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[mashyspikes]

[The video feed is now showing... was is that? A little talking metal ball thing? Well, in any case, it sure seems excited about something.]

I just... I'm still at a loss for words! Really, I am! I mean, there I was, just floating along in space like I had been doing for the past.... well, I've lost track of the time, really, but I suppose

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[AUDIO]

[kendonobara]

Are you done?

[AUDIO]

[mashyspikes]

Er, sorry? No, no I don't think I am. I mean, I've only just started this paperwork.

Rather, not even started it just yet. No... hands, you know. Small issue, really.

[AUDIO]

[kendonobara]

[SIGHS]

Need help, then?

[AUDIO]

[mashyspikes]

[MOSTLY OBLIVIOUS TO YOUR ANNOYANCE]

Help? Er, yes, help would be good! Very good. Was just about to ask for a bit of help, actually.

[AUDIO]

[kendonobara]

[We need to work on one word or less answers.]

Where are you?

[AUDIO]

[mashyspikes]

[With Wheatley? Good luck with that.]

Stuck in line here in this... 'New Arrivals' area, they call it. At least, I think I'm in line. I'm more or less generally higher above everyone, and they seem to not notice me hovering above their heads. It's really starting to get a bit annoying, what with everyone jumping ahead of me.

[AUDIO] --> [ACTION]

[kendonobara]

[Oh damn. Line skippers. And...floating?]

I'll be there. I have red hair and a black trench coat.

[No more than ten minutes later, Aya arrives, looking around. He even glances up, but doesn't see anyone above him. He's thinking about sending a text...]

[ACTION]

[mashyspikes]

[If Aya looks carefully, he might see a little excitable robot connected to what appears to be a ceiling rail.]

Red hair, black trench coat... Hello! Over here! You're the one I spoke to, right? If not, then well... awkward, sorry, and feel free to move along.

[ACTION]

[kendonobara]

[Quirks an eyebrow, trying to figure out the source of that voice. He finally finds...it?

...are you kidding me?]

...now it makes sense. [They let anyone aboard these ships, don't they?]

[ACTION]

[mashyspikes]

[Yep, say hello to a personality core who is more than happy to meet a few new faces.]

Does it? What does?

[ACTION]

[kendonobara]

Not having arms. [He's having a conversation with...a camera? He doesn't even know!] What are you anyway?

[ACTION]

[mashyspikes]

Oh, yes, the arms part. Proving to be just a bit difficult right now, not having them. But, well, what can you do? Other than hang about on the ceiling pointlessly.

I'm Wheatley! A core. Personality core.

[ACTION]

[kendonobara]

Personality core...

[That much is true.]

Aya. [Looks to the line.] Where were you standing?

[ACTION]

[mashyspikes]

Er. [His lens flickers forward, looking at the line from above.] Well, I've actually lost track. No one seems to really pay any attention to me up here- [how that's possible is pretty questionable, considering how talkative he is] -or they're just being rude, honestly.

Not that it matters. Even if I do make it to the front, they babble on about paperwork, I tell them I have no hands, they tell me that I need to fill out a certain form for having no hands, and they send me back to the end of the line! It's one of those... what do you call them? Infinite loops of... something.

[ACTION]

[kendonobara]

[Nods, seeing the problem. This would only mean double to triple the paperwork, because he's filling them out for Wheately, and filling out forms to represent him, and the forms for having no arms, and any other form they throw at them. Probably forms to forfeit having a room, as well.]

[He's gonna be here a while. With a talkative personality core.]

[Goes to stand in line, daring anyone to skip him. Yes, he has his katana. Yes, he'll use it if necessary. There had better not be forms for that, too.]

[ACTION]

[mashyspikes]

Oh, what's that you're doing? [Wheatley isn't quite getting the idea here.] Are you a new arrival, too? Sorry, but you're going to have to, you know... stand at the end of the line. Over there.