{Cartwheel - Kevin penkin}
It's been a whole week since I gained my independence, and oh boy, have I got to work in the past days after getting my house done. Since I'm now the leader of a wolf pack and a bear owner, I have to work hard to keep them happy; otherwise, they begin to fight each other.
Strangely, the wolves are smart enough to gather a couple of materials for me, including but not limited to Deer hide, Small animals for me to "eat," and such. I guess they don't yet understand that I can't eat food. Sorry, fellas, but I can't eat anything you catch for me.
I found a use for the meat they bring me, though since they're wild beasts, I've been helping them preserve the meat they bring me for the winter. My task for today was a simple yet complex problem: How will I build an electricity generator?
I have plenty of ideas on how, but they all require some form of metal and wires. Not only that, but I also need an adapter to connect my arm to. Talk about bad design. Seriously, I need to get my nuclear reactor upgraded soon because batteries are just inferior.
Yay! For nuclear power! NAY! For batteries! Have I mentioned how much I hate my batteries? Did I? Well, let me repeat it! I HATE BATTERIES! They need to be kept at a cool, stable temperature, or they fail. Too cold and I die, too hot and I die! WHAT THE HELL!?!
Almost 80% of my energy consumption comes from my battery temperature controls, which either cool me off or warm me, depending on what my batteries want to be happy with. The system is such an energy waste. I can't help but hate it! Such a horrible choice!
Alright, I'll move on; enough complaining about my poor body design. As I said, building an electrical generator would require lots of wire, and wouldn't you know it? I have many robot pieces I took from the battle before. Do you know what contains lots of cables? YEAH THOSE PIECES!
Do you also know why I think it'll be a pain in the butt? No? Well, let me show you what these wires look like. Is that alright? Hold on tight. I'll pull a piece out for you right now! "UGH! NGGUHGH! Come on, you son of a bitch! Yaaah!"
Okay, so here's a piece of wire I pulled from one of those arms, and well, look at it. Do you see the problem now? No? FINE! I'll show you! {I try to cut the cable isolator coat, but my strength is too much. I immediately vaporize the metal and the isolator.}
So! I've been working on another machine to help me do this task since I'm too strong for my own good. Let me introduce you to the wire striper 3000! The camera pans out to a makeshift wire striper designed by a caveman with sticks and cutting knives barely held in place by dear life.
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{Sigh} Honestly, I might be bright, but I'm no engineer. My materials also limit me to these straightforward machines and buildings like the water wheel I built yesterday. If I go for something a little fancier, I will take too long, so this is all I've got for now.
It'll all change once I manage to get electricity and thus be able to dig deep underground for metals, which I need to upgrade my power source from batteries to nuclear power. The atomic reactor I've got in mind is highly complex, and it will also have massive energy requirements, but the amount of energy it'll make will be more than enough.
The benefits of upgrading are too good not to take them. I could save energy, but not only that, but I could also extend my overclock mode duration by several seconds since the limit is usually my temperature control. With my battery heatsinks available, all the heat created by the overclock would be dumbed straight into those, thus extending my time.
With the benefits in mind, I get to work on stripping the cables, moving through lots of them extremely fast as the creatures around me watch me.
{What's the girl doing?} {I dunno. She does lots of strange stuff, then she congratulates herself after finishing something} {She's just peeling something off those long vines} The wolves observe me as I move to wrap the naked wires around a ball-shaped object.
{What's she doing now?} {She's just weaving the vines in a strange pattern around the wheel.} {What's she doing that for?} {I dunno} Once the wrapping is about done, I move into rummage mode as I search for any magnets left behind in any of the pieces I stole until I find enough to make a large, chunky neodymium magnet.
From there, I needed to connect all the simple gears and wooden pieces to the water wheel powered by the flowing river down the mountain. With all those things set up, I place the two coiled wheels so they turn at the same rate simultaneously with the help of a middle gear connecting both of them.
{What's she doing now?} {Dude, I don't know! Does it look like I know?} {Bear, you got any idea?} {Not a clue} Once I'm done with the placing, it's time for the fun part: connecting wires to each end of the metal holders for the wheels. These wires were easier since I needed them to be protected; I only had to strip them just a tiny little bit.
{What's all that for?} {Who knows, but she is connecting all of it together for some reason} {Hooman girl weird} {Yeh, Hooman girl strange} {She hasn't eaten in days, and she is still going like nothing} {She's a goddess.}
"Well, I know it'll work, but do I just yank the cables into me? Won't that hurt me? It's complete DC, after all. RAPHAEL! [Yes?] Is it safe to connect to DC? [Yes, you have power converters inside you.] Okay, so here we go!
Soon, I yank the stripped end of the cables into my arm port as I place the magnet in the middle of the spinning wheels, suddenly giving a small static shock. To ensure the magnet won't fall, I simply tie it to the wooden stand with some plastic cable casings securing it in place.
[Charging] [Irregular electricity flow detected, activating "Active power conversion."] [Safe charge activated, charge time: 2 Days] WHAT?! 2 DAAAYS?!