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Episode 3: Larry-R’s Lament

Turn 110: Together Again… Mostly

Isaac-O immediately blurts, “Affirmative!” to Friend Computer, rotates in place and marches stiff-armed toward the adjacent room. On his way by, he gives Quentin-R a smarmy look.

Phil-R says, “Phil-R finishes his inspection and hands the equipment back to their respective owners then promptly moves to join the team leader beside the cubical FC mentioned.” He hands the barreless pistol to Quentin-R, one of the RED barrels to Roy-R, and the other RED barrel to Isaac-O as he catches up to him on the way to join Dean-O in the other room.

Quentin-R shuffles after them, pulling out his PDC and typing as he goes.

Roy-R staunches the flow of blood from his injured arm with his other hand and tells Isaac-O, “You might want to tetht the calibration on that thing, thir.” He doesn’t move from the spot, though. Friend Computer stares at him.

As they approach, they can hear Dean-O say, “Aren’t they just so adorable? Say, have you noticed anything else strange or unusual around here?”

Eula-R says, “Yes, they are adorable, aren’t they? Well, young clone, the only thing unusual I know of would be what happened to poor Larry-R. I was on my mandatory break, sitting here knitting, when I heard a short scream coming from the supply closet over there. When I went to see what it was, there was poor Larry-R, sprawled face-first on the floor, with a hole straight through his head. Poor clone, don’t know who would have wanted to increment him, he never bothered anyone. He’s such a nice young clone. He’s a little high-strung now, though. Getting incremented the first time will do that sometimes. Why I remember when I incremented. I was jumpier than one of my catbots… Hey! Stop that! Get out of my knitting, ya little bootsmoke! Take that!”

Quentin-R, who upon arriving at the cubicle had promptly tried to go under the desk to investigate the basket of yarn with a murmered, “Oooh, wool-Lyke,” suddenly finds himself on the receiving end of several whacks on the head with a ruler as Eula-R moves to protect her cherished yarn.

Meanwhile, Friend Computer has something further to say to Roy-R back in the other room.

“Citizen Roy-R-HBL, you are fined 100 credits for not immediately complying with my orders. Please proceed to cubicle 2961-B immediately, or I will be forced to place you on Probation as well as fine you a further 100 credits.”

We shall return to the PBEM Network’s presentation of The Bot Murders after these messages…

Perversity Points Totals:
Grov-R-LER (Dean-O-KTI-1): 65 PP
Elm-R-FUD (Roy-R-HBL-3): 35 PP
Max (Quentin-R-PAD-3): 55 PP
Phial (Isaac-O-MEL-2): 32 PP
Wys-I-wyg (Phil-R-XYZ-1): 59 PP
Open Slot (Aken-R-BSH-2): 58 PP

Have your turns to me before 1200 GMT (That’s 0800 EDT) Friday.