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Post by Honos Black on Dec 15, 2020 0:19:03 GMT
Honos was thoroughly bored. He had his homework finished, his "princely duties", documents and tests his grandmother wanted him to do, as he bitterly called done. Hell, he actually finished Jane Eyre, the demon book from hell! Right now, he was just messing around in the library, reading a book on Alan Turing with a forgotten ds flashing pokemon next to it. If anyone passed by him, many would look back in confusion, wondering why a child that looked to be 9 was in the library by himself and reading a book that seemed to be years advance. He was wearing a black fnaf shirt and dark pants that had a red plaid cuff at the end. Over his shirt was a back zip up hoody with red spikes on it, a generic dinosaur hoodie that he begged his father for. His red converse completed the outfit. Add his messy curls and big blue eyes, he made an adorable 9 year old, even if he was 5 years older. Honos checked his phone and sighed "Three more hours" he mumbled before he was pulled back into the book when it brought up Turing's academic papers and discussions on current AIs. Timothy Smith
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Post by Timothy Smith on Dec 15, 2020 1:39:27 GMT
"Okay okay okay I know what it looks like, it was green, with a... a... that thing, that one muscle on it, that's been linked to a lot of superstrength powers." "Tim, you've just described approximately 3,562 books on the subject you're researching, roughly half of which are in this library." Tim sighed. He hated it when he couldn't remember the title for a specific scholarly book he was trying to use as research material. It made it difficult to find things and take notes, especially when he wanted to run an experiment. Possibly was already running an experiment. And realized halfway through he needed to reference the book. And now was panic searching the library for it, praying it hadn't been checked out. He began speed-walking through the stacks, scanning the spines of the books, trying desperately to remember what it was called. "It was something pretentious, like "Muscular cardiovascular so and so and the superhuman something or other." No, no, no, no, oh hi Honos, no, no-- Wait a second." That was Honos. That was the kid. The kid from the Denny's parking lot. What was he doing here?? "Uhh... hey kiddo. You a student here or...? Alice couldn't stifle a chuckle as she saw through Tim's phone what Honos was reading. "If Mr. Turing could see me, he'd flip." "Alice. Alice I don't have my headphones on." "... Shit." Honos Black
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Post by Honos Black on Dec 15, 2020 2:15:53 GMT
Honos looked up and stared at the man before him. He looked familiar but he couldn't put his finger on it.
Honos shrugged and leaned back against his chair, popping it up on the two legs. "No, wha's it to ya? 'M waitin' for my soon ta be uncle ta get outta class." He explained.
When he heard Alice, his eyes went wide and the chair slammed on the floor. His hand, which was on the Turing book, twitched and his hair sparked as his eyes literally glowed in excitement.
"So..." Honos said in faux ease, "who ya got on ya phone? A friend that would make Turing loose his mind, she said? Is she a wonderful AI of brilliance and wonder?" He asked, slowly vibrating and sparking a bit.
"Can I talk ta her? Please?!"
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Post by Timothy Smith on Dec 20, 2020 6:43:27 GMT
It clicked that Honos didn't really recognize him, but Tim could tell the kid was getting excited, and he vividly remembered what happened when this kid got too excited. "What it is to me is I was impressed seeing you here, Honos. Remember me? From the Denny's parking lot? We made an explosive dry ice rocket." Tim put a hand over Honos' head, not touching it, and pulled some of the heat away, absorbing it. "Alice, are you cool with this?" "I mean I kinda outed myself to him already. Plus, I like this kid, he knows what he's on about with this "wonderful AI of brilliance and wonder" stuff." "Okay. Here's the deal, kiddo. You gotta keep this a secret. You can't tell anyone, not your uncle, not your parents, not your friends, nobody. This is like Batman telling you he's Bruce Wayne, okay? Also you gotta promise you won't light up in here, it's not good for the books." Tim looked around, making sure it was only the two of them in the area, and slipped a device onto his phone. It hummed, lit up, and then a hologram of a woman with red hair wearing a lab coat appeared. "Hi. I'm Alice. It used to stand for Amplified Light Interface and Computational Entity, but I've kinda taken it and made it a little more than just that. Tim told me about you when you met last time. Nice to meet you, Honos." Honos Black
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Post by Honos Black on Feb 8, 2021 0:02:01 GMT
"Uncle Tim-Tam!" He blurted out, popping out of the chair and giving Tim a hug before looking up at him. "Faces are hard ta-are hard ta remember. Same with names. Most of my teachers don' like that I don' recognize them after the-after the first day. My English teacher and Spanish teacher take it too personally and torture me with boring assignments." Honos groaned out. Honos beamed up at Tim and mimicked him zipping his lips shut at the secret. "You do remember that I don' have a mama. I's just my dadnI. But yeah, I promise. I'sa secret to the grave. Jus' like my nana and dad an' I's history" He chirped. "But lighting up is a hit an' miss. I'll try not ta but no promises." Honos grinned wildly and looked at the hologram of the woman before him. "You're beautiful... but the hologram is gross. Goodness Uncle Tim-Tam, you using last year's techs? For shame... ruining the poor woman's beauty with less than stellar optics and probably limited area mobility too. Damn... remind me ta bring you mine. Hello, it's nice ta meet ya, Alice" Honos smiled and bowed, just like his nana told him when meeting a lady for the first time. "How much of a mess is Timmers here? Oh! I should let you meet my baby AI! Well...they're not an AI just yet but I'm working on it! Just kinda stuck on the code. Are you a learning AI? Like you learn from your enviroment and stuff? I'm trying ta do that with my own but words and letters an' stuff are mean." Timothy Smith
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Post by Timothy Smith on Feb 8, 2021 4:08:41 GMT
Tim had a huge grin on his face as he shushed Honos while he hugged him back. "Shh, shh buddy. Gotta remember we're in a library. And a college one at that. Lotta smart people studying here that need to focus." Honos' energy was infectious. And that wasn't counting the heat Honos gave off that Tim was keeping a careful eye on. He really liked this kid. He cocked an eyebrow at the "nana and dad an' I's history" bit, but he figured that if this kid was calling him "Uncle Tim-Tam" already, he'd hear about that eventually. Either from Honos or his guardians. He got mock offended at the insult to his tech. "Are you dissing the ALSE? It may not be cutting edge anymore but the Amplified Light Synchronized Emitter was revolutionary not too long ago. You are right, it's a little out of date now, but I've got a fondness for it." He got a mischievous look on his face as he leaned in close. "Later, look up the Amplified Light Integrated Situational Environment. That'll really show you what I can do with holograms." "Tim, please, I'm being flattered." Tim rolled his eyes at Alice "It's nice to meet you too, Honos. I'd love to meet your AI sometime. I'll find your systems at some point and pop in when you say I can. I can't help much with the code though. Tim here was drunk as a skunk when he finished me and when he gets drunk he apparently gets very good at making things. I'm sentient. Completely self-aware and independent. So, yeah. I learn, just like anyone else does. I have experiences, I look things up... I'm sorry, I don't know how my code does it. I subconsciously change and edit my code all the time, so it's changed so much from when it was first written I wouldn't even know where to start." Tim awkwardly scratched the back of his head. "Yeah... yeah I wouldn't recommend getting drunk. Especially not until you're older." "Anyway, yeah. Mr. Turing would flip his shirt if he could see me. I'd ace his test. Oh, and Tim..." Alice leaned forward conspiratorially, knowing full well that Tim would hear her anyway. "He is such a mess." Tim rolled his eyes again. "I'm working on it, okay? I've got a day planner and everything now." "Speaking of messes, you still need that book for the synthetic superhuman muscle fiber experiment you have going on down in the lab." "..shit. Hey, Honos, you haven't seen a book, about... oh, yea big, blue cover, something about rough muscles and superstrength?" Honos Black
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Feb 10, 2021 16:57:43 GMT
Post by Honos Black on Feb 10, 2021 16:57:43 GMT
"It was cutting edge like when I was 7. Tech beyond it'syearsandstuff. But I get it. Ol' man loving his ol'technologyandnostalgia. Uncle Erie does thatwithcameras." Honos snorted and grinned. "Yeah, I already looked up the ALISE. It'showIbasedmy own holograms programs. Pretty good for a light read ontechnologyandreferencingtomakeyourown." Honos blinked, brain pausing and slowly rebooting as information was given and pulled out from his wayback machine. "Wait...whaddayamean by 'show you what I can do with holograms'? Are you the guywhomadeit? Dude! CanIshowyoumine?! Like it's basic and not ta my standard just yet butit'sprettygoodfora start!" Honos grinned and rocked on his heels. "It's fine that ya don' know. I mean, mostthingsaremade on lack of brain power. Likelikelike my robots. An' the body I'm planning ta make-wellhalfwayfinishedmaking for my baby AI whenever I finish with them. We's a rightmessofgenius, my dad likes ta say." He shrugged. "Yeah I know whatyou'retalkingabout. But the book is purple, not blue. Been usingittamake my AI body." He goes to his backpack and pulls it out. "This one right? Or is it a different one? There's a few that I used but this one is the best ifyaneedtamake a robot that has a similarbodystructureto a humanwithsuperstrengthoranytypeofpowers. There's others if you wanna see those, though?" He hands Tim the worn book that's filled with sticky notes and paper. "Granted, this is my copy, but I know where they're at if you need to check it out." Timothy Smith
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Post by Timothy Smith on Feb 14, 2021 5:10:57 GMT
Tim chuckled. "Heck yeah I made it. Made the ALSE too. Actually I'm one of the people who got hologram technology really going. It kinda helps when you can do this:" Tim held out his hand, and a little light construct made to look like Alice sprang up from it, then became a tree, then the book he was thinking about. "I studied what exactly I was doing to get the photons to hold in place like that, then duplicated it. Everything after that was improving on the initial concept. I'd love to see what you've made. I might be able to give you some tips." "I definitely want to meet your AI and see your robots. You've got a camera, right? Like hooked up to your computer? Because otherwise I wouldn't be able to see. Tim, you're going to need to move the probes in roughly 17 minutes or the entire thing is going to fry." "Shoot. Lemmie see that book. It might be the right one." Tim took the offered book, and flipped through it, skimming for what he was looking for. "No, no, no, no, no, wait hold on, wait no. This isn't the right book. Wait hold on. It'll work though. Where's another copy? I may need to reference it more and I don't want to monopolize yours, kiddo. You'd be welcome to come watch what I'm doing too. I'm testing a synthetically grown muscle, trying to understand more about superpowers and how they happen and what exactly they do in the body and I've got...?" "Twelve minutes." "Twelve minutes to get back before this experiment goes down the toilet." Honos Black
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Jul 18, 2021 13:37:19 GMT
Post by Honos Black on Jul 18, 2021 13:37:19 GMT
Honos nodded and listened to Tim with half an ear, more focused on Tim's hand. He blinked when Tim snagged the book, brain halting from the ideas that bloomed from what he saw, rebooting and focusing back on the original topic at hand. He tilted his head and listened to Tim babble to himself, snorting and grinning when he realized that he does the same thing. Regardless, he grabbed his stuff and lead Tim down to where he can get another copy and other books of similar topics while Tim was focused on the book.
"Thebooksrightbehindya and-and-and this is where youcanfindit. There's other books likeittoo. Ya might find the-the-the thebookyou'relookingfor in these two aisles. Uhh...if you'retryingtounderstand how muscles work than...maybe this book might help?" He offered, pulling out another book after taking a couple steps back. "Iknowyou'reinarush but this, combined with that book kinda fillsthecompletepicture on bodies and how muscles work for normal and suped up people. Thisonehere" he handed it to Tim "Compares normal and supes muscles. Might be usefulforyou. Here'smyid, now let's go!" He laughed, grabbing Tim's hand. "You'sgottenminutesleft!"
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Post by Timothy Smith on Jul 22, 2021 2:27:09 GMT
Tim couldn't help but grin as Honos excitedly led him to the section with the books he was looking for. The excitement was contagious between them, completing this circuit of hyperactivity and scientific wonder. Tim started grabbing books off the shelf and taking books from Honos that he offered. "Yes yes yes, this is exactly what I needed!" Alice changed her avatar into a countdown clock, showing the pair exactly how much time they had left before the experiment went critical. "Better get a move on, boys." "Right, right right. Honos, you wanna come along? Follow me!" Tim raced down through the college corridors with an armful of books, getting dirty looks from a lot of people there, back to the lab he was using. In a tray, with electrodes sticking out of it, was what can only be described as a piece of meat that looked like it was made out of plastic. It pulsed and swelled as the electricity coursed through it, simulating the electrochemical signals sent by nerves, and it was clear that if things weren't regulated quickly, it would just pop like a balloon. Tim slapped on some safety goggles, tossed some to Honos, and grabbed one of the books, paged through it, and then quickly adjusted a dial. The pulsing synthetic muscle slowed its rhythm, then swelled and doubled in size, but didn't look strained. "Hah! There we go. On a small scale I've successfully simulated abilities that double muscle fiber. That's one way super strength powers work, you can tell when those ones turn on and off because the user bulks up so much when they use it. I'm still trying to figure out the mechanism for the ones that don't bulk up, they just activate more muscle fibers instead of increasing muscle mass, and I haven't quite figured out how to isolate the mechanism that separates them from average humans" Tim turned and smiled at Honos. "Pretty neat, right? I've been trying to teach myself some superhuman biology. And, well, just general human biology too. Comes in handy at work if I know how superpowers work." Honos Black
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