canismetallusfamiliaris: (suspicion)
Erek King ([personal profile] canismetallusfamiliaris) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-11-09 01:05 pm
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An incognito arrival

Who: Erek King and anyone!
Open: Wide open!
When: Day 247
Where: anywhere in the Bastion
What: An android arrives and skulks about hidden behind holograms before saying hello.
Format: prose preferred, but I'll match either!
Warnings: none

Erek's holographic emitter isn't projecting when he becomes aware he isn't home. That is already worrying, even before he takes in his surroundings while raising the illusion of a human boy around himself. An expression of relief flickers across the holographic face, thousands of years making shifts in expression a well-founded habit. His emitters aren't down, at least.

This isn't Earth, though, and it's the most bizarre planet Erek has ever visited. As he takes a step, the ground shifts around him, creating a path on which to walk. ...Interesting, if concerning. He doesn't think it's based on magnetism. The planet itself probably isn't sentient either. It's a matter for later investigation, though. There are more pressing concerns.

He sees a light in the distance that looks promising and replaces his human hologram with one of invisibility, blending into his surroundings. Erek will wait until he sees what species inhabit the planet and do his best to blend in. He sets off toward the Bastion.

When he arrives, Erek stays out of sight until anyone comes into view. He plans on taking up an appropriate hologram as soon as he's gauged the people well enough. Of course, should anyone human-shaped be present, it's easy enough to duck behind the edge of a building and emerge as Erek King, a fairly unremarkable teenage boy. He assumes that no one will see through his camouflage in the meantime. It hasn't happened so far, his emitters sufficiently advanced that it would take a very specialized sort of eyesight to see anything through the illusion.
notachickenhawk: (bird: what?)

[personal profile] notachickenhawk 2014-12-03 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
<Some of it's from other worlds. I think Colin has some stuff in his database too, but birds can't work touchscreens that well.>

The question makes him laugh in thought-speech a little bit. <I... like fantasy. Or I did. I read a lot about brave warriors setting out on quests to defeat ancient evils, or people exploring new planets and interacting with the locals. I used to hide in the library at lunch when I went to school. I read Lord of the Rings as soon as I could get my hands on it.>