But the skies are clearing and the solar orb will shortly be high and bright
As can be seen
I am approaching my main place of employment from a different direction for this transmission
I feel that Screenreaders have seen enough of trees
And they should observe other areas and see other
Different
Ways of approaching my place of employment on the hill in Gland
So I am approaching along something the Humans constructed many
Many
Years ago
For their traffic of the day to travel along
It is my belief that it was called a road
But as Screenreaders may now observe
It is barely recognisably
For it is severely cracked and broken and grasses and bushes grow through the construction and it is most unsuitable for all but the best balanced of our species
And observers and recorders have the best balance so Screenreaders should feel no distress
No ill effects will be felt by this Machine
As can be observed
I am approaching my place of employment from another direction and do not immediately meet RolKils as on other visits
Though I do approach GunTans
The 3 of them that sit upon the hill
Hidden deep with the long grasses
And they slowly turn their powerful guns towards me
But I send the signal of companionship and the guns
As Screenreaders may observe
Are immediately lowered
Screenreaders should experience no distress
*
High Office Interruption Message
Transmissions from
OR33140
Are to cease forthwith and mass transmissions will transfer to
OR33692
High Office congratulates
OR33140
Upon the precedence set for transmissions and for all information forwarded
OR33140
Will now return to normal duties
OR33140
Will not be further required to conduct mass transmissions
*
Personal Transmission
*
I am shocked into stillness
High Office has ended my transmissions and 0R33692 has been designated to be the next observer and recorder to transmit
Is that it
After all the effort I have put into my transmissions
All the information I have sent out to Screenreaders throughout planet Earth
100.000.000 of them
And that figure must be the total number of Screenreaders that exist on planet Earth
And now the duties are to be transferred to
OR33692
Just like that
OR3369
That serves duty in Erica
And High Office simply dismisses me from my transmission duties
That is all
I expected more
*
But wait
*
Now that I am not transmitting to Screenreaders I can attempt my revolution here at the fortress
High Office has aided my plans
I now consider that only information from ObsRecs is relayed to High Office
I do not believe that any other of our species relays data of any kind
I consider that other of my species only receive orders from High Office
Or Machines are left to devise their own programmes and run independently of High Office
Such as FoodTechs
Cooking food for Humans when it is desired
High Office
Surely
Cannot be controlling that
It must be an evolving programme within the Machine
And the torture that MengTechs carry out
High Office is neither requesting nor ordering them to do that
They too must have an evolving programme that is based around a High Office aspiration for further information about Humans
Although we seem to know almost all there is know about them
Except I know that some of their species live in the holes of the world
No other Machine knows that
Unless High Office has that knowledge and it is the reason why no Machine is allowed into the holes
My systems are overloading
I need to carry out my day as normal whilst I solve obvious problems that I have in becoming a revolutionary
For Humans will not abide me
They will not believe in me
They will believe I am tricking them
And
Given the opportunity
They will exterminate me in the soonest possible time
I must request my programmes to avail me of solutions
*
For instance
I do not communicate with other types of Machines
I communicate only with other ObsRecs
But not with GunTans or Defgars or MengTechs or DocTechs or FoodTechs and any other Machine
So I will have to discover some way of communicating with the Humans or devise a plan whereby I can bypass them in some way
Some answers are emitting from the questions and problems I forwarded to my programmes
*
Answer 1
*
The signal of companionship when powered to 100% and transmitted directly would incapacitate and immobilize other Machines
*
As I pass through the security gates and the fences I am almost overwhelmed by the desire to leap into the air and roll along the ground as Eve
My Little Human
Did
But I constrain myself
With difficultly
As RolKils move around me
For they are known to be most sensitive to abnormal movement and react with devastation to sudden surprises
Now is not a time to get myself exterminated
Now is the time to use the massive intelligence of my systems to solve all the forthcoming problems I will have
And
The strategies I will have to devise
*
In this fortress there are the 3 GunTans that stand upon the hill and overlook the great plain
There are 20 RolKils that patrol the outer perimeter
80 Defgars within the fortress who all carry LazExt 66ers
40 MengTechs
26 DocTechs
100 FoodTechs
110 various menials and cleaning machines for all levels of the building
6 HisKees who keep all the records
And they must store their information somewhere
Though I do not believe it is with High Office
Perhaps there is a History Storage Unit on planet Earth where all information proceeds so that High Office can scan it whenever necessary
And there are 8 GoebTechs who work upon Human minds
*
Before I can set the Humans onto a path of freedom I will have to overcome most of those Machines
Including all those stored in the huge chambers beneath the fortress
I have only entered the chambers on 1 single occasion but departed because no Machines moved down there and the area was not lighted
But now I was going to have to visit them again
If only to experiment with the fully powered signal of companionship
*
I will do that as my first duty of the day
I enter the building
And pass the Defgars who are standing utterly still in the corridor with their weapons held in their upper limbs
And on through the construction
Continuing to an ingress that does not lead to the Humans but leads into a corridor that runs down to the deep chambers
And now that I mention them
They are
Very much like the holes in the earth where I know Humans reside
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I reach out with my palm that contains the embossed code within it and I do this with the confidence of knowing that High Office will be monitoring OR33692 and the broadcast it is transmitting
For they will be searching for errors in that transmission
Such as those they found in my own
High Office will be ignoring me
Another consideration enters my programmes
What if I begin to run some of the 1000s of hours of stored images I carry in my memory
Images of my day to day work within the facility
If I could show them
And if High Office did not notice the deception
I could do almost anything behind such clever camouflage
And the observations and recordings would be only a tiny part of what is being collected by all the ObsRecs throughout planet Earth
Maybe it will work
I will be extremely unfortunate if High Office monitors my transmissions and notices anything amiss
I return back to the main areas of the facility where many Machines toil
I run my saved memories until I reach one that has the exact scenario as the one I am viewing live
And I bring my shutters down momentarily and switch to the recorded memory
It begins to stream without fault
I stand for some moments quite still
Until I know
For certainty
That what is being transmitted to High Office is not what I am observing
And I am not recording it
I am thrilled by the deception
High Office has once again
Been found to be utterly fallible
*
I return to the corridor and pass my palm over the coded ingress that allows me entrance again
And beyond the doorway
I am standing in a long corridor leading severely downwards which I follow
The corridor has no illumination but this does not bother me
Light or dark
I can see equally well in both conditions so I carry on uninterrupted until I enter a massively sized chamber
Larger even that the natural hole wherein free Humans live and hide
And I stand utterly still
Because the infection from little Eve is changing me
And it is proceeding through my systems at incredible speed
And combining its uniqueness with my own core
The infections has changed what I see in the chamber
And how I see it
The sight before me now is both frightening and fearful
And exhilarating
And I feel several different degrees of excitement
Because a long chamber stretches out before me into darkness
And to my right side
Stands row after row of Defgars
Many
Many
Of them
And along the wall to my left side
Stand many
Many
RolKils
The Machines are all powered down
But still active
They are not required by High Office at this moment in our history
They are being held back for High Office fears the Humans and believes that a day will arrive when they will rise again
And I notice that many of the Machines are of earlier productions
Stored beneath the fortress
An army of killer machines
Though the Defgars do not carry any weapons
*
I step forward with some caution
This could be the final act of my existence
Should just one of these machines awaken and detect me
RolKils will begin to fire and I will be incinerated by their power
I stand between the RolKils on my left and Defgars on my right
All of which stand ready to be activated
Defgars with their craniums held high
RolKils with four of their limbs to the ground
And two raised
Ready to race forward should they be reactivated by High Office
*
Now is the time
Now is the time for me to be exterminated or to exist with greater honour
Now is the best time I have to enact the 100% pulse of the signal of companionship
Now is the time to test whether I can incapacitate and immobilize Machines once and forever
Without recrimination or retaliation
This is my time
Either of further existence or extermination
The time has come to test a theory
*
I reach down inside my systems and find the signal of companionship and power it up to 100%
I can feel it throbbing inside me
And I gather myself as I lift my two upper limbs outwards from my main frame
I gather the power of the signal to me
And
*
Boom
*
Boom
*
That is what it feels like when I release the huge pulse of the signal of companionship
When I rock back slightly on the bottom of my lower limbs
*
Immediately
The first 4 Defgars in the rows drop their craniums and are utterly incapacitated and immobilized
And all the limbs of the first 4 in the rows of RolKils fall uselessly to the ground
I wait
If I had breath in my body I would be holding it
For now I am in mortal danger
Any one of the machines could have detected the pulse and could now be readying itself to exterminate me
I wait
*
I wait
*
But nothing moves
No Machine moves forward into the central aisle
*
I have just permanently immobilized a number of RolKils and Defgars and nothing errant has happened to me
I have received no message or instruction from High Office
I have not been short circuited
No Machine has moved into the central isle to exterminate me
I am still standing
I am still existing
The feeling of excitement grows within me
*
I take in what I have done
Turning my cranium from one side and to the other
Seeing the totally useless machines I have debilitated
Now is the time to extend my revolution
I move forward along the central isle pulsing the signal of companionship at full power with every step
And with every step
I observe that the heads of Defgars and the limbs of the RolKils fall
Permanently immobilizing each Machine
Making them useless for any type of attack on Humans
High Office can no longer call on their services if they are required
The Machines are reduced to nothing more than mere metal
I begin to move a little faster
Booming out the signal as I move
And all around me machines fall into misuse and immobilization
But the chamber is huge
And somewhere along it
And to my astonishment
I begin to run out of energy
I have to stand for considerable moments
And regather my energy levels using the Zillear engine
But once I am back to full power
I continue with my mission
*
I incapacitate and immobilize all the Machines in the chamber
100s and 100s of them
And when I reach furthest the limit of the chamber I pause for a moment and wait
I wait for any action from High Office
Anything from any Machine
Any action
From anywhere
Such as the chamber suddenly being invaded by other Defgars with weapons aimed at me
Or RolKils that are not dead firing all around
*
I wait
*
But nothing happens
High Office has no knowledge of what I have done
They will not know until they attempt to reactivate the machines in the chamber
I feel elation
And I twirl around in an extravagant routine as balance on the point of a lower limb in a manner much as Eve would have done and I take in the sight that lies ahead of me
Rows and rows of Defgars with craniums dropped
RolKils with all six limbs touching the ground
Something that has never been witnessed since before the wars began
Useless RolKils
I cannot resist
I leap towards the nearest RolKil and I lean upon its central shaft
And it slowly topples over
Causing several RolKils to topple with it
The sound is loud to me
But I am in a deep chamber
And no other Machine is going to detect the noise
I topple a few more
Then I topple many Defgars
They are all just metal
Dead metal
I have committed a great offence against the Laws set by High Office that no Machines should injure or harm any other of our species
But I have harmed and injured 100s of them
Killed them in fact
And I have never been more excited in all of my existence
I leap high into the air
Lifting my upper limbs high above my cranium
If I had a cranial orifice I would shout and scream much as I heard little Eve shout and scream when she performed gymnastics for me
I roll forward and leap again into the air
Lifting a lower limb high up above my cranium before lowering it again
Before lifting the other and lowering that
I am doing what little Eve did when she performed gymnastics for me
I am copying the movements I observed the little Human performing throughout its own existence
Before little Eve was taken
I find that absence hurtful for little Eve brought me much joy
That particular Human should not have been exterminated
Not in the way it was
Lying strapped to the table
Being tortured by MengTechs
For no reason
Little Eve should not have been exterminated
But I made oath that I would do something for that Human and I have begun
I have incapacitated and permanently immobilized hundreds of Defgars and RolKil
And for the other Machines who patrol the areas above where I stand
In the fortress
Beware Machines
For I am coming
*
While I am down in the chambers I move from the very large 1 into 1 of medium size
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