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noriko ashida

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So last night D0G... noticed Vergil. Really noticed Vergil. At which point the Huragok gave him what might be the nicest present he's ever gotten from anyone, ever.

D0G's got to do something for Vergil in return. Something as wonderful as the upgrade Vergil gave him. But what? He's no good at building. But maybe he can find things for Vergil to build with.

To that end, D0G is combing through the Milliways garage, rummaging around for anything that the Huragok would consider interesting to repair and/or take apart. He's botherable, but you might want to avoid standing too close just now--there's a lot of metal flying in his wake.

[Open forever. Tinytag: Valentine's Day Plot]

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Here's Nori, down in the garage looking for a particular kind of mutlitool. She needs one that's screwdriver and Allen wrench, because the hex screws are harder to get at--they're also pretty much back-out resistant in this setup, which is why she's using them in the first place.

It might just be bad planning that she's carrying around one gauntlet--particularly complex as far as machinery goes--off her arm as she searches.

D0G hasn't noticed Nori yet. Nori, however, is liable to notice the Volkswagen Beetle that goes flying across the garage floor.

Oh, she does. She notices it and backs up against the nearest wall likely to offer a little bit of protection with a very loud OH MY GOD WHAT WAS THAT FOR.

It sort of rings in the garage environment. "The hell is going on down here?"

The shout gets D0G's attention. Mwoop? he inquires, standing up on two legs to get a better look at who's hollering at him.

"...Did you just throw a car?"

She's definitely rethinking the notion that the garage can't be any worse than the main bar room.

Mwrrrr... Ever seen a combat droid cringe? You have now. He's sorry, he didn't know there was anyone else here!

"Working out some frustration there, big guy?"

He's not as tall as a Sentinel, and has a decidedly different build, or she'd be doing some quick running away.

D0G shakes his head. D-0-G I-S L-O-O-K-I-N-G F-O-R P-A-R-T-S, he blinks out on the newly installed LED panel on his undercarriage. Do you know Morse code, Noriko?

She sort of does. It takes her up until 'for parts' to get most of it, and even then she's guessing on a couple blinked letters, but she can piece it together.

"Parts. Parts to do what with?" Is she even right on parts? Hell, she might be talking nonsense to the robot. (The fact she's talking to one at all, at least one without a person inside it, is a little outside her range to process right now.)

T-O G-I-V-E T-O V-E-R-G-I-L

Bwroooo... The noise he makes is almost a lovesick sigh.

... ...Wow, yeah, that's new.

"Vergil is...your...friend?" she tries. Robots in love. Oh good god, what will people do next?

D0G nods enthusiastically. He really likes Vergil!

"Oh. And he likes machines?"

She's holding that arm cover tight to her stomach. Making a new one would be a royal pain.

Another eager nod.

"So...were you trying to throw the car, or just...hunting for parts out of it?"

T-H-E C-A-R W-A-S I-N T-H-E W-A-Y

She blinks.

"Of what?"

O-F D-0-G, replies D0G with a shrug.

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"Okay, maybe that was obvious. So...what kind of machine are you looking for?"

D-0-G I-S L-O-O-K-I-N-G F-O-R S-O-M-E-T-H-I-N-G T-H-A-T V-E-R-G-I-L W-I-L-L L-I-K-E

This is not, Nori thinks, going to end well. But she's hardly going to say that to something that looks like it could tear her in hlf without much difficulty.

Even if it has been very nice so far.

"Uh. Well, I don't really know Vergil...but if he likes to take stuff apart, maybe I can get you like an unused comm? I don't know, does he fix stuff, or just like to play with it?"

D0G considers this a moment, before responding 'B-O-T-H.'

"Oh. Well, that makes it easy. If you want to come back up to the main bar I can get you some stuff. Me and electronics...not the best mix. I break a lot of them."

Boop weep! D0G nods eagerly and heads for the elevator at a pace just shy of a gallop.

Okay, that thing moving is kind of terrifying in a manner closely related to that of seeing the Hulk move.

"Uh. Okay. So. How many did you want?"

H-O-W M-A-N-Y C-A-N D-0-G H-A-V-E?

"How many can you have? Oh..." she rubs the back of her neck. "Probably about twenty?" Nori guesses.

"Is that okay?"

Woooooo... D0G's eye dilates as he nods. Vergil will be ecstatic.

She laughs a little nervously--robots that big still kind of freak her out--as she steps into the elevator with D0G.

"So, uh. Is Vergil another robot like you?"

D0G shakes his head.

V-E-R-G-I-L I-S O-R-G-A-N-I-C R-O-B-O-T

Nori just stares at Dog, pretty sure she mistranslated that one.

"Organic...robot?" Blink. Blink blink. "I have no idea what that means."

V-E-R-G-I-L I-S M-A-D-E O-F N-A-N-I-T-E-S, signals D0G. N-A-N-I-T-E-S P-R-O-C-E-S-S O-R-G-A-N-I-C M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L

"Oh. Uh. I have never come across that before," she says. "That's...different?"

Yeah, she's way out of her depth here, but thankfully before things can get much more awkward the elevator stops. "I'll have to meet him soon. He sounds pretty cool, and hey, any excuse to clean out my dorm. And I'm really babbling at you, I'm sorry."

The robot thing is hard for her to get over.

D0G shrugs. He doesn't mind, he's a good listener!

(Whether he understands everything he listens to is another story entirely.)

"So, uh. Just, let me duck into my dorm room, and I'll get you that stuff," she says, making her way to the door and slipping through it, coming back a few minutes later with a box of electronics including an old comm unit, a whole bunch of CD and MP3 players, and old parts for all kinds of technology.

"Does all this stuff work for you?"

Booweep! D0G does an excited little dance before taking the box.

Nori smiles a little as she hands the box over. "I hope he likes them."

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