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Post by Kor on Feb 29, 2016 6:51:13 GMT -6
Ollie laughs again. Though it wasn't clear in his expression, he was impressed by the android's distinct personalities, something he's been struggling with for years. "Interesting! Incredible." He nods his head again. "So you'd think she'd respond best to time spent with another less social character?"
Coby arches an eyebrow, and lifts a hand in a brief wave back, before turning away again. He taps Ollie's arm, who just nods, then waves for Wil to follow him. Wil looks like he protests slightly as Coby heads over to Neon and Xenon.
The hallway didn't have a particularly high ceiling. The floor was some kind of plain grey tile that didn't make much sound against the rubber soles of Raoul's boots. The walls were just plain grey. Yellow lights were embedded at the top of the walls every four or so steps. "This reminds me of somewhere," Raoul remarks. "Except everything is a lot paler there, so it felt a little less cramped. Or maybe it just has higher ceilings. Hey, tell me if you spy an unlocked door?" He had slowed his pace so they were walking side-by-side, and though his eyes were busy exploring the hall, they kept flickering back towards Graphite for a response.
"Nahh, he's fine. It's C.T. that makes for boring conversations." Decaire makes an unhappy sound. Basil puts her tablet to sleep and puts it under her arm. "He gave me lots of good info an' stuff. FOR EXAMPLE, would you be interested in joining my gang?" "It's a stripper gang." "NOT NECESSARILY, that would be a future development."
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Post by Tikoaztite on Mar 6, 2016 9:47:02 GMT -6
"Most likely. Either that or with some kind of animal. Cats, maybe? I've always wanted one. She might enjoy its company." Father calmly responded, turning his head to cast a glance at Diamond. "But yeah. Someone that isn't too social would be best for her."
"Back already?" Xenon called out, putting a hand on his hip while Neon rested his hands in his hoodie's pockets. "I knew it! You already love our company enough that you just can't stand to not be around us." Neon added in a joking tone, flashing a lopsided grin. "I'm flattered, I really am." As soon as it had gone in, his right arm was out of his pocket and slung around his twin brother's shoulder. (shit's about to go down ain't it)
On the contrary, Graphite's heels made sharp clacks on the tile with each step, the sound echoing off the walls. She seemed a bit uncomfortable with the low cieling and grey walls, with her eyes darting about for Raoul's request. After about thirty or so steps, the two walked past a door that was cracked slightly open. At the sight, she quickly tapped Raoul's shoulder and motioned toward it, signing a quick "Over there" with her free hand. (*can you feel the love tonight plays in the background*)
"Not that- It's just that he's annoying as hell once you get to know him." Charcoal chuckled slightly, glancing over at Decaire for barely even half a second. "Oh- And as for your gang? Depends on what you do more of. Stripping or gang shit. Either way, I'm in, but I'd rather the latter."
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Post by Kor on Mar 6, 2016 10:06:45 GMT -6
"Animals aren't really my thing. The furthest we've got are bugs, but those are more like tiny little airplanes. And the Haunter, but that thing probably wouldn't make for great company." He grins to himself, then surveys the room thoughtfully. "Well, C.T. probably needs the most company, but, like, who wants to talk to him? And then Abel is objectively better company, but doesn't really want it... Hm... Maybe Leo..."
Coby smiles thinly and laughs briefly. "I wouldn't exactly call it 'back,' Wil apparently wants nothing to do with either of you. But..." He holds out a hand to Neon. The smile wasn't exactly friendly, but it wasn't any kind of aggressive or intimidating. "My name is Coby Eldridge."
Raoul turned immediately and split into a large grin. Light spilled beneath the door, more of a yellow light than a white one. "Nice, let's see!" He pushed the door open with an outspread palm. Inside, the room was long and lined with simple beds, already made. Abel was sitting on a bed at the very far corner of the room, looking up when the door opened.
"Annoying and boring. A perfect match!" Basil laughs. "Guess I'm gonna have to play match-maker!" "Basil!" For the first time, a bit of emotion entered his voice. "He's a kid! You're disgusting." Basil sticks her tongue out a bit, then focuses back on Charcoal. "It'd probably be mostly gang shit. Excellent choice, my dude. So if we had to go to war while we're here, could I count on your allegiance?"
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Post by Tikoaztite on Mar 11, 2016 20:36:05 GMT -6
"Haunter? Tell me more. Sounds interesting." Father arched a veiled eyebrow, honestly curious. "She'll probably go off to someone on her own. Give her a few minutes-- Or once Buck gets away from her. Poor guy."
Sky-blue eyes glancing down at the other's hand, Neon placed his own pale hand in Coby's and shook. "The name's either Neon or Xenon, 50/50 chance your guess is right." He greeted, his glance shifting towards Wil and back again. Then Xenon came into the conversation with a dorky grin on his face, his gaze on both Coby and Wil. "If your little Willykins doesn't want anything to do with us, you could say he was brought back here...." "Bro-- Don't you dare--" Neon stared at his blue-haired twin brother with a mixture of amusement and disgust, knowing exactly what was going to happen "Against his Wil." Xenon, despite his brother's protest, did dare finish that pun, grinning like a 12 year old in a sex ed class after the deed was said and done. ((i told you shit was gonna go down))
Graphite flashed a tiny smile before gazing into the room, waving slightly at Abel before stepping inside and taking off her heels. Setting them just outside of the room, she walked over to one of the nearest beds and sat down, motioning for Raoul to follow.
"Wha---?! Are you serious?" Carbon was taken aback, while Charcoal just grinned. "Oh, come on. You know you wuuuuuuuuuuv him. It was love at first sight, wasn't it? Of course it was. I'll get the wedding planned~" "Screw you." Carbon's tone was dead-serious, casting a glare at Charcoal that could probably kill a small animal. "Like you want to do to him?" She just let a smile creep on her face as she watched Carbon fold his arms and turn his back, focusing back on Basil. "Of course you would. With four idiots, a mute, and Diamond on my own current side, it's hardly even something you'd have to think about, amirite?"
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Post by Kor on Mar 11, 2016 21:11:29 GMT -6
Ollie shakes his head, not smiling as much anymore. "The Haunter's just an old... OLD, old, old skeleton we repurposed. I don't even know why Josef ever thought to build something that big." He looks over to Diamond and Buck and smirks. "Yikes."
Coby looked like he was going to say something about the 'Willykins' comment, but after the pun he just kinda stopped with a :/ expression. Wil had his face in his hands, shaking his head gently. "Wow, you two are hilarious." Coby's tone was unenthusiastic. "Well, it was nice meeting you." Pretty much immediately after he'd started talking with them, he turned to leave. Coby's not up for it tbqh
Raoul didn't take off his boots as he walked in, sitting on the bed beside her and peering around the room. "Aw man, I wonder if this is the only place to sleep in this entire place. C.T.'s not gonna like that. Coby, neither."
Decaire grimaces and covers his face a bit. "I'm a 30-year-old man who looks like a 40-year-old and I will not accept sexual comments regarding a child." "Aren't you, like, 10?" "That doesn't make it any better." Basil snickers and bites her tongue, then glances sideways at Charcoal with an arching eyebrow. "Hmm-hmm-hmm, interesting that you'd assume the teams would be the New Access androids versus you guys. Not necessarily wrong, but still interesting."
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Post by Tiki on Mar 12, 2016 20:39:09 GMT -6
"Interesting... By 'big', how much so?" Father nodded slightly, his eyes fixing on Diamond and Bucky. "It's usually the other way around, heh..." He rubbed the back of his neck, watching Bucky struggle to gt his arm free of the taller android's grasp.
"Aww, look, you've scared 'em away." Neon gave a mockingly disappointed look to his twin, who just folded his arms and huffed. "They just don' appreciate a good pun!" (no it's because if u weren't a fictional character yo and your brother'd get punched every time you breathe)
Taking her notebook out from her handbag, Graphite wrote down "Charcoal and Diamond wouldn't, either. before taking the single pillow from the bed and squeezing it slightly.
Carbon seemed slightly offended by being called a child, huffing a bit. "I'm not a kid! I'm 14! That's--" He began before Charcoal cut him off. "Half his age. Face it, Carbs. You're a kid." She chuckled a bit when he let out a childish huff, before listening intently to Basil's comments. "Even if that isn't the case, I wouldn't team up with any of them at gunpoint." She responded, casting a heated glare Carbon's way.
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Post by Kor on Mar 12, 2016 21:38:00 GMT -6
"The thing was, like, 8 feet tall. Hideous, but to be fair it was some of Josef's earliest work, I guess. That... still never explained why it was eight feet tall." Ollie frowns and shakes his head, then looks back over to Diamond and Bucky. "Hm.. I'm no psychologist, but that's really interesting."
Coby and Wil resorted to qietly discusing something or another, with frequent glances at the twins, and eventually fell silent and went to stand against the wall. Coby sat down.
Raoul presses his lips together and nods. "Wow, this is gonna be a bit of a crazy time, isn't it? I wonder how long we'll be staying. As fun as it is to hang out with some new faces, I'm gonna miss my work." He almost lies back on the bed, but realizes he wouldn't be able to understand her, so sat back up.
"To be fair, C.T. regularly calls 19 and 20 year olds kids. Even the 26 year olds, probably." Basil was looking at Neon and Xenon now as she spoke. Decaire didn't reply this time. "This is gonna be a crazy time, I think," Basil continues with a grin, "and no matter how it goes down, you chose the right team, buddy."
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Post by Tikoaztite on Mar 23, 2016 17:35:26 GMT -6
"Bleh. Sounds pretty scary." Father shrugged slightly, probably making some face under his veil. "It's kinda funny , seeing a little 5'4 kid trying to drag a 6'2 woman from.. Anything, really." He went back to his usual chuckle, shifting his gaze towards the twins.
The two of them watched the other men's actions unfold with the same semi-amused expression. They then casted this at eachother, starting to chat about some thing or another somewhat excitedly. Neon's and Xenon's actions almost perfectly mirrored each other, making it look almost like someone talking to their reflection; if that reflection also reversed his hair color, of course, but a reflection nonetheless.
Graphite nodded in response, writing down her response of <I>"Yep, definitely crazy.... And it's probably just me being used to large cities and multi-story mansions, but I find it hard to believe a warehouse in the middle of nowhere was the best Father could do for this meeting."</I> She gave a nervous smile when she saw Raoul lie down and get back up, shrugging slightly. She was used to it by now.
"That doesn't help at all..." Carbon whined, puffing out his cheeks. Meanwhile, Charcoal nodded faintly at Basil, mirroring her actions a bit. "Well, that's basically a given, with the twins and the Bucky and all that." She shrugged, letting a small grin appear. "And of course it's the right team, seeing as I'm on it."
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Post by Kor on Mar 23, 2016 18:03:37 GMT -6
"Yeah, it terrified the hell out of the kids." He doesn't laugh again as he thinks back on this. It'd been a little funny, yeah, but the Haunter totally could've broken a bunch of their bones, maybe killed one if they were unlucky enough. No laughing matter. He took quickly to the change of topic. "Mm-hmm. It kind of a cute dynamic, actually. Tall people and small people make for fun relationships, in my experience."
Wil kept glancing over at them. He pulls out his phone and quickly types something and puts it away again.
Raoul raises both his eyebrows. "Cities and mansions? Whoa-ho! That sounds crazy! Maybe it was Ollie who organized this thing, then, because honestly the New Access HQ is also kind of a warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Just a fancier one. But <i>mansions</i>? For serious?"
Basil looked like she was about to reply, but pauses and pulls out a phone. It looked a bit funny, with her tablet and her phone in her hands at once. She texts back and chuckles quietly, then puts it away. "Things are already heating up. Oh, man, if there's a wedge between Wil an' Coby and the twins I'm gonna hafta choose the side. No, what about being a double agent?" "Please do not escalate this situation any more than you have to," warns Decaire. "I'm gonna escalate the f*ck out of this situation."
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Post by Tikoaztite on Apr 15, 2016 21:02:56 GMT -6
"...I see." Noticing how he seemed to be a bit uncomfortable by the subject, Father didn't say anything more on the Haunter. "But what makes it even better is that, physically, he's like.... 15 or so, if my memory isn't failing me, and she's like... 30. She's literally twice his age. And he's way too protective of her. It sounds like a bad 80's sitcom if you think about it."
Neither of the twins noticed what Wil was doing, too busy talking with eachother. After a little bit, Xenon ended up noticing the same corridor that a certain other two had gone through a while ago, and pointed it out to his twin. They both, after a bit more chatting, began to make their way towards that corridor side-by-side, not bothering to alert Father about this.
Giggling softly (or appearing to; no sound came out) at Raoul's interest, she nodded slightly, pulling out her phone from the purse by her side. She opened her camera roll, flipping past cat pictures and 'dank' memes until she came across a many pictures of the Fuller mansion and its rooms (each one under a sepia filter). Holding her phone out to Raoul with one hand, she wrote down "Yes, seriously- here are some pictures for proof." with the other. All the while, a soft smile was formed from her lips.
"How fun, the twins managed to piss off two more people. And within twenty minutes of meeting them; that's a new record." Carbon muttered under his breath, gently resting his hand over his face. "Just a word of warning, those two are dickweeds and they know it. Be prepared to fight the urge to punch their blindingly-colored-haired faces into a wall. It'll come up so, so much more than you'd think." Charcoal glanced back at where the twins once were, deciding not to comment on how they'd just sorta left.
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Post by Kor on Apr 15, 2016 21:24:20 GMT -6
"It sounds like a bad sitcom I'd watch," replies Ollie with a grin. "Now, the real question is, what qualifies as a robot's 'real age'? Sure, their physical appearances are there, but there's also how old they were made to be, and how long they've been alive in general."
"Oh, man, look at that..." Raoul does that thing where you don't completely take the phone from her, but you hold it anyways. "Damn, that's cool. The sepia's a nice touch, too. Everything default at HQ is really grey and kinda cold. I don't have any pictures on my phone 'cept a couple old ones I downloaded, but maybe Basil's got some? Another time. It's not much to see. This looks really nice..." He grins at the screen, nodding gently.
"Fairly sure Coby is in a neverending state of pissed off," Decaire comments, "but congratulations on the new record." "Hm. That sounds a lot like me," Basil replies to Charcoal. "That can't be a good sign, I've thought long and hard about it and decided that if there's another me I'd probably kill them. But I'd honestly rather not work AGAINST those two, either, sooo..." She peers over her shoulder. "Hm... Do you think this place has some sort of mainframe? Or, like, datahub, or... just.. you know... a security room... Never mind. I'll find it myself later."
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Post by Tikoaztite on Apr 28, 2016 22:21:15 GMT -6
"'Real age' would probably be their chronological age, but physical appearance is the most noticeable, and their response to being asked for their age is pretty important... . I'm really unsure about that question." Father took a few seconds to respond, a thoughtful expression hidden under his veil.
Seeming to have realized something, Graphite set the phone down on the bed and signed a hasty "Just a second." Taking her hair in her hands, she pulled out all four of the hair ties that kept it in a low-hanging ponytail (two for the tie near her neck and two for the one near where her hair faded to blonde, for some odd reason), putting her hair in twin-tails and pulling each one into Sailor Moon-style buns. The buns themselves were a bit larger than they were in the anime the hairstyle had come from, so that her hair now only barely touched the bed. Grabbing her pencil and notebook, she scribbled down "You wanted to know how my hair would look in a bun, right? This is two buns, and my hair would still be a problem in lab work, but here you go. How bad do I look?"
The twins had near-instantly found the room that Raoul and Graphite were located in, both of them looking in, watching the two's interactions, and making sure that nobody saw them. Xenon had pulled out his phone from his hoodie's pocket, scrolling through the music he had downloaded until he found 'Can you Feel the Love Tonight?' He had to cover his brother's mouth to keep him from giggling and breaking their cover- and as soon as the song got to the chorus, he crouched down, turned the phone's volume high enough for the two to hear clearly, slid the phone into the room, and ran off farther into the hall with his twin- finding another unlocked door and pulling Neon into the room it led to with him.
"I have no idea, but if there's a security room, I'm going with you to find it. Best make sure the twins don't end up brutally murdered. And if they do, make sure I give the murderer a high-five." Charcoal didn't mention anything else about the twins, resting a hand on her cheek as she spoke.
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Post by Kor on Apr 29, 2016 5:54:24 GMT -6
"Never really decided that for myself. Probably a poor decision, I should really start thinking about that a little more. Coby, gave them ages, though. Both 19 when he made them. Or, uh, intended to be, I guess. It's complicated. It's dumb." Ollie folds his arms. "I can't believe this is my job."
Raoul watches with a grin and a hand hovering in front of his mouth. "I think it's adorable. Still impractical, but literally super cute. Ooh, ooh, wait! What about my hair, it's long enough to do a bun or something, do mine!" He hastily started to unravel what braids in his hair he could find. His hair was much paler than his skin. He stops for a sec and looks around. "Where's that music coming from..?"
"Alright, well, we can go do that now then. Decaire, you coming?" "I'd rather not," he replies. "Good. I'm gonna establish my base there and I don't want too many people to know about it." She pushes her frizzy hair back over her shoulder and peers towards the hall all the others had gone down. "That's the only way to go, huh? Alrighty." Not waiting for Charcoal to join her, she headed off towards the hall.
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Post by Tikoaztite on May 6, 2016 17:50:50 GMT -6
"I never intended them to be a specific age... More a sort of 'general age group' if that makes any sense. Just sorta let them guess from there." Father shrugged his shoulders before putting a hand in his pocket. "Frankly, I can't believe either. Though, to me, I don't see it as a- Wait, no, screw that, way too cheesy. I'm already a deformed founder of a Fortune 500 computer company with a raging Geppetto complex, I'm not going to get any more sappy than that." He chuckled slightly at himself.
Graphite was about to reach for Raoul's hair, but soon stopped once she realized what the music was. A passive-agressive sort of 'i will cut a bitch up' smile molded on her face as she got off the bed, noticing the phone and picking it up. She brought it back to the bed and changed the password, took a selfie of her calmly giving out the middle finger, and changed the lock screen to that selfie, before literally throwing it out the door. Her smile softening, she signed 'that's better' and took a few hair ties out of her purse, putting the other's hair in a low bun as if nothing had happened. She had left a few strands out to absentmindedly play around with. (satanbot has awakened) (wtf me why did you say 'hair' instead of 'purse' .... graphy no.... have sailor moon hair pls....)
"Caaaaaaarbs. Come with. Now." Charcoal grabbed her brother by the wrist, but released after he slapped her hand. Carbon simply puffed out his cheeks in annoyance. "Fine, be like that." She muttered, before noticing that Basil was already gone. "H-hey, wait! I'm still here!" She shouted after her, running but still taking a while to catch up.
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Post by Kor on May 6, 2016 18:47:58 GMT -6
"Wow, that's a pretty complex image you have there." Ollie laughs and shakes his head. "But I get what you mean. I'm not a sappy man myself. That was the job of all of my co-founders. All of them were dating. All of them. And there I was, the single brother. It was pretty terrible."
Raoul watches with an open-mouthed smile, kind of shocked, and keeps the expression up as he turns again to let her play with his hair. "Ohh my god. That was crazy. Incredible." Abel, who was still in the room and had been watching from the corner of his eyes, laughs quietly, too. Raoul pulls out his own phone and holds it out in front of him as he puts the camera on, grinning at the screen. "Hey..." He pauses for a second, and looks over his shoulder. "Hey, can you redo it, but a little higher?"
"Keep up or get left behind," comments Basil casually, glancing behind her at Charcoal.
"Where're they going?" calls Leo, from where she was still crouched on her own in the main room. "To plot the demise of each and every one of us," replies Decaire, then noticing Leo's deathly serious expression, amends himself, "I'm kidding."
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