[Voice] Nightmare Clockwork Zero Disassembly

[phobophage]

What's with those particularly irritating robots? I was playing with some magic dirt to cheer myself up after that horrid time in the Labyrinth, and then they come along and begin pulling my stuff apart. I told them to stop but they don't understand me. And they're taking them apart so destructively they won't learn anything useful from them. At least they seem to be paying attention when I show them better ways to take things apart so they can at least learn how they work.

Now they're hanging around me, and I don't want to babysit a bunch of clueless robots. Someone take them off my hands. Find something to keep them busy so they don't keep bugging me. I don't have the time to keep making things for them to take apart and put back together.

Comments

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

If you teach them to stop doing it, they should stop.

[phobophage]

I've already wasted enough time on them. But if no one wants to take them off my hand, I'll do that.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I-I'm already babysitting four of them in my house, so... I-I can't be much help. Sorry.

[phobophage]

They do seem to be self-instructing to a certain degree. I suppose if I teach just one of them to do something else that'll get them to leave me alone, that should do it. I wish my created Nightmares would be so good at learning.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that should do it. Good luck!

... nightmare?

[phobophage]

Right, not everyone seems to be able to create new beings. Though all of the ones I make come out female. They're kinda stupid though. Have to be told what to do and such. Pretty much mooks.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Y-yeah, I'm just a normal human, so I'd have to hire mooks instead of make them...

[phobophage]

Having mooks is a bit overrated.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Well, if you can get good mooks... ... w-well, I guess they're not mooks if they're good, huh?

[phobophage]

Indeed. I suppose at least you can use them to hold things. I've been finding that to be more of a concern with the annoying inflexibility of the Waking.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

The waking?

[phobophage]

Where you're when you're awake.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Oh, right... I guess that makes sense.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

We've already got a bunch at the fort, but I guess I could take on a few more. It's actually getting kind of fun.

[phobophage]

Oh good, I'll send them over so you can have fun with them.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

The only problem's going to be thinking of more stuff for them to do. They're worse than herding dogs. I'm almost tempted to see if they want to play fetch.



...no, I'm not going to stop playing with you just because of them... Sorry about that.

[phobophage]

I'm not the type to take care of dogs. Or Pokemon or robots.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

And I'm guessing you can't scare them, either, right?

[phobophage]

They're so boring that way.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I guess if that's your only entertainment... [Jessica can't conceive how trainable robots could possibly be boring, but some people just insist on remaining unenlightened.]

I'm not even sure what would scare a robot if it had the capacity to think. Lemonade, maybe.

[phobophage]

Oh, I'm sure they're be entertaining to figure out the workings of if they weren't so annoying.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

...unfortunately, the workings appear to make about as much sense as anything else here. They're still neat, though. And cute. [Jessica will defend the robots even from her own logic!]

[phobophage]

I still don't understand this whole 'cute' thing, but I just might investigate them more once I don't have them constantly underfoot.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Given your, uh, background? I'm not sure it's even a thing for you. It'd probably be bad for a Nightmare to think of things as cute. Makes them harder to do not-nice things to.

[phobophage]

Yes, it wouldn't be very useful for us.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

How do you guys reproduce, anyway? Assuming you do.

[phobophage]

Oh, the Queen of Dreams just makes more of us.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Out of stuff, or... like eggs or something?

[phobophage]

The Queen's our closest thing to a Creator God.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I see.

...which just further supports my theory that the Queen is completely insane, since I'm assuming that without any sort of sexual reproduction you guys would have no real romance.

[phobophage]

The only Dreams who care about things like that are the ones created to.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

And it sounds like that sort of thing is definitely not your department, right?

[phobophage]

Indeed. Terror and curiosity're my primary interests.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Curiosity's pretty cool. I'm, uh, not all about terror, but... I guess that's kind of a default for nightmare people, so I'm not going to argue.

I still feel weird talking to a dream-person. But then I feel weird talking to just about everyone here.

[phobophage]

This is a weird place.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Understatement of the milennium.

Anyway, I'll just wait here for your delivery of adorable robotic pests.

[voice]

[persical]

Robots? So that's what these creatures are called. If you're having trouble, miss, I wouldn't mind helping out.

Re: [voice]

[phobophage]

Oh, good, more people offering to take them off my hands. You can have those ones over there. Just tell me where.

Re: [voice]

[persical]

I don't have a place of residence at the moment, so perhaps it's better if I cam and found you...?

[lovelikelight.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to take them from you, if they're causing problems. I don't mind looking after them.

I'm glad you were able to teach them to behave somewhat more constructively.

[phobophage]

It's good to know I can count on people's kindness.