Third--[Action]

[there_were_none]

[Mayfield Elementary Playground]

Like this, like this?

[Walking past the playground today will reveal the expected, really; two kids playing on it, clambering all over, and so on.

What’s probably not so expected is the huge scratches clawed into the paint. Closer examination will reveal only surface damage; the metal underneath is relatively

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[genkibot]

[Again Tachikoma is wheeling past the park. Its almost part of some daily routine or something. Either way, whatever it is doing, it pauses when it hears a very disturbing sound.]

Oh my, what was that?

[Tachikoma goes to investigate and finds the two girls by themselves on the playground. One of them Tachikoma knows!]

Oh, hello there, Miss Yamame! Is this one of your friends? Hello to you too!

[Tachikoma gives the other girl a friendly wave with one of its....claws.]

[there_were_none]

[...what is this creature?

It is blue and bigger than her and has no eyes and what are those--arms?

Pardon Flandre as she just stares rather openly for a moment.]

--hello!

[genkibot]

[Tachikoma tilts its body slighlty in acknowledgement and proffers one of its claw as if to shake hands.]

Nice to meet you! I'm Tachikoma, who are you?

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[Flandre keeps right on staring, less now at the fact that a giant shiny blue spider(?) was talking to her as at its hand. Claw. Pinchy-thing?]

Hello Tachikoma! [Though she does momentarily trip over the pronunciation.] I'm Flandre. You have three thumbs!

[She reaches out a bit cautiously, though this was more a "where is my hand supposed to go" caution than an "is it going to eat my arm?" one.]