[ Yuri was about to cheerfully greet Rodya until... that happens. When it's over, she felt like she was about to get sucked into Sonya's ideology, until there's a feeling that shakes her out of it. They're back in the void inside the Dream Rift after the memory finishes and Yuri frowns a little.
She hasn't really found her answer about warming herself, has she? ]
[ Yuri is the first person on my timeline chronologically to get a mem so Rodya clearly like... was not expecting that to just go out out of nowhere. She's silent, expression unreadable. Absently she tucks a bit of hair behind one ear, eyes lowered, unanswering --
Then she glances up, a usual smile on her face and nothing significant offered behind her eyes or the upturn of her lips. ]
[ Yuri doesn't think it's a good idea to bring it up. Rodya clearly doesn't want to talk about it, is what Yuri thinks. For all the support that she provided, she thinks... it should be fine. ]
... You don't have to talk about it if you're not ready. Let's go to a purikura booth. They have some... cute filters.
[ Except they're still stuck in the Dream Void for the time being. Do you want any of Yuri's mems, or are we good? ]
[ Sorry that she just appararently chooses to not address the first half of what Yuri said, which is probably an answer in itself. Not that it's about whether she's ready but more... well, she doesn't know.
[ Yuri gets it, so she won't pursue the topic. She's about to suggest something, but the void changes entirely. Yuri is gone and Rodya will wake up in the containment room with a suit, a green and red armband with a capital M on it, and a clipboard in her hand with a pen. It seems... friendly. Sure. It rattles violently when Rodya comes to. After a moment, it opens...
From looking at the papers on the clipboard, Rodya will see the following log:
After the popularity of the “All-Around Helper” skyrocketed, “We Can Change Anything” was released as the second installment of XX Inc’s home robot series. As to be expected of all of XX Inc’s products, it sports a variety of functions.
Is your child a troublemaker who cries all the time? We can change that!
Don’t like how you look? Are you too fat? Too skinny? We can change that!
Is your house suffering from an outage because you don’t have the money to pay for the power bill? We can change that!
It’s quite simple. Just open up the machine, step inside, and press the button to make it shut. Now everything will be just fine.
... Or so it says. What will Rodya do? Will she attempt to...
> Do some (instinct/insight/repression/attachment) work on it? > Leave the containment room for someone else to work on this? > Something else? Go wild. ]
[ ...SHE LOOKS AT THIS THING. All-Around Helper she's familiar with -- this thing is way more fucked up. She looks at the instructions and at all the iron spikes in there like. You sure Are, huh! ]
Jeez, not another one of these.
[ She's never been in Lobotomy Corp before, obviously. So she's going to look around and bang on the door behind her. ANYONE? HELLO? ]
[ The door is surprisingly unlocked! Perhaps there was some sort of system failure? Either way, Rodya is free to leave the room.
When she does, she'll find a flower with a long stem that's risen from the cracks of the metal floors. It's a normal flower (without the mess). Surely. In the distance, she can see there are several coworkers in similar attire that seem to be in a rush to look for something.
[ Sometimes things happen and people don't notice that it's a bad thing.
I need you to roll a d20, Lowe. If you get 15 or higher, Rodya can dodge in time. If not, her legs are getting chomped by a monstrous Venus fly trap abnormality from the floor that is powerful enough to break the metal and concrete. ]
The coworkers who claimed it was a weed start screaming once the Meat Lantern Abnormality takes a bite. Some of them are panicking clerks. Useless. Rodya does her best to smash the plant jaws. It seems to be getting loose, so maybe if Rodya uses all her strength to push herself out, she might make it!! Roll 10 or higher, otherwise she's still stuck. ]
[ Rodya internally: I deserve a Meat Lantern E.G.O for my troubles.
Anyway sadly she takes a rare L and rolls a 3, but Stagger+ doesn't mean she's done for. ]
Hey, stop panicking and get me out!
[ STOP WITH YOUR -45 NOBODY'S EVEN DEAD YET. She's going to keep smashing this set of jaws while continuing to try to pull herself out while thinking -- jeez, LobCorp really was a mess. ]
[ I think she does too. I also belatedly realized that Meat Lantern DOES exist in Limbus Company already in the form of 00 don... sorry don i forgot all about you
The employees continue to panic. They're useless. Poor Rodya. Though one clerk seems to be... brave? For some reason? And charges at the Meat Lantern in trying to get it to let go of Rodya. They try their best and Meat Lanter does let go of her. It's just that it chomps again to devour the clerk whole.
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She hasn't really found her answer about warming herself, has she? ]
... Rodya.
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Then she glances up, a usual smile on her face and nothing significant offered behind her eyes or the upturn of her lips. ]
Hm?
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... You don't have to talk about it if you're not ready. Let's go to a purikura booth. They have some... cute filters.
[ Except they're still stuck in the Dream Void for the time being. Do you want any of Yuri's mems, or are we good? ]
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[ Sorry that she just appararently chooses to not address the first half of what Yuri said, which is probably an answer in itself. Not that it's about whether she's ready but more... well, she doesn't know.
ABSOLUTELY FEEL FREE TO YURI BLAST ME ]
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From looking at the papers on the clipboard, Rodya will see the following log:... Or so it says. What will Rodya do? Will she attempt to...
> Do some (instinct/insight/repression/attachment) work on it?
> Leave the containment room for someone else to work on this?
> Something else? Go wild. ]
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[ ...SHE LOOKS AT THIS THING. All-Around Helper she's familiar with -- this thing is way more fucked up. She looks at the instructions and at all the iron spikes in there like. You sure Are, huh! ]
Jeez, not another one of these.
[ She's never been in Lobotomy Corp before, obviously. So she's going to look around and bang on the door behind her. ANYONE? HELLO? ]
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When she does, she'll find a flower with a long stem that's risen from the cracks of the metal floors. It's a normal flower (without the mess). Surely. In the distance, she can see there are several coworkers in similar attire that seem to be in a rush to look for something.
Hm. ]
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Y a - h o i ! Hey, you guys!
[ CALLING OUT TO THEM using her hands as like, you know, a mini-megaphone. LISTEN TO HER!! ]
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The coworkers turn to where Rodya is.
"What is it, Rodion? If that's weed, just pluck it and go."
Rodya is more aware and she doesn't even work here. ]
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I don't think weeds grow indoors unless your building seriously needs a restructuring...
[ She supposes... that this COULD be a weed of some kind? What if she taps it with her axe a little? ]
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I need you to roll a d20, Lowe. If you get 15 or higher, Rodya can dodge in time. If not, her legs are getting chomped by a monstrous Venus fly trap abnormality from the floor that is powerful enough to break the metal and concrete. ]
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"A weed", my ass -- !
[ SHE KNEW THOSE FUCKERS WERE DUMB. Well she's going to smash at these jaws bc ofc?? She needs those legs sir!! ]
Hey!
[ HELLOOO NUGGETS ]
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The coworkers who claimed it was a weed start screaming once the Meat Lantern Abnormality takes a bite. Some of them are panicking clerks. Useless. Rodya does her best to smash the plant jaws. It seems to be getting loose, so maybe if Rodya uses all her strength to push herself out, she might make it!! Roll 10 or higher, otherwise she's still stuck. ]
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Anyway sadly she takes a rare L and rolls a 3, but Stagger+ doesn't mean she's done for. ]
Hey, stop panicking and get me out!
[ STOP WITH YOUR -45 NOBODY'S EVEN DEAD YET. She's going to keep smashing this set of jaws while continuing to try to pull herself out while thinking -- jeez, LobCorp really was a mess. ]
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The employees continue to panic. They're useless. Poor Rodya. Though one clerk seems to be... brave? For some reason? And charges at the Meat Lantern in trying to get it to let go of Rodya. They try their best and Meat Lanter does let go of her. It's just that it chomps again to devour the clerk whole.
But it's fine, since clerks are expendable. ]