Candroid wrangling [Open]

[powertotearer]

Who: Eiji (powertotearer, some little robots, and you!
When: IC 7/26
Where: Around the residential district
What: Little robot octopi don't like CYbuddies. Eiji tries to keep them under control
Rating/Warning: None

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Eiji discovered something the past couple of weeks--the Tako candroids really didn't like the CYbuddies.

He couldn't figure out why, since after all, they were both small animal robots, but the problem had gotten worse after CERES kindly delivered broken fox CYbuddies to his and Ankh's apartment. Now, they were a threat.

Put simply, the candroids were jealous. And it was war.

So on an otherwise peaceful day, you might see three robot octopi chasing after various CYbuddies in the park or on the sky bridges while Eiji chased after them, with a little robot hawk trying to cut them off before they annoyed another neighbor.

"Takos, stop! Leave them alone!"

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[freeinghorror]

It is a free-thinking bit of a spell and calls no one its master - at least that was what it was trying to say as it chimed. Of course, that gave Jinga more then a chance to reach over and pluck the butterfly off of Eiji's nose and sigh dramatically, because really. The blasted thing was being much too annoying by half lately.

"Apologies, it seems to have gotten bratty these past few days." There's a series of loud chimes - if they were words, no doubt they would be swears about how dare Jinga get in the way of fun. "The glitter is harmless and will disappear soon."

[powertotearer]

Well, if the worst thing that comes out of this was that Eiji was sparkly for a few minutes, then it was something of a victory.

"It's okay. Yours isn't the only one. The Takos keep freaking out on the CYbuddies all of a sudden."

[freeinghorror]

"I know why my little pest doesn't like them; it doesn't care for a lot of electrical creatures after all."

He opened his hand, raising it slightly to let the little butterfly spread open its wings and chime a couple times. It seemed to be a little leery to move though, instead just contenting itself with sitting on the palm of his hand and flapping its wings.

"But what about your pests? Do they find the CYbuddies a mockery of themselves?"

[powertotearer]

That made some sense, and he guessed that if he saw a bunch of robots programmed to act like extremely tame humans, he would feel just as unnerved.

But it definitely couldn't be the same for the candroids, and only one idea came to mind.

"I think they feel threatened, maybe? And maybe a little stuck-up. They never liked the CYbuddies much, and they kind of made a show of trying to look better than them. But then those broken ones were delivered to us, and now they're just hostile to them."

[freeinghorror]

"Those broken ones..."

His butterfly didn't like it either, so much so that Jinga ended up putting the thing away where the butterfly couldn't poke at it. If he was to be honest with himself, he didn't want to examine why they were given those things too closely, especially since before they had been plagued by the ghostly memory-sharing animals similar to the CYbuddies. He looked at the candroids and then glanced down at his butterfly.

"Did it resemble the ghostly animals you had?"

[powertotearer]

He nodded.

"At least mine did. We never opened Ankh's--after I opened mine, we just threw them out."

Or maybe Ankh had thrown it against the wall first, and then Eiji quietly took them to the trash after. Same thing, really.

"I'm kind of worried about where those went, since they disappeared just before the CYbuddies showed up."

[freeinghorror]

"If I can guess how CERES likes to work, throwing them out may not have been wise."

Several of the group's gifts to the people here had turned deadly if abused or tossed aside, at least that's what the had noticed in the last couple of months. It was half the reason why he had stuffed his into a closet to forget about, though he did half-expect it to come limping out one day.

"Back into us?"

He had a theory that they were a bit of them or stemmed from whatever code used to make the people here. The butterfly set off once again, going after the CYbuddies with little chimes as if trying to encourage the takos.

"After all, they did share out pieces of our memories to whoever ran into them."

[powertotearer]

Eiji cringed. "I'll have to go looking for them, then. I didn't know."

Just his luck to throw away something important when he was trying to be helpful.

But the thought about those bits of soul going back into them gives him pause--enough that the Takos decide it's time to go back to causing mischief now that he's distracted.

"You're sure? I didn't feel any different without it, so I don't know how I should feel if it's back. The only loss I really noticed was my memories, and even then, it took a while."

[freeinghorror]

"Then again, keeping them may also not be wise."

Really, he had no idea what would be the proper response with those broken CYbuddies would be, but he left his alone and stuffed it away in case it started to move, or decided to do what those robots did a few weeks ago.

"It followed us around, it shared only our memories, and only we could see them. I cannot say that they weren't a part of us without using magics. My wife handled magics; I just bashed things very hard with my sword until there's no movement left."

[powertotearer]

Eiji's face really fell at that point. Nothing he did was going to make this any better.

"And I don't know anything about that either." Because usually he left legends, mystical stuff, and the like to Ankh or to eccentric CEOs who screamed every other word and baked cakes all day. You know, experts. "I tried visiting one of the spirits--Ardeo? No help, though."

[freeinghorror]

"I don't suppose there would be any help. A majority of things here are either to hinder or to harm, though most of those that are unwilling guests like us are just trying to understand this place."

No one knew anything unless they were the ones in charge. Again it reminded him of the hellhole most Horrors called home when they were not in the human world. This was just done in a place that at least had something similar to better seating really.

"We would be better off to seek any help from each other then from anything close to CERES, no matter how trustworthy it says it is."

[powertotearer]

Eiji nodded cautiously.

"Yeah, I think that's for the best. The place I was in before, anyone working there was pretty suspect too. Even if we didn't exactly trust them, just letting our guard down around them got us hurt."