26 - Mecha - Video Post

[fistsofjustice]

Ah, a peaceful day near Xanadu. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the bunnies are hopping happily in the fields . . . The camera is shaking. A breath of wind, perhaps, accompanied by a low grumble of thunder in the distance?

But wait . . . no. That sound. It's almost like . . . footsteps?!

[STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP]

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Comments

[misterblackbird]

Ah! That's fantastic! How does it work? What powers it? Steam? Aether?

I want one.

Voice

[fistsofjustice]

Um . . . I really don't know! But I hope it runs out really soon!!

[CRASH!]

WAH!

[misterblackbird]

It's fantastic! The way it moves, the way it walks. It's immensely complex, but those fingers, those knees. Oh, I can just imagine that walking around Hyde Park. The things they'd say!

Voice

[fistsofjustice]

You're welcome to it if I could just get *out* of it! . . . Which I can't!

[misterblackbird]

And not being inside it, I don't even know how to begin to tell you to get out of it. There's probably a hatch or a door somewhere in it. You had to get into it somehow.

[fistsofjustice]

I woke up in it! I didn't go in!

I've been looking for a door, and I found something, but it won't open . . .

[misterblackbird]

Then you really are stuck inside. I suppose you've got to learn how to steer it, or die trying.

[fistsofjustice]

Or survive until midnight . . .

I'm tryiiiiing. I'm a magic user, though -- we don't have anything like this at home!

[misterblackbird]

Even magicians can learn to steer things like that. All right, so you can see out the front, correct? There must be pedals on the floor, or a wheel or perhaps two sticks on either side of you. There have to be controls up there, somewhere. You can't just let it run rampant. Take control of the contraption!

[fistsofjustice]

Ah, I found some pedals! But I'm not sure what they do . . . And there are some bars with handles on them I can pull out, but when I did one, the whole machine went sideways and I almost fell in a pond!

When I use both of them, it seems to help with steering, though. But they're really sensitive!

[misterblackbird]

It must just take practice, then.

[fistsofjustice]

Maybe, but it's a little hard t--

. . . I think a bird just did something on my window.

1/2

[misterblackbird]

...

[misterblackbird]

You can't exactly expect that not to happen in a machine like that, you know.

[fistsofjustice]

As long as I didn't hit the bird . . .

But it does make it harder to see.

[notrlyjesus]

You...WANT one? I'm not so sure that's a good idea.