those roboscorps, man

[mentaddled]

It is very difficult to access my UNSTOPPABLE ROBO-SCORPION ARMY! From here, anyway. Hmmm. Maybe I'm getting interference from some robo-spiders nearby. Although that would be ridiculous! Who'd want to invent robotic spiders? It'd be like making... robotic pies. Or robotic spies. Spy-pie? Where the spies are hiding inside the pie, yes.

You're going to have to step closer, there's either two or four of you over there. Unless everything went all out of focus again. Or I've had too few mentats today. [There is no such thing as too many, you see.] One or the other. Or both. All within the realm of possibility!

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[justnumbers]

[Face: meet palm.]

Too many Mentats, most definitely. [She's got a headache already.] Hello, Mobius.

[mentaddled]

Nonsense! There's no such thing as too many Mentats! [Told ya.]

Ah yes, hello there! You popped in for a visit? Walking's possible, of course, but popping is a much more scientific term. Especially with that transportalponderizer. [he's got a few too many syllables there, whoops.]

do i see mst3k references in those icon names oh my god

[justnumbers]

Yes there is. [Go go Medicine skill? -Fuck, where's Arcade when you need him?]

I'm not too fond of the idea of walking to the Sink, honestly. But... it's more like you've "popped out" for a visit. Nice to see you, Doctor.

you do :3

[mentaddled]

If you used them all up, yes, then you'd have used too many. But you can always make more. Or find them. Or forget where you put them in the first place.

Have I? Well, that explains where all this white space came from. I was wondering about that!

[halfterlife]

"Robo-scorpion army"? [ ooooookay... wow. he hasn't heard an idea this bad since pretty much anything Vlad has ever come up with. or maybe-- ] Uh, completely random question, but you don't have a "Technus" in your family tree anywhere, do you?

[mentaddled]

Oh, no, trees are very rare in Big MT [Mountain], and families, too. Rare as in virtually nonexistent, although you can't stop the Nightstalkers from getting their claws all over the everything. But that's not really my department, taxonomy and biology and all those -ologies.

[capcious]

"Who'd want to invent robotic spiders"... [Zeta repeats slowly, eyebrows inching up her forehead.] You ask that, but who'd want to invent robotic scorpions?

[mentaddled]

I must've had a very good raisin for it. Besides wanting to because I wanted to. Did I? Well! In any case, my roboscorpions are here now and they're not going anywhere any time soon. Except when I order them around. And they get lost sometimes, too. Fall in the cracks somewhere around one of those labs that doesn't exist and can't get back up. Oh! There's the little explosion that happens when they get destroyed, too. Lots of moving around happening there.

[capcious]

[... oooo...kayyyy...]

So you've rigged the things to self-destruct, too. [That, at least Zeta can understand. She's designed quite a few things to do that herself. Prevents CIA enemies from taking hold of Gallifreyan tech, and all that. But, it begs the question,] What do you even use them for?

[mentaddled]

Many, many things! Mostly using their blasters to do them, too! They defend my secret lair nestled deep inside the most forbidden parts of THE FORBIDDEN ZONE. And they can steal intelligence with their pincers, ooh, watch out! Although I think I might've made that up? Not really sure why. I make up a lot of things. That's part of being a Scientist.

canon-divergent aus who just finished this dlc are fun!

[sexandoutrage]

[Jesus fucking Christ, no.]

Is it the mentats? Really? Or that nasty little psycho habit. Be honest. [Says the former superhero with a Med-X habit thanks to a certain sneaky suit.]

[Repair 100/90, aw yiss.] Please tell me you haven't already fried that monitor connection.

[mentaddled]

Oh, no, the Psycho makes things more rrrrarghable and my biogel sizzles when it flushes out. It can do that, you know, sizzle. Gets stuck on the sides of the bowl that way.

I don't recall any frying. Although it's distinctly probably possible that it got nudged out of alignment by... things that make that happen.

[sexandoutrage]

[Why has he thought responding to this is a good idea. Why. It's not like there aren't fifty million other things he could be doing, up to and including scooping his own eyes out with an irradiated spork.]

Not being a brain in a jar, yeah...Nope, can't relate, sorry.

Bet you're really starting to regret that no hands thing now.

Hey, Mobius, HAVE A SPECIAL EYEBOT!

[ed_emylove]

[There is intensely curious beeping in your direction, Mobius]

[mentaddled]

Hello! Pay attention to the floaty brain behind the... oh where did those curtains go? I swear, you turn your back on the robo-scorps for one minute and they'll snip everything in sight, the little rascals--

Where was I? Here. Or maybe over there... No, here's good. So, are you here for... a thing?

[ed_emylove]

[There is some confused beeping. It seems to be in a pattern...]

"01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00111111"

sorry if he's a little rusty. maybe i should get some oil

[coffeecups]

Of course robo-scorpions. He doesn't even think about the mess they cause. It's not like anyone important has to clean it up! Just make that little crazy robot do it. It's not like he's doing anything important. We made it so he only cares about mugs.

it is 0k!

[mentaddled]

Theoretically, I could dispatch a second wave of them after the initial one to clean up any of the left behind components. They'd need to have sweepers for pincers, though, so I've got to find out where that drawing board went to, first.

[coffeecups]

Dr. O probably stole it for his next hilarious prank. Or the Toaster tried to set it on fire. Or the Biological Research Station... seeded ...it. You'll probably want a new mug.

No, I meant MUG.

NO I MEANT DRAWING BOARD WHY DID YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME LIKE THIS?!

[Distressed robotic sobbing until time = 60s and the personality matrix resets from 'mental breakdown' to 'default obsession with dishware'.]

[mentaddled]

Is there a whole series about those? Very impressive. Most folks don't appreciate killer insect robots enough, I always say! Or would, if anybody asked, which they usually don't because they're busy being pincered to death!

[justjoshingya]

[ Well someone went Full Mad Science. Points for uh. Committment? ]

Not so big on the unstoppable part of that description, huh.

[ He would be a lot less brave if there were any actual robo-scorpions involved, probably. Luckily they're nowhere in sight so far. ]

[mentaddled]

Unless they've met any unmovable objects recently. Then they have to climb around them or over them instead.

[justjoshingya]

Well, at least they can. Would be kind of a shame if they couldn't handle stairs, right?