Book 7. Chapter 13: The convoluted machine scheme
- Two hours prior -
To’Orda had a convoluted scheme he was proud of.
The image generator had gleefully drawn up the slides for him, even going so far as to animate a mini-To’Orda pulling down each slide and pointing a ruler at it.
First, he would capture the Deathless.
Second, the hyper-weasel would come to rescue the Deathless. At which point To’Orda wouldn’t have to walk anywhere to catch the weasel.
Scheme complete. It was perfect.
And then things got complicated.
First, the Deathless had to be negotiated with to not die and cooperate with all this. To’Orda had tried to get some help, but the three Feathers were all insulting each other over the comms channel and hadn’t stopped for the past three hours now.
He’d long ago checked out of that situation. So instead, he’d taken one of their jokes as said and made a small speaker inside a pet rock. Then attached a language generator to his image generator, and a text to speech module for that as well. The program had instantly protested against the extra workload, immediately understanding what those additions would mean, then realized it was overruled and finally sulked away to do the job, borrowing from To’Orda’s hardware to run.