[Amaterasu catches up with the nearest Cambot...apparently she's been seeking out a camera this time. As soon as she's certain Cambot's watching her, she pulls out a painting she's done, looking worried:]



[She hasn't seen Shepard around anywhere...does someone know where she is?]

[Hmmm, we haven't seen Mike's spectre yet...but unfortunately, it's decided to show up now.]

[Mike stumbles into the view of Cambot, flailing about wildly. His spectre has now latched onto him as if it were riding piggyback, screeching right into his ear. Mike seems to be covered in splotches of green goo. All of Mike's attempts to shake it off are failing, and he looks at the Cambot with desperation.]

Uhhh...anyone...a little heeeelp!

[Kotetsu stares down his double on Deck 2.]

Hey, if I gotta do this thing, you're coming with me.

[It speaks.]

Why? 'cos you're me, right? So you're stuck doing it to.

[Well, it could be a chance to cause some trouble. The double shrugs and speaks again.]

What are we reading? Um... Something called Twilight, I th-... oi!

[The double's eyes go wide, then it turns and runs as fast as it can... misjudging where it is and tumbles face-first down the passage to Deck 3. A puff of black smoke comes back up. Kotetsu winces.]

...oops.

[And someone taking notice might notice a confused, blue-haired girl looking around, the Cambot following her right behind.]

This isn't home... and I know I wasn't in Little Washu's lab when I passed out. Where is this place?

[she finally turns around, big pink eyes blinking as she notices Cambot for the first time. She leans forward, curious, as she pokes the lens of the little robot.]

Oh, wow... this is so cool! Is there anyone else here? Can you help me? I think I'm lost!

[Cambot is perusing the halls of deck 2 before stopping at an unusual sound, and panning down to reveal...Ammy, whining and turning around in circles. She's got something tied onto her head. When she sits still long enough, one can see that it's a single fake antler, tied with black thread.]

[Ammy doesn't need to draw something to show that she's confused about this unknown thing now attached to her. She looks back up at Cambot as if it can answer her question for her. What is this thing on her head, and where did it come from?!]

[Hey there, Cambot! Well, it looks like this deck of the living quarters is nice and quiet and--wait, what's this?

Time to open the door t--DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN WHAT IN TWIGGY'S MOD SKIRT IS MINAKO WEARING. And her hair. It's a giant afro. A GIANT. AFRO. IN THE SAME COLORS AS HER CLOTHING. And she's got a peppermint stick in her overly-frowny mouth and is talking on a green phone in Italian gibberish, with papers and drawings and figure dummies scattered about her bed (did we mention this is her bedroom? Because it is).

The fact that Cambot is frozen in place indicates that yes, she was not expecting this. At all.]

Cambot! Theeere you are!

Where's my eggnog-spiked Modigliani!!

[OH GOD SHE'S CHANNELING MIRANDA PRIESTLY AND CRUELLA DE VIL AT THE SAME TIME. SOMEONE HEEEEEELP.


Or participate in whatever Minako's doing. Whichever. Cambot is still scarred for life regardless. That haaaaair. Oh goooooood.]

[Iron Liz, office chair, bookshelf...yup, still hasn't taken off the armor.

Cambot cues the music as she speaks enthusiastically.]

Hail and well met, Satellite denizens! Iron Liz here with some great news!

I'm pretty sure everyone who's been here a while remembers that disastrous Dungeons and Dragons campaign with Tom Servo quite 'fondly'. Well, I feel pretty bad that everybody who was interested had a bad first taste of D&D, so today I'm finally here to make it up to you with this!

[She holds up a thick binder completely packed with paper, half of it starting to fall out. There are cluttered notes scribbled pretty much everywhere.]

"Dungeons and Dragons: Liz and Mina Edition!"

That's right, Minako and I went through a copy of fourth edition that we found in the media library and completely revised it from the ground up. We put all the classes from previous editions back in, and even created a few of our own! [She flips through the notes on character creation. You might notice the words "Sailor Senshi" written at the top of one of the pages, among other things.] The mechanics have been tightened, and best of all, this time I will be taking the throne as your dungeonmaster.

We've been working on this for months, and now that it's finally ready, we may as well take advantage of the setting to playtest it! So if you guys want to give D&D a second chance, or if you newcomers want to try it for the first time, come down to the cafeteria tonight and join us!

[Maes is wandering down one of the decks and examining some of the Renaissance stuff. He pauses when he notices a crate with some jester costumes and several colorful balls sitting next to the crate. Clearly these balls were meant for juggling.]

Hmm....I wonder if I can still...

[Maes picks up three of the balls and Cambot swoops back so he can get a clear shot of what Maes is about to do. Maes starts to toss the balls in the air and soon they are going round and round as he juggles them]

Hah! I knew I still had it. [He grins] I forgot how fun this was.