New Species Event - Mass Interaction Log

[lucetimods]

Who: Anyone!
What: All in here
When: Today, Tomorrow, Until April 2nd
Where: Anywhere in Luceti!
Summary: People in Luceti wake up as something they weren't before. An elf, a gremlin, a vulcan, or perhaps a mermaid? Try living in someone else's shoes... if they can even wear those.
Rating: Not recommended for those with weak constitutions, raging hormones, shipping goggles, or people just too cool and attractive for this kind of thing.

No need for LJ Cut! Mass action style stuff all around town. You can use this if you don't want to make a post. Or you can make a post anyway. Have at!

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[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

A girl can just tell, Albert Silverberg.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[...That is probably the most Buffy-like thing he's heard since this conversation began.]

So what do you intend to do? Keep searching?

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

Until I find him, yes.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

But what if you don't find him? Like I said, it's likely he's back in your world.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

[ she's looking very...agitated. ]

I have to find him. We can't be apart.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

Can't? That doesn't sound healthy. [...Maybe he shouldn't aggravate this strange Buffy.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

But it's true. We love each other.

[ she's like a terribly broken record. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

...I thought you had feelings for someone else? [This is all very strange for someone who had romantic feelings for Buffy forced upon him not too long ago.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

[ her expression shifts in a very mechanical, unnatural way. ]

I could never have feelings for anyone else.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[Let's try some of that previous logic now...]

Of course you could. You're Buffy. Buffy has feelings for a lot of people.

[Um. Maybe.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

I do. I love my friends and I love my sister. But those are different feelings.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

Really. [He sounds skeptical.] Then what would you call what happened during Valentine's Day?

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

[ the robot's face goes blank. three. two. one. she's trying to bring up this memory and process it. ]

An...an -- an experiment.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

This is also an experiment, Buffy.

[He hopes he's not just going in circles here.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

...Is that why you're so much shorter?

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[...Must not facepalm.]

Yes, Buffy, that is why I am shorter. And that is why you are thinking the way you are.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

...Which way am I thinking?

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

Like you're not human, Buffy. [He'll allow himself to look a little troubled by this.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

I'm human! I'm breathing!

[ she tries extra hard to do so. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[Okay. So Albert is going to be an extremely forward little ageless elf boy and put his palm against Buffy's stomach as she does this. :|]

You're breathing?

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

[ buffybot seems unperturbed. albert is looking for proof. she understands that. but somewhere deep down? buffy's genuine, human personality (beneath all that programming) is a little perplexed and speechless and anxious.

the trickle-up effect is that the buffybot actually manages to not be breathing at all -- not for real and not pretending. no rise or fall. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[No breath. Not even a twitch in reaction. That's... Well, yes. He should have expected that. But it makes it no less strange to receive confirmation that this is in fact a very ... fake Buffy.]

You're Buffy, but at the same time, you're not. At least for the duration of this experiment.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

I have to be Buffy while Buffy's not here.

[ another awkward slice of her programming. she was briefly used to trick the local demon crowd into thinking a slayer was still in sunnydale when the real buffy was dead. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[...Well, that's new to him.]

Why is Buffy not 'here'?

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

[ the buffybot has been slipping in her stealthy be-buffy-summers routine but only to those who buffy herself trusts immensely. ]

She's dead. They need me because she's dead. [ ... ] I wasn't made for this.