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Ugh, I feel like this is all I do anymore...

Newcomers. Doubtless you've heard the basics of where you've found yourself already, from your so-called "family" or otherwise. Dist the Rose is here to give you a more in-depth explanation; that is, a letter that I myself have been so generous as to compose for you. I'm giving one out to anyone who asks, new or old; for those who have the old version, I've updated it to include the basic gist of what happened last month.

Simply come to either the library or my home, at 1767 Beaver Street. Any drone should be able to tell you where the library is; I'll be in and out of the shelves myself. Look for a slender man with pale hair and glasses.

[Action A]

[If you go to the library earlier in the day, you will indeed find Dist wandering in and out of the rows of books, alternately doing the shelving and sorting that the job requires and peeking through the books himself, pausing every so often to write down a title.]

[Action B]

[On into the afternoon and evening, he's in his driveway, detaching the gun from the Kaiser's belly; it's scorched all to hell and clearly no longer functional. He really has no clue how he's going to fix it without just building a new one from scratch, and without his lab that in itself will be difficult. Dammit, Mayfield.]


(ooc note: if you're not interested in cr with dist, there's no need to post in; you can give your character the letter without threading with me if you'd prefer. ^^ it's out there for you guys; just assume dist gave it to you without incident[shockingly]. a bit of retroactive interaction is fine too, if this shows up before you officially intro; just don't, like... dig it up a week from now if your character wasn't here.)

Date: 2011-04-11 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
Wait, you--

[And the window is up. Dist looks baffled, but he steps back, watching.]

Date: 2011-04-11 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
[And, without further ado, the car... unfolds. It flips up, twisting and bending like a piece of metal origami. When it finally stops... it's a lanky, silver robot, smiling broadly at Dist from about twenty feet up.]

Ta-daaa.

Date: 2011-04-11 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
[To Dist's credit, he only gapes for a few seconds. Then he's grinning, possibly more excited than he was before.]

You didn't tell me you had a mech!

[That breeze going over your head, Dist? What do you think that is?]

Date: 2011-04-11 04:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
[Sideswipe... just stares.]

Did you forget about every time I'd ever told you I was an alien robot?

Date: 2011-04-11 04:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
...

[...Maybe. It's that shiny new car smell; it has him distracted.]

No! I would never forget that! I was... testing you!

Date: 2011-04-11 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
... Uh huh.

[He does not look convinced in the slightest.]

Date: 2011-04-11 06:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
[How does a robot look convinced anyway? Dist doesn't so much brush it off as get distracted, though, moving to walk in a circle around Sideswipe's shiny new body.]

Can you turn into anything else?

Date: 2011-04-11 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
[He has a very expressive face. Sort of. Sideswipe turns his head to track the human's progress.]

I turn into myself, and the car. Isn't that enough?

Date: 2011-04-13 02:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
[It might be a bit uncomfortable, how Dist is scrutinizing and studying Sideswipe from just about every angle. Tact, he has none.]

Well, I suppose so. It seems like a waste, though; you would only have to add a few parts to be able to fly, I think.

Date: 2011-04-13 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
[He takes a slight step back.]

Why would I--No. Look, Dist. I like you, but I'm not just a piece of machinery.

This is my body. It hurts, it leaks, just like yours.

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