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[Nepeta stands behind a brightly decorated stall in one of the main areas of Freyr, looking bright and chipper and even more excited than usual.

"Black and Blue" is the name announced across the front of the stall, with lots of not-completely-professionally drawn pictures of the services offered at Equius’ and her shop.

She has a smile on her face as she cheerfully accosts passers-by, offering them a tray of cupcakes, and she seems to have enlisted Aurthour to do the same, while Pounce carries an open bag of sweets in her mouth to draw people in.

Nepeta and Pounce both have a cute black and blue ribbon tied above one ear, and Aurthour seems to have acquired the same as a bowtie. Oh! And it looks like a certain glowering moirail of Nepeta’s has been talked into wearing the same as he presides behind the stall.]

Come visit us at Black and Blue! The best service station in Asgard!

[The only one, actually, but shh. She’s having too much fun with this.]

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Perhaps in your world... but really that separation is not exactly worth arguing about. Different worlds, different phrasings.

Well, yes. I wasn't arguing, exactly.

I expect not, but some seem to think it is, so it gets confusing what their intentions are, and I don't believe I was ever known for my conversational empathetical skills.

I'm not always, either.

Anyway, I heard you build robots. I'd love to hear about those.

Extensively, but it's something that I think would require extra time to handle properly. Come by my house sometime and we can sit down. I will show you one of my creations. It is inopperable, but the robot chassy was returned to me by the gods, I suppose as a reminder.

Oh, does it have to wait?

[ Patience is not his forte.

Well, it's better than it used to be. But he prefers to not have to use it. ]

Hmmm... I will answer individual questions you have, but I would still prefer to show off my work. Acceptable?

Oh, I would definitely like to see it, make no mistake. Deal.

So what sort of robots do you make?

Trolloid construction mostly, some hoofbeasts and hooved musclebeasts. Mostly training dummies, though some were designed as combatant droids. The crowning achievements were capable of housing a dead spirit under certain circumstances.

A dead spirit?

[ ... Hm. ]

How?

Internal technological constructions and brain matrixes capable of handling a Troll intellect in binary form. The technique was not entirely different from the method used to transport us into the game, if I understand it correctly, though to be honest it was a production I only truly and completely perfected once we had actually entered the game world so there is an exceptional likelihood that the game itself impacted the viability of it. Her spirit may very well have been partially digitized.

(OOC: Translation - I have no damned clue. So he's going to just babble some shit for a while.)

Hmmm ...

Not sure I like that.

Quite frankly, having her spirit out of its think pan wasn't exactly what you'd refer to as an ideal situation. Generally, the dead stay dead and don't interact with the living, outside of dream bubbles apparently that is. However, she still lingered and her presence was required for the operating faculties of this game to have played out properly, so we had to do something rather than have her float around.

Besides, she was unbelievably morose while dead.

Mmmmm. And how was it supposed to turn out?

... that is an extremely embarrassing thing to discuss and I'd rather not. It did not turn out according to plan and she ripped her heart out of her chest cavity. The chassy operated for a time, but eventually self-detonated due to unforeseen circumstances.

[Nope, not telling you he tried to program her to love him. NOPE.]

That's a very specific way to kill yourself.

[ And he just so happens to be familiar with the possible side effects of putting someone living into a robot body like that. ]

The blood pusher irritated her. I believe that might have been related to the fact that we used noble troll blood as opposed to her rust. It did not agree with her psyche.

[Along with the whole programming thing.]

She had blood? Actual blood?

That's new.

Yes. An infusion of my own blood was used as opposed to oils. The reaction was unpredicted and unforeseen. One of her bloodline was not accustomed to the rage present in my own blood.

[ He scrubs a hand over his face. ]

Why'd you do that for?

alternia_strength - 2014-03-07 06:55 (UTC) - Expand

Equius! You know very well you wouldn't have slaughtered anyone even if they were available! Aradia would have killed you for it and I would too! You're explaining this all wrong to the poor Doctor, you're confusing him.

Well, he keeps asking strange questions. Of course it required a certain amount of blood to be able to function properly. It was a replacement for a body, after all, but at the same time my blood did overwhelm her sensibilities and make her excessively violent.