nananananoooo

[geckos]

Wwwhhhhyyy... are you looking at me? Stop that. The last time you looked at me with your special eyes during November was four years ago, and I ended up almost eaten by freaking vampires while -- okay, you're right, not really, since they weren't... vampires anymore? But still, dude! Harrowing! And the year before that was as much of a mess as this thing right here, hence the "why are you looking at me". Nothing good can come of this.

... Or magic, magic can come of it. That depends, though, is it like horrifying blood magic or fun-but-still-occasionally-scary wizard magic? ... I really hope not sexy-but-undead-witch magic, cuz that's worse than... most things. Let's just not even go there.

Do you really think it's worth switching gears with five days to go, though? ... Although I guess this isn't really any kind of gear, is it. Huh. You are like... pushing the car, here. -- Okay, alright, fine, I'll help! Just don't expect me to like -- burst from your forehead fully armed, it's been a long time!

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Comments

[nonvolatile]

People are still scared of vampires in this day and age? And here I'd thought the world had gotten more progressive.

[geckos]

Well -- they exist. In... some universes. That I've been to. It's a legitimate fear!

[nonvolatile]

Oh, I'm aware that they exist. It's just that they're so much more easily dealt with than other things. You should save your energy and panic for things that are harder to kill.

[geckos]

Liiiike... k...iller robots, p...erhaps...?

[nonvolatile]

Perhaps. See, you'd think it'd be easy to predict and avoid that sort of thing with programming and prime directives, but it's just so much harder to tell what's going on up here with a few crossed wires and a couple fried chips. [She's tapping her own head for emphasis in case you missed it.]

Like I said, vampires are so much easier to deal with.

[geckos]

So what I'm getting is that the laws of robotics mean basically... nnnnnothing to you.

[nonvolatile]

Not a thing! [ISN'T IT GREAT?!]

[geckos]

[ NO YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO EAT HIM. ] You know, that's really cool and everything, but I, uh -- need to -- feed my gecko. Sooooooo...

[nonvolatile]

Right now? Are you sure? Don't you want to panic about something else? You could describe more hyphenated types of magic! It's fascinating.

[geckos]

Is it really? Or are you just waiting for me to, like -- lower my guard so you can casually murder me?