CLARAv4 open mingle

[candlebot]

characters: Clara and you!
location: Bonfire Square
date/time: June 1-7
content: Meet your new robot best friend
warnings: n/a

Hello!!

[There is a small robot, about three and a half feet in height, meandering cheerfully in Bonfire Square. If you don't say hi back to her, she's likely to amble over and start scanning your lantern (which basically just looks like her standing there staring at it while her eyes glow) or will ask your name. She is very persistent.

If your character has died in Beacon before, she will absolutely just greet you by name as if you're already best friends. Because you are! Right?

Feel free to also make your own top-levels if you wish to discuss amongst yourselves. For the purposes of this log, replying under the CLARA header will tell me you're interested in interacting with her, but posting a separate toplevel will not involve the robot.]

Comments

[mellowyellow]

She has staplers for feet. SHE HAS STAPLERS FOR FEET.

Masaomi almost can't handle seeing their shiny new AI for the first time. But although she's nothing like what he'd pictured in his mind (something distinctly more feminine!), she's absolutely adorable in her own way. Not unlike a grade school science project.

He can't exactly sneak up and surprise her when she's in the middle of the bonfire square, so he just runs right up to her, bends a knee, and presents to her an old wire that he's bent into a flower.

"I'm so sorry I couldn't be your first!" he laments loudly, so every poor schmuck in the square can here. "But I promise to be your last! Be mine, Clara!"

[candlebot]

She does indeed have staplers for feet and looks very homemade. Less the work of a professional engineer, and more the work of someone with limited materials - or a lot of whimsy and boredom.

Clara can't exactly smile any more than she already is but she does a little hop of delight before reaching to take the flower, which matches her own construction aesthetic nicely. Before really examining it though, she pauses and surveys Masaomi and his lantern before her eyes light up green. "Masaomi! Thank you! I do not know what you mean about being first or last though!"

She then takes a moment to inspect the flower itself before trying to find somewhere to attach it, but she looks somewhat at a loss as to how or where to do that.

[mellowyellow]

"Hey, hey. I'm trying to apologize without apologizing here," he chuckles sheepishly. "Don't question it."

He stands, eyeing Clara's bewildered search for nearly a minute before finally stepping in to help. He bends the flower stem around the wires of her arm, then situates the flower so that it rests atop one of her shoulder pads.

"There." He taps the flower gently, smiles at its new owner. "Sorry for not being able to find you myself."

[candlebot]

For a moment, Clara pauses and stares at the flower in its new location while her eyes cycle through a few colors slowly, one by one. Is she admiring it, or simply documenting this new addition to her components?

Whichever it is, she then quickly smiles back at Masaomi and waves her newly-decorated arm a little with apparent joy. "Thank you! This is perfect! Do not worry about not coming to find me because now we can spend lots of time together here! That is the best part. I am so happy to be here!"