Here's a video! Magnetic scanner, finds ore veins! Conveyor belt, hauls ore out. Ventilation systems and hydraulic supports, stops people from suffocating and cave-ins! Big rock-scrapers to tear up the ore very quickly, or drills to make holes you can stick explosives in and get a lot of loose rock that way! ...She does not recommend explosives-based mining unless they're already familiar with it, it's kinda risky.

"We should have a meeting about this, when can you talk to all the miners about your artifacts? Will you have time tonight? You can... would it do you any good if I invited you to have dinner with me?"

"I don't eat, really, but I can talk to whoever or have a meeting whenever you need. Just bring this artifact - I can see and talk through it. Though sooner's better than later, of course. Thank you!"

Meanwhile Vaayo, who's been talking to townspeople, has talked a couple of people into going to test the autodoc. After all, if it's terrible, wouldn't they like to heroically find that out before someone else gets hurt?

The autodoc and the doctor and the part of Lin's attention left with them get some visitors. One is missing his front teeth and insists he isn't the one who left the rake lying there. The other thinks she sprained her wrist this morning, unless it's broken.

The autodoc can stop the bleeding and dull the pain for the man missing his front teeth. L1N orders another machine to make replacements, they'll be ready in a few hours. It also recommends vitamin supplements. It can mix them up and put them into little pills on the spot if the patient wants.

The woman has a sprained, not broken, wrist, with some minor muscle and ligament damage. Autodoc puts it in a simple splint and anesthetizes it and gives her a tiny injection that will cut inflammation and help it heal up quickly. Come back in six hours for review, it might be able to take the splint off fine then. It also, again, recommends some vitamin supplements.

They both try the pills after Vaayo vouches for them not being poison. Both of them promise to come back later. They seem to be reserving judgment until then.

Well, medicine is not magic.

After they leave Vaayo tries saying hi to the tablet. "You're in there, right, Lin?"

And her face appears. "Well, not in here, but I'm mostly paying attention, yeah. What's up?"

"Let me know if there's anything I can help you with while we're here?"

"I kind of want you to find more people to lend tablet computers to. They're, uh, relatively cheap and I can use them to teach stuff, as long as they all come back to the trucks sooner or later to get recharged I don't mind who uses them and learns from them in the meanwhile. Also, I should probably earn some money or something? If I want a lot of metal and other things. It might make things faster. I'm not sure though."

"Oh, okay, you can have mine! ...Could have mine if you had hands! Where should I go to hand you things and borrow your computers?"

"Thank you! Back to the trucks."

Trucksward!

He looks for any Lin bodies with hands once he's there.

There's a bunch of them guarding her solar panels and talking to curious people.

He hands over some very old credit cards.

"Where are the tablets and how many should I take?"

"They're in a box in the first truck. I'll have a bot follow you and carry them. Anyone who'll probably find one useful and give it back for charging can have one for the day."

"I'm not sure what you think I can do better than you, if you're going to be carrying them yourself anyway, it's not like I know these people any better than you."

"But you're a priest, they might trust you more than me. And I like you."

"Okay. I think we should talk to..." Vaayo looks around and then starts walking purposefully toward one of the people hanging around watching what's going on. "Hey, you look like you might know who'd like to borrow these artifacts to see pictures of things being made and hear lectures about them."

"Oh, hm," she says, "try... oh, he's talking to an artifact already, in that case maybe try the creche, there'll be a couple of bards there today and of course there are the kids." She gives directions.

"Thanks!"

"...I'm not gonna disturb the kids, am I?"

"I promise if you mistake the kids for plants and try to eat them I'll tell you to stop. You'll be fine."

"If you say so. You'll be there if nothing else."

They end up at a large, nice building in the middle of town. A couple adults are talking outside. Inside two adults and maybe fifty small children are singing about water conservation. All the windows on the south wall have their shutters closed.

"That's one of them," says one of the adults outside, pointing to the robot.

"Hi," says Vaayo, "we have artifacts that can show people different pictures and recite lectures about how different kinds of artifacts were made. We thought some bards and maybe some of the kids would like to see."

The one who didn't point out the robot looks very suddenly very serious. "Show me," she says.

"What do you want to see? I have lots of documentaries."