right well so okay

tea room has its first customer

teleport anchors work okay

sync time was only four seconds

got lucky there because she did not want to be teleported

kept talking at me

like

like

there's a word for the way she was

scared

but

notscared

computer is telling me 'brave'

thanks computer

always such a pal when i need to figure out human emotions

so

she didn't run away. didn't try to put any bullets in me. she did have a gun. same as the other humans. smallbulletgun. she did some talking. four seconds of talking. then the portal under her feet opened and she went to the tea room. and i started breathing again.

note: teleportal brings lots of dirt and rocks and outside stuff into tea room along with customer. assign cleaning drones.

maybe it was the same girl as before

maybe not

i am not so good with faces

i can remember them okay

i just don't like looking at them

watched her for a bit in tea room

she had a biscuit

then read the button labels

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then sat in a corner for a while

felt a little bit of

like

the thing when a human does something that maybe you'd do in a situation

sitting in a corner usually feels like a good idea to me

so

that was

something

she didn't have any tea

but she looked at the things

cocoa and hot chocolate and coffee

she had another biscuit

then she pressed the big button

and went out

and ran

and

that was that

anyway i didn't find suburbland hive

suburbland is

hmm what's the word

boring but not terrible

little houses

little trees

some big trees too

not so many ants around

just three that i saw

and killed

buildings in pretty good shape

not so wrecked

i mean my superhammer drones haven't been near that place

giant ants don't really tear stuff to pieces much

except like

dirt

they love that stuff

digging holes and all that

eating the dirt

no poop though

that's kind of weird

where does all that dirt go

is a giant ant a 100% efficient dirt digesting machine

or what

speaking of ants haven't reported on chitin arm for a while. just became normal i guess. chitin doing well. been adding more gradually. about 40% coverage now on human arm. no real plan for this. just seeing how far i can push it. itchiness is gone. reduced antirejection drug dosage which solved toilet issues. v happy about that. no problems. still no ant hivemind dreams or anything. oh well. chitin is pretty tough. much tougher than squishy human flesh. skin of the future ladies and gentlemen. skin of the future. it is pretty inflexible though. i guess that's the trade off. so for now i'm leaving joints uncovered. anything that needs to bend. mostly doing upper arm. then like a thinner plating over my lower arm. in case i want to wear a watch or something. don't want to bulk that area too much. left my human hand alone. not messing with that precious baby. robot hand does okay but i am kind of attached to my human hand. arf arf. little bit of cyborg humour for you there. no charge. peace.

so anyway

that's what's been going on in my bionetic antmod chitin life

the latest sitcom to warm your bloodorgan and tickle your laughmuscles

yeah

wonder where that girl lives

are there others

do they

well whatever. need to go back to suburbland. find that hive before antsiege. although.

huh

what if i just let antsiege happen

go into defensive mode

let ants surround biscuit fort. kill any ants that actually attack. stop them if they try to kill my walls. collect antbits. make more weapons and ammo from antbits. to keep killing ants.

humans will not come near while ants are around

i could set up a teleport to power plant

make that my exit

okay new plan. new plan yes. new plan includes laser shotgun unlock. i like new plan. have to hurry though. set up stuff before ants come knocking. or more humans. suspiciously quiet on the river base human front. no vehicles for a while.

oh glob

is this the same thing

is this going to be

humansiege

man what if they both come at the same time

that'd be a heck of a fight for the last piece of pudding

well anyway don't think about that right now

get out to that power plant

wonder why no humans are around that place

as well as no ants

probably some kind of horrible radiation or something i just failed to detect

probably end up mutated into a hideous radiation monster

fingers crossed