Claustrophobia Times Ten Plus Meatship [open]

[slainrobots]

It doesn't take long at all for Yoshimi to become overwhelmed by the large crowd in the Obs Deck.  Frown lines etch themselves deeper and deeper into her face before she finally makes a break for it, spotting an exit across the room.  Rather hurriedly, she shoves through the groups of people, muttering apologies as she elbows and steps on people.

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[foursleeves]

After a rather perplexing scuffle with a giant snake woman Peter, dressed head-to-toe in what looks like black liquorice, also decides to slip out into the corridor.

"Hey, not so loud; walls have ears," he says as he crouches next to her in a squat that, while unflattering, appears completely natural too him, "And I'm not entirely sure that's just proverbially, either."

He pauses several moments and just when it seems like he really has nothing else to say, he adds, "Little overwhelming, huh?"

[slainrobots]

Yoshimi twitches a bit violently when Crouches McBlack Suit speaks to her. Her eyes fly open, and she looks horrified with his random appearance for a long moment before she gets a hold on herself and relaxes. She sighs again. Really, she's been doing that far too much lately.

"Yeah, well, the walls kidnapped me. I'm a bit sore about that part," she mumbles, acting quite a lot like a moody four-year-old. She's too busy trying to figure out why this guy is wearing black licorice to care, though. It takes a bit for her to decide that it's his business and stop caring. The resemblance that it holds to licorice is distracting, though; it just looks so edible...

She nods feebly when he mentions the overwhelming situation. "Hold the little. It's been a while since something got to me this badly, though. I think I'm just too weirded out to function anymore."

[foursleeves]

"Heck naw. It's the floors what abducted you. They're the real masterminds," he jokes, bristling slightly. He's seen some of the others look at him this way. One of them had pulled a gun and another had x-rayed him with their eyes. Admittedly, being the elephant in the room is his usual schtick, but he's still half expecting her to suddenly take a swing at him.

However, it at least has taught him something about dealing with new recruits with a decent amount of tact. Sort of. Maybe? Oh, who are we kidding, "I'd like to see what else you consider as freaky as a transdimensional ship made out of meat."

[slainrobots]

At that, she almost giggled. Almost. Okay, fine, she laughed.

Her short outburst of laughter caught her by surprise, and she blinks like a scared puppy for a few seconds before shaking her head slightly and blaming it internally on the bizarreness of the situation. "Well then, I'll just have to give the floors a stern talking to and tell them to put me back where I came from, except that there's no way in Hell that that would work." She hesitates, looks at him pleadingly, hopefully. "Is there?"

She gives up quickly, because of course that wouldn't work, that would just be too easy and wonderful and Ganesha, I wouldn't have to worry about Chief! I could go home and feed him and he would meow at me with his little pink splotch and it would be all fine and dandy and then I would go out and kill some AI's and it would all go back to normal and I could pretend that this never - "I haven't ever really encountered freaky like this, unless you count that one deranged Class B construction AI that just wouldn't stay dead. That was

[stingslikeali]

Down the hallway, the approach of something with turning gears and off-key singing could be heard, as a yellow robot walked through the ship.

"...it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll..."

[slainrobots]

Eyes closed, Yoshimi freezes, hearing the all-too-recognizable sounds of gears and metallic footfalls. She sits up, glaring through slit lids at the yellow thing coming towards her.

"Oh hell no," she says loudly, eyes opening the rest of the way and then some. "Oh, good Ganesha, please, God, no, no robots, no fucking robots, please!" Truthfully, she feels like crying. "One second I wake up in a weird, squishy ship full of weird, squishy people, and then I freak out, and then a robot shows up. And I don't even have a reason to kill it. Please, someone, please kill me. Preferably soon." It doesn't help the situation that she is speaking as though the robot can't hear her, as the odds are the the robot will get irritated and squash her or something with its fancy metal self. Yoshimi can't really bring herself to care, though. She's too busy being completely and totally exasperated. Also, having a borderline nervous breakdown, but that's just a fun tidbit.

[stingslikeali]

Bee notices the freak out. "...why do people keep freaking out over me?! Why?! I'm just walking here, minding my own slagging business, and you go and start going nuts. I haven't done anything!"

[slainrobots]

If Yoshimi had at that moment entertained the personal belief that robots could have their own opinions, personalities and feelings, she would have felt really, really bad. As it is, though, she was so jaded towards the whole situation that she saw robots as nothing more than things to abruptly go insane at the hands of the Rampancy virus, and from there eat people and destroy stuff.

"Why do people keep freaking out over you? Because you're a robot, and robots are big and ugly and dangerous and evil and malicious and - and - and bad," she said heartlessly, standing and glaring up into the yellow thing's face. She felt a familiar twinge of frustration for being so very, very vertically challenged but pushed it aside in favor of her overwhelming irritation. She could already feel the fit ebbing, though; it was hard to keep caring when the situation was so very hopeless at the moment.