Log01.entry

[ugh_emotions]

Who: SecUnit, Charles, and eventually other people depending on how things go lots of other people, everyone join in
What: SecUnit checks up Charles, no one has a good time
When: Just before the start of the Story
Where: The stacks
Content warnings: SecUnit getting accidentally bricked

Every time SecUnit or one of its drones caught sight of Charles, he seemed to look even more dead than the last time.

Which was weird. He was already dead (which was also weird), surely he couldn't get any more dead. You were either dead or you weren't.

Whatever. It wasn't SecUnit's problem. Charles wasn't one of its humans. It didn't need to worry about him.

(It worried about him.)

Eventually though, it gets to the point where it can't ignore it anymore, and it stomps over to where Charles is in the Stacks.

"What's wrong with you?" it demands.

Comments

[hellandbackpack]

There's a delay after he gets that response. A response he was honestly a bit surprised to get, but he was relieved all the same. And... after that whole mess, SecUnit deserved at least some sort of explanation.

It's... not like you were wrong either. You were just trying to help. Like... I'm not sick or hurt or anything, just... ghosts are-

Bollocks, Edwin would be able to explain it better.

A bunch of energy left-over after a death that's kinda self-actualized itself into itself. So if we don't have a great grip on it, we jolt back to baseline death-state. And bigger emotions are one of the things that do that, and make our energy sort of... go all over. I normally have a better handle on it than that.

[ugh_emotions]

I saw the recording from my drone, it writes. So yeah, it had seen how Charles reacted, afterwards. It had been pretty clear that he hadn't meant to harm SecUnit at all. It had just been an accident.

A horrible, mortifying accident.

You still shouldn't have been able to knock all my systems offline like that.

Its organic insides felt sick at the very thought. The whole thing was fucking embarrassing.