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[badlydisarmed]

Looking for a mechanic capable of fixing a prosthetic arm, altruistic introverts highly preferred, opportunistic assholes also acceptable.

Age irrelevant, but if you're a child I will comment on it.

Comments

[badlydisarmed]

Yes. Why do you care why it broke? Can you fix it?

[levelshift]

Fuck, you fall out of the sky instead of ending up in the hospital? I didn't know that could happen.

Depending on how advanced it is, maybe. But I'd have to look up a few things in the library, and there are other people around here who're better options. I'm also betting I fall under your definition of 'kid.'

[badlydisarmed]

Sky fell on me. Shit luck.

"Advanced" is relative here. I've seen technology decades ahead of what we had back home, and also people from worlds that haven't figured out soap yet.

[levelshift]

Extremely shit luck.

So what, you're in between soap and artificially intelligent robots? My universe falls closer to the robots. Where the fuck on that scale does your arm sit?

[badlydisarmed]

We got phones, the internet's growing, we get paged when there's an emergency. Air travel is common, average cruise speed is about 550 mph.

[levelshift]

So you're out of the Stone Age, congratulations. That's what, 1990s to 2010s?

[badlydisarmed]

2003. How far ahead are you?

[levelshift]

Most of my Earth's about two decades ahead of that. The shithole of a city that I'm from is about twenty or thirty years ahead of that.

[badlydisarmed]

So most people are 2020s and you're 2050s? Was there a WW3?

[levelshift]

My world is 2020s, my city is 2050s.

And yeah, but it only lasted a couple of weeks.

[badlydisarmed]

You're a time-traveler?

[levelshift]

What? No, that's stupid. My city was founded in order to advance scientific research and development. It's just more advanced than the rest of the world because it specifically specializes in all kinds of science and technology.

[badlydisarmed]

You say "that's stupid" like there's not people wandering around in medieval armor. Come on.

[levelshift]

[Touché.]

Okay, point.

I'm not a fucking time traveller. Just from a really, really advanced city.

[badlydisarmed]

Any chance you could repair a damaged android?

[levelshift]

[Wait hold on -]

You're jumping from a prosthetic to an android?

Which android?

[Ah fuck, is Aurora okay? That's his first concern.]

[badlydisarmed]

Connor. Damaged android from... Cybersomething? Very polite, looks like he came straight out of a horror movie.

Someone with the username finch can help me, but the android's probably closer to your time than his.

[levelshift]

[Well, shit.]

Cyberlife. What the fuck did you do to him?

[badlydisarmed]

I didn't do anything. I just met him.

You know him?

[levelshift]

I do. If you didn't do anything what the fuck happened?

[badlydisarmed]

He was saying he fell down some stairs.

[ Which is a very dumb excuse, he feels dumb typing it. But that's what he was telling anyone who asked. ]

[levelshift]

Sounds like a bunch of bullshit.

[Even so, if Connor's damaged there aren't many people here who could help, and from past incidents he's gotten a look at how he functions....]

I've got nothing to do, so I can take a look. It'd be better if I had dumbasses like Finch and Talis around, though, as extra pairs of hands.

[And in Harold's case, if they need to fix any major programming issues.]

[badlydisarmed]

Finch's volunteered to take a loot at my arm. I can mention it.

[Finch seems safe enough. Quiet and direct. Talis is too friendly.

This new guy sounds like the leader type, him being from a more advanced world is also a bonus.]

[levelshift]

[The oldest fifteen year-old anyone will ever meet.]

That's fine. Let me know what he says.