"Oh, it's no trouble at all."

And Lorica eventually goes to bed and in the morning goes to see what her salvagebot has been able to find.

Not a lot of extremely rare or valuable things, yet, but there's a good haul of minor broken electronic components, small assorted scrap metals, some nails and screws with bits of plaster stuck to them...

She gives it feedback on this and adds to it and sends it back out again. She assesses what she's got and starts working on something for cleaning and organizing parts.

The 'cleaning' part seems to get a knack in first, though it's apparently also capable of straightening out crumpled metal - it seems to be aiming for 'restore to new', though not very strongly.

Hm. It's not that like-new parts are bad, but it's not that important to her since she does not actually want the original devices. Straightening out crumpled metal is good though.

The knack's a bit hard to nudge, especially without backtracking, but she can get it to focus on the more relevant parts of restoration, at least.

Good. At least it's not actively counterproductive. She dumps what's left of the salvagebot's harvest in there and starts on a second salvagebot, this one with a view to pivoting into mining later.

Accordingly, this one seems to be really good at figuring out where interesting buried things are.

Oh good! She gets it not quite done but good enough to send out overnight and does that and goes to get dinner.

Dinner's not much different from prior - either her host has a fairly limited palate or there's not a lot of food variety available.

Probably the latter! Pity it's not the right time of year to plant stuff. ...or is it? She checks her wiki device.

Some things can be planted this season! Some root vegetables overwinter, and can be picked in the spring, and some leafy greens grow fast enough to be harvested before the frosts hit.

"Where does one get seeds?"

"The General Store sells common ones, as does the market down by the river - the one with the stylized tree for its sign - but people also host seed exchanges pretty frequently, which're better for getting weird varieties."

"I'm thinking of trying to do a farming robot," she explains.

"Oh, that'd be right useful. I don't do much more than a kitchen garden myself, so I don't have a lot of seeds on hand, though..."

"I can ask around."

"I might be able to point you to some people, too."

"Yeah? Who?"

She lists a few names - mostly of people who tend to host the seed exchanges, and often end up with everyone else's extra unwanted seeds.

"Cool. Too dark now. Maybe I need to build a lantern."

"Most people won't be awake right now, anyways."

"I figured. I'm used to being up late but I'll catch on soon enough."

She nods. "Haven't had much cause to change timezones myself, but I've heard new schedules are hard..."