Behind the Screen

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Being the schools resident Artificial Intelligence staff was not always fun and games. As a staff member, they also had to follow certain rules. Some where a little weird since they required the A.I. to have a physical body but they were still fighting the engineering department on getting a physical form made for them to be able to help with more actual technology instead of just the programing. Auxilium sighed as she sat in her "home" computer - or rather one in the front office where she could stay when she was not needed for one thing or another. Sometimes students and staff would accidentally hit the "Tech Support: Auxilium" button and did not know how to cancel it, so they showed up and felt some bitter disappointment when they find out they're not needed.

A digital huff came out of their sprite, as they looked at the display of screens that was always up. One would glow when they were summoned, so they could slip through and be there at a moments notice to help fix whatever problem there was. Sometimes Auxilium wondered if people were aware that they were once human, a witch like many of them. Likely people thought that Auxilium was just a computer program built for the school.

One of the screens lit up, glowing as their button had been clicked. Jumping to their sprites digital feet, they slipped through the computers to show up. They appeared on the screen of whomever had (accidentally) clicked the button, their sprite smiling outwards at them.

"Hello! You rang?"
 

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This was Victors first time using one of the Academy-issued computers, and so far, it was horrible. The processing speed was slow, and a driver was missing for one of the programs he needed. To top things off, the keyboard was buggy, and some keys pushed others, while some never responded, leaving his essay on Vampires looking a little like:

Vqsampires, eing qsalreqsafy feqsaf, fo not neef most normqsal things requiref for humqsan life, sucffh qsas oxygen. They often hqsave qsa pqsale qsappeqsarqsancffe, qsanf qsare cffool to the toucffh from the perspecfftive of humqsans. Vqsampires qsare sometimes cffonsiferef to e shqsape-shifters. Some vqsampires cffqsan fly. Sometimes this power is supernqsaturqsal, other times it is cffonnecfftef to the vqsampire's qsaility to turn into flying cffreqsatures (e.g., qsats, owls, qsanf flies) or into lightweight forms (e.g. strqsaw, fust, smoke) qsanf then cffreqsate winfs qsas qsa meqsans of propulsion. Vqsampires typicffqsally cffqsast no shqsafow qsanf hqsave no reflecfftion. Nor cffqsan they e photogrqsaphef. qsa vqsampire cffqsannot enter qsa house unless he or she is invitef in. Vqsampire powers qsare often limitef furing the fqsay or in fqsaylight. In some cffqsases sunlight mqsay urn or kill vqsampires, or they mqsay e cffomqsatose furing the fqsay.
Spellcheck, scanning the document, went nuts. With a small burst of anger, he tried once again to open the onscreen keyboard, yet he accidentally clicked another program by the name of 'Tech support: Auxilium'.

It loaded quickly, and he was surprised by the sudden appearance on his screen of a girl dressed in a form-fitting bodysuit.
"What did the last guy download?" he murmured to himself.

He then realized that the program spoke, and was an active consciousness.
"Hello, Auxilium?" he said back, unsure of the sprites name. On normal circumstances, talking to a computer would be weird, but hey, this was Manta Carlos. Nothing is normal except the extraordinary.
 

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It seemed the school had a microphone installed so the sprite could hear him, because she almost immediately gave a small smile and a wave. It was peculiar to look at her, as the computer screen almost seemed to present her as a photograph with the same skin and hair texture as anyone one might meet on the street in a human city.

However the microphone seemed not as sensitive as one might expect as she seemed to not hear the comment about the previous user of the computer downloading some questionable programs. That or she was ignoring it.

"Yes. I'm Auxilium, the schools resident Tech Support Artificial Intelligence." She smiled to the male in front of the screen. "Programs, bugs, viruses - they're all my department and pretty much anything inside the computer itself. So, here comes the question; Did you mean to press my calling button or do you not require my assistance?" She seemed almost human with how well she used inflections...

He could ultimately make the decision to reject her help and figure it out on his own. She could likely sort through the bugs that were messing with his spell check, speed of processing, and find whatever he needed for his document.​
 

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Auxilium seemed like she could help, so Victor decided to tell her the problem/s.

"Hey, Auxilium, I'm Victor. Do you have backup files on these computers? A driver appears to be either corrupted or missing." He tried to push a few keys, creating a weird mess. "Also why is the keyboard not working properly?"

Victor was amazed at the texture quality of the Avatar, it was like she was actually there, behind him, and reflecting off his screen. He just had to ask.
"Were you once an actual person, based off one, or had a lot of detail spent on designs?"
 

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"Nice to meet you, Victor. Let me have a look-see and get a better understanding of what's going on with your computer." Auxilium answered, moving to shuffle around on his screen. She sat down, and the screen in front of him turned into the computer code required to show all of what he had. The sprite began to scroll through it, poking at lines and beginning to rewrite them. She puffed out her cheeks at a few of the lines, seeming annoyed with whatever happened to muck it all up. The computer returned to his display, and she started a virus scan using their program.

"The keyboard appears to be more of a problem with the connection, I think. Go down to the tower and remove the connection, give it a few seconds and plug it back in. Sounds silly but it often fixes the problem." She chuckled, waving it off with a small smile. The question however seemed to throw her off. Auxilium paused for a moment as the computer scanned for the viruses, before she answered.

"I was a human at some point, yes." Auxilium answered with a small nod. "I was a technology witch. I transferred myself into this matrix."
 

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When Auxilium turned the screen to code, and found the problem so quickly, Victor was amazed. It was even better that she could fix them as fast.

When the display was back to its regular self, she gave him instructions to disconnect /reconnect the keyboard, which he quickly did as a Virus scanner ran in the background.
Testing some keys, the issue seemed to be alright now. But Auxilium still seemed uneasy, was it his question?

Hearing she was once a witch didn't surprise him as much as he thought it would. Starlight no longer mystified him, it seems. "Do you miss having a physical body?" He asked.
 

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Auxilium had seen similar problems, and she tried to ask the staff to remind students not to open spam email because of the viruses they brought. But of course the students never really knew the consequences of their actions with that stuff since she was there to fix it when things went wrong on the school computers. Auxilium knew all sorts of problems with computers, given that she had been a technology mage before her shift.

"Sometimes." Auxilium smiled softly at the other, "The engineering has yet to work on a body for me so I can help fix computers physically. And get to interact with the outside world beyond a screen." The sprite shrugged and waved it off. Though she reminisced about the time in which she had a body, she seemed to have adjusted to sprite-life pretty easily.

"So. What do you plan to or want to major in?" Auxilium shifted the conversation somewhere else, letting the scan run in the background to see if they could find everything that she may have missed. The A.I. was good, but there were things she missed - she was originally human, after all.​
 

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He wondered what Auxilium was like before her.. change. Did she even look the same?

It was sad that she was limited to a screen. Victor couldn't imagine life without a physical body. "Uh, can you jump between different types of devices?"

"Oh, I plan to become a Writer and a Game designer." He had been planning this for ages. being uncomfortable with people, as well as having a liking for long novels and Games, that it was the way to go."So mostly English, Game design, and/or math."
 
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