Discovery #41

[saikyocivrobo]

[Some time after the fight with the Friend, Werter lies down on a sofa, looking completely drained. While the adrenaline of the events was still running he was feeling mostly fine, but now that it passed? He's harboring a massive headache. He barely has enough strength to read manga and futilely try to keep Prometheus away from stealing his drink bottle.]

I'm happy that everything went mostly fine... But if I don't have to see ancient biomechanical monsters or hammy mad scientists ever again, I'll be a happy man.

Comments

[link_to_revival]

That's regrettably nothing more than a pipe dream.

[Oh, and wow. You don't look too good, Werter.]

And it might be smart to pay the doctors a visit. You're not usually this worn down after a mission, are you?

[saikyocivrobo]

It's purely mental fatigue. You'd have a headache too if you listened to Dr West screaming his lungs out for so long. Even though you're a robot.

[link_to_revival]

I can imagine.

And frankly, it's almost offensive that his gynoid ends her sentences with "robo", among other things.

[Frankly, that's not the ONLY thing about her that irks the AI.]

[saikyocivrobo]

Yeah, I can imagine. It's like a racist caricature of other robots.

[link_to_revival]

You would have no idea.

[So says the former gynoid.]

[saikyocivrobo]

[Prometheus shrugs and continues drinking the water he stole from Werter.]

[rushing_wings]

I figured you would have been used to it by now. Running into ancient biomechanical monsters and hammy mad scientists is kind of our thing.

[saikyocivrobo]

Not when the scientist in question is Dr Never Shuts Up West.

[rushing_wings]

Wait wasn't he engulfed in a giant explosion the last time?

[saikyocivrobo]

Would that be the first time you saw someone survive one?

[hobo_lantern]

Take care of yourself then.

[saikyocivrobo]

You are calling me mad, friend? I'd like to point out only one of us collects random junk and acts like a homeless loon.

[hobo_lantern]

And only one of us is a scientist.

[saikyocivrobo]

The difference between normal science and mad science is like night and day. Also, I'm not a ham. Usually.

[hobo_lantern]

That's what I'm saying. Take care so you won't become one. You already have one word after all. We're hanging out with a lot of ham and mad people. I think they're contagious.

[saikyocivrobo]

You do realize I'm talking to one of them right now, yes?

[hobo_lantern]

Maybe I'm trying to immunize you.

[saikyocivrobo]

Glad to see you care about my well-being.

[paladin_robot]

I hope thats not required for your happiness, otherwise...

[Shifty eyes.]

That said, I wonder what happened all that time ago. Ancient aliens, robots, power sources... and yet we still spent thousands of years with horse as the fastest means of transport.

[saikyocivrobo]

If I didn't learn to cope with crazy, I'd go mad myself years ago.

If I had to guess... Some kind of downfall happened. One on a gigantic scale.

[littleshortforanelemental]

Nikolai is lying down on a parralel sofa, ice pack to his head and smelling of tiger balm.

"Aff, that would be...nominal."

[saikyocivrobo]

Yeah.

...What are you doing there anyway?