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