Basic Information
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About Era
Nickname: Era
Species: Machine - Robot
Sex: None
Physical Age: 20 years old
Mental Age: Young Adult
Height: About 4 feet
Weight: About 120 U.S. pounds
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single. Widowed. Not Applicable. .... Error! Error!
Likes: Kindness, butterflies, flowers, watching birds, watching animals, pleasing her owner(s), doing well at tasks her owner(s) give(s) her.
Dislikes: Confusing and/or unclear directions, being scolded for taking a task too literally, the squeaky noise balloons make, static cling, robots that try to force her into joining any anti-human cause.
Backstory
Era's Story
Era is an abandoned and broken robot. An outdated model, more than twenty years past new. Due to her age and a general lack of regular maintenance Era's memory banks have become corrupted. She was deactivated after her owner Mr. Von Turtin passed away. She was his companion for for the last fifteen years of his life. He always referred to Era as a 'she' since to him robots should be 'shes' by default the same as a ship, car or any other machine.
Toward the end of his life Mr. Von Turtin had taken to treating Era as if she were a living person, to be exact a living woman. His children and nurse did not approve of his one sided relationship with the machine, but let him maintain his delusion, after effects to separate him from Era had adversely affected his health. After his death, however, there was no reason for his family to keep the old robot. Era was deactivated and dumped in an alley the year after the funeral.
A few months later a powerful storm passed over the city and knocked out power in many sectors. A stray lighting bolt fried the power grid of an apartment building. In the alley behind the apartments the zap had reactivated the outdated robot.
After spending the following day and a half updating her drivers and rebooting after each update. Era rolled out of the alley, her track ball crunching the autumn leaves under her as she went. Her memory was fuzzy and missing data in places, but she had a clear goal in mind. She was going to a place her data banks refereed to as 'The City of Dreams'. There something in her coding told her that she would find someone that could repair her.
Zen-79 Owner Manuel
Owner Information
Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms:Martin William Von Turtin
Sex: Male
Age: 79
Address: 2346 Pepper Ln. Richklender, East Provence
Contact:mvturtinatrocordotgov
Product Information
Nickname(s): Era
Offical Designation: Model Name Zen, Model Number 79, Serial Number 3974
Short Form: Zen-79-3974
pronounced: Zen Tip Bipitia
Type: Robotic Android
Height: About 4 ft. or around 122 cm.
Weight: About 120 lbs. or around 55 kg.
Body Configuration: Humaniod - flat topped head, track ball maneuverability, humaniod hands, retractable/extendable neck and arms and waist rotation movement.
Body Coloration: Orange-Peach with rust patches along joints and seams.
Eye Color/Style: Durable dark orange plastic over led lights.
Sex: Neuter/None
Gender: None, but uses feminine pronoun for herself out of habit because Mr. Von Turtin did. Of course he was of the opinion that robots like cars and ship were 'female' by default.
Rechargeable Battery Included: Maximum charge twelve hours. Needs four hours to compleatly recharge. Can be recharged with solar-power or through a wall outlet(wall adapter sold seprately)
Input/Output Slots: 1 - located on head below 'eyes'. Compatible with UDS(Universal Data transfer Strips), credit cards and DT(data transfer) cords.
How to replace the battery: Use the repair tool provided to separate the top lid from the robot's head. The battery is in the backmost segment of the head compartment. Factory brand batteries are marked with a lime green casing. Discard the old battery in the hazardous bin in your kitchen or bathroom. The new battery will snap into place if it does not turn it around until it clicks. Put the lid back on and fed the machine the battery reset card. It may take a few seconds for the machine to resume its work.
Spoilers - for player to use as reference and for sneaky sneaks that want to know everything ever
... scan would show that the little bot was forty years old and had been recently damaged, if the soot along her right side wasn't proof enough by itself of that. She was 3974th of the outdated Zen-79's. They had commonly been called 'Zen Tip's as it was a more approachable name for humans than a string of numbers would have been.
Much of Era's data could not be scanned either from being blocked off by her programing or being too damaged for the scanner to read. Her last owner was listed as 'Martin Von Turtin (Deceased)' which could explain why she was wandering around outside as she was.
(After being told that it is 20th day of the 9th month of whatever future year.)
Era: "Martin Von Turtin died the 10th day of the 3rd month. He was my last owner," Era stated slowly as her processors sorted through her memories. "His children bought me fifteen years ago, from my then current owner Amanda Birdsly. I was her housekeeper. She was a widow. Her children sold me because Mrs. Birdsly was no longer in need of me. She went to live with other old humans.
The Turtin children brought me to live with their father. He was ill and I was to be his companion. And I was for fifteen years until his death. His children did not like how their father treated me. After his death they deactivated me. I was reactivated improperly less than 24 hours ago. I woke up in an alley not far from here surrounded by trash. It is reasonable to assume that the Turtin children or some other unknown person did not wish to keep me. Why they did not choose to sell me instead I do not know."
"It can take me up to four hours to recharge if I let my battery run extremely low. It is recommended that I recharge every eight hours which usually requires no more than two hours to recharge. I suspect my battery runs down faster than it should, but it is in a position that is not optimal for self-repair."