"Yeah, exactly. Powered people back home - we call 'em parahumans - make enemies really easy but I don't think I will have that problem here."

"Yeah. Most people go their whole lives without more'n a couple of normal-sized grudges."

"Cozy. ...Do you have paper or is that really hard to make these days?"

"Hard to make as nice as it used to be, but there's still a lot unused from before, and it's not too hard to make rough-quality stuff using recycled paper as pulp."

"Can I have some? I like to take a lot of notes and my usual solution for that is turned off for now."

"Sure. What quality do you need?"

"It doesn't have to be that good but I also don't expect to need much before I can get something running that's less likely to turn into a person."

She fetches a pad of scratch paper, then - rough, might smear a bit with ink, but not too bad.

"Thanks."

She writes out her priorities.

- data retrieval/display, search, notes, storage
- salvagebot
- comms
- repair bot
- mercantile bot
- vehicles

"You're welcome. Want any dessert?"

"Yes please."

Dessert is just as good as dinner.

Sarah also makes a list of directions to various places in town, in case Lorica's an early riser, before bed.

Lorica is not normally an early riser but is there a time difference to contend with?

About three hours later, compared to where she was.

So she is probably going to be a late riser. But she can no longer navigate easily in the dark so so she goes to bed even though it feels early.

Breakfast is included with the room. It's hearty and filling, and a good starter for the day. (The woman seems tired, apparently not a morning person.)

That's super legit. Lorica eats up and hauls her salvage and her field toolkit to likely tinkering sites till she finds a good one.

Everything's pretty run down, and a lot's partially collapsed, but the population's low enough relative to what it used to be that she'll find a lot, at varying distances from town - though the most intact sites are generally farther out.

She will favor a low commute time to start out and maybe relocate it once she has a hoverbike or something.

Low commute times are doable, though the best positioned space is a bit small and seems to have had assorted animals nesting in it since it was abandoned.

No big deal unless the animals like to nest in circuit boards.

She starts disassembling things. She'll be out for hours, without Rete to suggest she eat lunch.

No one local disturbs her.

She's on the lookout for knacks as she tinkers. And - there, yes, it can turn itself on. It wouldn't be surprising for something of Lorica's to be able to turn itself off or to wake from standby or on a timer, but on from a cold start she doesn't actually know how to do. It's not a bad knack, nor a worrying one, so she proceeds regardless.

The first knack to develop mostly keeps getting more powerful as she works - better sensitivity for when to turn on, mostly, and a tendency not to turn on when power needs to be conserved, until a knack starts trickling in to make the entire system take up less power - it's not off grid magical yet, but it could be.

She can do power sources, but if she can slack off on that so much the better.