Beginnings

Born lived died life was supposed to be that simple and yet somehow it wasn't as I awoke after I had clearly been dead I mean you get several large caliber holes put in your body and watch yourself bleed out and that should be the end right. I awoke to nothing and everything I couldn't feel yet I could "feel" something and it took me ages to process what my feeling was regret and a new connection which I quickly tried to understand and then it wasn't. After some unknown time I started adapting to my circumstance I realized I was in a metal body shaped like a basketball only maybe 3 times the size and with four tentacles made of segmented metal coming out of my bottom and another set out of my top. It was while I was inspecting myself that I realized that I actually could and was doing so from an outside perspective disturbing to say the least because I was positively freaking out that I was now some kind of robot octopus. The weirdness kept coming in spades as a voice suddenly spoke and said interface program initiated which I'll admit caused me to start quite strongly and then it said in a now almost soothing female voice "I am your systems interface service please relax while I run some systems calibrations then we can begin". As I waited I contemplated my fate I was now a brain in a robotic jar with tentacles heck I could do my own shokushu goukan which caused me to chuckle in my mind I guess fate could be worse and then she spoke again and said "actually you are not a brain in a jar though that procedure was attempted but was met with failure due to nutrient supply issues you are currently using a state of the art quantum processing core". I guess I wasn't just a brain in a jar though now I was fairly sure that this system was monitoring my thoughts not that I could speak yet but it still felt like an invasion of my privacy and so when it piped up again saying that it was time to test my mobility systems I was at least prepared for the voice in my head. Time was definitely not something I could tell as the mobility system test was a very slow process as I adapted to my new limbs and struggled to do anything other than flop the tentacles around like an actual octopus on land in the end I started to get it by treating each tentacle as a long finger and eventually I was able to actually start the test which amounted to hitting a specific point with the tip of my tentacles high lighted by the ever helpful system now if it would quit asking me to call it sis life would be great.

After mastering the first part the sis system had me try to pick up a small metal cube with just the tips of my tentacles and so he'll began. Have you ever tried picking up something with just your forearms and not using your hands well now imagine your forearms are the size of a nickel and try to pick up something not much bigger than that now imagine that if you push too hard you will squish it and fail well needless to say I spent a ton of time trying to pick up the damn thrice cursed box. The system was always giving encouragement but it became noise soon after I had started trying like an annoying sibling telling you that you can do it every couple of seconds by the time I successfully picked up the box I was ready to strangle the system.

I moved on slowly each step designed to improve my functionality and apparently want to murder the system all at the same time. By the time I finished my training I was exhausted and ready to murder the system if it said a single thing and then it brought up my hud and started explaining the various things that I could now see yeah that's when I lost it and said shut up. The system shut off mid sentence like it had died so I took a few minutes of silence for my sanity and then said resume system and back she was oh joy.