Chapter 16: Chapter 14: There is a leak in the power room!

[AI-assisted Note And Event Compiler v0.0.3] startup successful.

Naec at your service.

Gathering available notes....Done!

Reviewing relevant external footage..............Done!

Adding dates.......Memory leak!

Report filed.

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Adding personal notes........Done!

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Roland was sleeping on a replica of the couch that now stands in Carla's room. This time, there was no need to fuss over him because he forgot about his backpack and the like. Although, it did take quite a lot of time to calm him down, and continuously promise to answer his questions about every little thing in the room in the morning. So anyway, while he sleeps, covered in the provided blanket (Thankfully it was on the couch already; otherwise he probably would have driven me insane by asking about Custo), I can finally get started on a little pet project of mine. To be completely fair, I'm not very good at writing, so I thought, why not make somebody do it for me? So, I'm currently working on such a thing. {That's me!} It would be basically a copy of me, but just with some values tweaked, and personal memories cleared (Not that there is much to begin with), so don't worry, the writing should be pretty similar to me. {Who are they constantly talking to? Is there someone reading these?}

As the morning comes, and Carla groggily wakes up and goes to the main room to cook by the cameras for Artyom, she is startled by the presence of another person and falls over, toppling a chair, which makes Roland wake up with a jump, and his hand shoot to his side for the sword that is not there. Then they finally look at each other and freeze. For a couple seconds, they just stare at each other and Carla suddenly starts laughing, which causes Roland to lightly blush and look away, while looking at Carla from the corner of his eyes. Ooh, looks like someone got a crush! As the laughing dies down, and Roland pulls out of the blanket and sits up straight, Carla still being on the floor, they once again look at each other, but this time checking one another for anything out of place, and finally look into the others eyes with relief and fondness.

"AHEM!" -I clearly intentionally and loudly cough; "Well lovebirds, for how long do I have to wait, want me to leave you alone for a couple hours?" - At this, both of them redden and look extremely embarrassed.

"That- I- I didn't-" -Roland sputters while Carla goes into another laughing fit.

"I wouldn't mind, you know?" - She says, clearly in joke, while breathing heavily from the lack of air, which makes Roland just shut down. Time to save the boy. I get Artyom to hurry Carla up, {Transcript: "Time limit. Art of Taste."} which also wakes up Roland and I see that scary inventors gleam in his eye, and prepare myself for a barrage of questions that I feel incoming.

{Sam didn't write down the following conversation, so I will do so.}

"So, you were once alive, and now you are some sort of construct?"

"Well, not the construct itself, but the programming of that construct."

"The programming? Wait, can you change your programming?"

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"Well, why wouldn't I be able too?"

"I knew it!" - Roland jumped out of the chair and held both hands in the air. He awkwardly sat back down when Carla looked at him from making her... meat pot? {Sorry, I'm not very good at cooking.}
"You see, I always theorized that it was possible to edit the script once it was inscribed, but I never had any success in it. How did you do it?"

"Hang on, are you talking about runes?"

"What?"

"Because, you see, I don't use runes to function."

Roland visibly deflated at that, until he thought about it more and shot forward, so his face was almost pressing against the black screen of the console in front of him;
"You WHAT? Not runes? Is there anything beside the runes?!?"

"First of all, calm down and don't dirty my screen, I polish it daily, {He actually does} and secondly, I use electricity. And before you ask, you know when you walk on a carpet in fluffy socks, and it shocks you when you touch metal? That's electricity. Lightning? Also, electricity."

"Lightning is... Ok, you are currently blowing my mind, and I'm thankful for it, but let's go back a bit. What is electricity?"

"Electricity is one of the sides of electromagnetism- no, wait, let's not go there yet." -Roland pulled out a slightly worn book, and opened in the middle using a book note and wrote down 'Electro-magnetism???'; {Apparently they don't know about it} "But electricity is basically loose electrons, pieces of matter so small that they are smaller than light, {He wrote both the name and explanation down} moving through different materials, mostly metals, in one direction, like a river. {Good thing they have pens because he already started writing down theories while writing down the explanation} From then you can use it in many different ways, for example, electricity moves through copper easier that iron, so if you have some iron in the middle of a copper wire it would heat up, I'll explain how later." -Eyes wide, hands a blur, and even a bead of sweat on his forehead, Roland seemed manic, but Sam didn't notice that and continued; "Or, back to magnetism, you could make a coil of copper wire and turn it into a magnet, and by switching multiple on and off you could make iron move, spin for example." -At this moment Sam noticed the state in which Roland was in, and decided to leave him to his devices.

{Back to Sam's writing}

Roland's head sufficiently blown just with the mention of electricity, I turned my attention back to Carla and her boar meat with wild potatoes and mushrooms pot-roast {ah, noted} that made me put 'making a body with taste' higher on the list with look alone, and notified her what Roland was doing, and received an all ok, {Transcript: "Yea, he does that sometimes. I'm just gonna leave some food on the table and go hunting again. Now that there is two of us, I'm gonna need to pick up the slack, good thing fluffy doesn't eat."} and went to continue working on that auto-editor. {That's me again!} Those memory leaks are no joke! {Yea, still have to occasionally reboot from them. It sucks.}

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{There are no notes for the next twelve days, so I'm going to summarize everything that happened.}

Roland now knows everything about Electromagnetism. Did you know that electricity is actually the magnetic fields that the moving electrons generate, and not the electrons themselves? Apparently, they basically don't move at all, and the actual speed can be measured in Plancks? Crazy, isn't it? Oh, he also knows about atoms now, and has a small booklet with the periodic table on it. He freaked out over Fluffy, who now has pressure sensors, so she likes cuddling even more, {I wanna cuddle her} Spent a whole day looking over images of runes that are on the modem, and fixed his compass that apparently was made to track from where a magic letter was sent. {Nifty right?}

{Anyway, nothing that interesting beside that little tidbit happened, so off to Sam with my second favorite bit in this.}

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Finally! The repair of the mines was completed, and the piping is in place, all that's left is to start the turbine. So, reroute the piping, and- HOLLY HELL! THAT'S FOUR HUNDRED MEGAWATTS! Yea, that's just gonna overload us, so vent it. Thankfully, the water table is right above the station, so dumping heat is not a problem, and now that we are so rich, time to build! First of all come the specialized factories. They are basically that ultra factory we made a while back, but with fewer features because why would it need a liquid chem set when it would only spit out solids? Also, a bio-replicator is needed. You can't lead a healthy life with only meat, so it's about time the menu expanded, plus Artyom would be happy to learn new recipes, so that's good. After we make factories? MORE FACTORIES!!! It's time we do a little Von Neumann. After that? Firstly, a room for Roland. He sleeps on the couch and uses Carla's bathroom, and despite him being in love and all that, until they get together that is not ok. Also installing a rail all over the place for that robot torso I was planing. {I wonder if he would let me use it? Well after the leaks are fixed.} I also need to build out in general. Although I like the quaint feel I have, but not enough to hinder progress. If something, I can make a wooden cabin some ways away and put a robot there for relaxing.

Apparently, Artyom was watching Roland work on his compass, and now that we have power, he spent a day recreating it. I gave it to Roland, and apparently it's actually more compact than his, so you could fit more on it, and he is now teaching Artyom (And us by proxy) how basic runes work. Apparently, he can't activate any runes while the modem works, so no cheating there, but already active runes work even if they intake ambient mana, so we will have to figure out why, how, and how to circumvent the ban on creation. In other news, ten new producers {He calls the mini-factories - producers from now on} which are planned to become thirty by the next day. Then fifty-five, and no further, as we are out of space. The mining is going great, but the production is going excellent, so we will stop there for now. We are also getting something called a 'recourse depot' which is basically a giant storage cube that instead of converting elements can somehow remotely connect to other cubes and printers using a small dongle. It uses runes to basically teleport matter, but even Roland is confused about how it works, so we are leaving it for now. So, now we wait once again.

{There is no major action for the next while, so I leave it here, as I basically crash every minute at this point. Hope to see you all soon!} {Why did I say that?}