fordite standards

 

A skeleton approaches in the distance, behind it a backdrop of factory ruins. A hovering cybernetic torso observes worker bots unloading a multi-colored mineral in an assembly line. The skeleton approaches the torso, hitting a vape. Torso: hello. caution. dangerous machines. you do not appear to be alive. do not disrupt their work, and they will not attack you. miners repeat same subroutine until fordite is depleted. when miner is depleted, miner plunges into volatile pool.
We see a rusty worker bot begin to sink itself into a pool of bubbling green muck. Skeleton: why. We see the worker's sad face as it simmers and melts into the glop. Skeleton: why do they plunge into the volatile pool? Torso: heard you first time.
Analysis: probable first encounter between subject observed interacting with temporal anomaly and cybernetic traveling companion. Fordite mineral suspected basis for local currency.