genessia | I'mma fix what ails you...'re machines! [Video]

Good morning Genessia! Today you get the visage of one Amelia Inglebert on your screen, goggles, hat and everything. She tips her hat up with a gloved finger and grins at the screen.

"Hey Genessia! I'm done sitting around," She says, "So it's time to put me to work!"

The video proceeds with her walking through her kitchen, which seems to have been drastically altered. Along the ceiling there seems to be several constructed rails upon which mechanical arms move about with great precision. There are also several machines, all automated, working at once. If someone watches closely enough, they'd see each.

The first seemed to be a machine with two rotating parts - one to deposit a coffee bean onto a heavy metal press, and one to scrape off the crushed grindings of that bean after the metal press finished smashing it into fine coffee grounds. It was all collected to be used in your standard coffee machine - fresh ground, yum!

"Back in Ironhart, I was something of a girl genius. Then I got dumped in this place and didn't know up from down. But I've spent every day since I got here tearing everything apart and learning what makes it work, so now? Now I'm right back where I ought to be," The girl explains.

There're robotic arms in the background. One with a simple claw hand, two prong, with suction cups on it. That hand would snatch an egg from a row of them placed delicately upon rubbery stoppers. Then it moves that egg above a frying pan, and rotates it while cracking it open with a laser before pulling the shell apart and frying eggs on the pan.

"Broken refrigerator? I can fix that. Busted TV? I'll have you watching your soaps in no time. Heater's shot? Don't worry about it! I can do air conditioners too," The girl continues her pitch, "Light fixture on the fritz? I can de-fritz that!"

There seems to be some big, fat, and of course automatic nozzle plopping pancake mix onto a flat-top grill. And a well-timed system has a singular metal limb seemingly built into the counter, armed with a spatula, flipping them. To say nothing of yet another arm shaking a frying pan of bacon to make sure it doesn't get stuck.

By the time the girl sits down, her breakfast is plated, and riding along her home-built rail-system right to her spot at her kitchen table. It's placed before her, and she grins, raising a hand so the robot-hand that brought it could even give her a high-five before she's also handed her coffee just the way she likes it - black as night.

"I'm Amelia Inglebert. You can call me Ms. Fix-It if you want, but I really prefer my name," She says with a smile, "I also don't do windows. Just give me a call, and I'll un-bust your busted stuff!"

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[Besides the communicator that Caelica now figured out how to use thanks to Vyse, the other appliances in her apartment still elude her. Amelia sounds like the perfect person to teach her what the magic box with the moving, talking paintings are!]

Uhm, pardon me. But what is a "tee-vee"?

[Amelia expected calls, but she sure didn't expect this sort of call! Still, you know what? Whoever this poor woman was is in the same boat she used to be in.]

Oh, a TV? TVs are great! It's short for "television." Basically it works by catching a signal on a dish that is probably outside of your building somewhere. That signal gets turned into an image by using light inside your TV to project an image onto the screen. Every image is a collection of pixels in which your human brain will see and form the image you're seeing. Naturally it also uses sound as well.

Each of these images are usually things that were once going on in real-time, if you're watching the news or something. Cartoons are their own thing entirely, and very different. Cartoons are a series of images that have been hand-drawn and run in a sequence to make the pictures appear as if they're moving. Oh! And some of the things you watch were usually recorded earlier and played to you sometime later in the future - but some of them are actually 1:1 live feeds!

I didn't know what a TV was when I got here either. But now I know you can watch it as a source of information, or just for entertainment. Oh! And we haven't even touched on computer-generated graphics... or what a computer even is!

[Caelica? You may be better off never asking Amelia what technology is ever again.]

[A lot of what Amelia said just flew over Caelica's head]

Is that so? I don't wish to take too much of your time, but would you kindly show me how these objects work? I would understand it better in that manner.

[Ehhh? Show her how they work? Amelia pauses for a moment, torn between wanting to help and... well not wanting to go anywhere. She sighs somewhat however.] Well, alright. Maybe I can just come over and answer whatever questions you've got.

You have my gratitude. I live in Tupelo Alley. I will meet you at the entrance, ma'am.

[Caelica's years of etiquette lessons and talks of honor and chivalry kicked in, she calmly puts a coat on and take the hilt of her sword on the table to go meet this potential new friend]

[Hanging up the phone, Amelia hangs her head back a moment and groans.] Ugh, out into winter. Alright, let's go Bit.

[Ushering her little robot along, she throws on a coat of her own and is on her way.]

[Caelica would see her coming, most like; approaching the entrance of the building looking like she's carrying-- wait, that's not a child.]

Hey there. You must be...

[...]

What's your name?

Yes, it's me. My name is Caelica Blair. It's a pleasure to meet you in person Miss Amelia.

[Caelica would have called her "ma'am" but she adapted to this world's honorifics. Kind of]

Shall we? It's mighty cold outside. I prepared you some coffee at my roo--

[Caelica's eyes caught the site of what looks like a metal toddler. Her jaw remained dropped as she eyes locked at Bit, not blinking. Caelica gasped after a few seconds of standing there like she turned into stone]

What in the...?

[Bit's not blinking either as he stares back at Caelica. Mostly because he has no eyelids or anything like that.]

Huh? What? What are you looking at?

[It takes Amelia a moment to realize that Caelica is staring at her robot.] Ohhhhh. This is Bit. I guess you've never seen a robot before, have ya?

Robot? Is "Bit" an animatron? I have never heard of them being called a "robot".

[Caelica taps her finger on her chin, definitely boggled at how small Bit is. Animatrons in her world are the size of humans. Well, 7-foot tall humans...]

Why answer via phone when Maria lives right next door? Instead, she does what she got used to doing back in Forge...

Just opening Amelia's front door and peeking inside.

"I just saw your announcement..." Maria says, only to stop when she sees all the mechanical... things that now dominated Amelia's kitchen. "Oh wow... This is what you've been making so much noise doing?"

"Eh? Oh. Hey Maria. Yeah, sorry about that. You never called the Super, did you?"

Amelia's currlently hunched over her kitchen table. Her dirty breakfast plate is still there, but is mostly obscured by gun parts. She's taken apart and is cleaning her gun right then and there. Her gloved fingers are oily, and she scritched her face when she looked up, so there's smudged oil over her cheek now.

Maria shakes her head and steps inside, pushing aside some clutter by the front door. "No, no, I know you well enough to know you don't mean to make noise... But there are other people in the building now."

Seeing Amelia all dirty and cleaning her gun... where she eats, Maria makes a face. She then looks around and sighs. "This place is a mess..."

"Hm?" Sorry Maria, Amelia had stopped paying attention again, "Oh, yeah, I've been meaning to clean up. But then I start thinking about how much other stuff I have to do, and..."

"... Hey, I had Bit cleaning up a bit a little while ago."

And that's when Amelia's trash can would jostle around. A certain robot was banging around inside it.

Amelia had Bit cleaning up? The poor robot could barely walk down the street without tumbling over, how could he be expected to clean up this junk heap? Maria was going to ask just that when the garbage can began to rattle.

"Oh, Amelia!" Maria gets a little irritated. She walks over to open the garbage can and pull the little robot free of it, cleaning any muck off him. Blech.

"What? What?!" Amelia looks over to see Maria pulling Bit out of the garbage, and she gets up from her seat to approach them. "Bit, come on! You're not supposed to play in the trash, you were supposed to be cleaning! Ugh, you stink."

Like, literally, he smelled. Like garbage.

"I guess you're just not cut out for cleaning... Maybe I ought to make a cleaner robot."

Bit does indeed smell like garbage, but it's not his fault! He was cleaning up some things on top of the TV unit, and he fell off right into the garbage can! How he accomplished such a feat is beyond even the most rational of minds.

But he's very happy to be free. He hugs Maria tight in his smelly robot joy.

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