Chain 134: Nier Automata

Chain 134: Nier Automata

Location: Free Choice (Resistance Camp)
Identity: Strange Being
Drawbacks: [+700] Flesh Against Steel, Nothing Is As It Seems, What Was Sacrificed, Automated Misery

[Free]      Happy Little Shopkeeper
[100/1700]  Stand For Your Beliefs
[500/1700]  Illogical Defense
[700/1700]  Wavestrength
[1100/1700] Glittering Gold
[1700/1700] Deus Machina

Well, my eyes are now gold. That's a thing. One of the few permanent changes to my appearance that I've had take place over my time, actually. In any event, I have vague memories of this world from before I started jumping, but I did not expect anything to be as it was here. Androids looked at me curiously before reacting in an absolute and total panic when they realized I was not one of them and potentially a living being, only to be disappointed when they found I was formerly human and currently effectively a walking and talking nanite colony. Still, it gave me an excuse to trail 2B and 9S.

Damn good thing I did, too - it turns out that everything kind of went sideways, in ways that they otherwise shouldn't have done. While the wildlife didn't like me, it didn't bother them much - however, while they danced around any issue I brought up with all the grace of the clumsiest two year old I ever saw try to waltz, I constantly had to deal with their enemies seemingly packing new methods to come at them. Including trying to collapse tunnels when inside caves, trying to collapse the roof on buildings, trying to knock buildings down onto them... and once I stopped tagging along with them for a time, I found that they weren't the focus of this, I was.

Also, coming across what looked like bootleg knock-off copies of myself was confusing, but I had no idea what to even do about this until a building collapsed onto me and killed two of them, causing me to regain the memories they held. (I was rather surprised to have held up so well at the time, frankly, but they were not as durable as I.)

After that point 9S was very concerned about my state of mind considering I had launched on a one-man mission to kill as many of them as I could, but it was less a big deal once I started making sure I was doing it out of any location they might be aware of. Using scry-and-die tactics on them once I remembered how to do so greatly expedited the efforts.

And then YoRHa blew themselves up.

I mean, seriously, what the frick?