The year is 30XX. Humanity has found a balance between nature and technology where they can live in luxury without endangering the planet’s health. Every week, the humans have their carbon footprint measure to show how much vice they can indulge in without going over their limit. But even if they do go over, it’s a matter of community service where they work at the Factory. The Factory is where the world-changing machines can be made. Anyone can work there to help build a piece, but no one knows how all the pieces fit together.
The Factory also produces personal attendants for those who can afford them. They do everything from cleaning and money management to tutoring and hair-styling. It all depends on what you want from them. You can also have them designed to your own visual preferences if you have the extra cash. All of this is possible thanks to the talent Dr. Ise.
Unfortunately, a week ago, the good doctor died and left everything to his son…who’s been missing for the past year. Under normal circumstances, a proxy would be used until the boy is confirmed alive or dead, but Dr. Ise’s methods made this impossible. He locked the Factory using DNA coding and the only way to unlock is through the son’s handprint. So dead or alive, they need his hand.
A year has passed and the son is still nowhere to be found. Machines everywhere are starting to malfunction due to lack of maintenance. And since no one knows how they work on a whole, no one knows how to fix them. The assistants are becoming rare as well. The younger ones were built with self-maintenance programs, so they’re okay. But now their prices have gone through the roof and peace has become disrupted as everyone begins to clamber for them. As for the old ones, they’re thrown out with the trash and often end up in back alleys. At this rate, the rapidly destabilizing balance will destroy humanity and planet both.
(This is where you come in.)
In one particular back-alley was a young man dressed in warm clothes. He was alone and digging through the trash and putting things into a small cardboard box. In the box were parts. The man then took them over to one of the older assistant bots. Using what he found, he repaired it so that it could move again. Then he removed his warm jacket, the shirt he had on underneath, and even his scarf, and then put them on the machine. “There you go. Stay warm.”
Shirtless, the young man was revealed to be a machine. He didn't look like any model ever sold on the market, though. What was he, where did he come from? And more importantly, what are you doing to do next?
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CharactersJak Ise19 (Dec. 20th)
Likes: all machines, fixing things, staring at the sky, Dr. Ise
Dislikes: humans who throw away machines because they're 'old'
Bio: Fa- Dr. Ise is a very nice… Actually, I don’t know him too well. Most of the time he was working on older projects, fixing them when they were broken. It was okay, though, for he always let me sit there and watch him. There was little to no talking, even during meal times. On a good day, he’d let me play with some of the new creations. On a bad day, he stuck me in my room and I wasn’t allowed out until dinner. That was life in the Factory, just the two of us. But it was okay, because we liked it that way.
Then, one day, something happened. Dr. Ise was sick. He coughed a lot blood into the sick. It scared me, and that fear was reinforced when he yelled at me to go. I ran to my room and hid in the dark while I tried to think around what happened. A few days later, the good doctor came in to get me. But it wasn’t a good day. He gave me some clothes, a card with numbers on it, and a tiny case with tools inside. When I asked what was going on, he told me that it was ‘my turn’. Next thing I know, I’m outside the Factory. I never knew the sky looked so blue. So impossibly blue that I felt that I could fall up into at any moment. After that, I wandered from place to place. I was taken in by the good doctor’s old creations that lived at a junkyard. It became another home for me. I also finally got to put to use everything Dr. Ise taught me. It was fun and I was loved. But it was taken from me many months later.
Other humans came there, and the machines were taken and destroyed before my eyes. They didn’t harm me. They didn’t know me. But the machines, the machines…they told me to run, that I was too valuable to lose. So I did. I decided to never have another home again. I continued traveling from place to place, fixing any machines I came across.
It’s been over a week since I had a decent meal now. My stomach has been grumbling for a while now, but I won’t complain. No, not when there’s an old machine in front of me. She said she couldn’t move, but that was okay. She’s only missing a few parts. I found them easily in that dark alley. I fixed her up good as new. That’s when I meant you.
Collin18 (June 1)
Likes: taking walks, listening to music, painting and just laying in bed and doing nothing.
Dislikes: loud people, his parents and grapefruit.
Bio: Collin's life growing up was ok. He came from an middle class family. They weren't poor, but they could never afford a robot to help them out. Besides his parents never thought they needed one. All the things the robots did, they could do themselves. Collin always wanted a robot though. Not for work or anything like that but at least someone to hang out with cause Collin was an only child and didn't have any friends.
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