How do we leverage people to make systems more intelligent, efficient, and successful? Is it worthwhile to involve people heavily in the goals of a system? How does a system most effectively coax stories out of people? To investigate these questions, a robot was built that facilitated interaction and documentary gathering within an ubiquitous media framework. We then let the robot roam freely, with the goal of capturing stories about its environment. This was done by leveraging human mobility and intelligence, as the robot relied upon people to move long distances and achieve its goals. The end products were a study of how people related to a robot asking for assistance and interaction in various ways, and a set of movies showing the robot navigating the resulting "thread" of a narrative.