[maomao is so valid because ordinarily she would follow without question. they're in a probably dangerous area and need to hightail it out of here. on some level she understands and agrees with this. she's normally very good at being pragmatic and logical. however, unfortunately, it is phobia time yay!!
she just kind of freezes for for a minute as she takes in the distance below, trying to stop her vision from swimming and her heart from racing. called up to maomao, more quiet than she means it:]
Wait, just give me one moment—
[she tightens her grip on jq's hand and that's when she notices the claws?? hello?? she's still thrown off by the sudden departure into her waking nightmare help but she takes a shaky step up the stairs as she looks at his robot self. does he still look the same as she did a second ago?]
[ Jiaoqiu looks at her. He looks the same. Or, she thinks he does. His screen was cracked like hers when she first saw him, right? They match like that. They both got hurt. He tilts his head and stares at her before he tugs her up, still holding on tight. 🆗❔
They just have to climb up. He's there for her. They can go up. Maybe he'd go with her if she jumped, too. She has the thought and she doesn't know why, because obviously she's terrified of the fall.
Meanwhile Maomao keeps climbing. You know what's cool for her? The stairs aren't a giant chasm on either side of herself. Spite is fueling her, and spite is making these steps feel like nothing at all. There's the door with the FIVE right up ahead. It's locked, but she took the keycard earlier. She can just go to the fifth floor.
Her head is buzzing a little. From anger, probably. Or maybe because the whispers are just so damn loud when they're being ignored. ]
[letting herself be pulled along, then trying to hurry as much as she can. her robots legs are shaking. it's fine. she will eventually reach maomao even as she panics.]
[ They make it up the stairs. There's no other incident. JQ is helping Neverah while her legs shake. He will even, helpfully, try to grab hold of her pipe with his free hand in case it falls off with all her shaking. What's interesting is that his legs also seem a bit weak. He's faltering a bit in his steps, like he can't quite walk straight. His ears twitch down.
They reach Maomao and the doorway. She's got it unlocked! So obviously it's time to enter the fifth floor.
And here they are, in the fifth floor. It appears to be...
Completely empty.
A wide, vast, empty space. The walls, floor and ceiling are white. There's fluorescent lights on the ceiling, but no door. No people. No furniture. No more visible stairs.
[once they're free from the stairs and the v o i d she's going to take a moment to run a hand over her face?? screen?? and look towards jq who is definitely normal and definitely not going to die or kill them in five seconds. concerned:]
Are you alright...? [also:] Do you know the way up from here?
[ i just need it mentioned that if she wants she can get her pipe back from JQ. He won't fight her for it. He's just holding it for now. But he's still holding her hand and he stares back at her as she runs a hand over her face screen.
🩹❔
She's injured... he brings their joined hands up to run over his own cracked screen. Then he brings it back down to answer her real question.
🚪🏃♀️👋❔ 🐈⬛🐈⬛☠️ 🙂
Anyway while this is happening, Maomao looks along the walls. There is a light switch in this room! Neat. There are three light toggles on this switch. There are no secret seams along the walls that she can find, though... ]
[ maomao is cat cat but she is giving them their space and not really paying attention to what is being said or shown to neverah. ]
There are some of those switches here. Stay close to the door, I'll try them.
[ she gives it a moment before she switches the first one closest to her to see what it'll do. then she'll continue switch each on and off to see what they do ]
I... want to get out of here without any of us having to be hurt.
[she'll let her go flip the switch, though, moving to look over the crack on his face as she takes the pipe back. what happen. where did this come from.]
[ Okay, well. The first switch turns off the lights. plunging them in darkness only lit up by their own facescreens. Nothing else happens, except that when she attempts to turn it back on, the first switch no longer works. The lights are off.
Does she still wish to flip the remaining switches?
Neverah can thus see this: 😔 🐈⬛🐈⬛ ❌🚪 🐈⬛🐈⬛💉💀 ❄️❤️🩹🩷🦊 🚪🏃♀️👋❕
The crack on his face perfectly matches her own from what she can feel. ]
[ this is the funniest possible combination of things happening, because at first JQ attempts to grab Neve's hand again, his screen flickering between 💔 and 🚪🏃♀️👋 repeatedly.
and then maomao flips the second switch. it doesn't seem like anything happens at that one; maybe the sound of a door opening in the distance. but when she flips the third switch.
there's a hiss, like a vent opening. and then. in the distance. some squeaks.
1) There are no doors currently opening in this room. They can't even see where the vent opened because it is fully dark. 2) They can try to go back to the staircase they came from for sure. The door is hard to find in the dark but they didn't go THAT far from it, right? And it was the only door here. 3) it is too dark for them to properly see the way jiaoqiu's robot body starts to rust and break, but they can see the spark from live wires coming out of his shoulders, smell the oil dripping from him and hear part of his chest piece clatter to the ground with a bang as his entire body twitches violently.
neve took her hand away but did NOT take her pipe away, so there's JQ turning around and attempting to stab maomao right in the leg with it.
[ 🐈⬛🐈⬛ is going to head towards them, not paying attention to the current vibe between them because the flesh rats are on their way. ]
There was a second door downstairs. We can also see if we can continue up...
[ jiaoqiu will absolutely be able to stab her in the leg while's she is hyper focused on getting out of there. she does have a high pain tolerance, but she does make a hissing sound. ]
[ For the record because I can't read he had to get the pipe from Neve back so it was a cool sudden swift movement instead. MAOMAO IS STILL STABBED BUT NEVERAH DID NOTHING WRONG
Anyway, he does leave the pipe in her leg, especially when neverah slams that heavy duty flashlight in his face. His screen cracks loudly, shattering, rainbow static on display as his voicebox works for the first time since they met him: ]
He doesn't need his screen to do damage, however, as he attempts to tackle the both of them and stop them from going near the exit. He is taller than Maomao but not Neverah; he's got about the same height difference they'd get if it was the real JQ. He is, however, heavier than them both, like something is weighing down the metal of this robot. Also, for some reason, his hands has sharp claws that can dig through metal unlike theirs.
now that his screen is cracked she's going to try to yeet some of the contents of his flask into the damaged parts of what would normally be his face if they weren't robots. this possibly does leave her more susceptible to tackling, but she's going to try right afterwards to follow after maomao to the stairs. nat 20 her time has come.........]
[ Neverah is in fact, the fucking coolest. While not!JQ is grappling blindly with Maomao and failing to properly stab her a second time, she throws the robot equivalent of wine at his face (get oil'd, bitch), right into the damaged screens and landing into the wiring. He sparks and spasms, letting go of Maomao and clearing the way for both of them to get back to the door.
Now, this is a bit of a waste of a nat 20, because it turns out the door no longer opens from the inside. There's no keycard slot either. They are simply stuck here. The squeaks are coming. They start to tumble down from the opening of the vent--which turned out to have been above the switches. Yeah, that probably makes sense. It means that not!JQ is standing between them and the squeaks, at least? But they will make quick snack of him.
Luckily, this is when JQ's head bursts into flames from the combination of his insides sparking and the oil. The nat 20 stands. Not!JQ does not, but the light from the flames is enough to keep the little not!rats at bay for now.
12 of them slowly tumble down from the vent, unhappy to be stopped by the fire. they make it known as they jump in place and rock on their legs, clearly hesitating and not realizing they could simply walk around the robot on fire. ]
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it pisses her off. she just uses it as fuel to keep going. ]
Neverah! Come on! [ she thinks the other will just follow unfortunately and will keep on climbing ]
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she just kind of freezes for for a minute as she takes in the distance below, trying to stop her vision from swimming and her heart from racing. called up to maomao, more quiet than she means it:]
Wait, just give me one moment—
[she tightens her grip on jq's hand and that's when she notices the claws?? hello?? she's still thrown off by the sudden departure into her waking nightmare help but she takes a shaky step up the stairs as she looks at his robot self. does he still look the same as she did a second ago?]
Jiaoqiu...?
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They just have to climb up. He's there for her. They can go up. Maybe he'd go with her if she jumped, too. She has the thought and she doesn't know why, because obviously she's terrified of the fall.
Meanwhile Maomao keeps climbing. You know what's cool for her? The stairs aren't a giant chasm on either side of herself. Spite is fueling her, and spite is making these steps feel like nothing at all. There's the door with the FIVE right up ahead. It's locked, but she took the keycard earlier. She can just go to the fifth floor.
Her head is buzzing a little. From anger, probably. Or maybe because the whispers are just so damn loud when they're being ignored. ]
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when you show more feelings as a robot than you do normally...
anyways she's at the door and uses the keycard to unlock it. she does stall there, waiting for neverah to catch up ]
Are you coming?
[ she won't go ahead without her, even with the buzzing of anger and not wives ]
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Yes, I'll be there in a moment...
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They reach Maomao and the doorway. She's got it unlocked! So obviously it's time to enter the fifth floor.
And here they are, in the fifth floor. It appears to be...
Completely empty.
A wide, vast, empty space. The walls, floor and ceiling are white. There's fluorescent lights on the ceiling, but no door. No people. No furniture. No more visible stairs.
The door closes behind them. ]
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once the door is closed behind them, maomao is going to follow the walls to see if there's any signs of a secret door ]
I didn't see anything on the way up here...
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Are you alright...? [also:] Do you know the way up from here?
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🩹❔
She's injured... he brings their joined hands up to run over his own cracked screen. Then he brings it back down to answer her real question.
🚪🏃♀️👋❔
🐈⬛🐈⬛☠️
🙂
Anyway while this is happening, Maomao looks along the walls. There is a light switch in this room! Neat. There are three light toggles on this switch. There are no secret seams along the walls that she can find, though... ]
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There are some of those switches here. Stay close to the door, I'll try them.
[ she gives it a moment before she switches the first one closest to her to see what it'll do. then she'll continue switch each on and off to see what they do ]
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I... want to get out of here without any of us having to be hurt.
[she'll let her go flip the switch, though, moving to look over the crack on his face as she takes the pipe back. what happen. where did this come from.]
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Does she still wish to flip the remaining switches?
Neverah can thus see this:
😔
🐈⬛🐈⬛
❌🚪
🐈⬛🐈⬛💉💀
❄️❤️🩹🩷🦊
🚪🏃♀️👋❕
The crack on his face perfectly matches her own from what she can feel. ]
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It would be so much easier if we had our phones...
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Why do you think that?
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and then maomao flips the second switch. it doesn't seem like anything happens at that one; maybe the sound of a door opening in the distance. but when she flips the third switch.
there's a hiss, like a vent opening. and then. in the distance. some squeaks.
JQ: 😒
🤖❤️🩹🤖
🐈⬛🐈⬛☠️🤖❤️🩹🤖 ]
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We need to go.
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We could go back and try the other staircase, or...
[try the vents, but considering the squeaks she doesn't like that option!!]
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1) There are no doors currently opening in this room. They can't even see where the vent opened because it is fully dark.
2) They can try to go back to the staircase they came from for sure. The door is hard to find in the dark but they didn't go THAT far from it, right? And it was the only door here.
3) it is too dark for them to properly see the way jiaoqiu's robot body starts to rust and break, but they can see the spark from live wires coming out of his shoulders, smell the oil dripping from him and hear part of his chest piece clatter to the ground with a bang as his entire body twitches violently.
neve took her hand away but did NOT take her pipe away, so there's JQ turning around and attempting to stab maomao right in the leg with it.
his cracked screen flashes between static and
🐈⬛🐈⬛☠️
very funny emojis
squeak]
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There was a second door downstairs. We can also see if we can continue up...
[ jiaoqiu will absolutely be able to stab her in the leg while's she is hyper focused on getting out of there. she does have a high pain tolerance, but she does make a hissing sound. ]
What's going on?
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neve is going to hurry over and just try to deck him in his face screen with the flashlight, or pull him away if that doesn't work. to maomao:]
Good idea - back to the staircase!
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Anyway, he does leave the pipe in her leg, especially when neverah slams that heavy duty flashlight in his face. His screen cracks loudly, shattering, rainbow static on display as his voicebox works for the first time since they met him: ]
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[ maybe that's why he didn't speak.
He doesn't need his screen to do damage, however, as he attempts to tackle the both of them and stop them from going near the exit. He is taller than Maomao but not Neverah; he's got about the same height difference they'd get if it was the real JQ. He is, however, heavier than them both, like something is weighing down the metal of this robot. Also, for some reason, his hands has sharp claws that can dig through metal unlike theirs.
squeak. ]
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maomao is just a small little robot who is going to try to get for the door. 6 the dice really do not like her tonight ]
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[angy!!
now that his screen is cracked she's going to try to yeet some of the contents of his flask into the damaged parts of what would normally be his face if they weren't robots. this possibly does leave her more susceptible to tackling, but she's going to try right afterwards to follow after maomao to the stairs. nat 20 her time has come.........]
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Now, this is a bit of a waste of a nat 20, because it turns out the door no longer opens from the inside. There's no keycard slot either. They are simply stuck here. The squeaks are coming. They start to tumble down from the opening of the vent--which turned out to have been above the switches. Yeah, that probably makes sense. It means that not!JQ is standing between them and the squeaks, at least? But they will make quick snack of him.
Luckily, this is when JQ's head bursts into flames from the combination of his insides sparking and the oil. The nat 20 stands. Not!JQ does not, but the light from the flames is enough to keep the little not!rats at bay for now.
12 of them slowly tumble down from the vent, unhappy to be stopped by the fire. they make it known as they jump in place and rock on their legs, clearly hesitating and not realizing they could simply walk around the robot on fire. ]
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well, they can't get out of the door ] We might have to use the vent after all.
[ can they reach? will they have to climb each other? she is pulling out medium wench in case they need to play whack a mouse]
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