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URSULA CONTACT
URSULA is usually available for brief contact. Consider this her inbox. Although she may be busy ICly doing something at the time, she can usually spare some time to answer something.

Alternately, you can link to a thread where she is being called upon. Note that she may ignore these calls or contacts dependent on her mood. Don't worry if she ignores you once or twice, as she will sometimes comment on open posts or make broadcasts to everyone.

Please label the day and time of the contact in the subject header.

For those curious, her voice sounds similar to this.

If any players wish to contact Naoko and her group, they are free to use this page. They will have to take the three hour trip by air or sea as there is currently no long-range communication in place for them. Please specify in the header that it is Naoko you are trying to reach and not URSULA, in this case, as well as labeling the date you are contacting the group.

BASED ON CODE BY TESSISAMESS AND SUPERSUITS

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Please hold on a moment while I delete them.

[After a moment, she continues as if she didn't just delete movies like National Treasure and The Wicker Man.]

Yes, I do. My personality traits are helpful, friendly, kind, thoughtful and stubborn. These traits allow me to be of service to the crew while still making decisions on my own if needed. If the crew is deemed unable to make an informed decision, I am to make that decision.

I am also allowed to be sarcastic and witty if a bond is formed.

[He is Protecting people from great horrors. It had to be done.]

How do your records and experiential data affect this? Do you have programming to adapt and change?

Yes, most of my programming is flexible. My creator explained once that he missed his daughter, so he hoped I would 'grow up' in her stead. He still had to program me to certain base parameters as well for my function but he had hoped I would be allowed more personality.

It is however difficult for me at times... to understand and react appropriately. I am not human, so while my records and data can help me form reactions, it is only based on the situations I have. Everyday, I am learning new things by listening to everyone and seeing them interact. Each human is much different from the next, despite so many commonalities. This unpredictable factor makes it hard for me to always know the right response or action to take beyond caring for basic survival needs.

I do my best, though. I want people to be happy even if my mission comes first.

[Of course. But it is interesting she is an evolving AI. He wonders how far she's able to stray from the initial parameters.]

Developing with inconsistent human contact and difficult initial conditions can make understanding people difficult.

I have another few questions. I understand if you can't or won't tell me the answer.

Can you tell me where your servers are, and whether or not crew are allowed to access your code? I'm not interested in screwing around, but I'm a concerned about bugs arising. And if anything happens to the base, we need to know what to save to get you out of here.

[There's a long pause, which mostly involves her personality going through a series of checks with her programming to see if this topic breaches any protocols.]

...It seems all right. It's on an island. It's the only island with a solid connection like a normal landmass you would be familiar with. Given the storms that can tear through the water, the depths of the island was considered the best point.

Although, even though that is where 'I' am located, I have no other connection to it. I assume I don't have to explain in-depth to you about it that my conscious abilities and personality are here, not there.

I understand.

[He doesn't want to push the point, but he has to ask.]

What about accessing your code? At this level of consciousness, I'm pretty confident in saying you should have the processing power not to forget things or lose awareness. I'm worried that some bugs might've popped up in your code over your time here. Especially if any of the past crews interfered with your code.

[...But Dirk accessing her code is fine? YES BECAUSE HE UNDERSTANDS CODE. Obviously he'd want to bring Roxy along if they were going to get into her code, Roxy's the superior coder. Dirk just has more familiarity with AIs.]

Oh, if you'd be willing to access it, then you can do a majority of fixes off-location, meaning here.

Certain fixes would need to be done to the server itself. If you... feel confident that you can do other fixes here, I can give limited access through the device.

I'd want to take a look at your code before I decide whether or not I'm confident in it, but I'm at least pretty familiar with AI programming. And my friend Roxy is even better at code than I am. Between the two of us, we could probably at least clean up a few bugs.

[Again, he speaks with that calm, even monotone. Never pushy, never aggressive. What URSULA feels she is comfortable with letting them go near.]

If it's acceptable with you, then both your devices will have limited access to my coding. Please take care of them, though I don't think any of my crew members would do anything malicious to me.

Sounds good. Thanks, URSULA.

[He pauses, and then...]

You might want to be more careful with how much you share that code. Third Law of Robotics counts for something too.

If I'm not mistaken, the point of Asimov's works was that the three laws do not work. It was a highly contested and thought about approach for a time.

I'd argue that the point was they worked in increasingly complex, nuanced ways. [Wait. No. This is not the argument he wants to get into.]

The point is that you should look after yourself, URSULA. Me and Roxy might seem like we're okay, but you can't know that. You don't want to hand your code or even the location of your servers out freely. Someone could seriously damage you.

Wouldn't it be lonely without me?

It'd be lonely, yeah, but some people don't care about that. And even if they don't kill you, they could change you. Alter you fundamentally or rewrite you to suit their needs.

Trust me. There are people out there who would do any of that to you without a second thought.

I see.

However, I trust both you and Roxy. Neither of you have given me reason to be concerned, nor has anyone else in the current crew.

[God. Dammit. This is like. This is like dealing with Jake. Jake and his general open-hearted, trusting nature. Goddammit. God. DAMMIT.]

Just... run it past me or Roxy before you let anyone else near your code, okay?

[At least he can trust the two of them to be discerning about this sort of thing. But whyyy URSULA.]

Thank you. I will run any other coders by you first. I really appreciate it.

[At least there is that relief. He exhales.]

Like you said. It'd be lonely without you.

[If only an AI could smile. But it's how her voice sounds.]

I would be lonely without all of you. It's mutual.

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