> > # 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!”
Meant to put this in morning spam (that’s why engineer is mutant, they worked at bosscorp) with a cutoff at the end. Here I go.
