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[reparator]

Who: These suckers and E R R O R
When: OOC: 5/29, IC: 7/15
Where: CERES Research Tower and Beyond
What: It seems an old friend has decided the situation is progressing too slowly.
Rating/Warning: PG-13: Violence, injuries and inevitable deaths.

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▶ ACTION.EXE | IC: 7/15

For those unlucky saps who disappear today, ranging from early in the morning towards the middle of the afternoon, well...they can't be reached by CereVice.

Any attempt to do so will bounce back the message User Currently Occupied.

It's an odd message, and one that's never been used by the CereVice. How strange. It's probably nothing though, right? No contact can be established between groups or from groups to outside people in Cerealia, whether by technology or magic. You're cut off from everyone but those in your groups, now.

Otherwise, all abilities will remain intact.

As for the people who do disappear, well... things get a little hairy really quickly.

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▶ RUN.EXE | MOD NOTES

This is the event log for these sign-ups! Your groups have been sorted below; here are a few handy links for you:

Group 01 | OOC plotting
Group 02 | OOC plotting
Group 03 | OOC plotting
Group 04 | OOC plotting
Group 05 | OOC plotting
Group 06 | OOC plotting
Group 07 | OOC plotting
Group 08 | OOC plotting
Group 09 | OOC plotting
Group 10 | OOC plotting
Group 11 | OOC plotting
Group 12 | OOC plotting
Group 13 | OOC plotting
Group 14 | OOC plotting
There is no tagging order, so feel free to tag in whatever way works best for you as a group.

The characters should not ICly be gone longer than 5 hours -- if they survive, of course. There will be mod involvement in each of the threads.

If there are any questions, feel free to ask them here. Please try to avoid asking hypothetical questions (such as "What will happen if my character does [action]?") as that's part of the fun and risk of the interlude! You are welcome to plot with your groupmates in this post. Thank you!

Comments

[reparator]

[ Well. The creature's thrown to the ground, and it's kind of unwieldy; it's going to take it a moment to get back to its...feet... so it can move towards them again.

And it does, reaching again for Athena with a clawed hand. Illidan is totally ignored.

Grabby grabby. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ okay maybe it wants something?!?!?!? that you know, isn't related to violence. ]

Hey! [ she stays where she is, standing strong. ] What do you want from us?

[ though now she's getting into position to try and flip it again just in case talking does nothing. ]

[feytality]

[Well, Maya's going to take this opportunity to move forward, next to Athena, poised to.. tackle it, or shield her, or something]

[But she's there!! Since the robot doesn't seem interested in anyone else, and she won't let Athena get hurt if she can help it.]

No more grabby grabby! Try... talky talky!

...Can you talky talky?

[This is going well]

[unpreparer]

[Flapped his wings in an effort to urge the creature back. Not because he had issues with not being noticed or anything. Especially over some petty little human brat.]

What is your intent creature, you get no closer to the brat until you answer. Do I make myself clear?

[reparator]

[ The current from Illidan's wings do force it back a bit, but then it moves forward again, single-mindedly.

It shows no signs of understanding a single word that's said.

Instead, it will keep grabbing for Athena, or more accurately, her arms. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ athena tries to fight it but the claws are claws and are sharp so it hurts and that distracts her from flipping it again. ]

Hey! Hey! [ OW. ] We're talking to you, you rude hunk of junk! Ow!

[feytality]

[Okay NOW she's springing into action, planting her foot on.... whatever qualifies as its midriff to shove it back as hard as she can and grabbing its claws to try to force them open and free Athena]

Hey! No more grabby grabby!! Let go!!

[unpreparer]

[This is his life. Why is this his life.

You know what. He's just going to let the children handle it. If the thing gets too grabby he'll step in, but his threshold for caring is quickly beginning to wane.]

[reparator]

[ It topples back again!

Struggles to get up again.

Reaches for Athena's arms again.

Rinse and repeat. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ THANK YOU, MAYA!! athena can't help but think it wants something, though.

she extends her arm as if signalling maya to stop, and it's not like mr lillydan is going to do anything. and han should stay back too, just in case. ]

Maybe violence isn't the way. It looks like it wants something...

[ please don't eat her arm. ]

Or maybe it's going to show us something?

[ does it even have a heart?! can athena hear anything from it? ]

[feytality]

Whew!

[Oh, good, it let go!! That wasn't so bad.]

...It really wants to shake your hand, or something.

[she glances between Athena and the robot, kind of uneasy. She's got nothing against robots in general, but the last ones were kind of... homicidal. She just doesn't want this one to start trying to claim Athena's arms as its own, or something]

Show us...? But.... Athena, it's just been trying to grab you this entire time...

[unpreparer]

[If Illidan still had eyes to roll, he would be right now.]

Let it do as it will then, if it is hostile I will simply kill it.

[notsosolo]

Insistent droid.

[Han still has his blaster in hand. He's waiting to see what exactly the droid is up to, but he's not trusting it.]

Athena specifically.

[reparator]

[ With Athena not suplexing or shoving it away, the poor robot is finally able to finish its designated task.

It plucks the books from her arms and shuffles off to put them away.

Yeah that's all it's for. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ ... it's. ]

It's a librarian? [ she blinks curiously, following the thing. ] H- Hey! We wanna borrow some books! [ in fact, she goes to grab another now and waves it in front of the robot's face. then she opens it up to a random page, points at it, then points to her eyes.

maybe it understands actions more than words. because if it doesn't lbr she'd just grab a ton again and run off.

(sorry in advance.) ]

[feytality]

[Okay but did the robot notice Maya totally shoved books in her kimono too...]

[But she feels a little silly now that they realized what the robot is actually for.]

Whew.... I guess it just wanted its books back. Maybe we need to get a robo card!

[Maya mostly just watches to see how it responds to Athena, now]

[unpreparer]

[You know... he's tempted to just kill the thing on principle now.

But, he refrains, simply watching. Totally going to wipe the thing from existence before they leave though.]

[reparator]

[ The robot seems very unhappy when Athena grabs another book, reaching for it to try to put it back.

It's single-minded here! ]

[psycholawgy]

[ damn you, robot!!! athena takes a few steps back before she decides to just bonk the stupid robot on the head.

hard. ]

What's the point of putting things on display if you can't touch them?! Stupid thing! I thought you were cute, too!

[ to her group, she nods towards the door. maybe lillydan can blow it up. ]

Grab as many as you can and head over there! [ and make sure you're fast, because athena sure is grabbing a couple more books now and then cheesing it. ]

[feytality]

[Well....... Maya's going to stuff as many books as she can in her kimono, carry a bunch in her arms, and takes off after Athena, running]

Sounds like a plan! Let's hoof it before we get get shushed to death!

[get it... because it's a library...]

[unpreparer]

[Nope. Illidan is not running from some malformed hunk of twisted metal. Instead he takes his glaive and slams it down ontop of the thing's head, seeing if he could manage to cleave the stupid robot in two.

Yeah, see what happens when you ignore him. Stupid robot.]

[reparator]

[ Rude.

The glaive sure does cut it in half! It lets out a horrible, high-pitched shriek when that happens too, before crumpling to the ground in a pile of twisted metal.

And then the doors slam shut. Throwing everything they've got at them, but those doors aren't going to open now. ]

[psycholawgy]

Eek!

[ she manages to stop in her tracks before the doors slam on her. it doesn't help that she's in a lot of pain from that robot screech, too. ugh...

she looks back at the group. ]

Uh oh. . . D- Don't worry! With the robot out of the way, we can keep looking around and take as much as we can! [ yeah!!! gotta keep positive here. they're not stuck!!!

she tucks the books back in her court record (wherever that is. thanks hammerspace.) and walks around to try and find another exit. that's when she notices the desk. it's definitely clean, and not dusty... and she only proves this when she traces a finger on its surface.

somebody else has been here before they have. ]

1/2

[feytality]

Oooh...

[HER EARS!!! OW!!]

2/3 I lied

[feytality]

[and then she's rounding on Mr. Tall Dark and Slicey]

Hey! What did you do that for? [HUFFS AT LILLYDAN!!!] The robot was just doing its job! It didn't do anything wrong!

[robot activist Maya Fey]