Applied Inventiontronics, Period 4 - Week 5

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Today, Inventiontronics was in the Danger Shop. Said Danger Shop looked a lot like a rural 1950's American town. Nice, normal little town, except for that creepy floating dude, and the fact that all the people were robots in various states of disrepair.

The zipperheaded man responsible was standing under the welcome sign, notes in hand, waiting for everyone to gather around.

"Hello, class!" Gosh, he was cheery. "Today, you're going to be repairing the good folks of Milltown. They're all ready and able to tell you how to fix them. Think of it as a walk-through. Ask them whatever questions you need to, they don't bite no matter how angry they look in the icons and are waiting with tools over there."

Glitch pointed over to the main street where six robots, counting the weird floating one, were scattered on steps and porches. Each one had a toolbox sitting near them.

"You can work together, if you like, or work alone. It's up to you. They'll let me know how you did when everyone is finished. Now go on," he started to herd them towards the robot people, "start working!"

[ooc: Wait for the OCD of roboty doom is up!]

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Re: Fix some Robots! - Father Vue (2/4)

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"So what seems to the problem?" Andrew asked the robot man, lightly tapping a wrench against his palm.

Re: Fix some Robots! - Father Vue (2/4)

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The robot man looked at Andrew blankly, then waved his half-arm at him. "What does it look like, kid?"

He might be a bit grumpy, like a robotic version of some strange otherworldly dwarf with a few anger issues.

Re: Fix some Robots! - Father Vue (2/4)

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"Ah," Andrew grimaced.

"Do you, um, have the missing part of your arm there?" This could totally be beyond his skill level. He wondered if it was rude to run away from a robot.

Re: Fix some Robots! - Father Vue (2/4)

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He kicked open the toolbox. Inside was the other part of his arm and all the parts needed to attach it.

"Could ya get on with it then?"

Professor Ambrose would probably not blame Andrew for running away.

Re: Fix some Robots! - Father Vue (2/4)

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Andrew bent down and started poking through the parts. He could at least give it a try.

"So what happened to it? Some kind of accident?"

Re: Fix some Robots! - Father Vue (2/4)

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"Parts fall off. Happens. Ain't like I was doin' somethin' wrong with it."

The defensiveness was part of his programming. Really.

At any rate, re-attaching the arm seemed simple enough. Exposed metal skeleton sticking out of his arm looked to fit easily with the rest of the arm in the toolbox. All it needed after snapping into place was a few bolts.