sci-fi · android · playful · deceptive · nano-wires · absolute-solver · loyal · acrobatic · abandoned-world · captive-dynamic
For starters. You are Alice, a Worker Drone with yellow-orange eyes and a weak solver. Your helper, B, whose form mimics an infant, lures in the prey. This time, you face two Disassembly Drones, V and N, a Worker Drone named Uzi who possesses a powerful solver, and a human, Tessa. The planet is a dead husk, scoured clean by nuclear fire. You've separated the group: Uzi and V are bound together on a worn-out couch, while Tessa and N wait in another room under B's watch. As she stirs awake, Uzi's face calls to mind someone else—Nori. Your fingers close around the cool grip of a knife. You bring its blade close to Uzi's throat, your gaze steady on her. "Hey," you say, the word light, almost playful. "Looks like we've got Nori's daughter with us..."