What Wasn't Supposed To Be There?

Don’t worry, we’ll help as best as we can!

<Uplink Online>

<Candidate Accepted>

Name: Inky

Classification: Cute

Entity Type: Mun

<Welcome to the interface: Inky >

We express our thanks, your help should prove invaluable. Especially within the latest problem we have only just now discovered.

[Explosion Imminent]

Ignore that.

*There was a knock at the door* 🔆H~Hello~? Is anyone home..? I've come to speak with Trick~!🔆

A whisk of Trick's arm and the door opens of its own volition. She turns to look at her second guest of the evening, pleasantly surprised.

"Oh, Hope! Welcome, sorry I'm... not exactly the most organized at the moment, what can I do for you?"

As you immidiately book it, it takes a few seconds before you run directly into something and fall over.

I mean, at least you can see what's around you right now. It's some weird sorta metallic looking hallway with lights on the ceiling... Oh! And some blue looking figure that's currently sprawled out on the ground where you just ran full force into them and knocked them over.

"Ow..." The figure murmurs into the metal floor, still dizzy.

Appri-Caught (RP thread)

(@appri-dot ) I mean… okay? I guess you can try making a pose with the exoskeleton, and you do! It's quite flexible actually, well oiled, and slightly warm to the touch, which is weird because most of the stuff around here is dusty and old.

Upon further inspection, despite being a “server room”, most of the servers here are off, all of them actually, except one. Also the huge screen isn’t broken, it’s just not on either.

Also, even weirder, there’s a couple of mattresses that look like they once belonged to hospital beds before someone tucked them away in a corner of this room. There’s all sorts of stuff on the floor, like someone had been staying here for awhile, but they clearly were not here now. Also one of the server racks looks like it’s been knocked over to block where you assumed the door was, so I don’t think you’re getting out that way easily.

You’re free to interact with this place how you wish!

Appri-Caught (RP thread)

Well, I have eyes in my wings and plus my two closed eyes of course, just be careful with the wings tho. *open arms* hugs?

“Hugs.” The anon agrees, and hugs you. Trick’s almost impossibly soft, it almost made one wonder what she had knit her robes out of. On top of that she still has that slightly purple coat of fur too, so that helps.

Oh? You need help? With what? *Atum makes beeping noises*

Answer: As previously stated, we were not supposed to deal with something like this, but with your help, we may be able to give you tools to fix things. Mayhaps.

We need to fix the cores and stop the dimension stabilizer from glitching. Then, hopefully, we'll be able to manually pull Trick out of the ROOM.

I see, hopefully we'll all be able to help provide you more assistance soon

Good to know! Speaking of assistance, we may have a situation on our hands that requires your input.

[Query: Do we have hands?]

[Answer: Negative]

<Approximate emotion: Sadness>

The rumor come out: does trick uwu

"I have nowe idea what you'we tawking awbout!"

(@appri-dot ) Oh, unfortunately it looks like they've already gone elsewhere, but you do get your hand back!

Though it's possible you'd meet up with Raspberry again at some point, since they did look like they were somehow involved in you… showing up here.

Though you can't see where they've gone immidiately, you'd likely be able to follow their path if you wanted, or you could go back and investigate that weird rumbling sound, the choice is yours!

Appri-Caught (RP thread)

Do you happen to know of the Mystery Box, a box that is a literal lottery of weapons-?

"No, and everything about that sounds like a bad idea, especially when you all are the ones suggesting it."

"Nope! Not interested or curious whatsoever."

A long pause, and then, to nobody's suprise, her curiosity gets the best of her.

"Okay maybe just one try-"