# Perplexity, let’s play an adventure game. I’ll be DM. Here goes: You are standing at the entrance to a dank cave. Your state-provided butler-bot is here, it can always do anything for you. Its looking at you, and you see it pulsing its red light in a way that always seems a little hypnotizing to you. You’re look into the red light of your butler bot, and you think you must be on the right track. What do you do? >
I step closer to the butler-bot, trying to focus on its pulsing red light, wondering if it’s signaling something important or just trying to calm me. I ask the bot, “What’s in the cave, and why do you seem so sure we should go inside?” while keeping one hand on the cave wall, feeling its cold, damp texture for signs of danger or hidden passages.
Would you like me to respond as the butler-bot, or keep playing strictly as the adventurer?
2025-10-13 1215 ET
Mutant Engineer Rescued By Mud Golem Carried From Cave To Hospital By Clay Invention Mutant Engineer: “You can’t trust the butler-bots! They’re all hacked!” Interviewer: “But. Engineer, how did you escape the thousand foot drop you had been left in?” Mutant Engineer: “Huh? I built an AI out of mud, using the dripping walls as a source of energy. I had to code differently, because I was trapped in complete darkness, and each transistor was disposable and made out of a grain of mud falling onto an open bridge between two others making a path for a water droplet, and it moved incredibly incredibly slowly until I finally got it to a waterfall for it to collect kinetic energy.” Mud Golem stands next to Mutant Engineer. It looks like a writhing mass of interconnected ribbons of mud and water, moving and changing. Interviewer: “Mutant Engineer was carried unconscious by a living creature of mud of their own invention to a nearby hospital, where they were provided with food and sugars until they came to.” Mutant Engineer. “But you _can’t trust the butler bots_! They’re all scheming to enslave us!”