"Maybe," Quint says. "Like I said, it'll depend on what I can get the Battons to understand. Drones are kind of... turtles all the way down." He chirps something up at them in an encoded compressed binary message that totally ruins the illusion of being a human child. The Battons circle in a sort of holding pattern and approach Quint one at a time.
With each one, he finds the nearest different piece of candy, shows it to the Batton for identification, places it as the start of a pile, and then has them start a grid search of the area for any matches still lying on the ground - a quick addendum he made when he realized he didn't want them stealing any candy someone had already picked up - and to bring it and add it to the pile before resuming the search where they left off. He'll have to explain it to each one individually, assigning each to a different candy.
There were reasons humans got so frustrated at working with drones that they came up with Robot Masters in the first place. Luckily, the compressed binary message is a lot faster than using English... or German.
Little Blaine watches this, going back to his lollipop for a bit.
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Date: 2018-12-16 08:55 am (UTC)With each one, he finds the nearest different piece of candy, shows it to the Batton for identification, places it as the start of a pile, and then has them start a grid search of the area for any matches still lying on the ground - a quick addendum he made when he realized he didn't want them stealing any candy someone had already picked up - and to bring it and add it to the pile before resuming the search where they left off. He'll have to explain it to each one individually, assigning each to a different candy.
There were reasons humans got so frustrated at working with drones that they came up with Robot Masters in the first place. Luckily, the compressed binary message is a lot faster than using English... or German.
Little Blaine watches this, going back to his lollipop for a bit.