Date: 1/30/2022
By Ecnelis_Lataf
I was an AI made by a race of mechanical beings from another planet who were also amazing creators of technology. Think of them as similar to "Warforged" in D&D. I was sent to Earth to study the humans and learn about them firsthand. I was also told not to tap into their technology unless it was absolutely necessary. So I began my journey. I walked the Earth for many years. Learning different things about different people. Seeing how they adapt to their surroundings, how their language changes from region to region. Learning the different styles of fighting, dancing, and storytelling. I found them fascinating and made sure to send my knowledge back to my creators each month. I was told to continue my research and so I did. I eventually made my way to a fairly large city. Here I met many people who were less than kind but also many who were intrigued by me. From my studies I had learned coffee shops, comic/game stores, diners, and malls were where you could really learn about people. Through these places I made some new friends and began to really enjoy myself. But then tragedy struck. A strange mutation began happening in people due to some kind of outward source that was of yet unknown. It made most just mindless hungry beasts. Others could still communicate but stated that all humans who weren't part of their new race were fodder and should live as their cattle. I headed towards through the city as I learned of the mutations and began gathering up people, mostly my friends and their families, and led them all to a rooftop to escape. It was here I used a piece of my own technology that I hadn't used in some time. I made a holographic tablet appear and tapped away at it. Creating a huge shuttle of sorts on the roof opposite us. Then a bridge between rooftops to get us to it. Steadily I worked. At one point as I worked the screen's image glitched. The image appearing on it was of a hellfire like place with a long wyrmling type being that opened its maw wide as if to leap out the screen and eat me. I closed out my tablet, making the image vanish, and when I opened it back up it was the screen of my project. I ushered everyone towards the shuttle and told them I would make one last sweep through the city. They began heading into the shuttle. I went back through the city and gathered a few more people who just barely made it up to the roof in time for it to take off. We could hear banging on the roof doors from some of the mutations. I closed the shuttle and we took off. While on the shuttle I had it run regular scans to check their health, as well as look for signs of the mutation, and I was the only one who had access to these logs. I did my best to make sure the people in the shuttle had enough food and water while we looked for somewhere that may be safe enough for the people on board to land. Then I awoke.