[OPEN] Keke, that is incomprehensible! But… it’s worth the try.

[psychokinesia]

Who: Add & you!
What: A catch-all for November, feat. Add trying to harness the power of electricity via questionable life choices, trying to drown out all the nightmare-induced trauma with copious amounts of caffeine, and becoming a robot?? maybe???
Prompts will be in the toplevels, but feel free to hit me up at BlueFlewFedUQueen if you have any other ideas!
Where: Various locations (mainly Takoba Beach, the Merlaut and Heavenly Blanc)
When: Early to mid "November" (time isn't fake anymore i guess but months still are SO)
Content Warnings: None yet! unless you count like... trying to get hit by lightning?? it's fine. he's fine. I'll update this later.

Comments

[forwearemany]

Death does not currently exist here. However, the potential for severe damage still remains.

(Recovering from normally fatal levels of injury is likely to be a drawn out, unpleasant experience.)

[psychokinesia]

[These two really aren't giving him a break today, huh... he rubs the back of his neck, shifting his feet awkwardly. As if he could say no when Turing is giving him a look like that.]

Alright, alright, I get it! I'll be more careful. [even if he still seems reluctant about it... reckless experiments are the best way to get quick results! Ugh, trying to make progress is going to be so much slower if he has to deal with these two making safety evaluations. Just let him risk his personal safety in peace...!!

But it does also feel kind of nice, even if it sounds like Turing really is more worried about Dynamo than himself... ah, and it's also an interesting bit of insight into the two alien machines here. Fascinating, that they'd already show this much concern towards himself and his drones. Yeah, let's just focus on that part and not the part where he's still weirded out by people caring about him as a person.

Dynamo has refrained from commenting so far, but they do draw themselves a little closer to Add's shoulders—a comforting gesture, or perhaps a protective one, it's hard to say.]

Anyway... [ahem, moving along] I'm not going to stop looking into this, but I guess I've done enough with the self-experimentation for now. I'll continue with the non-sentient machine experiments, so if you want me to keep you updated...

[because he's still cool, right? he's being useful? please give him some validation so this isn't just one big embarrassing mess]

[begetblue]

[ Well, that was...better, even if Add was being a bit grumpy about it. They weren't very good at hiding their leftover worry, either. Their gaze flicked over to Dynamo. Surely they would have more luck with this than Turing did, right? Given that they hadn't known Add for very long, it wasn't terribly surprising that things had ended this way.

As for his offer, to Turing the answer was obvious. ]

Please do! I would like to know more about the other experiments you've been doing.

[ After all, if they knew what he was doing, it would be significantly easier to intervene in case he decided to do something dangerous or the machine experiments ended up being more on the unseemly side. Maybe it wasn't quite validation, but it at least kind of sounded like it! That had to count for something. ]

[forwearemany]

Affirmative. The data is valuable.

(They chatter.)

It is possible, if it becomes necessary to obtain charge to function, that lightning strikes may be useful for this purpose.

(It might, one day become necessary to allow themselves to be struck by lightning, so knowing it's nonlethal is important.)

We will also share new data.

(They look at Add.)

Would you prefer future data exchanges be routed through Dynamo?