[Video] Paging the Build Team . . . and the nearest "hospital"?

[thankyou4myheart]

[Deckard is nothing if not a quick study . . . though he's still not wholly convinced this isn't all just some elaborate sensory hoax.  But he's been given some real direction from a most unexpected source at that and is running with it.]

Hello?  I've been told to seek out a . . . medic.  [Is that really the right word?] ...mechanical engineer.  Or a robotics engineer.  Someone who can modify an engine from running on gasoline to whatever is the common fuel source here.

[If he sounds - or looks - a little on the tired/haggard side, that would be because he's not fueled recently.  He'd intended to fill up "tomorrow" when he got in to work, but he's been here for some hours now and he's starting to feel it.  But he pushes that aside.]

Also, if anyone knows where the Build Team is, and if they're all right, I'd appreciate hearing from you.  McCrane, Power Joe, and Drill Boy.  ...and Dumpson.  [Because he can hardly imagine three-quarters of the Build Team being present and not all of them.]

Thank you in advance for your help.

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[thankyou4myheart]

No, it . . . it was an upgrade.  One that none of us wanted.

  Including you.

  [Yeah, he's still trying to wrap his mind around the whole there-but-not thing on top of everything else.]

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[kungfugeek]

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I don't know what you're talking about Deckard. You must be way more ahead of me than you think.

Same thing happened with McCrane, too.

Action - ruins your tagvana. XD;;;

[thankyou4myheart]

[He sighs.]

I know . . . that's something I'm still trying to reconcile.

I wouldn't say I'm "way" ahead. I'll have to remember to ask McCrane when I see him what his last memory was... The mess with Lua and the Bubble Gum Sisters was only two or three weeks ago. Honestly, Power Joe? Be glad you're not aware of the Gunpulators...

[He came so close to losing his entire team - almost entire, Shadowmaru would have survived, but he would have also been left to survive alone. And all that on the heels of being reminded theyr'e "just machines" and how Azuma, Saejima, even Yuuta hadn't seen a problem with what amounted to major amputation and brain surgery, and . . . just . . . just everything, EVERYTHING about all of that. That, because they were robots, their very best wasn't good enough...]

...be glad you don't have those memories, Power Joe.

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[kungfugeek]

[There's a small grumble, followed by a 'hmph'. While he's not exactly upset he's yet to experience that, a part of him wishes he already did. So he didn't have to...look forward to it. To worry his choices might be different.]

Maybe. Not something I want to go back home to, though.

[A small pause.]

I'm gonna have them either way.

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[thankyou4myheart]

[Whoa, wait, what?]

Oh? How so?

[Because, really . . . how is that possible? They're stuck HERE . . . uh, right?]

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[kungfugeek]

We gotta go back sometime, right Deckard?


And when we do, I'll have to experience it anyway. It's how time works.

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[thankyou4myheart]

. . . I keep hearing there's no way back.

Then again, I've also been told that people disappear from here about as randomly and often as they appear.

[Dammit, every time he thinks he's starting to get a handle on this place, he learns something new that throws a wrench in the gears. SIGH.]

Anyway . . . so how long have you been here?

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[kungfugeek]

Yeah. I figured that's where they went off to.

I mean, they'd have to if the time thing was still stable, right?


[There's a pause, as if PJ has to actually think back on that.]

Almost a year...