#kinda doubt its the solitary example but

[whiskeyworen]

Aspect IV: Of Inspiration and Communication

Inside Vigil Keep, weeks before “Bound By Blood”

"Soldier Sonnya Danae; Package for you." The delivery person looked at his clipboard tiredly, before turning it around with a quill in hand for her. "Sign here please."

"I wasn't expecting any packages." Sonnya pointed out, scrawling her name in Asuran swirls on the line. It didn't matter that the form was written in Krytan; names are names. Besides, she'd seen people just scribble nonsense on the line before.

The delivery person shrugged slowly, and handed her a brown paper wrapped parcel. "I just deliver'm, miss."

As he turned to walk away, Sonnya retreated to her quarters, closing the door and locking it. She barely realized she'd done it; her attention was entirely on the mysterious package in her hand.

She sat down at her desk, placing the package on the table top, just...staring at it. Who could have sent it? There was an address on it from somewhere in Lion's Arch, but that might not mean anything; as long as you put an address from Lion's Arch, no one would bother looking it up. It might not even exist.

"Well, time to find out what's in this thing." Sonnya declared, and ripped the package open. Her eyebrow rose slightly as she pulled out the small, hand-sized comm device. It kind of looked like the standard Pact communicator that unit leaders and commanders had, but it was almost half the size.

The structure and layout were different as well. Instead of an On and Off button being the only keys, there was an entire set of number keys, some symbols she didn't recognize, and a few adjustment dials. Embedded into the top left corner appearred to be a micro-golemite eye. "....the hell?... why would a communicator need to see? Is it a golem or something?" She mumbled quietly, turning the device over in her hands. Satisfied there were no other secrets to it, she flicked the 'On' switch. She expected to hear one or another commander somewhere, talking to their companions; Pact comms were always open to anyone who had a comm, so the idea of private conversations was kind of an illusion.

Instead, there was silence. After a few seconds, the micro-golemite eye raised from its alcove, did a quick scan of everything in front of it (including Sonnya) and settled back into its groove. While the eye turned off, apparently the device finally activated. "Hello? Is this one Sonnya Danae I am speaking to?"

Sonnya waited for the no-doubt dozens of confused responses from others in the commnet, before realizing none were coming. So she hesitantly replied. "Uh, yes. This is Sonnya here. I received this comm unit in the mail?"

"Yes! Then it worked as I had planned! I am very pleased to make your acquaintance!" The voice on the comm was quite enthusiastic, but crystal clear. "I was unsure how to properly reach you, and this seemed most appropriate. I regret we cannot meet in person, but I am...on task in Elona at the moment."

Sonnya gave the comm an odd look. "Oh...kay?... Sorry, but I'm honestly surprised no one else has broken in to ask how I'm comming, or who you are? There's no way everyone turned their comms off."

"Oh, this comm is on a secure channel." The voice replied brightly. "Sadly, Pact comms are pretty basic. They are designed to be used as a single network, with everyone connected. I do not believe any research was ever done into solitary, private commlinks. At least, not until my Father suggested it and the rest of the crew figured it out. I helped of course."

"I'm...sorry, but I'm still really confused." She scratched her ear, placing the comm down on the table top. "So the comm is on its own, private line or something? The only people who can talk and hear are you and me?"

"Unless we cut someone into the signal, or they cut themselves in somehow, yes." There was a thoughtful pause in the line. "Of course, they would have to decrypt about a hundred and forty-four thousand lines of code to even FIND the signal. There's a lot of radio, ley, and Mist spectrum to work with. If we cut them in manually though, it would be a simple matter of dialing their number, provided we knew it, into the comm and then pressing the little button that looks like three dots connected by lines."

"I saw that, but didn't know what it was." Sonnya admitted, before shaking her head. "Wait wait. Okay. Hang on... WHY are we even talking? Why did you send a comm to me?"

"Oh! Right! I was so pleased with having made contact, that I placed the reason for it in the back of my memory!" Sonnya was pretty sure that the person on the other side of the comm was clapping their hands, though she couldn't hear the sound. "I wished to speak to you about the construction of your wonderful powered-armor suit, and your integration of technical devices into your biological structure!"

Her jaw dropped. No one knew, apart from the Warmaster, knew anything about her implants, or her suit. No one...except maybe Tenna. If Tenna even knew. "How... I mean, what makes you think I have anything like that? I don't know what you're talking about."

The person on the other end laughed pleasantly. "Oh please. There were recordings from all angles in the battle against that Shatterer. The Charr Legions were recording because they wanted to see the result of their new weapons. The Priory was recording for archives' sake, and the Order of Whispers and the Vigil were recording for references for future battles! Your little stunt might not be explainable to them, but I assure you, I understand exactly what was going on."

"You...have me at a disadvantage then." Sonnya frowned, crossing her arms. "My...implants won't work with anyone else. I only ever designed them to work with me."

"Oh do not worry about that. I am not interested in that. Not really." There was a smile in the voice. "I am planning something that requires... let us call it a very fine integration of biological and mechanical components. I wished to pick your brain, as it were, for ideas on how to smooth out some of the issues I have encountered in my simulations. Basically, I want you to double-check my ideas, and make sure I have not done something foolish or impossible."

"So, you don't want to steal my tech or anything like that? You just want to ask questions on how to improve your own? Your own tech that is similar to mine, but less refined?"

"Precisely."

"...Well, what did you have in mind then?"

***

Several hours later

"... so the circuitry integrates with the implants directly via surface-to-surface interface." Sonnya explained. "I can't give you the specifications of the implants themselves, but based on the ideas you've thrown at me, this should allow for a faster information rate and a tighter connection."

"I see! Thank you for the insight." The voice on the comm acknowledged. "I believe you're right. While I have no intention of using your implants, or trying to extrapolate them based on available information, I do believe I can manage to decrease reaction times by half at least, and muscle-load by a factor of five! I am sure if I work at it a little more, I can coax even more out. My investigation into magitech-neuromuscular modification is still rudimentary, but I'll soon have a few prototypes to test out."

"Glad to be of service." Sonnya smiled. She took a sip of beer from the bottle she'd gotten from her personal cooler. "Do you have any ideas on what you'll do with it all? I mean, you weren't looking to make a suit at all it seems. Or rather, the powered armor suit is almost a secondary item to whatever you're making."

"Publically, when it all is arranged, I will be setting up the sale of fully-working, personally customized prosethetics. The market will be for those individuals who, through birth or injury, are suffering from lack of limbs. I understand there's a similar market in Rata Sum, but it is small because everything is based off Golem-limb construction. Which, if you ask me, Golems are remarkably...brutish."

Sonnya shrugged. "True. But the refinements in magic circuits and power systems is making them more powerful and intelligent by the day. Shape doesn't really mean much, does it? Just look at that golem that kid in Dragon's Watch had. What was her name again?..."

"Taimi." The voice supplied reluctantly. "And yes, her Scruffy models are aesthetically pleasing, and very unique with their ability to be a conveyence AND a powered mecha suit, as well as a fully functioning autonomous golem...but they are still not the angle I am going for."

That brought a frown to the guardian's face. "I still don't know what you mean. The only other examples of golem-type things I know of are like, the Exalted, which AREN'T golems but kinda look like them, the Jade Constructs which are closer to Elementals in nature... and the Watchwork nightmares."

"Oh yes... the Watchworks. I know them well." The comm replied quietly and cryptically. "Very interesting designs, those."

"Scarlet was a maniac." Sonnya said flatly, frowning before draining her beer. "Her Watchwork creations made Steam creatures look tame by comparison. And we still have to wipe out infestations of THOSE in Lornar's Pass every year! They just keep making more of themselves!"

There was a pause, a silence over the comm. Then, "...Perhaps I should investigate how they replicate? If I can figure it out, it might come in handy for self-repairing prosthetics."

"Be my guest. Just don't come crying to me when a Steam Brain zaps you with lightning for coming too close." She laughed. She could still remember seeing Priory researchers bounding across the ice, backsides singed while an angry Steam Brain chased them, lightning arcing from its central eye, while the entire time it swore at them in machine-language. She assumed it was swearing of course. Wouldn't you, if some know-it-alls tried to shove a stick in your ear? Or whatever a Steam Brain has?

"Duly noted. Thank you again, Miss Sonnya."

"Well, it was my pleasure. It's not often I can talk shop with anyone." Sadly truer than Sonnya would like to admit; most soldiers in the Vigil were more concerned with using things rather than making things.

"....In that case, allow me to make you an offer." There was a nervous note in the voice's tone. Sonnya had the impression that, had someone been present, they would have been talking behind a cupped hand, afraid someone would hear. "In a week's time, my ship will dock in Lion's Arch at airdock 42 in the Aerodrome. If you show up, say, around noon, I will let you see the secret project I have been working on. The one that your information has come in quite handy in its completion."

A clandestine meeting at a secured, out-of-the-way airdock? Sonnya had flown on ships from the Aerodrome before, and remembered how it was laid out; Dock 42 was the furthest out, on the backside of the Aerodrome, facing Bloodtide Coast. It was so far out that merchants refused to park ships there because it would take so long and was so complicated to get things on board. Why would anyone willingly park there? "Uh, sure... A week from now, noon, Lion's Arch, Dock 42. Sure thing."

"Excellent. Perhaps when you see it, you will be able to offer a more hands-on, practical examination. You might see some things that need improvement from the prototype to a production model."

"Alright. Sounds fine to me!"

"Good, good. I must go now. Needs of the ship are building up on my task-list. I need to focus on that for a while."

Sonnya picked up the comm, surprised and a little worried. "Wait, before you sign-off or whatever... When I get to your ship, which ship am I actually looking for? And who should I tell them invited me?"

There was a pause, and then the voice replied, a smiling, almost devious tone to it. "... The ship is called the Forsaken Aspect. You just need to ask to see Alice."

A chuckle rolled from the comm. "I assure you, the person you meet at the dock will know exactly who you need to see, and why. Just trust me."

"Okay... Well, I will see you then... Alice?"

"See you then, Sonnya."

#gw2 fanfiction #short fic #tyrias-library #My Characters #Sonnya Danae #Forsaken Aspect #Female Asura #Asura #Asura Guardian #Talking shop

[pass3rby]

Element of Surprise

#1

Fandom: X-men (movies) Pairing: Allerdrake (Pyro/Iceman) Summary: Everybody has to make decisions. Decisions that might or might not work out. He wasn’t in a habit of looking back either way.

A/N: 

Greatest thanks to my brother from another mother for bestowing an infectious prompt upon me and all the wretched jokes that accompanied his insightful comments. You’ve been a great help and an ass at the same time.  The rest of my gratitude belongs to my dear family who has an immaculate sense of recognizing each highlight and “I saw the light!” moment of my writing, reliably and effectively ruining every single one of them. You’ve been an invaluable teacher of forced multitasking (which I still fail at spectacularly).  Thank you, guys, for harassing me at the most unfortunately-picked times imaginable but standing by me still.  Love you.

St. John Allerdyce was a survivalist. And this might be a very sucky way to begin one's story, but he was nothing but cut-the-crap kind of guy, so go deal.

Where was he again? Ah, yes. Good at the pretend game, he knew how to play tough; easily irked when deprived of a fire source. Bad-tempered, really. All of these stellar qualities went well with him being a realist to the bone. Wrap it up and ship it off.

He wasn't confessing all that out of some twisted delusion of having a chance at redemption, though. Wanting to save his tar-dark soul? No. It was only so that when he says that he's done morally questionable things to pull through, it would be clear that it was no slip up, not a 'few times' kind of deal. He's actually done them more often than not. Not that he counted; just saying. That was what he meant by being a survivalist. That was what this was about.

The main point here? He kept on going. Always found a way. Pushed. Squeezed in. Got his hands dirty. Gritted his teeth. Whatever it took. Morality was overrated where he lived; nobody abided by it anyway, so why should he? He was just a 'misfit' trying to get by, same as the next guy from a broken home.

On the streets and on his own. Making it, no matter the circumstances. That was the source of his pride. He might have turned out brash as a result, distrusting on a good day and suspicious round the clock, but who gave a shit. Certainly not him, not when it kept him alive this whole time.

When the X-men found him, he didn't feel elation; not even relief and he was far from thankful, too. He suspected the worst and he kept on running from them until they corralled him in and got him on their overly flashy and disgustingly impressive jet.

They took him in; full of reassurances that he'll be alright from then on, that he'll be safe now. Who were they to tell him that? Who were they to be so sure about it, to have balls to warrant that? What was the guarantee? Their skin-tight black&yellow spandex? If so, allow him to doubt the empty promise, because those were a sight for sore eyes – literally, just to make them sore.

Everything would work itself out and quite naturally in its usual, wary and solitary way, though (after all, once you lean onto someone, you're only bound to fall sooner or later) – if only they didn't have Bobby Drake on their "team" already.

The guy was way too cheery and overly friendly. Optimistic. An impersonification of a 'Think positive!' attitude, "Not made from concentrate, one hundred percent natural". It was almost like he was shooting for some such ad twenty-four seven. Think about the descriptive adjectives for a straight-laced goody two shoes from suburbs; you name it, he's that.

Everything was perfect.

Everything was dandy.

Bullshit.

He couldn't stand the guy. The poster boy irritated him; got on his nerves like no one else before. John was way too pragmatic to join this sort of let's pretend. But when dear Bobert started cracking, show that not everything was quite so well in his lala land… That's when John took real notice and interest.

You see, he couldn't be arsed to give a flying fuck about some fake looser, but a kid who had his whole life perfectly lined up and sorted only to get "screwed over" by mutation his parents wouldn't take well to? That was John's kind of real that he was willing to interact with.

Sure, Drake was still a sunny boy with majority of views intact and therefore headdesk-ishly naive, but he wasn't all plain "guy next door" (quotation marks because same door actually) anymore. And while John's own personality and stands had been torn down or have crumbled and been rebuilt time and time again, making him into who he was (coincidentally basically the opposite of his roommate), he and the Snowflake there suddenly had a link of communication and it held ever since then. Thus, their companionship begun.

It didn't hurt they both were element-sensitive – that wasn't to say their co-existing was a cakewalk, though. After all, like Ice and Fire, they too were diametrically different. Just a small example to draw a picture here: while Bobby was afraid of his abilities, scared of his element, John felt an undeniable thrill whenever setting free his own; he loved to see fire reign over anything in its way, watch it burn strong.

Ultimately, their mindsets resulted in both of them failing and it was all for the best that they were roommates in the end, because accidents.

Reason number two was that they were a good "confidence boost" and "recklessness dampener" (whatever) respectively for each other, too. That's what their instructors said, but if anybody asked John what it was for him, he just simply enjoyed coaxing Sub-Zero ("Very funny, you pyromaniac." "C'mon, that was weak. You'll have to do better than that, Ice Cube.") out of his shell, letting his fire frolic with its counter element. Negative and positive of the same, if you wanted to get poetic.

Of course, there was also the aspect of them both being young and as such, hormone-driven, too. He was always open to some serious self-exploring opportunity. Safe environment for that wasn't a given, not for him, and even less so in combination with someone begrudgingly-trustworthy (i.e. with no other agenda hidden behind the forementioned romping between the sheets).

It was nothing; just fooling around – one that was kept secret from their teachers and anyone, really, since Bobby-boy was too chickenshit to admit to a healthy dose of experimenting himself. John couldn't care less; he wasn't the guy's keeper after all.

Until he somehow turned out to be. What was worse? Without him even expecting it. You see, the thing was… he kinda screwed himself over. For all his puffed-up chest and big shoulders about how he was prudent and cautious, he landed himself in a swamp (or moving sand if he'd so chose to rather stay dry; same difference, though) right there. Knee deep and it was only a matter of time until it swallowed him up whole.

It was all the Ice-berk's ("I'm not stupid, John!" "Sure, whatever helps you sleep at night.") fault. If he wasn't so pure and open and easy to approach – hell, he, approaching him all of his own! – in the first place, John wouldn't have fallen into this trap.

Who was he kidding. He blew it. Big time.

But it was still all good, right? What he meant was, there was no rush or anything. They could simply keep at it the way they had up til now with Ice Ice Bobby none the wiser and everyone chilling, pun intended.

He should have known that he was never meant to have a happy end. Not ever (as if life hadn't showed him enough indications to that already) and definitely not with Snow White on top of that. When had he sunken so low as to think he even could?

Shame. Shame on you, St. John Allerdyce.

As he was forced to witness and live the changes that wafted in after Rogue's appearance and continued presence, years of evolved camaraderie and any ease connected to it began to shrivel.

He had suddenly more free time on his hands than what he knew what to do with, his subconsciousness developed an almost uncontrollable need for a facepalm at least once per every 24 hour mark, his teeth were bound to rot any day now with the diabetes-inducing teenage romance developing before his eyes and he better man-the-fuck-up right now, because he did not make it this far only to become a sob story.

So, he watched with skeptical interest as Bobby, encouraged by Rogue's supporting words, froze his mother's disgustingly milk-ruined coffee instead. John knew long before they had even opened their mouths, what side Bobby's parents would pick, what their reaction would be. He could not keep his sarcastic thoughts pointed at his roommate from emerging then.

Why did you think, all of a sudden, they won't mind? We talked about your bigoted parents so many times… You think that you having a girlfriend like a good, normal teenage boy somehow neutralizes your negative mutant points?

If not knowing better, John would say Bobby did it on purpose just to fuck with him. Nobody could be that sickeningly foolish after all. And the Drakes? He silently dared them to surprise him; to call their "Art teacher" out on his blatant lie even. To prove him wrong.

Which would be when Wolverine got shot in the head right infront of them. That did surprise him, John will give them that.

An unexpected rush of everything followed right after and with startling clarity.

One too many black eyes.

Sleeping in a cardboard box, freezing (nobody cared).

Broken jaw.

Stealing a pack of matches the first time around – to get to feel at least a bit safe (they were too tricky to operate, to strike with shaking hands, wrong move there wrong wrong wrong).

Hungry, impotent anger.

Running away.

The breath; foul and heavy with booze.

First fire (pure accident please!).

His mother on the floor, bleeding (never fighting back; just taking it run!).

Heavy hands.

Cops chasing him back into slums (you'd have to know it here better to catch me, assholes).

Bloodshot bottomless eyes. A vortex about to swallow him up, too.

Events flashing before his mind's eye at random and in no chronological order.

His heart not having a foggiest how to deal with the overabundance of adrenaline that jumped up out of nowhere.

"And the rest of you, on the ground. Now."

He could almost physically feel Wolverine, right before his feet, lifeless.

See Bobby, lying down, obedient.

"Look, kid. I said, on the ground."

Rogue, too; docile.

They can't be serious. Why were they kidding themselves? They were gonna die here.

"We don't want to hurt you, kid."

Really. The fucking cop just shot Wolverine. If they won't protect themselves… They're dead. If he's not gonna do anything now…

He gulped. Palmed his zippo; the warmed-up steel that bit slicker with sweat. Or sick memory?

C'mon, Pyro, show up. Fight.

In the pit of his stomach, hot magma twisted and curled, warming him up until he could almost sense the licks of unborn fire on his fingertips.

There.

He won't lie down. Not until he's six feet under.

A/N: So I’ve found something of a themesong for EoS I think. If you’re wondering, you can check it here.

A bit of explanation on a side:

My idea is that St. John Allerdyce still has Australian background, he just moved to US with his family when he was a small kid or something. So... just bear with the little mess, please. I love him being "St. John" way too much as to delete half of it from my story.

Also, I’ll deviate a bit from the movies timeline (which is a tangle anyway) in this version (I got two total, don’t panic), which you’ll notice on the transition from X-2 movie to X-3.

#marvel #x-men #allerdrake #pyro/iceman #eos

[we-iqbal-hassan-world-blog]

The 13 Best Chatbot Examples in 2019 (and How to Build Your Own)

Chatbot If you have to see the most inventive chatbot models in a solitary spot, by then you'll love this invigorated article.  The Messenger Marketing condition has changed for certain, brands using chatbots, anyway the target proceeds as in the past: smart, creative, and accommodating help.  In an uproarious and forceful space, the best bots are novel and go about as the prompt line between customer issues and game plans.  Today we're going to share the best chatbot models exhibited to help associations with starting significant talks and make salary. So you likewise can be a productive Messenger Marketer.  We should start!  Here are 13 chatbot models you can pick up from to produce an imaginative bot for your picture  Emirates Vacations  National Geographic Einstein Bot  Hipmunk Lidl's Wine bot  Kia  Whole Foods  Madison Reed  Duolingo  Mingled Caveman  Bud Light  Amtrak  Dominos  Bank of America   

Chatbot Example #1: Emirates Vacations 

Typical CTR for show commercials is at a record-breaking low of .35%. Pondering this, Emirates Vacations made a chatbot inside their exhibit promotions. The association targets various visuals and bot courses of action subject to the page someone's examining. Duty rates rose 87% since the course of action in 2018. 

emirates-vacations-chatbot Show Ad Chatbot Example  Activities picked up from Emirates Display Ad chatbot: Be critical to the customer adventure: Rather than shoot a comparable message to everyone, use an alternate game plan for your presentation page, thing pages, and Facebook Business Page.  Recollect customers objective: Emirates bot is an option that is other than a cool commercial, it's the quick line to a perfect target. Customers have a task as an essential concern when scrutinizing your site or Facebook Page. Your bot needs to help them with completing it as energetic as could be permitted.  Praise customers with frictionless experiences: Imagine having the choice to book your development legitimately in this advancement, without leaving your present page? Maybe suspicious from the start. Regardless, considering that development search is a tremendous cerebral agony, booking "straightforwardly here, right now" is the most sensible and supportive way to deal with do all things considered.   

Chatbot Example #2: National Geographic 

Ever wonder what it looks like to talk with Albert Einstein? Everything considered, by and by you can — kinda. To help advance their new show Genius, National Geographic made a conversational chatbot who talked like Einstein would. While most associations' effect advancements into your visit window, they used Einstein bot to seek after customer's dialog and answer with information about the show and other charming bits.

National Geographic chatbot   The instance of brands using chatbots (NatGeo)  The result? 6 brief ordinary talks, 11 turns for each dialog, half customer re-responsibility and an included system of supporters. These estimations start from a purposely picked, straightforward chatbot framework.  Use chatbots to make comfortable experiences: People felt they were "chatting with Einstein" logically, in a human and pleasant way. Einstein had the alternative to react to master and individual requests, making customers feel a reasonable relationship with the bot, and accordingly, the show.    Make people giggle to interface with them: Laughter isn't valuable for the soul, anyway it's something we don't want to do. Especially when you interface with a brand. Develop your bot to be instructive and conversational, with a little sass as it were.  Rethink progressively prepared thoughts in a novel way: Chatbots are directly used by a wide scope of associations in all cases. Instead of reusing the standard courses of action, have a go at something new that people haven't seen beforehand.   

Chatbot Example #3: Hipmunk 

Scarcely any claims to fame are more forceful and submerged than development, yet Hipmunk had the choice to cut through the uproar with their territory based approach to managing booking flights, hotels, automobiles, and that is only the start. Considering the typical individual visits in excess of 38 regions before booking, Hipmunk is an attracting and accommodating way to deal with book travel.  Hipmunks Cool Chatbot Example  The gathering is perfectly redone to the complexities of how customers search:  Send game plans or progressions subject to customer tendencies: It's a fundamental, yet unimaginable component that helps customers with pulling information from various areas, in all cases place — Messenger. Any person who's used to the "million tab search method" can finally feel some lightening during their chase.  Use conversational language to redo experiences: Mastering dialog develops trust among bot and customer. Each collaboration imitates a live administrator, making it straightforward for customers to interface with and fathom. Imagine talking with a buddy or live administrator.  Make content that is rich and supportive. A significant part of the time, customers hold up a piece to get results from different areas. Regardless, with 'HipTips', their hold up time changes into a way to deal with find new game plans and ways to deal with using the application.  Hipmunk conveys two astonishing parts to the table here: proactive exertion and unraveling a far-reaching system for customers. You can without a doubt get where you have to forsake visiting travel goals and finding gives yourself.   

Chatbot Example #4: Lidl's Winebot 

Encouraged customers have empowered customers, and Lidl's Winebot Margot conveys a warm character to the stuffy universe of wine. Customers can get a course on which wine to buy, tips on sustenance mixing, and even get some answers concerning how wine is made. It can in like manner endorse in excess of 220 sustenance pairings and the answer tends to reliant 640 one of a kind sorts of grapes.

Lidl's Winebot Lidl's Winebot Chatbot Example  Do whatever it takes not to disguise your bot: Margot lives in a wide scope of spots in Lidl's eco-structure. The most activity begins from their site, which by then gives rules on the most ideal approach to dispatch the bot in Messenger. Point if, make it basic it locate all through your association.  Offer live visit to improve duty: We understand that chatbots can't deal with each issue. Which is the explanation you have to always offer straightforward access to live help if possible?  Match the language your gathering of onlookers uses: Margot learns as she goes. The bot has made sense of how to channel recommendations subject to cost — anyway only one out of every odd individual uses a comparative language. Margot began to see the differentiation between customer questions using £5, 5 quid, a fiver, and even "around five-ish".   

Chatbot Example #5: Kia 

Disregarding being a bit of an awesome industry, vehicle maker KIA uses a chatbot that changes Messenger into a possible stage for information. "Kian" has delivered 3x a more prominent number of collaborations than the corporate site, talks with 115,000 customers every week, and has a 21% change rate.

Kia-Kian-chatbot Kia Chatbot Example  This Facebook chatbot model mind-boggling estimations are the delayed consequence of imagining customer reason, and helpers Kia redo organization at scale:  Assemble customer data to improve retargeting. Instead of allowing prompts evaporate all of a sudden and totally, your conveyance individual bot should get customer nuances and necessities. It'll fuel future arrangements and re-advancing undertakings.  Offer different organizations in a solitary spot: Capturing lead information is significant, anyway, it's by all record not by any means the only thing your bot can do. Kia's Facebook Messenger bot can moreover give roadside help, charge portion decisions, and a store locator to meet live salesmen.  Impersonate human coordinated efforts to interface: Kian can react to a request for any vehicle model that a live salesperson could.  It's possible that your chatbot can do well to address request likewise, yet that should be a consequence of the entire experience. You have to give customers all that they need inside Messenger — from information to portions and that is just a glimpse of something larger.   

Chatbot Example #6: Whole Foods 

The Whole Foods Facebook Messenger Bot is prestigious for its arrangements, thing proposition, and cooking inspiration. Their chatbot helps clients with finding plans on the spot, and guides individuals to their site from Messenger. 

Whole foods chatbot Whole Foods Chatbot Example  Comparative guidelines that work for any exhibiting channel apply even to chatbot exchanges. Recognize what resonates with your groups, and manufacture features to benefit them:  Make examining for needed information basic: Whether clients need to investigate a recipe at the store rapid, or are scrutinizing from the parlor seat — Whole Foods make it straightforward for customers to find the plans they are looking for. It limits information with channels, gives a see of dishes, by then sends customers to their site for the full recipe.  Banter with customers how people talk: One of the best troubles in building a chatbot. Whole Foods allows customers to search for plans using emojis, many equivalents to they'd react to an allies post or chuckle at an intriguing picture.  Be exhaustive to everyone: Personalization is normally senseless and vomited, anyway with careful cognizance, it can make a smart experience. By allowing customers to get diet-express plans, it progresses a culture of inclusivity and thriving that welcomes everyone to Whole Foods.   

Chatbot Example #7: Madison Reed 

Meet Madi, Madison Reed's virtuoso hair shading bot who's "fixated on finding your most complimenting shade". This chatbot model is for the most part message-based, yet what separates it from the rundown of chatbots is the selfie accommodation. Clients can present a selfie, and Madi will point them towards the best shading item suggestions. Cool, isn't that so?  Madi shows us a couple of significant exercises on the most proficient method to construct the best chatbot discussions.  Communicate in your group of spectators' language: Informal tone is a certain something, yet talking the style of your crowd

Madison Reed ChatBot is another. Madi utilizes "x's and o's" just as complimenting remarks to construct an association with their group of spectators. Take care of a genuine issue: Similar to most lead age strategies, your chatbot should help ease a battle your purchasers have. For instance, sitting tight for a colorist arrangement can take months. Madi resembles having an individual colorist accessible day in and day out.  Pose pertinent inquiries: Madi poses inquiries, for example, "What shading is your regular hair (excluding dim)?" and "Is it artificially treated?" to gather reactions from clients. She's clever, interesting, and feels like your conversing with a companion on Facebook.  Beguiling consistently wins. Madi has supported commitment by 400% with a 21% active visitor clicking percentage to the organization's site.   

Chatbot Example #8: Duolingo 

Learning another dialect is no simple undertaking. You have the words in your mind, however, they never turn out like you need. Turns out — a shame when conversing with local speakers is genuine. What's more, Duolingo bent that dread with an AI-fueled chatbot application.    Duolingo Chatbot Example  Despite the fact that the Duolingo Bot is for language learning, it showed us three exercises for building a chatbot for any industry.  Workaround existing agonies to see achievement: Listen to your clients and construct arrangements dependent on their torments. Doing this gives a solid impetus to them to utilize it. Not certain what to compose? Essentially connect and converse with your clients about their objectives.  Make it effectively accessible for greatest use: Shutting down your bot whenever prompts botched chances and income. Rather, make your bot accessible whenever of the day, in any capacity whatsoever.  Structure your bot to be intelligent and pleasant: Chatbots that retreading a similar content, for similar individuals, don't make an energizing encounter.   

Chatbot Example #9: Civilized Caveman 

Socialized Caveman was one of the primary organizations to utilize a Facebook Messenger bot test. Clients who took their 1-minute "sugar test" were allowed a 7-day detox, therefore. At that point, the brand could fabricate an association with its new endorsers through substance and contributions.    Enlightened Caveman Facebook Chatbot Example  Alongside conversational tone, the Civilized Caveman test incites a feeling. Regardless of whether you are interested or battle with sugar enslavement — this test opens the entryway for various kinds of individuals to become endorsers.  Utilize a test to begin your pipe. Tests are perhaps the most ideal approaches to draw in programs. Additionally, they naturally become an endorser once they click Get Started.  Exploit pictures to support commitment. GIFs and pictures hold the client's consideration for that additional second. You know, the one you most likely need to get that snap you need.   

Chatbot Example #10: Bud Light 

Need to make a cool encounter for your clients? Obviously, you do. Bud Light's Bud Bot is an extraordinary chatbot discussion model custom-made for clients. The Bud Bot reminds endorsers of stock the cooler on game day, send extraordinary group jars, and even convey brew in less than an hour on game days. It saw an 83% commitment rate during the 2017 crusade. 

Bud-light-chatbot Bud Light Chatbot Example  Become a legend to your clients: Marketing possibly works if timing and setting are considered in. Pursue Bud Light off a bluff and send updates or updates to supporters at the correct time, with the correct message. Make arriving at their objectives simpler with your bot.  Make custom-fitted encounters: As an approach to building commitment rates and deals, Bud Light offered unique group jars for every city.  Do less, yet do it well: It'll be an enticing need to do everything — except start moderate. Chatbots who attempt to do everything from the start normally fizzle.   

Chatbot Example #11: Amtrak 

One explanation the movement business has been the quickest to receive chatbots is speed and comfort. In this model, Amtrak helps site guests plan get-away, book reservations, explore Amtrak.com, get course data, and that's just the beginning. It's become an organization powerhouse, producing 30% more income per booking, 8X ROI, and replies more than 5 million inquiries every year.    Best Customer Service Chatbot - Amtrak  Influence post-deals support as income channel. Returning clients burn through 67% more all things considered, and all the more regularly on the off chance that they are happy with your administration. Snappy and helpful client care (in any industry) prompts more joyful clients, and for Amtrak, it's demonstrated to be madly gainful.  Have Live Chat prepared for back-up. Chatbots can't answer everything. Rather than irritating individuals, plan your bot to get programs in contact with live help for questions that need a little human love.    Fabricate your bot around client issues. For instance, more voyagers are reserving tickets online contrasted with different techniques. Amtrak needed to make it simple for their 375,000 day by day guests to self-administration. Julie was the appropriate response.   

Chatbot Example #12: Dominos 

Dominos changed the manner in which we request nourishment with Dom, the Interactive Pizza Bot. The Domino's chatbot can re-request past requests, offer a full menu, and track conveyances all in Messenger. It's gotten extraordinary compared to other chatbots for client support — and now I need a pizza.    Dominos Chatbot Example  Make it open crosswise over stages: Chatbots that length cross-stage perform superior to one channel. For instance, you can arrange through the Domino's Pizza Bot by Slack, Messenger, Apple Watch, Mobile App, Twitter (by Pizza Emoji), Smart Home Assistants, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.  Try not to be hesitant to be fun: More regularly than not, organizations are reluctant to be excessively basic or fun. This won't lessen your image. Executing key cooperation with an emoticon will go significantly more distant than a mass of content in your visit window.  Start basic, at that point proceed onward to increasingly complex cases: What's the most compelling motivation clients connect with your site or Facebook Page? In the event that it's requesting a pizza, plan your bot around that center capacity. When that experience is immaculate, form your out chatbot with key optional associations.   

Chatbot Example #13: Bank of America 

Meet Erica, your new monetary partner from Bank of America. She can do anything from giving bank balance data, make planning proposals, take care of tabs, and help with straightforward exchanges. The banking chatbot model has just outperformed more than 7 million clients and finished more than 50 million exchanges to date.    Bank of America Chatbot ExampleImage: Business2Community  Become a counselor to clients: Erica went from simply booking installments to offering exhortation on the most proficient method to square away obligation. What's more, her capacities keep on advancing with her financial client's needs. Regardless of whether you're selling supper plans or web-based training administrations, direction assists work with bettering connections among you and your clients.    Give supportive substance to clients: One of the key components of a fruitful chatbot is taking care of the client's issues. For instance, on the off chance that you get some information about FICO ratings, she'll give you a video from Better Money Habits and other substances around spending and planning.  Simple to-utilize exchange search capacities are getting progressively significant for chatbots. Enable your clients to look and find the items and administrations your organization offers.  Propelled by these brands utilizing chatbots? Here are the means by which to assemble your own bot  Prepared to have an effect with your own conversational promoting chatbot? Assuming this is the case, you can begin to by doing the accompanying…  Head over to ManyChat and snap "Begin Free"

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Manychat     Associate the Page you need to utilize your chatbot on  Associate your Page to make your chatbot   You should now be on your dashboard. Snap Main Menu

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So what do you think are anders best traits (other than him worrying about mage rights and him being a compassive healer?) I really love him and I love the way you write about him so I'm just curious.

There’s a lot I love about him :0

I mean, on a personal level, he’s a really relatable character for me, so that’s part of why I like him so much.

But I also like him as a character in general. (I’ll put this post under a cut bc it got long.) 

Him being a compassionate healer and being incredibly passionate about mage rights are huge parts of his character and they’re honestly two of the biggest things that make me like him so much. 

Like, here’s a person who was subject to systemic abuse for most of his life, who knows full well the repercussions of rebelling against the status quo, but does it anyway, because his convictions are just that strong. He knows that the Circle and the Chantry are fundamentally wrong. He’s experienced and witnessed firsthand what happens to people who fight back. Hell, when we meet him Awakening, he’s only just recently been released from a year of solitary confinement for running away - he just got out and as soon as he was able to, he ran again. If he gets caught and sent back to the Circle again, he’s going back into solitary confinement at the very least, and by the time he’s in Kirkwall, he’s also possessed by a spirit, so he’s risking just being killed outright. He’s risking everything by fighting back so openly and actively, but he does it anyway. 

And it’s not just Justice’s presence that makes him so willing to fight. Even when he was running, he was fighting back, because by constantly running away, he was refusing to submit. But in Awakening, Anders did feel like he couldn’t have any impact on the status quo - he believed that things would change eventually, he believed that the way mages are treated is inherently and fundamentally wrong and one day things would be different, but he didn’t think he’d ever see it in his lifetime, and he didn’t believe he of all people could do anything to enact change. Justice helped him realize that he could be an agent of change, but that fire and that strong sense of right and wrong were already there - it just needed to be validated and encouraged, which Justice did for him. 

And I do like that Anders needed support to be able to get to that point, bc I feel like that’s... realistic, y’know? I don’t like the idea that everyone should have to fend for themselves and not have to rely on others to stand up and fight. He couldn’t do it alone, and there’s nothing wrong with that. He hasn’t gotten much support from others throughout his life, so I like that in this instance, he had someone to lean on. (And I still wish there were more opportunities to support him more actively in DA2.)  

Like, it was difficult for Anders to admit to those feelings of powerlessness - which is entirely understandable, because in his experience, showing that kind of vulnerability could get him killed or worse (if the templars considered a mage to be weak-willed, they might not even give them a chance at the Harrowing and just make them Tranquil outright - and Anders is canonically mentally ill, which I imagine added an extra burden in terms of hiding his vulnerability). So, outwardly, he talked a big talk about only being concerned with his own freedom and pretends to be more apathetic and careless than he actually is. 

This also shows a lot in terms of his sense of humor - it’s a lot of morbid sarcasm, irreverent joking, gallows humor even - because he uses it as a shield and a coping mechanism. Ngl, I love that aspect of him, it’s one of the things that started endearing him to me in Awakening first. I play my Hawke as having a similar sense of irreverent, snarky humor, so they play well off of one another. Humor as a coping mechanism is a character trait I tend to appreciate and relate to a lot, haha. 

Anyway, I think in actuality he cares so much it hurts. It might not seem like it when we first meet him in Awakening, but I think it’s just that it’s easier and psychologically safer for him to pretend he doesn’t care than it is to admit that he does care but feels powerless to change things. It takes a lot of strength (and also support from others, which again, is something that Anders hasn’t had much of throughout most of his life) to be able to confront your own vulnerability and try to channel it into something that benefits others. 

But even in Awakening, his actions often contradicted the “I don’t care about anyone but myself” talk - if you tell him to run away in the beginning of the game, he’ll do so, but he shows back up like five minutes later because he felt like he couldn’t leave the Warden to fight the darkspawn alone (he jokes about being “bad at the whole ‘fugitive from justice’ thing”, which... turns out to be way more accurate than he may even realize in that moment). In the endgame, he’s not eager to go along with the Warden to Amaranthine, but if you do bring him, he’s one of the companions who will argue against leaving Amaranthine to burn - his instincts might tell him to run, but he cares too much about the survivors in Amaranthine to leave them to their fate. 

Not to mention, canonically, spirit healers are kinda rare. They derive a lot of their power from spirits of compassion, which means earning spirits’ trust and cooperation. A person who isn’t compassionate probably wouldn’t be able to earn that cooperation of a spirit of compassion in the first place. Not to mention his interest in being a healer in general - it’s a big part of his identity, to the point where in DA2, one of the things he worries most about is not being able to heal anymore because he’s so afraid that he or Justice will accidentally hurt one of his patients.

I think a lot of his attachment to the healer role is also tied up in his own internalized belief that he has to be a Good Mage in order to deserve freedom - it seems contradictory, it’s something that goes against his stated principles, mages shouldn’t have to prove themselves and be ‘good’ mages according to the Chantry’s fucked up doctrine to deserve freedom and life and love, but he lived in the Circle for at least half his life and he definitely internalized a lot of the hateful messages they taught about mages. Fighting against those teachings is a constant battle for him - which also ties into his occasional crises of faith, because he’s an Andrastian and all the spiritual authorities in his life have taught him that he’s a non-person, that he’s inherently sinful and cursed and deserving of subjugation because he’s a mage. 

So, he has a lot of moments of self-doubt. He has a lifetime of trauma and abuse that affect his present well-being. He has a lot of self-loathing and a lot of fear of himself (the latter esp after merging with Justice). He doesn’t see himself as worthy of love or care, even if he talks passionately about how mages deserve those things - he often doesn’t give himself the same consideration that he’s willing to give others. He has an incredibly complicated relationship with his own anger - because his anger is totally and completely justifiable, but it scares him, because he associates rage and anger with demons and loss of control. (I think a big source of the conflict btwn he and Justice is how they differ re: embracing and accepting anger. For Justice, that anger is righteous fury, it’s justified, it’s a source of passion and change. For Anders, it’s a source of fear and insecurity a lot of the time. I think a lot of their miscommunication is rooted in that fear.)

But Anders works himself half to death trying to help as many people as he can for as long as he can, and even though he’s barely making a dent in all the suffering he sees in the world, even though he’s risking everything, he just keeps going, because that’s how strongly he believes and that’s how much he cares. Every mage he helps escape the Gallows, every patient he helps in his clinic is worth it to him. That kind of perseverance in the face of hopelessness and doubt and a world set against you is really admirable to me.

And I also like how clear it is that it doesn’t come easy to him. It’s not just some inspiration porn “you can do anything you set your mind to if you just try :)” thing. He stumbles a lot. He fails a lot. He spends most of DA2 in a constant state of anxiety and desperation (esp since he really doesn’t get much support from the people closest to him, except like… Justice and Hawke, if you play Hawke in a supportive role). He’s idealistic, but he can’t help but dip into periods of hopelessness and depression and doubt - partly because he has a mood disorder, partly because that’s just… expected for someone who’s seen as much shit as he has. His life is messy and he’s tired and it shows. But even when he’s running, he’s fighting. Sometimes, survival is in itself a form of rebellion and he’s a walking example of that. He is stubborn and although sometimes it’s a negative, it also has its perks. And that passion doesn’t just manifest as rage - it’s also love, because lbh, he is a hopeless romantic (in a dorky, endearing way at times) and in his romance route he loves Hawke fiercely.  

It’s a shame that he didn’t get more positive character development in DA2 (it’s no secret how resentful I am toward the writers, he and Justice really deserved better). I headcanon him over time learning how to communicate and coexist with Justice; learning to practice self-care and be kinder to himself; more fully accepting that he has a right to be angry and he doesn’t have to prove that he’s deserving of personhood or love.

And he has a fair amount of flaws for sure - he has a tendency to project his insecurities onto others (e.g. Merrill), he’s not a good ally to other marginalized groups (e.g. elves), he sometimes lashes out at others when they don’t deserve it (which, although I understand why he behaves that way, it still isn’t fair to others who are on the receiving end), he was manipulative in the ‘Justice’ quest (I understand his motivations but despite his intentions it wasn’t acceptable behavior) - but I think he has an ability to better himself in those areas and I like to headcanon that personal growth for him. (That’s not to say I want him to be a flawless character - nobody’s perfect, and a flawless character would be pretty flat and unrealistic, but I also like when characters are allowed to have personal growth in a positive direction.)

I guess, in all, he’s an interesting, likable, and relatable character for me - I wish the writers treated him better, I have a lot of criticisms wrt how he (and Justice) were written (including how Anders was treated as a bipolar character), and I’m also willing to criticize him where it’s deserved (I have a whole tag full of meta w/ my criticisms of him) - but overall he’s one of my faves.

 Tbh the reason why DA2 is my fave game in the series (despite all of my criticisms of the writing in it, esp Act 3) is the characters. Hawke is my favorite protag and DA2 has probably my favorite companion group - like, Anders, Merrill, Fenris, Isabela, and Varric are some of my fave characters in the whole series - so the characters are ultimately what make me like that game.  

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