On 1 Nov 99, at 17:25, Rhea Seraph wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Alan Harnum wrote:
Oh yes. The food. Meals were often given to guests as a
means of welcome, and to not eat was rude. She took a spoonful
of dark grey mash and swallowed it. Bland, grain-based. Very
nourishing, but uninteresting. A sense of taste, far more
refined than any humans, was a basic part of her construction.
Not that she'd had much chance to test it out in the past.
Why? Why give a war machine a highly developed sense of taste?
You never know when that war machine may be asked out to a ritzy
dinner party. Be an embarrasment if she couldn't tell the pate from
the caviar, now wouldn't it? ^_^
In all seriousness, supposing that she was gifted with a sense of
taste, perhaps her creators held to a philosophy that Ifurita was
more than simply a weapon of mass destruction. Like the way the
samurai in ancient Japan were not only renowned as great warriors,
but as scholars and poets as well.
Besides, she'd make a killer poison taster ^_^
Derek