Aliens! Multi-pup post.

[helpful_squid]

Sometimes the Bar's demographics skew just the tiniest bit away from the usual human-heavy distribution. Today, for instance, there is a glowing purple-pink squidlike creature drifting through the rafters, fiddling aimlessly with a number of machine parts it's found. It secreted a few of them away at Cubefall to work on later and found them looking

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[a1enzo]

"Hey, W.F.!" calls a sprite from below.

[helpful_squid]

It isn't an abbreviation the Huragok's heard before, but no one else is responding, so it turns and peers downward.

"Prrrt?"

[a1enzo]

Enzo waves. "How's it going?"

[helpful_squid]

The Huragok whistles cheerfully and makes a gesture not unlike a thumbs-up. It's been a good few weeks lately. And Enzo?

[g00d_d0ggie]

At some point, a nine-foot-tall combat droid comes lumbering through the area. A tiny black-and-white humanoid 'bot is straddling the larger droid's 'neck,' holding on to the headflaps as one might hold the reins of a horse.

Any or all of the aliens in residence may find this interesting.

[not_toothfairy]

The big black one does, certainly. "You I recognize," Ironhide rumbles, pointing to D0G, "but the little one, not so much. Seems... familiar, though. Who're you?"

[g00d_d0ggie]

The little robot lets go of one headflap in order to wave at Ironhide. ".. -'... / -- ., / ... -.- .. - -.-. ....!"

( IT'S ME, SKITCH! )

[not_toothfairy]

Ironhide does not, strictly speaking, have eyebrows. But it's amazing what a slanted optic shutter can do. "Lemme guess," he says. "Cubefall upgrade?"

What? It's his cultural holiday. Of course he's gonna think that.