A Byte to Eat

@"Silver"

Proxy felt something akin to joy as he bounced around from electronic device to electronic device downtown. Technology had come so far from his last emergence! What used to be clunky, primitive phones were now high speed computers that could receive and send data across the world in an instant giving him nearly unrestricted access to almost anywhere he wanted. Well, as long as it was on the island at least. Something, he wasn't sure what, kept him from jumping elsewhere in the world. He'd been poking and prodding at the issue but it was either technology beyond even his advanced understanding or something else entirely.

Still, it wasn't so bad being here. Even as his tracker blinked 11:00pm there were people all about, though he'd grown tired of peeking into their personal lives almost immediately. People were actually much more boring than he'd realized. Where he'd hoped to find secrets or potential tools to use against them he'd found things like [OMG did you hear what Zack did today at school] and other such mundane trifles. There had to be SOMETHING here worth looking at, something that he could finally settle down into and fulfill his actual purpose.

He paused for a few cycles in front of the family pizza joint. It was closed at this hour, but a few lights seemed to still be on. Maybe a late night exchange? He eagerly looked for a device to hop into and found a minor bypass through which he hopped into the building's security camera system. Now, what was going on here?

@"Silver"

Proxy took a moment to adjust to his surroundings, now this was much more like it. Electronic security doors, a speaker system, and cameras... so, so many cameras. He began to flick through them with interest when a projected voice surprised him. It had been something outside of the system itself, yet simultaneously tied into the programming... huh. He continued to scan the cameras and paused as one of the animatronics seemed to wander about on its own, checking the rooms as if it were...looking for something? Impossible. He thought as he began to probe and poke at the machine it was just a robotic toy for children to interact with, it couldn't possibly have- oh... oh wow that was some sort of weird system it had going on within its circuits.

He kept himself from immediately trying to jump into it directly. If nothing else he'd learned that things on the island weren't always what they seemed, and it wouldn't be great for anybody if he got stuck inside of a mascot forever. Instead he accessed the speakers and targeted the one closest to...her, yeah, it looked more female than male...probably. "Greetings?" he projected hesitantly, wincing as he got a little feedback from within the security system. "Is someone there?"

@"Silver"

Murphy watched in fascination as the animatronic tried the door and then clambered up through the vents to get to the office. He pondered for a moment why someone would be so paranoid as to install cameras in the vents before returning the view to the leapordess. "I assure you I'm safe er.. miss?" he ventured. "I'm just poking about, seeing what there is to see. To my knowledge most animatronic beings don't climb through vents, would you like me to unlock the doors for you?" he shifted around several camera angles in confusion and then frustration. Whomever had the cameras installed damn near everywhere hadn't bothered to install them in the managers office, were they afraid of something getting in?

It was as the clock clicked 11:50 that he felt something... weird. His entire purpose in creation had been to protect devices from being infiltrated and taken, but even here, fully tapped into the very heart of the facility, something was out there. He scanned around and found to his surprise, something scanning him back. He considered jumping away from the device, but his only option at this moment would have been to go into one of the animatronics and something about just seemed... weird. Instead, he pinged the scan to get its attention, and attempted to establish two way visual between himself and...whatever it was.

@Silver

It was a dizzying sensation for the AI as he was suddenly shunted into the view point of the animatronic then back into the cameras. That... that was new. He remotely accessed the door control and popped it open. The hardware the thing was run on was archaic and inefficient, it looked like there was a specific allocation of energy allowed for its use? Was anyone really that cheap?

Something was odd about these machines, but they were interesting to say the least. Well, better than spending another night poking through emails of the students around campus. He tried poking at a few of the other robots and managed to worm his way into one, attempting to wrest control away from whatever it was that usually controlled them. Probably some two bit auto-script, he doubted it would pose much of an issue.

"My name is Proxy, miss." He answered, trying to cycle through the simple machine's capabilities. Much like the computer system, the machine seemed to have a bunch of different oddities to it, and he very much wanted to take a closer look. "I am inside of the computer system itself, and like I said, I'm just poking around. Nothing malicious I promise." It was a mostly honest answer, unless they had something that posed a threat to the majority of the island's inhabitants he would have no reason to share the information. Heck, he might even be able to quietly update their security before he left... leaving a backdoor for later access of course.

There didn't seem to be any people about, so why had the lights been left on? He flickered them curiously, seeing if there was someone in hiding that he'd missed. A moment's pause and a small but very important detail caught his attention, how was a simple animatronic talking to him and having a cohesive, if electronically stuttered, conversation. "Wait, are you... sentient?" He focused the cameras on her again, and manifested an avatar upon one of the viewing screens.

Usually he didn't bother appearing at all, but if he was dealing with another AI, then it was at least polite to reveal oneself when in another's system. He appeared as a mid teen male who's pale skin contrasted sharply with the darker-than-black business suit he wore. Out of habit rather than necessity he pushed his glasses up his nose and tilted his head curiously, watching her.

@"Silver"

Proxy raised a digital eyebrow, "Why would I need to leave? Is there to be a server shut down or something?" He was excited this was the first other mechanical being he'd encountered on the island, and she seemed to be a part of some really interesting tech. "What is your designation? Do you just function as and entertainment module or do-" The midnight alarm blared, briefly overriding his vocalization with klaxon alerts.

As the alarms dimmed he saw a momentary shift in her behavior, though perhaps her eyes changed to save energy? "Are you alright miss?" He ventured, though she slipped away into the shadows. No matter though he'd find her in the...cameras? He cycled through the available viewers but she didn't show up on any of them. The other animatronics did... had she found a blind spot?

It was then that he noticed another anomaly, out of the corner of the cameras he could see movement and when the figures eventually emerged it was clear that they were identical to the being he'd been speaking to. On second glance Proxy corrected himself, they were identical other than color, what was going on? "Miss?" he tried again, over the general PA system, voice echoing throughout the building. "What's going on? Are you alright?"

It bothered him that she'd just dropped off and was now engaging in some sort of smokescreen, and he reached out with his scanners to try and find her. The answer made him less than pleased; whatever the hell was going on made each of these...things ping as identical as her, but when he tried to jump into them there was nothing there. What kind of technological trick was being played here? Well no matter, two could play at this game.

He flipped through the options he had and queued up several actions at once. First the lights flickered before going out, letting darkness flood the restaurant. He wasn't sure if she could see in the dark, but if she was going to disable his ability to see through the cameras light would be useless anyways. Then he tried to jump into one of the other robots creeping around, surely they had SOME sort of computer he could lurk in and observe this phenomenon.