.", he said with a hint of passion, Blinn held up a single claw as to correct him on that, but then Andertol shook his head and he put it back down. Itka continued, "It's not the military that I'm concerned about. I'm sure your government does the best they can for that.
But it's others. Those who wish to seize power. I was not in the military here. I was owned by private venture.
As for individuality. We are highly individualized. Each one us is different in many ways. I didn't have to occupy a shell like this, I could have looked like any number of countless other possible shells that can be made. It's just that I was an EZ-49 and that is a part of my identity as an individual. Some of us choose to identify with an organic gender and some of us choose to be indeterminate, such as myself. I do have equipment down there and no, it's not gender-specific. If anything, it's both. We're a lot more like organics than I think you realize."
Andertol was mildly surprized at Itka's sudden talkativeness.
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 9, 2007 22:45:15 GMT -5
"I think I'm starting to get it now." Pacen replied.
"When I first took sight of you, I hadn't recognized that you were anything but a machine. It then took, perhaps a lesser mind, to make me realize that you were something more" he tilted his head toward Geneec "and until just now that you were alive. But I mean truly alive, to the best possible definition of the word. I see now through your thoughts, and how you present yourself, that there is something more behind those cold eyes. In UNEX, they refer to that as a 'spark', and I intend to share this at the next Panel meeting. Geneec has tried many times in the past, even before meeting you, but alas, he is not taken very seriously." He smiled and shook his head, "This poor guy has seen a lot of crap. But he has a special quality about him, he sees things in others that isn't outwardly obvious, and even not obvious to that person them self. I can vouch for that. I wish more of the Panel were like him, and shared in his idealism.
There are requests from UNEX sent to Panel every year asking for equal rights, and up until now, nobody has had the guts to stand up for them. Well, nobody but him I mean." points toward Geneec. "I think if a more powerful voice was heard, others would stop being afraid. Killer Zoids will one day welcome Malych and those like them into the commonwealth."
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Post by miokalia on Apr 10, 2007 21:09:00 GMT -5
On the TV showed up a report on the news about protests in Miokalia. Andertol didn't realize it at first and simply said, "Hey, we have a city down south that has brightly colored decorative spheres like that at every intersection... wait a minute, that says Rohomeo in English." In view was a somewhat organized sit-in protest of Integrated Malych in the park in the middle of a large roundabout. There were units like Itka, as well as some other miniaturized O-class versions of things familiar up here. Genos, Revvys, RM-70's. There were even non-dinosaurian units. Malychified feline-looking RM-41's, and fox-like RM-46's. "It figures. They want me to push you for inorganic rights more. That's all", said Andertol. Rincon looked at some of the signs: "A... atonement? That seems a bit... extreme", said Rincon. "It is, they're just angry. These were all zoids once, they don't like seeing their kind exploited. Don't worry about it. Protesting is something very common in Miokalia.", he said.
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