/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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"Though their minds are usually bound to their "spirits" rather then any on-board CPU, some of the more advanced exiles continue to use the functional electronics in their construction through an unknown power source: energy flows through their wires and powers motors as they would a proper machine, mimicking their purpose as they did when fully functional. The mostly electronic units can tap into whatever information was stored in their CPUs at the time of their abandonment, or at least whatever remains intact against the deterioration faced following being discarded. Their behaviors are loosely dictated by whatever their old programing was, and they'll sometimes attempt to preform their old duties out of habit.

One theory for why the machines near the Abandoned Mall and adjacent scrapheaps have become possessed in-spite of the common knowledge indicating that such electronics "scared away" spirits, is a concentration of Hihi'irokane, a metal which acts as a lightning rod towards spirits and is capable of generating power from their interactions with the physical plane possibly located underneath the building proper, as inspections from a few foolhardy kappa able to leave the place with their lives indicated trace amounts of the metal in the background atmosphere of the area, as well as many other heavy metals which made venturing there without protection hazardous. It is thought this metal allows spirits to overcome their fear and integrate themselves into the plastic and steel bodies of the exiles in order to give them form. Exposed parts of land under Exile control are known to periodically glow in sections with eerie red circuitry."