Post by Roxeanne on Aug 4, 2009 10:51:28 GMT -6
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Many a year ago, a group of scientists that worked for Kangen Corp., a large electronics company that made everything from televisions to video games to computers, had been given the task to create a perfect robot. A being that was able to do absolutely anything it was told. Cooking, cleaning, entertaining, working, building. They were to be a revolutionary tool to make the human race more comfortable.[/size][/font]
After so long of building prototypes, the scientists somehow had come across a way to not only create the perfect household tool robot, but to also give that robot a personality and emotions. Although they was technically artificial feelings, they were very real. The robots were also be expanded beyond household work to do extraordinary tasks, like sing beautiful music or paint masterpieces. They could even grow like regular humans. There was barely anything they couldn't do. Their singing, though, it seemed, was simply amazing. That was why Kangen Corp. decided to call the robots, VOCALOID.
When VOCALOID were first showcased, they were immediatly all the rage in Portsmouth. Everyone was talking about getting their hands on one and making it do all sorts of things. But just like anything that's really popular, they quickly became sold out in every store in town while many people still didn't have one.
Noticing just how much money this height in demand could bring in, a store owner and her co-owner went tothreatenask Kangen Corp. for their own supply of VOCALOID to sell. The company agreed, and after much "debate" only got 2% of the profits that the store would make off of their products.
The sudden music hype that completely invaded the world--especially Portsmouth--caused a sudden boom in the production of music related products. But, oddly enough, none of them were mp3 related. They were all instruments and VOCALOID.
Another group of scientists, having noticed this oddity, had decided to attempt creating mp3 players that were just as mentally advanced as VOCALOID without the mp3 itself being a computer program but basically a mp3 player personified. They were like robots that could play music. Seems innocent, right? Wrong. The mp3 player was built with good intention, but the scientists, being a bit insane themselves, went about making them the wrong way.
The day the mp3 project began, three unnamed children were murdered--one girl and two boys--by means of poisoning. Their bodies were tested, experimented on and after hours and hours of trying to get this right on the first try, the mp3s were finally created. However, they were confiscated when the scientists were immediately arrested. The police, not knowing what to do with them, gave them to the same store owner, who sold them. The mp3s have no memory of their "past lives" or how they were created.
The mp3 ability to play music while still being a friend, maid, servant--you name it--made them worth keeping but they weren't as popular as VOCALOID because the mp3 has to be taught how to sing and it can only play one instrument near perfectly without having to be told how to play.