Comments on 'What's a nice kid like you doing in a mess like this?'Way back when humans used to sail the seas and bitch about it, they used to have a ridiculously large hall called _mess hall_. Gas knows what they were using all this valuable space for.
A _mess_ is a much smaller area, full of feeders. Feeders are something between a cable or hose, and a snake. It's not a figure of speech. They use snake DNA for this.
Some feeds provide electricity, fuel or information others suck out used garbage, they all have a job to do.
When a robot enters the mess, feeders raise their heads and optically scan the robot's surface for a connector that looks like they'd fit. False detections are eliminated by actually feeling the surface.
Jenny was still wearing her robot costume. Now _that_ can really confuse a feeder. They're programed to avoid irrelevant _standard_ connectors. Not _make believe_ ones that were actually designed to look like the real thing.2007-07-30T11:10:18Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/2244Comment on What's a nice kid like you doing in a mess like this?<p>Eew. In danger of veering into hentai tentacle porn here.</p>
<p>Not that I’d know about that stuff. I’ve just heard, you know.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/2244?basename=59532007-07-30T11:10:18ZNo Middle Namehttp://ficlets.com/authors/nomiddlename