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[And then you wake up.]

[The room is dimly lit and made of pitted, industrial metals. You sit up abruptly on- some sort of padded table or cart? There’s a caged structure of metal piping surrounding you like a low barrier, but it’s open on top. You might similarly have a moment of panic about the straps holding you down or the electrodes on your head, but they’re just velcro and lightly tacked on, respectively, and in no significant way prevent you from sitting bolt upright and getting onto your feet. A series of twenty one such tables ring the room at even intervals. All but one has an occupant.]

[However long it takes you to notice, there a twenty of you again. Patches, the Trusty, and Yaiba, the Legendary Bassist, are back among your number. Penny, unfortunately, seems to be missing. Whatever you were wearing to the trial, or at the time of your death, you are back in the clothing you wore when you initially arrived. If anyone checks, CAREFULLY PLEASE, they will find that any powers they may have been missing are back.]

[The room is lit well enough, and there are computer banks and monitors around all the walls, which look to have been monitoring your vitals until just this second. Wires and tubes lead from each table to the center of the room, where a low pool is filled with a thick, milky-looking liquid that looks incredibly disinviting to touch.]

[A door rests on each side of the room, a glowing hand-sized pad beside each.]

[Welcome back, Participants.]

[Now, what do you do?]


((One clarification - any active powers that require some kind of power source or connection from your home worlds will either be not active or severely weakened.))

Date: 2018-12-10 04:46 am (UTC)
eudaimonikos: (and in the end if I don't)
From: [personal profile] eudaimonikos
Your psychotic Learning Pal robot tried to kill us! Actually did kill those two - [Waving towards Yaiba and Patches]. We thought he killed you too, there was definitely a torched human in there.

Date: 2018-12-10 04:51 am (UTC)
nerd_lord: (03)
From: [personal profile] nerd_lord
Learning- Hodgepodge?! But- he shouldn't have been- ...oooooooh, that explains too much.

[why does this keep happening]

Date: 2018-12-10 04:53 am (UTC)
eudaimonikos: (that's guided to you)
From: [personal profile] eudaimonikos
Yeah.

[Michael looks from Miller to the horrible screaming thing he arrived in, and back.]

Please stop building robots.

Date: 2018-12-10 04:54 am (UTC)
nerd_lord: (04)
From: [personal profile] nerd_lord
I DID.

[...Sloooooow glance down at Upsy.]

....I stopped building ones that could operate independently.

Date: 2018-12-10 04:55 am (UTC)
eudaimonikos: (critique of pure reason)
From: [personal profile] eudaimonikos
[deep sigh]

Have you ever tried building something that isn't horrifying?

Date: 2018-12-10 04:56 am (UTC)
nerd_lord: (04)
From: [personal profile] nerd_lord
[Deepest sigh of all.]

Always and constantly.

Date: 2018-12-10 04:59 am (UTC)
eudaimonikos: ('cause everything else)
From: [personal profile] eudaimonikos
[Wordlessly, Michael gestures at Upsy with both hands. This old man you just met is extremely disappointed in your efforts!]

Date: 2018-12-10 05:02 am (UTC)
nerd_lord: (03)
From: [personal profile] nerd_lord
HIIIIIIII!

[Come on Michael, he just wants to be friends.]

...Upsy is the end result of GENERATIONS of my family's work. He is a LEGACY.

Date: 2018-12-10 05:03 am (UTC)
eudaimonikos: (that's guided to you)
From: [personal profile] eudaimonikos
He probably makes children cry, and you know it.

Date: 2018-12-10 05:04 am (UTC)
nerd_lord: (02)
From: [personal profile] nerd_lord
Children love Upsy.

[Wow, rude?]

Date: 2018-12-10 05:07 am (UTC)
eudaimonikos: (but I want to make yours come true)
From: [personal profile] eudaimonikos
He looks like something that rises from the depths every twenty-seven years to consume the souls of the young.

[Yep, rude!]

Date: 2018-12-10 05:17 am (UTC)
nerd_lord: (07)
From: [personal profile] nerd_lord
I RISE AND FALL EVERY DAY, THAT'S THE JOB! HOO HOO!

Date: 2018-12-10 05:18 am (UTC)
eudaimonikos: (an essay concerning human understanding)
From: [personal profile] eudaimonikos
......I can't argue my point any better than that thing can.

[Everything Upsy says and does is the worst? Forget the Mastermind, let's defeat Upsy]

Date: 2018-12-10 05:38 am (UTC)
heynow_itsachalkstar: (sorry sirs)
From: [personal profile] heynow_itsachalkstar
....He is a very. Um. Strong personality, sir.