01 | anonymous text/untraceable | sunday morning

[thefourteenth]

Hello, Siren's Port. I come before you with a desperate plea.

[Visser One is no fool. First she takes a few hours to scan the networks and sort through enormous amounts of archived data. What she finds is interesting: evidence of Earth mythological figures, inhuman creatures proudly identifying as alien. People obviously from worlds far more advanced than Earth.

Still, she chooses anonymity. No sense in publicly humbling herself and exposing her Achilles Heel.]

I am a new arrival to this world in serious need of help. My species needs a certain kind of sustenance that we can't find outside of our home world.

I need help, or I will die.

I need someone with highly advanced technological capabilities to help me. Fortunately, I have the means to feed myself temporarily, which you can adapt for your purposes in creating a larger generator. Without it, I will starve to death painfully within a week.

Please, I beg you. Compensation will be given in whatever manner I'm capable, once I can concentrate on anything other than survival. I assure you, I am far from helpless, and will pay my debt in full. Anyone who chooses to assure my long-term survival stands to gain much from the bargain.

Comments

[where_the_hearth_is]

[something chimes softly]

It will be a bit slow to begin with, and I'm not confident of my ability to replicate your particular generator set-up without dismantling that one, but I can certainly synthesize the mixture. I should be able to produce a comparable amount in a few hours, and after that I'll be able to do so faster.

[Nanites are awesome.]

[magnetic_magpie]

If you can replicate the mixture, I could handle the generator. I wouldn't need to dismantle it.

Does that time scale work or is the matter more pressing?

[He's studying the generator intently.]

[thefourteenth]

[She looks over the robot and the person curtly.]

I have someone lined up to take care of the generator. You understand not wanting to put all the keys to my vulnerability in one pair of hands.

[Anyone sensible in her position - and she can tell that they are - would.]

[where_the_hearth_is]

I do! I don't like being all that vulnerable to anyone, I think you're being really brave!

[ House likes you okay. :3 ]

[magnetic_magpie]

[He smiled, slight and small. Of course he understood, even approved, though he really did want to poke at the generator.]

Of course.

[He'll busy himself with watching House's nanonites.]