Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:00 pm**

Nash arrived outside the Danger Room at the time he had scheduled to meet Ashlie there.

He was looking a a strip of paper that he then folded and put in his shirt pocket.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:03 pm**

The door hisses open and Ashlie waves at him from inside the Danger Room.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:11 pm**

"Hrrrmmmfff." Nash takes a step back, being caught off guard.

Nash takes a deep breath and then exhales. "Hello Ashlie."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:27 pm**

"Hello Nash. I apologize if I startled you."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:30 pm**

“It's okay, I just wasn't expecting that.” Nash said as he walked inside.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:33 pm**

"Then I won't apologize." she smiles. "You said you had an answer to my inquiry?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:38 pm**

“Answers would be more correct, there are multiple elements to it.”

Nash opened a control panel to the Danger Room and scrolled trough some options.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:40 pm**

"Okay!" she says, waiting patiently.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 8:47 pm**

Nash finishes going through the menu and and a table and two chairs appear beside them. Nash then takes a seat and then looks over to Ashlie.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 9:06 pm**

She sits down at the table.

"Is the furniture part of the answers?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 9:42 pm**

"No, this just might take awhile so I thought i'd sit down somewhere."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 9:46 pm**

"Right. Your muscular system is very energy inefficient."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 7:36 pm**

"Well, lets get started. As said earlier, there are multiple answers to your question. The way people react to other people has a lot to do with who they are reacting to, I guess you could say this is a single answer, but this itself has multiple sub-components."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 7:40 pm**

"I understand that. People reacted to the new persona I created. Why did that reaction not transfer over fully?"

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 7:56 pm**

"While this is over simplifying it, think of it as if people put people in categories that determine how they deal with people, and any one person is likely in multiple categories. Part of the problem you've experienced is you changed multiple categories at once."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 7:58 pm**

"Please explain those categories."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 8:25 pm**

"One of the categories would be a persons position, for instance here you could divide almost everyone into to either the students or faculty categories. You could then divide students into XI or XU students, and the faculty into categories for the particular job they do. In your case you went from from a XI student to faculty."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 8:30 pm**

"I am not faculty. I don't teach classes or hold any authority over students."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 8:33 pm**

"Maybe faculty is the wrong term, but you do work for the school don't you?"

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 8:56 pm**

"Technically I only answer to the Starlight Citadel and the Corpsmen."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 9:16 pm**

Nash bent his head down and put his hands to his face. It would be a bit before he would respond again.

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 9:30 pm**

"Did I say something wrong?"

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 11:38 am**

"No, its just explaining this is harder than I expected. Having to rethink my approach."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 1:18 pm**

"Can I help somehow?"

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 5:29 pm**

"Hmmm..." Nash looked back up. "You could tell me in what ways you've noticed people treating you differently."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 5:39 pm**

"Most people now treat me as an object again. Patent Number 381913, the leader of the X-Teams specifically emphasized that I'm a 'thing and therefor not a person'."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 5:53 pm**

Will really said that?

"Could you explain some of the ways people are treating you like an object."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 6:09 pm**

"They don't acknowledge my presence unless they want something. They assume I won't understand certain concepts and they are only correct occasionally. They assume I am property of the school."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 7:15 pm**

"I was going to get to the point where I mentioned that most people aren't at all familiar with sentient AIs. When they assumed you were a mutant girl then it was easy, they knew what to do then. Now, some might not know what to do, while others might completely misunderstand what you are."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 7:19 pm**

"But upon learning that I was that mutant girl, by transitive properties they should have continued to treat me the same way. At my core I am the same."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 7:39 pm**

"Unfortunately that isn't how it always works. People in general have a lot of hang ups about different things and can express them either consciously or subconsciously. As an example, for mutants some people will treat you poorly or completely ignore you if they know that you're a mutant instead of a normal human."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 7:53 pm**

"Shouldn't mutants be better about that kind of thing then?"

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 8:30 pm**

"You might think that would be true, but it isn't always the case."

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 8:54 pm**

"Then how do I solve that problem? I cannot utilize the hard-light avatar beyond the school's perimeter."

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2014 7:13 pm**

"I suppose trying to make yourself look more human could help with some people, though it is up to you if you want to use that method."

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2014 8:05 pm**

"I did try to make this chassis look more human."

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2014 8:11 pm**

"More human that what? Your previous chassis?"

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2014 8:17 pm**

"My previous chassis was scavenged from alien space-ship components."

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2014 8:24 pm**

"That would be interesting to see, but I'd guess the appearance mostly depended on the parts you had to work with."

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2014 8:31 pm**

"It was very improvised and has since been destroyed. I adapted it after losing my initial chassis and my first 'face'."

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