Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27736349-20170509184718/@comment-29564364-20170511221930

Alpha: "I don't think I'll need a room. I already have N.I.G.E.L.'s Door Project System, so all I'd have to do is establish a permanent marker on a door nearby for a direct access to the base in Zipangu. Him however..."

Cole: "I would take a room for one, but I do not believe my remaining currency to be sufficient to pay the rent for the first night."

Alpha: "Then find a job." N.I.G.E.L.: I took the liberty to initiate the structural local scanning procedure and am currently generating the mapping of the building as you walk. "Thank you, but you could have done that earlier, like, when we were lost."

Cole: "Who may you be conversing with? I would never suspect a grown man your age of entertaining a friendship with an imaginary being. Or perhaps could you be mentally ill?"

Alpha: "Good, good. I see that you're finally picking up on the condescending remarks. But, that was a bit too good for a first time... And no, I'm not schizophrenic, nor do I have an imaginary friend."

Cole: "Skidso-what?"

N.I.G.E.L.: "I don't think we have met yet, so allow me to introduce myself. I am N.I.G.E.L., Alpha-493's personal neurocognitive management assistant. I would add you to my data base, but you are already present. Name: Nicholas Dumont. Species: Homo sapiens. Sex: Male. Age: 27. Genetic code:-"

Alpha: "That won't be necessary."

In a state of alert, Cole looks around, searching for the provenance of the voice. "W-where are you? Show yourself at once!"

N.I.G.E.L.: "As you wish." A holographic screen pops up in front of me, displaying the acronym that is the AI's name right above an oscilloscope vibrating at the sound of his voice."

Cole: "I-Is that you?"

N.I.G.E.L.: "Yes."

Cole: "But... where is your body? Who trapped you in there?"

N.I.G.E.L.: "Alpha's residence could be considered my body. Otherwise, I do not possess an anthropomorphic vessel if that is what was expected, though one could be built. As for your second question, I was not "trapped" here. I am an artificial intelligence, a program, a series of characters typed in a computer."

Cole: "Never have heard of computer magic before. What is it?"

N.I.G.E.L.: "Computers have no supernatural compo-"

Alpha: "A computer is a magical item that can be used to create artificial souls called AI, or artificial intelligence. Those AIs can interact with people and other AIs through the computer they are in, be modified to have different voices and personalities and/or transferred or copied to other computers so that a single AI can occupy multiple computers."

N.I.G.E.L.: "This information is factually inaccurate."

Alpha: "I'm just explaining it to him in terms he understands. After all, words by themselves are just sounds, they mean nothing. It's up to their user to give them a meaning."

N.I.G.E.L.: "Correct."

Cole: "I am unsure of my understanding, but this magic seems to be very advanced and complex."

Alpha: "Hence it's rarity."

(N.I.G.E.L. can either communicate with me mentally or through the speakers for everyone to hear, so his speech will be as thoughts in the former situation or as... well... character speech in the latter situation.)

[Done]