Scene #3598: A New You

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Rory White	Well, messages have been exchanged! Rory White has a last minute present to give Kotone, and it's apparently aboard the Odyssey! The ship that's still in orbit over Amalgam. Geosynchronous orbit with the building zone on the planet below in fact. Rory's still walking around in the blonde-haired spare body she almost never uses: A fleshy Menton! And.. for that reason she's actually seated by a desk in the only SLIGHTLY cramped main workroom. Right in the middle of that workroom there's a large, person-sized box standing straight up. It's completely opaque and reflects light a little oddly. Rory's seated nearby it, hands folded in her lap and feet flat against the ground. Her eyes are a little glazed over though - because her attention's ALL over the local Mesh...
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa had got the messag and was curious to come visit her friend to see what she had in mind. The blue haired mechanic had arrived it didn't take long for her to ge aboard the ship and she seemd to be in a good mood as she entered into the workshop. She was also carrying to brightly wrapped packages under her arms a she entered. "Happy Holidays Rory!" Kotone was in good spirits but then again she'd nearly lost family so she was being prehaps a bit less prissy about all the family events this year. She also gets into the local mesh and pokes Rory there with her white haried android avatar.
Rory White	"I'm paying attention!" Rory exclaims a little sheepishly in reality. One of her thought threads is indeed busy with a Simulspace test of some robotic designs and.... what looks like the construction of some large industrial complexes? Nevertheless, the blonde who looks only slightly like Rory's normal form manages an awkward-looking but genuine smile! Blue eyes sweep across the gifts, quickly growing quizzical. "Um... presents for me, too?!"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa grins back at Rory, she's got used to her friend pinballing about bodies. She looks hee friend over in reality and does notice the smile she's also grinning now. "Yes I got you something that I think you might like. Also might give you some good conversttion bits with the argonauts too."
Rory White	"Conversation bits? What did you get?" Rory can't hide her curiosity! Curiosity more than excitement, but it's much the same when you get down to it, regarding HER. She leans forward in the seat slightly, peering at the packages... Then points at the big box. "Yours is in here!" ... Okay it's not exactly wrapped up, but it IS hidden...
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa grins a little bit at Rory as she seems pretty curious she'll hand Rory the first package, it's about the size of a medium sized book. It's got simple blue wrapping paper with a gold bow which seems to be the sort that could be salvaged to use again if one was careful. Once Rory opens the package she'd find a hard backed copy of the Nutcracker. There's still the other package Kotone is holding while she gives the veyr large box a look over, with a raised eyebrow. "That's certainly bigger than a breadbox."
Rory White	Rory is meticulous at such things! Very careful movements to unwrap the package without ruining the pretty bow. And it reveals... a rather impressive book. Something so outdated, so vintage, and so pristine that Rory's left staring bewilderedly at it. "A... a book? 'The Nutcracker?'" She has NOT heard of this one before. It is just THAT old! But while still marveling confusedly at this, she exclaims, "Activate it with the Mesh!" And... of course... A simple command is all that it needs to shift modes. The box's surface blurs, as the intricate meta material changes. Microbots shift in a wave, going from rigidly linked to a loose, fabric-link arrangement. The 'box' becomes a 'cloth,' which flutters down tot he ground.... Revealing, in under a few seconds... an inactive... human? Well. Not asleep. Not dead because it was never alive. 'Inactive' is the best word. The Synth, covered in a mask of pseudo-flesh that's almost completely seamless - on close inspection, it has access jacks and similar features... - looks like Kotone. Not the Kotone that's standing here, but what she SHOULD have looked like if a certain event had not transpired. The exact proper skin tone and pigmentation. Facial features carefully reconstructed. The hair... well, the hair's done up in Kotone's current style, which may or may not be what she remembers of herself! On close expection though, it's a bit... not QUITE exact? There's clearly been some efforts to touch up minor skin blemishes and the like. Still, not to the point of seeming too perfect or uncanny. It is almost entirely nude. The only thing protecting its modesty is a two-piece swimsuit, and there's really no mistaking that it is anatomically correct in every way. Rory's looking on nervously, anxiously, from her chair!
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "Yes it's an fairly old story but one that's at least been retold for over the last century there's even a ballet." She thinks Rory might enjoy it and that's why she picked it for her friend. The tale is about a young girl and her mysterious uncle who gives her a nutcracker for Christmas. The tale just gets fantatic from there, what's part of the kid's dream? What actually happened? It's hard to day. Meanwhile Rory is poiwering up what ever is in the box. Kotone pauses for a moment and she looks it's a body? Kotone's eyes daert up and about it. She notices things like the jacks. She can tell it's a very well done shell. Kotone walks up to it her hand touching the face, checking the jacks and she notices the face most of all. She take sa long moment as she looks at the face. "That's a face I never expected to see again...Rory? Did you design and build this shell all on your own?" She seems a bit in shock as she looks the shell over she's lost in thought, some memoriers both good and bad surface as she looks the shell in the face for a long moment. "You worked on this for a long time." Still she almost seems like she's strting to get a bit overhwhelemed...
Rory White	The book will be read extensively! Just... not right now. Rory's attention is on Kotone's reception of this gift! The expressions wielded by an AGI, shunted into a fleshy body, with little control over its hormonal floods and emotional urges... they are very very weird indeed. It's a mixture of giddy glee. Anticipation. Agitation and nervousness. Simple childish anxiety. A little pride in one's work. All mixed together in this scrunchy face and odd smile. "Yes! ... The insides! ... Needed help with the synthetic mask... you might have seen this in the workshop before..." But without the Synthetic mask, it wasn't any different from any other robotic design project now was it? "Several months of work! This one's quality is even higher than the Synth I was using! The hard part was making sure that it could interface properly with your Cyberbrain and had superior sensory gear... I've had to do a lot of testing making technology from both our worlds get along well to make this. It's compatible with your existing Cyberbrain! ... Although we've enough data to prove that using a conventional one's an option..." Her tone turns a little mousy and uncertain. "If you'd like to resleeve instead."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa laughs at this. "Your right I likely did see this several times and had no idea. Seriouly whoever helped you with this could make good business back on my world. There's a market for custom face work notably in Japan and a few other ntions." She contiunes to look it over as she listens and tilts her head at Rory. "This ... I'm still not sure how to put this into words properly." Kotone does head over to Rory and just moves to hug her. However she tries out the body it's clear she is /going/ to use it. "I'll just stick to thank you so much!"