fandomhigh | SCIENCE! Club, Monday After Classes

Today, the Danger Shop was set up very much the same way it had been last week, with a ~~moddable~~ laboratory open for the use of all. And this time, there was a little something extra. Mechanical parts in all shapes and sizes, odds and ends and bits and pieces of every description.

And the leaders of the club, of course, ready to lead the group in their activity for the day.

"So, you probably all know about the weirdness that the island gave us last weekend," Evan said, bright-eyed and excited to once again be speaking to the group at large. "With the talking animals and all. And over the course of the weekend I bet a lot of you were telling yourself how you wished they'd be different, right? And now that they're gone, we kind of have that opportunity. I mean, to put together companions the way we want them to be!"

Because that didn't sound foreboding in the least.

"Which," Topher interjected, "is the best kind of pet. Not annoying jackals with names that are impossible to pronounce." He set a bright, shiny, silver robotic puppy down on the desk in front of him. "Broca II here is much more likable."

Especially if you liked yipping in the middle of the night.

"So today we thought we'd let you guys make your own robot pets. And not just puppies, there's also pieces that'll work if you want to make an alligator or a dragon monster or something. Whatever you want. You can come up and use Broca as a model if you want -- he's kind of the best."

Thanks, Topher.

"Just be careful," Liara said, looking cautious, to say the least. "It is not in anyone's interest to build an artificial intelligence. Please keep it to rudimentary programmed responses."

Sorry, some of you. But one did have to be careful.

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ROBOT PETS. POSSIBLE ROBOT ALLIGATORS.

Lex worked on a robot fox, because he'd gotten along with his daemon, thank you.

What'd you make? It it shiiiiiny?

For if you don't feel like doing the whole pet thing and want some science time all to yourself.

So if an android built by a sentient robot made a robot pet of his own, was that the progress of technology, or was it a weird recursive loop?

Victor wasn't certain, but he wasn't in a mood to play with robotics either way. The thing he was building was a large mechanical ant -- he'd woken up thinking about Dr. Pym -- that did nothing more than walking forward and back, and was far more toy than pet.

Cuz they're ossum.

Topher really didn't need another robot pet, so he was working on the one he already had. Broca apparently didn't like being approached with tools, though, so Topher was considerate and shut him off first.

In any event, people were welcome to come admire his wonderful model!

Evan didn't really need another pet at all, but that wasn't going to stop him from puttering about with the spare parts to see if he could put together maybe a little robot frog or something.

Something that wouldn't be a crazy handful, yeah.

Liara was there, keeping a close eye on the... everything.

Well, as close as she could with her nose in a book.

Who is also ossum.

GLaDOS was just going to be over here, watching warily through the camera (which was incapable of facial expressions and therefore, conveniently, incapable of broadcasting said wariness) and really, really hoping nobody decided to build a robot bird.

THEY WERE EVIL, OKAY?

Mmmm morning.

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