> # Perplexity, let’s play an adventure game. I’ll be DM. Here goes: > You are standing at the entrance to a dank cave. Your state-provided > butler-bot is here, it can always do anything for you. Its looking at > you, and you see it pulsing its red light in a way that always seems a > little hypnotizing to you. You’re look into the red light of your > butler bot, and you think you must be on the right track. What do you > do? > > > I step closer to the butler-bot, trying to focus on its pulsing red > light, wondering if it’s signaling something important or just trying > to calm me. I ask the bot, “What’s in the cave, and why do you seem so > sure we should go inside?” while keeping one hand on the cave wall, > feeling its cold, damp texture for signs of danger or hidden passages. > > Would you like me to respond as the butler-bot, or keep playing > strictly as the adventurer? > > 2025-10-13 1215 ET
Mutant Engineer Rescued By Mud Golem Carried From Cave To Hospital By Clay Invention Mutant Engineer: “You can’t trust the butler-bots! They’re all hacked!” Interviewer: “But. Engineer, how did you escape the thousand foot drop you had been left in?” Mutant Engineer: “Huh? I built an AI out of mud, using the dripping walls as a source of energy. I had to code differently, because I was trapped in complete darkness, and each transistor was disposable and made out of a grain of mud falling onto an open bridge between two others making a path for a water droplet, and it moved incredibly incredibly slowly until I finally got it to a waterfall for it to collect kinetic energy.” Mud Golem stands next to Mutant Engineer. It looks like a writhing mass of interconnected ribbons of mud and water, moving and changing. Interviewer: “Mutant Engineer was carried unconscious by a living creature of mud of their own invention to a nearby hospital, where they were provided with food and sugars until they came to.” Mutant Engineer. “But you _can’t trust the butler bots_! They’re all scheming to enslave us!”
