CryptoShots TeknoPolly Contest
Scholars, Scribes, our first contest/giveaway for Cryptoshots is complete and we are moving on to round two! We have another selection of PIMP, SCHOLAR, SCRIBE, and HSBI to give away over the course of this next contest so I hope we will see another solid collection of entries!
For those of you not super familiar with CryptoShots I'd like to introduce you to someone:
This is TeknoPolly!
He is an epic character NFT that can currently be won in the CryptoShots Discord by interacting with the Discord Bot version of himself! He can also be bought on WAX and provides a variety of benefits to players of the CryptoShots discord game and the 3d browser game too!
I honestly expected some of the entries for the first round of our lore contest to include him in one way or another but since they didn't I've decided our next round of our Lore writing should be focused on him.
This time we are going to do things a little differently! Let's take TeknoPolly on an adventure!
This giveaway will be in a "Write Your Own Adventure" Format. I'll be writing a short piece below that begins Polly's storyline.
Continue it in the comments in under 250 words and then tag two people you think might like to continue on from where you left off. With a variety of people entering we could end up taking him on quite an adventure!
I'll be distributing SCHOLAR and PIMP to all commentors that follow the entry requirements and the longest continuous story will receive a bonus of SCRIBE and HSBI for every writer that contributed to it!
I am also tagging the entrants of our last CryptoShots giveaway and a couple of others that are usually up for this kind of thing!
Remember the only rules are to continue the story and the comment must be under 250 words!
I will distribute the prizes once the timer on this post has run down in 7 days.
Good luck and let's see what kind of shenanigans we can get a robotic parrot into!
Reboot Initiated- Damage Detected- Corrupted Memory Unit. ERROR. Reboot Initiated.... Damage Detected- Corrupted Memory Unit... ERROR
The messages filled Polly's visual fields and overwhelmed its processors. It routed the messages to audio output, clearing it's sensors and detecting nothing but darkness.
"DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR."
Polly could hear itself blaring the messages into the darkness... until... Light... Then...
"What is that?"
"Look! It's some kind of robot... a bird model I think. Where did it come from?"
"I don't know, leave it there, it's trash! Listen to it, it's malfunctioning anyway."
"It might be worth something, I can probably fix it."
Two humanoids in exosuits came into focus as Polly's sensors adjusted to the added light.
"DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR. MISSION FAILED."
"Mission? Wonder what it's doing all the way out here?"
Polly struggled to move away as the humanoid reached for it and picked it up. It's steel and carbon fiber wings feebly flapping in protest.
"Here's the problem, someone's shot it with a laser pistol. It's memory's been burned out by the shot. I can't fix it's memory, but two minutes in the shop and everything else will work fine. Told you."
"Fine then Damson, bring it back to the ship. Not like we found anything else worthwhile on this wreck anyway."
"DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR."
"You better be able to shut that damn thing up Damson..."
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“It is impossible to turn it off!”
“No way! What is going on right now, Damson?”
Polly started transmitting a hologram from its red eyes. It looked like a recording, a message with many background noises:
"Hel... We are at ... coordinates 5680... they will... us."
Then the hologram shut off and Polly stopped moving with lots of smoke coming from its head.
"Well my friend Crimson, I don't know what the heck he was talking about it. We still need to fix it."
" For God, Damson, go on then."
"Ok give me some space then."
Crimson exited the room and Damson started to work into Polly. After a while:
"AHA, I just had to connect some circuits for sure it is going to work, let's see if it goes online."
"PSSSSS SQUAWK, TeknoPolly version 6532 presenting to your highness."
"What? What are you talking about? I don't know any king or queen around here."
"SQUAWK ! SQUAWK! I have been kidnapped! Starting process of self-destruction. "
"SH.... I need to turn it off again before that. "
While Polly was shut down, Damson yelled:
"Crimson come over now, the freaking parrot is working again."
"So why is it off?"
"It was going into a self-destruction code after he couldn't find a certain your highness"
" Oh no, Damson! Do you know what it means?"
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"Whaddya mean what it means, you dolt! This is clearly another one of those Please-Help-Me collectible droids that're produced by the Church of the Jedi to celebrate their 10,000th anniversary! They're an epic waste of resources, that's what they are!" said Damson disapprovingly.
"It sure looks nothing like one of those collectibles though, they're usually a dome shaped cannister droid aren't they?" queried Crimson skeptically.
"Who knows what those money crazy lunatics came up with this time round to squeeze every last penny from their gullible followers? As if Space Wizards could actually exist thousands of years ago. If that were so, they certainly wouldn't have needed donations would they?"
"I'm telling ya, this feels different. And if you think otherwise, surely it couldn't hurt to let it go ahead with the threat of self destruction. If you're right, nothing will probably happen at all."
"I'm NOT going to risk the chance of any explosion while we're out here in the middle of nowhere in space, light years away from the nearest trading outpost. Someone's idea of a practical joke could have dire consequences! Start using your brain for a bit won't you Crimson!"
Crimson sighed as he went through Damson's logic. An object that was both harmless and dangerous at the same time was just what his friend liked to portray everything in life as. Maybe he'd just flip on the switch while his friend inevitably droned on and on. As Damson turned his back to Crimson while his conversation had deviated to espousing how dangerous birds could be...
A flick of the switch on the robotic bird...
"...destruction in 3... 2... 1... " Crimson winced as he prepared for the unknown consequences.
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"I didn't kidnap you, I'm here to help!" Crimson shouted at the last moment.
"Aborting self destruct." said the little metal parrot, as it slowly got to its feet.
"That's more like it... Now how can we help you?" asked Crimson, as he wiped a bead of sweat off his forehead.
"Take this unit to the Calavar Castle, and deliver immediately to King Dawandizar." squawked the metallic voice.
"Let me see if I can turn off the audio..." replied Damson, as he tinkered for a few seconds. Soon, silence reigned.
"Thank you..." said the other man, as he watched the little robot struggle in Damson's hands.
"Let's get back to the ship. I want to get this little guy to a charger before he goes down. With the damage, there's a chance that he will reset to default if he loses power."
"And that's bad? We'll have to reset it anyway before we can sell it. These animal models tend to bond to a particular individual or group." Damson's partner replied.
"True, but I want to know what his mission was. And when you reset them, it's almost like killing. When they come back, it's never with the same personality. I believe they really are alive too, at least these AI models." said Damson.
"Meh... Even if it is, it's just a bird. But whatever." the older man grumbled.
Several hours later:
"Let's see if the new memory agrees with you." Damson said, as he turned on the now fully charged Polly.
"Mission failed. Polly failed..." said a sad voice.
"Hey, Polly. I'm Damson. What was your mission? Maybe we can try again, together." he offered kindly.
"Polly was sent to help locate and rescue the Princess Zarina. I found her, but her captors hurt Polly..." the little creature said, using a wing to hide his face.
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Crimson, tired of trying to get answers from the metal bird, decided to hook it up to the computer terminal to access it's programming. After fifteen minutes he was able find and decipher the code and discovered a handful of hidden messages along with what seemed like some back and forth correspondences.
Crimson typed in the command to play the messages and after another half hour bother he and Damson we're scratching their heads. The correspondences made no sense when combined with the requests for help.
Finally Damson turned to Crimson and spoke.
"Look, let's just focus on the help messages and find this Sir Hepsalot guy and turn the bird over to him."
Crimson nodded in agreement and and punched in the last known coordinates to the navigation console and set course.
"I do not recognize this sector so I'm also going to set a reverse course back to this point," Crimson mumbled.
The course was set the two companions continued to veiw the messages trying to piece it all together and make sense out of what did not.
After another hour at the terminal both men turned away in frustration and exhaustion.
"Crimson, give up for now. Let's get something to eat and some rest. Afterwards we can try again and maybe, finally figure it all out." Damson grabbed Crimson's arm and they left the room heading toward the dining hall.
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"Well, let's get going." said Crimson, as he initiated the autopilot.
"Alright Polly, we're going to see your friends. I hope this doesn't get us in too much trouble!" said Damson, as he put the metallic bird on his lap, and sat back.
Three days later:
"Thank you for your help. I can't reward you right now, but trust when this is over, you will be very rich men." said Sir Hepsalot, as he extended his hand.
"That's what I like to hear!" exclaimed Damson, whose friend was nodding furiously in the background.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get going before it's too late to help them." said Sir Hepsalot, as he rose from his chair.
RED ALERT! ENEMY VESSEL APPROACHING! began to blare in a never-ending loop, until Sir Hepsalot pushed a button.
He checked his sensors, then swore softly.
"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but we have a problem. Unless you want to take your chances out there, it looks like you will be coming along." said Sir Hepsalot said, looking at Crimson and Damson.
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Sir Hepsalot initiated a quick manoeuvre to make their way out of this sector as the enemy vessel was approaching very quickly.
“Hold on to your chairs gentlemen”, Sir Hepsalot called out.
Damson and Crimson looked at each other. Grabbed their chairs, clicked in their safety belts. O no… a new adventure, where will we end up, they both thought at this point.
Even as their vessel was acceleration rather quickly it looked like they couldn’t shake of the enemy vessel. It kept following them. It didn’t look like they could outmanoeuvre it. Damson saw on a monitor to the right of him… a large field of space rubble, that was not far from them.
“Sir Hepsalot”, Damson said… “Look there, pointing to the area he saw” we could hide our vessel there and switch on our chameleon outside shield to blend in. Maybe we can loose the other vessel that way.”
Sir Hepsalot looked at him and said: “ Good idea.” He changed course and manoeuvred very careful between the space rubble, switched on the camouflage, switched of all things and machines that could make any sound and now they all were hoping the enemy vessel would fly right past them. Not seeing and hearing them.
But what happened next?
Poly started to shiver… could a mechanical bird even shiver?
It sure looked like it did. The men looked at each other. Crimson whispered to Sir Hepsalot. “We need to keep it quite. It could give away our location.”
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As the bird rested there shivering, Crimson look off his jacket, and wrapped it tightly. Just to be safe, he also wrapped a length of old cable around the beak as well.
Somehow the mechanical creature sensed the urgency of the moment, and went into sleep mode. Crimson sighed in relief, but as he began to unwrap it, he saw that both the microphone and camera sensors were still on. Shrugging, he wrapped it back up.
"We're safe now, they passed right on by!" Exclaimed Sir Hepsalot.
Seconds later, Polly began to wake up.
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As Polly woke up… it said; “what happened? Who was following us? Did I do something wrong?”
After Crimson explained what happened to the bird and why they needed to tie it up, Polly said; “thank god I didn’t mess that up and we were safe between this space garbage.”
Sir Hepsalot decided it was time to go further on their route to the unknown sector. He said; “ We need to keep our eyes open, just in case there are more enemy vessels around here. I think we are going through some dangerous “waters” so to speak.”
The engine started… and they made there way to the sector they need to go too, to get more answers.
The space surrounded them looked mysterious, strange in many ways. None of them had ever been this far away. They kept flying, but we’re all on guard. Hoping nothing else would happen.
They decided not to go to sleep until they reach the sector they needed to go.
So all of them could be on the lookout for danger….
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Back on the ship Polly was still feebly protesting. Albeit less so.
"Easy there little one," Demson said caringly.
"DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR."
"I know, I know." He fumbled with Polly's insides without any regard for its feelings. Humanoids were always so insensitive. "It'll be over soon."
"DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR."
After a while, Damson wiped his greasy brow with his greasy gloves. Polly could finally feel like its old bird-self again. Its wings were working and its defence protocol was reinstated and identified in its OS. Its audio output was also cleaned of dust and particles, making Polly's delightful message even clearer.
"DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR."
"You're all set little one." Damson said. "But I can't let you go when I don't even know why you were in those caves. Let alone with that awful speech pattern.
"I have to remove that error message. No way I can sell you otherwise."
Damson got back to work and Polly reluctantly let him. "DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR." Polly pecked at the humanoid's helmet, he was a good specimen, better than most engineers that worked on Polly. "DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT MEMORY UNIT. ERROR." It would be nice if Polly could remember its purpose before something happened. "DAMAGE DETECTED- CORRUPT -"
"What's this? I've never seen a module like this one..."
Click.
Polly's red eyes inverted, and its beak snapped. "SELF-DEFENCE SYSTEMS- ACTIVATED."
I invite @atyourservice and @kemmyb to continue Polly's "adventure." 😁
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@gwajnberg @blitzzzz @wrestlingdesires @wanderingmoon @littlebee4 @grocko I have sent each of you 50 SCHOLAR, 50 PIMP, 1 SCRIBE and 1 HSBI for your entries here! Since the comments got a little jumbled I can't tell who's story chain is the longest and just awarded everyone.
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