First Independent Entrance

[keytyke]

Mairi has been poking around the places she's allowed to go in Mainframe, trying to find the right door. The one Mama usually uses isn't working for her, and she really wants to go see Uncle Enzo. She's a big girl, too, so that means she can use the shortcut through Milliways like he does!

Her hands glow a little as she reaches for yet another door-knob, and she bites back a whoop of victory. Found it!

She's a big girl who is supposed to be watching her little cousin, she reminds herself. "Ana!" she hisses. "Come on! I think it's this door!"



[OOC: Three muns, two pups and an NPC! All threads will take place after the one with Enzo.]

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[very_anti_virus]

Through the minutes and hours, one thing Analog has learned, is that when her cousin goes sneaking about, she'd better follow along, in case Mairi uncovers something fun to get into.

Or trouble.

But trouble and fun can be the same thing.

Wasting no time, she races over to Mairi.

It looks like they'll be sneaking into the bar today.

Which is a good thing.

"Toys!"

She shrieks and quickly starts grabbing as many legos as she can fit in her hands and starts building ... something that vaguely looks like a binome.

[keytyke]

"Lots of toys!" Mairi pulls erector bits out of the wall and starts assembling something like a double-helix bridge. Well, it starts out that way. But then there's legos in arm's reach...

[very_anti_virus]

Show-off.

The binome is coming along well, although they don't normally have three legs, and the middle section has rounded off and become the head [I guess this is a hybrid binome].

Almost finished, she wonders what she can use for arms.

Hey.

Tinker toys will do.

They just don't quite attach the way she wants them to.

[keytyke]

Mairi's has mutated from 'obvious structure' to 'how many of these things can I attach before it breaks'.

[a1enzo]

Enzo, on entering the bar, perks up excitedly when he sees the state of the place. "Alphanumeric! It's Cubefall!" he informs Minus, who is emitting a steady stream of curious beeps.

Then, as he's looking around to see what's available to mess with, he spots the two small, colourful figures amongst the equally colourful toys and his stomach lurches. So. It's begun.

"Girls?" he asks too lightly as he approaches them. "How did you get here?"

[very_anti_virus]

Analog is very helpful to Uncle Enzo.

"Door! Mairi found the door!"

[keytyke]

"I did! All by myself!"

[a1enzo]

"Hey, that's great!"

Yeah. Great. Well, no, he's happy for her, but with the Lecter business... and that's far from the only thing to go down here... Well, he knows the standard procedure for this sort of thing.

"But listen, I'm glad you're able to get here, but you shouldn't be here all by yourself, okay? Same as anywhere else. So if you come here, and you don't see any family, look for someone you know is safe, okay? I'll make you a list. And when I say family, I mean me or someone older," he adds with an amused glare. No loopholes here.

[keytyke]

Dang. And Mairi was just about to point out she was here with Ana, and thus totally not by herself. "Like Uncle Red?"

[a1enzo]

"Like Uncle Red," Enzo agrees. "Or Guppy, or anyone with a Security badge."

[very_anti_virus]

Ana frowns.

Enzo has to be the killjoy here, and cut off any future attempts at sneaking around.

Well. Maybe one of the grownups will help her find things to get into. Uncle never said anything about that.

"Okay Enzo."

[a1enzo]

"Good." He sits down next to them. "So, happy Cubefall! What're you building?"

[very_anti_virus]

Ana wastes no time in showing off her mutated creation.

As it's lifted up, its right arm falls off.

"Binome!"

[keytyke]

"I made..." An unholy abomination of building toys. "- a thing!"

[a1enzo]

Ia, ia, K'Nex fhtagn. And is that meant to be a 1 or a 0? "Nice!"

[very_anti_virus]

Alas, no one knows. Ana's at the age where building stuff is highly free-form.

Putting down the addition to a circus side show she grabs some legos and offers some.

"Uncle play too?"

[a1enzo]

"Of course!"

After a moment's though, he starts assembling a replica of his and Dani's portal, albeit somewhat more colourful than the real thing.

[keytyke]

Mairi returns to her self-appointed task of seeing how many different things she can manage to connect to each other. Rue the day she discovers Lego Mindstorms.

[fry_sandhu]

Fry is nearby, lining some lego bricks up in a straight line of blue two by fours.

[keytyke]

Mairi glances over, pauses, then pries some blue two by fours out of her creation. She walks over and sets them down near Fry.

[fry_sandhu]

"Thank you." Fry says, putting them into place.

[keytyke]

"You're welcome!" Mairi bounces slightly on her feet. "Do you want me to get more?"

[fry_sandhu]

"Yes please." Fry says. "Just blue ones."

[keytyke]

"Okay!" Mairi bounces off the ground and into the air, flittering off to look for more blue two-by-fours. Poor doomed furniture.

[fry_sandhu]

Fry keeps going in a straight line.

It's pretty therapeutic.

"Did you come in here on your own?" he asks, eventually noticing.

[keytyke]

"No, I came with Ana." She points in Ana's general direction.

[fry_sandhu]

"Ana is smaller." Fry says.

[keytyke]

"Yes. I have to protect her." Whether or not she needs it is another question entirely.