HELP!

[cameracoded]

No! NO!
I’m not…
This isn’t real, th-this isn’t real!
I CAN’T BREATHE!!
I-I don’t even think I have lungs!
This isn’t… w-what’s going on…?


-=someone just woke up as a robot and is not having a good time=-

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[summerorange]

Where are you? Are you alright?!

[And here, she thought the worst dangers had passed, now that they're back in Liminal Space...]

[cameracoded]

NO I'M NOT ALRIGHT!

I'M A ROBOT!

[summerorange]

A robot?! Are you not normally a robot, then?

And where are you?

[cameracoded]

NO! I-I'm a perfectly normal human being, I swear!

And.. Liminal Space? I think? Everything is all coffins creepy eyeballs!

[summerorange]

I believe you. Just...

[she's racking her brain for some quick ideas....]

Do you see any familiar doors near you? Like the one for the Workshop, or the entrance to a large garage?

[smokeandcarbs]

Prompto.

[The voice manages to be both flat and soothing, even if its owner is not calm at all.]

[cameracoded]

...

J-Jean? A-are you..?

We were....?

-=oh hell=-

[smokeandcarbs]

Yes.

[Oh hell indeed.]

I know it's hard, but please, try to calm down. Help is on the way.

[cameracoded]

I'm trying!
I'm sorry!
N-nothing feels right..

[smokeandcarbs]

I know. [His voice now is both gentle and wistful.] There's no need to apologize.

[otomechapilot]

You came back with a new form and can learn to change back.

A robot, I think. You were the Oracle of Machines, right?

Let me know when you're back and I'll give you some cake?

[cameracoded]

But what if I don't turn back!?
What if I'm stuck like this forever???

[unapologeticallyaffected]

[Eliot hasn't exactly had the best time coming back to himself, but Prompto's panicked voice cuts through any residual angst he might be feeling, and he shoves that all aside to worry about later.]

Where are you? I'm coming.

[cameracoded]

Eli-Eliot! Oh gods I'm...

-=then a mental gasp like he just actually noticed what the box actually is=-

I'm in a coffin!

[unapologeticallyaffected]

[Is that what this box is? Eliot sits up and frowns, but he keeps talking to the blond as he assess the situation.]

You're not dead. I'm not dead. I came back in one, too. Sit up and show me where you are. Can you do that? I'll come get you.

[cameracoded]

It- It's hard to tell, it's all coffins and eyeballs and they're looking at me!

-=luckily a large, four-armed, anxiety ridden robot can't be hard to miss=-

[unapologeticallyaffected]

[It can't, and Eliot is already moving quickly, glancing around at boxes and looking for his lover. He doesn't yet know that he's still in Sherwin's dream body, but his brain is still enough awash with Eli's memories that he'll recognize the other right away.]

They can't hurt you. I'm coming. It shouldn't be hard to find- is that Vern?

[And then Prompto will hear Eliot's actual voice, and not just the network one.]

I'm over here, babe, hang on.

[Eliot, luckily, does not look like Eli. He's back to his older self, crooked jaw and all, though the hair is a bit unfortunate right now.]

[naturaltwohands]

[It's been an especially disorienting time for Drizzt to return to himself but the freakout brings focus back.]

Prompto! [He tries to keep a sense of calm in his words.] You are all right. You can get back to your body with some help. This is just a thing that happens sometimes.

[cameracoded]

But I don't even know where my body is!!

[naturaltwohands]

[Drizzt has to remind himself not to tell Prompto to take calming breathes.]

Gaining a new form means you are a shapeshifter now. You have to shift back into your true form.

[cameracoded]

But I'm a machine!

-=machines can transform! not shapeshift! it's totally different!=-

[overlevende]

What is going on?

Try to stick to the facts.

[Maybe talking through it will help?]

[cameracoded]

I-I'm a giant magitek robot monster and everything feels wrong!

[overlevende]

If you are a robot, you don't need to breathe, so for the moment you can stop worrying about that.

Have you tried turning it off and on again.

And it sounds like you kept a form from a jaunt. Have you done that before?

[cameracoded]

I know but my brain keeps trying to breathe and its not working so it's freaking me out! I can't help it!

And no! I've only ever been me before!