On Upcoming Things

[sentryslinger]

You know, Miss Mundane, I'm glad you're all excited about this visitation business, but don't you think you've got enough on your plate these days?

I do too, of course, given these robots we're fightin'. It might just be a game to you, but it's a job for the rest of us. And believe you me, I do take my job seriously.

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[not_onyourside]

[He jumps back, afraid the thing was going to start shooting him. When all it does is fly around he relaxes. Marginally. ]

And what will zhis do? Mobilize Soldiers' speeches?

[sentryslinger]

[He laughs as he flies it over to Spy. The jaw moves a little as it spouts a few robotic lines about haircuts and hippies.]

I told you I wasn't all work and no play.

[not_onyourside]

Just what we needed.

[He shoos the thing away.]

Perhaps you could navigate zhis eento Soldier's room and keep him occupied arguing wez eet. I zhink bozh teams would zhank you.

[sentryslinger]

[Time for a taste of your own medicine, Spy. Engineer sails it away from him so he doesn't cut the RED with the rotor blades before bringing him back around. Cue more robotic chattering about maggots and American jobs.]

We'd be down a man, then. And as loud as he can be, I think that'd be a detriment to us all in our new jobs against these here machines.

[not_onyourside]

[Spy is not amused. On the plus side you've found something he won't want to steal.]

Perhaps wezzout his constant rocket jumping zhey would not know where we were.

[sentryslinger]

[That's a win for him.]

They'd still be gunnin' for the point, though. And those bombs aren't going to stop themselves.

[not_onyourside]

Could you not simply make somezzing zhat would do just zhat?

[He's eying that robot head, wondering if he should sap it.]

[sentryslinger]

[Flying away now.]

It's not that simple to stop a tank. And even if I did, there'd still need to be someone to man it, just to make sure those robots don't take it down.

[not_onyourside]

[He's still watching it, to make sure it doesn't make a surprise comeback.]

Hmm. I zhink I preferred fighting people to robots.

[sentryslinger]

And why's that?

[not_onyourside]

People have vulnerabilities and robots do not. Eet's much easier to avoid or kill a person zhan a robot.

Also zhey are dulling my knives.

[sentryslinger]

People are a lot easier to kill, I'll give you that. Some robots are a lot easier to replace than most people, though. At least outside of jobs like ours.

[not_onyourside]

Which means for every one of zhem we kill zhere are several more to take eets place. For every one of us zhey kill -- well zhere ees only us.

[sentryslinger]

If I could figure out how to speed up the respawn, we'd be better off. Gettin' rid of that dizzy feeling when you go through it would be good, too.

[not_onyourside]

Zhat would be most appreciated. Zhough eets unfair eef BLU has faster better respawns zhan RED.

[sentryslinger]

If we're all gonna be working together against these robots, we'll be using the same one.

[not_onyourside]

You would let me een your respawn room? Engineer, you are too kind.

[~~leer~~]

[sentryslinger]

It wouldn't be my place to keep you out, since we're kind of on the same team, now. Or I'm sure that's how Soldier would put it.

[He is either ignoring all of those implications, or blind to them. Either way, he seems to be enjoying steering his flying Soldierbot head around, carefully landing it in his toolbox.]

[not_onyourside]

[He'll enjoy his innuendo all by his lonesome then.]

I do not want to be on zhe same team as a Soldier ever again. I guess you will have to keep zhis zhing around so I remember what he was like.

[sentryslinger]

[He laughs, tucking the remote to his heli-Soldierbot into his overalls.]

I don't think you've got much of a choice with that, given our jobs. At least there's only six of us out there at a time takin' care of those robots. Maybe you'll be lucky and won't have to be around him so much, if he bothers you. He is a bit of an acquired taste.

[not_onyourside]

Hmm. Eef I live to see zhe robots perhaps we shall see eef he becomes more tolerable.

And you do not have to deal wez him attempting to force feed you apple pie or chasing you around while lecturing you on American holidays.

[sentryslinger]

I'm also not the one that can turn invisible to get away from things like that.

[not_onyourside]

Eef I do zhat zhen he blows big holes een zhe base trying to find me.

[sentryslinger]

I've got to wonder what kinds of Soldiers you've been workin' with on RED.

[not_onyourside]

Insane ones.

Why? Are zhey any better on BLU? Why do you get all zhe good zhings? You even got zhe beach ball and balloons. Why do we get none of zhat?

Zhis ees unfair.