video;

[worstretconever]

[The feed shows two small boys - around eight years old - running amok in one of the workshops at City Solutions. However, these aren't your normal children; the havoc they're causing is rather more scientific than what an average Earth boy might be able to do.

Koschei is tinkering with something that looks rather robotic when he glances up at Theta.]

Have you got your bit working yet, Theta? It's hard to do things properly with these primitive tools.

[Yes, someone was just as much of a snob in his younger years as he is several centuries later. At least he's not evil, though?]


[ooc: replies may come from either Koschei or Theta (timelordy). Or both!]

Comments

[worstretconever]

[Koschei just shrugs.] We do this sort of thing all the time back home.

[...it doesn't always work out there, either, but he's not going to mention that.]

[missrosetyler]

Yeah but this is the City. Sometimes things don't work like they do back home.

Are you gonna fix that robotic thing or upgrade it?

[worstretconever]

[Nope. Totally unconcerned by the prospect of things not working.]

We're building a new robot! I don't know what sort of robot it is yet, though.

[missrosetyler]

Interesting. What about making it a service sort of robot? It can bring you tea and scones.

[worstretconever]

I think we're going to make another friendly robot, like the one over there. [He points the camera at Dummy, a large robot arm, for a moment.] Theta won't let me put any lasers in it, though.

[missrosetyler]

Theta's right. Lasers just won't do.

[Rose looks at the other robot impressed.]

How long did it take you to make that one?

[worstretconever]

Oh, that's not ours, it was already here. We have to make a robot small enough to take with us, too, because we can't leave advanced technology behind for cultures that haven't discovered it yet. It's one of the rules of time travel, you can't interfere with the development of other societies.

[missrosetyler]

And you think you can really take it with you? What are you gonna name it?

Good rule to have. Doesn't always pan out but it's a good rule.

[worstretconever]

I don't know yet. We'll have to think of a good name for it. What would you call a robot cat?

[missrosetyler]

I would call them...Mitzi.

[worstretconever]

Mitzi? That sounds strange. Is that a human name?

[missrosetyler]

It's alienish.

[worstretconever]

How is something alienish?

[missrosetyler]

Well if it sounds a bit odd. Then alienish.