ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko Kirves breaths!

[Ad Bot]

[Juncoph]

I speak up:

"Nope. A marine got angry at it because he thought it was the combat version!"

[Qwepir]

I speak up:

"Nope. A marine got angry at it because he thought it was the combat version!"

: ...Right then. Well, we need to get this thing powered off and back in its case. You know where the switch is, right?

[Harm94]

Poor marine, having to guard some pogs.

[Gojira]

Meanwhile Yui is watching in the background.

[Juncoph]

: ...Right then. Well, we need to get this thing powered off and back in its case. You know where the switch is, right?

"I haven't seen this model in a while, but I think it's in the corner of this panel..."

I open a panel on the bot's abdomen, and I locate the switch. Off it goes.

[Tayasaurus]

"yeah sure whatever. Stick it back in a crummy old box so people with no ambition can poke at it with a stick."

Tippy frustratingly heads to her dorm. The rest of what came in doesn't really seem to interest her.

(I'm putting Tippy on Hiatus. Personal reasons. Feel free to progress without me should you be worried.)

[Qwepir]

"yeah sure whatever. Stick it back in a crummy old box so people with no ambition can poke at it with a stick."
Tippy frustratingly heads to her dorm. The rest of what came in doesn't really seem to interest her.

: ...Uh. Alright then?

I open a panel on the bot's abdomen, and I locate the switch. Off it goes.

Yukamo gives Nick a hand putting the bot back in its crate.
: What's wrong with Tippy? She seemed rather excessively upset there.

[blockguy™]

: What's wrong with Tippy? She seemed rather excessively upset there.

I answer the question for her, even though it wasn't directed towards me.
"She's a little- messed up in the head- as one would put it."

I proceed to clench my starfish, because I expect Tippy to come out of nowhere and kick my stuff in.

[Qwepir]

"She's a little- messed up in the head- as one would put it."

: What world do you live in where that's appropriate to say about someone?

[Gojira]

I walk over and almost kick Painter in the ass myself.

[Badger]

I pipe up from the nearby crate after painters remark "she was going on about how the engineers are unappreciative - seemed upset that its probably being shipped away to be ripped apart and she doesn't get in on the fun."

[blockguy™]

Oh stuff, I forgeted up
"No, I didn't mean it like THAT."

[Operator¹]

meanwhile bell fills out the requisitions form for the ppc and runs to the requisitions office to submit it

[Qwepir]

I pipe up from the nearby crate after painters remark "she was going on about how the engineers are unappreciative - seemed upset that its probably being shipped away to be ripped apart and she doesn't get in on the fun."

: "Ripped apart"? I'd bet it's more likely to be the opposite. The eggheads are probably going to be so concerned with not ruining an intact specimen that they won't even learn anything from it.

meanwhile bell fills out the requisitions form for the ppc and runs to the requisitions office to submit it

They grant your request, but ask how you knew there was a PPC available in the first place.