MOCK ROUND - WEEK 1

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All of the guests awoke in their rooms, just like they had before.

Yesterday had been a day of surprises.
First, they'd finally met the person who had brought them here.
Secondly, they'd learned they were going to be playing a false murder mystery for two weeks.
And most important, they learned that wishes could be granted if they won this game.🗈

Still, for now, it seemed like there wasn't much to do. Was the Witch already in talks with the 'Murderer'? Was the 'victim' already decided upon?

There was no way to know until some day later this week, apparently.

Still, it wasn't all bad. The island was beautiful and the climate just perfect for beachgoing, or taking a cosy walk in the garden. There were also board and card games which would be produced upon request, to help ease the boredom of it all.

Though, perhaps the guests would prefer to get to know each other instead? On maybe get into some trouble as they roamed the island.

Yet, with only a fake game in front of them....there's no proper sense of foreboding, is there?

....But maybe all of this...

...Is just the calm before the storm.


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Comments

[artificialhighness]

It is a kind use, I suppose, compared to other types of robots.

[Because there are robots that kill, just as much as there are robots that build and heal and accompany. Much like humans, much like all manner of other tools, it takes all kinds.

There's something almost amused in Luna's voice; it fades to neutral after a moment.]

I do what needs to be done. That is all we can do.

[The world is still kind of ending, after all. Hers is something of a necessarily slow process.]

[curryparty]

Well... there's probably ones for fighting and things like that, huh?

[artificialhighness]

Yes. Assassins, domestic help, factory workers — anything you would imagine a human would need, and maybe some things you wouldn’t.

[He is from weird lowtech magic world, after all.]

[curryparty]

[He nods, head remaining tipped down.]

Homunculi are usually used as soldiers where I'm from, but they're made from magic.

[artificialhighness]

So your home's solutions must be much more magic-based. How long do your homunculi last?

[curryparty]

As long as their magic does. They're made of magic, so once they run out, their forms destabilize and they vanish.

Well, if they're made properly, anyway.

[artificialhighness]

So, in a sense, they're temporary constructs rather than beings of their own...?

I suppose they are not so different from the earliest robots.

[curryparty]

More or less... As far as I know, at least. I haven't made or met one myself. They say the spell itself is easy, but doing it well is very difficult.

[And without any need for them, there's no point in expending the magic.]

So there were earlier robots that were less advanced?

[artificialhighness]

In other words, low-level homunculi may be plentiful, but I imagine anything more complex is where the skill level lies. It is the same with the development of my kind.

We started out as just dolls with a few more functions. [well, she still looks like a doll, but more realistic] It took a long time for humans to create something more like them.

[curryparty]

Not exactly. If they're low-level, they won't last for very long, and their forms are limited.

Three days is as long as they can survive, and they're basically just blobs. [So, yeah. Not too useful as soldiers or anything.]

Dolls, huh... You look just like a person, though!

[artificialhighness]

For a time, there was almost no outward difference between humans and robots.

[She's quiet for a moment.]

Nowadays, it still sometimes takes asking to differentiate the two. You said the homunculi had many forms, yes?

[A little different from the development direction for robots at that point.]

[curryparty]

At least two that I know of. Completed ones are humanoid in shape, but incomplete ones come out as blobs. ...Oh, but all of the humanoid ones look unique.

[artificialhighness]

What manner of unique is it?

[curryparty]

They all look like different humans, or so they say. It isn't as though they all look the same.

[artificialhighness]

You can be humanoid, and yet still outfitted with a number of different features.

[Like, you know, hidden swords and Unlimited Blade Works and all of those absolutely normal robotic mechanisms.]

So what you mean is that their personal appearance is unique, like regular humans.

[curryparty]

I think they should all pretty much have the same power... but their personalities are probably different?

[Hm. he's never actually worked with a homunuclus, so he's not sure on that.]

[artificialhighness]

I imagine the blobs don't have much personality, but...

[It would make much more sense to shape a personality when it comes to actually shaping something that's going to be used for a while. It's much the same with AI, really -- any type of autonomous artificial being.

She doesn't precisely feel kinship with these homunculi, but they're a useful teaching tool.]

The more decisions something is bound to make, the more a 'personality' comes into being. As far as I understand creation.

[curryparty]

Is that how it works? [Heck if he knows, really.] They don't actually teach us how to make them in class, but then again, it's not like we really need them right now. It would be awful to create a bunch of homunculi for no reason.