By the beach (Cleo/bug robot)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) Despite everything that had happened, planet earth had managed to survive even in the extremely damaged state it was in now, the fact that the planet could sustain life despite being battered by solar flares was nothing short of a miracle. Despite all of this the planet was still a desert, the surface barren of any semblance of plant life as humanity had congealed itself in a way that meant extinction was more likely, even building robots to help out with the matter since everyone needed any help they could get. Now you had been sent out into the desert to look for a person known as a clocksmith, a person who modifies the machines to make it so they were able to modify themselves, breaking the law. It had been a rather long journey, mostly consisting of you looking around the world that came before, eventually coming across a brothel that seemed to be more intact than most buildi...