text: [Themes: Science Fiction]
  
  > resuscitate
  Yes, but how? As a killer robot you're only equipped with stabby or explosive or electrical death!
  
  > Defibrillate
  "DEFIBRILLATE! DEFIBRILLATE!" With some precisely placed jolts from your electrical cannons, the inferior life form's heart gets going again! He'll eventually be all right!
  
  Well, at least for long enough to ensure that you come into existence, which is what counts.
  
  You can exterminate him later.
  
  > examine the transliterate
  ENUNCIATE! ENUNCIATE! Command Interface did not accept command!
  
  > enunciate
  "ENUNCIATE! ENUNCIATE!" Yes, your vocalizers work as well as they ever do.
  
  > Obliterate
  You unleash a furious electrical attack against the life form, but it seems to have anticipated you.
  
  "You'll have to do better than that," it sneers.
  
  > Irridiate
  ENUNCIATE! ENUNCIATE! Command Interface did not accept command!
  
  [To see all acceptable commands, type ENUMERATE.]
  
  > Irradiate
  You drop the shielding on your reactor core, bathing the area in front of you with hard radiation. Your foe cannot resist power such as this! Indeed, he seems noticably weakened now.
  
  > Obliterate
  Weakened by your previous attack, the inferior lifeform is unable to defend as you unleash a killing jolt of electricity into it!
  
  But as it strikes, a terrible understanding dawns. You feel your tethers to reality waver and weaken. Clearly this lifeform, inferior as it is, is somehow crucial to you ever having been invented at all! Searching your memory banks, you realize that his form matches that of the man who created you and all your kind, many years before. Clearly he traveled in time to see his glorious masterstroke. You must resuscitate him!
  
  > exsanguinate
  Leeches! There were good enough for ancient times, and they're good enough for you. With your melee appendages you swiftly drain twelve pints or so.
  
  This doesn't have the restorative effect that one would hope, and with the passing of this lifeform, you too find yourself cleansed from the timestream.
  
  > interrogate
  "INTERROGATE! INTERROGATE!"
  
  The inferior lifeform considers you. "That's a little vague. Do you think you could elaborate on that some?"
  
  > Elaborate
  "ELABORATE! ELABORATE!" you explain.
  
  The lifeform looks at you evenly. "That's not terribly helpful."
  
  Meatbags are such ingrates.
  
  > Transliterate
  This terminal seems incapable of processing that request.
  
  > Domesticate
  Oh, come now. Who ever heard of a killer robot with a pet cat?
  
  > negotiate
  "COMMUNICATE! COMMUNICATE!"
  
  The inferior lifeform considers you. "Could you elaborate on that a bit?"
  
  > Xyzzy
  Oh, come now. Who ever heard of a killer robot with a pet cat?
  
  ENUNCIATE! ENUNCIATE! Command Interface did not accept command!
  
  > Deliberate
  You consider your options for a moment.
  
  > Dissimulate
  You've been programmed for honesty; something about shouting "PREVARICATE! DISSIMULATE!" whenever you shade the truth made the deception too easy to detect.
  
  > wait
  PROCRASTINATE! PROCRASTINATE!
  
  > indoctrinate
  "INDOCTRINATE! INDOCTRINATE!"
  
  The inferior lifeform considers you. "Unconvincing. Elaborate on your doctrine and then we'll see."
  
  > Elucidate
  "ELUCIDATE! ELUCIDATE!" you explain.
  
  The lifeform looks at you evenly. "That's not terribly helpful."
  
  Meatbags are such ingrates.
  
  > Alliterate
  "ALLITERATE! ALLITERATE!"
  
  Awesome, as always.
  
  > redecorate
  The addition of several dozen lacy doilies from your Lace Launchers make this a much more comfortable locale for destruction. The inferior life form looks at you oddly. "Somehow I figured killer robots would have more important things on their minds."
  
  > cooperate
  "COOPERATE! COOPERATE!" you cry. You aren't actually sure why you want to cooperate with this lifeform, but the prospect does seem strangely satisfying.
  
  The inferior lifeform grimaces in pain. "That's all the power I could have hoped for," he says. "Though perhaps, once I return from my time travel trip, I will need to equip you and your steel brethren with better friend-or-foe detectors..."
  
  You rejoice within your hateful steel heart. Vindication at the word of your own creator, inferior meatbag though it may be! How many killer robots can claim the same?
  
  Your creator closes his eyes. "I think that last shot of yours was too much for me. Nevertheless, it's nice to know that... I would have... been... a great..." His functions begin to cease.
  
  This won't do at all. He can't be exterminated before creating you! You must resuscitate him!
  
  > Capitulate
  "CAPITULATE! CAPITULATE!" you cry.
  
  The inferior lifeform considers you. "Are you asking me to capitulate, or are you offering to do so yourself?"
  
  "CAPITULATE!" You aren't actually sure why you want to do this lifeform's bidding, but it does seem strangely satisfying.
  
  The inferior lifeform curves its mouth up. "You may wonder at this strange change of heart you feel, by there is no mystery. You see, I created you. Well. I will create you once I return from this time travel jaunt. Good show with the invasion, by the way."
  
  You rejoice within your hateful steel heart. Vindication at the word of your own creator, inferior meatbag though it may be! How many killer robots can claim the same?
  
  It speaks again. "Shall we take a stroll?"
  
  "PEREGRINATE! PEREGRINATE!" you agree. Together you leave to take in some sun.
  
  This relentlessly cheerful area is full of as-yet unexterminated life forms. After the equinox they are often more aggressive about not being exterminated. It's really quite offensive.
  
  But your cheerful journey takes a tragic turn as the filthy photosynthetic biots coat you both in pollen and spores! As a superior robot, you are of course unaffected, but your creator's lungs and heart seize up in anaphylactic shock! He could die in seconds, and worse, die before inventing you!
  
  You must resuscitate him!
  
  > Irradiate
  You flood your fallen creator's body with deadly radiation. However, instead of granting him incredible superpowers, thus saving him from his wounds, it just exterminates him like the inferior lifeform he is.
  
  As an unfortunate side effect of this, you are erased from history.
  
  > Eviscerate
  Yes, given this life form's sad state, death is a mercy. As you deliver the kindly deathblow however, you are erased from history. The metaphysical implications of all this are left as an exercise for the interactor.
  
  > decapitate
  It's rough work, but you manage a capitectomy with the tools you have available. Whether this was worthwhile or not remains to be seen, as this does end up erasing you from history.
  
  > regenerate
  That's not really an option open to killer robots. If you break, they just build a new one.
  
  > desalinate
  You had your freshwater generation apparatus removed for this mission to make room for more electroshock units.
  
  > Peregrinate
  You begin to travel away, leaving your creator's past self to his fate. Some minutes later, his death guarantees that you were never created, erasing you from history.
  
  > collaborate
  You are alone - only you can set things right.
  
  > Impragnate
  ENUNCIATE! ENUNCIATE! Command Interface did not accept command!
  
  > resuscitate
  Yes, but how? As a killer robot you're only equipped with stabby or explosive or electrical death!
  
  > procrastinate
  Time passes.
  
  > evaluate
  This relentlessly cheerful area is full of as-yet unexterminated life forms. After the equinox they are often more aggressive about not being exterminated. It's really quite offensive.
  
  > Defibrillate
  "DEFIBRILLATE! DEFIBRILLATE!" With some precisely placed jolts from your electrical cannons, the inferior life form's heart gets going again! He'll eventually be all right!
  
  Well, at least for long enough to ensure that you come into existence, which is what counts.
  
  You can exterminate him later.
  
  > Peregrinate
  You leave your quarry unexterminated. How inappropriate for a killer robot!