Buster wrote:"Kol." She states after Eira introduces herself, sounding distracted. Her expression looks almost pitying, as she seems to be having trouble not staring at Eira's stump.
Eira didn't like it when people stared at her arm, though she was used to it by now. Still, being self-conscious about it, she turned to her mom.
"Hey, mom? Do you have any spare water? Or can you pull some from the air? I'm still not quite strong enough yet."
"Of course, Eira." Tempest waved a hand. The water vapor in the air gathered together into drops, which gravitated toward each other. She opened a bottle of water she had on her belt and combined the water inside with the condensed vapor to create a large amorphous glob of floating water.
"Thanks, mom!" Eira stuck her stump into the roughly orb-shaped mass of water. When she started pulling her arm out however, the liquid followed and took shape. It formed into the shape of an arm before freezing. She flexed her new, frozen, crystalline fingers.
I missed you... the thought to herself before turning back to Kol.
"It's good to meet you, Kol. When did you join?"
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Buster wrote:She turns away from hivemind, muttering to herself that, "of course it would have a bunch of scripted etiquette reminders." seeming to more or less ignore the bit about machines having opinions and moods.
"Etiquette is important when living in an area that's as heavily populated as the Beacon." The hive droid stated, apparently having heard her.
"Also, I'm not scripted. Though I suspect you won't believe that. Or care."
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~\Rook/~ wrote:Traci looked over the sink, trying to look down the drain. "Yeah, it's a key. And it's tied to something, tightly. I agree that we shouldn't touch it.." She replies before turning to the shower and looking around in it. Nothing. As she steps in, her boot lightly bumps something in the drain. "Oh! Hey, there's a door handle on the shower drain.." She calls before bending down to check it. It looks fully intact. She carefully picks it up. "I guess a door in here is missing this, maybe the exit?" She mumbled to herself.
Getting back up and out of the shower she then checks the toilet, glancing around the cistern before checking around the edge of the seat. "Toilet's clear too, by the looks of it. I don't want to check inside it though, I have a feeling it'll be clogged or have something.. Disgusting ..in it."
Traci should have looked closer at that door handle.
As she picked it up, something went
snap. A string, matching the one on the key slid down the drain. A second snap, and the string attached to the key broke off and also fell down the drain.
SLAM! click! POP!
The door slammed shut and the light bulb in the overhead light in the bathroom died, plunging Ulrich and Traci into pitch darkness.
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Welsh Halfwit wrote:"Reason I said we needed to know, Captain," Corp explained, "is that, if she was talking to Lockwood, there's no way he's going to tell her anything. Her access code isn't in the command banks after four years missing. Mine might be. Yours? Barring catastrophic disaster your command codes will have been stored. He'll talk to you."
The hive droid nodded.
"We should cut the meeting short then. We can discuss things further another time. For now, contact with your home universe is definitely more important at the current time than this discussion."