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...]

[smokeandcarbs]

Prompto.

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

[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?

[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]

NO I'M NOT ALRIGHT!

I'M A ROBOT!

[cameracoded]

...

J-Jean? A-are you..?

We were....?

-=oh hell=-

[summerorange]

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

And where are you?

[smokeandcarbs]

Yes.

[Oh hell indeed.]

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

[cameracoded]

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

[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.

[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]

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

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

[cameracoded]

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

[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=-

[cameracoded]

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

[smokeandcarbs]

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

[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?

[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.]

[cameracoded]

I-It, uh... still feels like there is.

[cameracoded]

I u-uhm...

There's the red door with all the clocks inside?

[smokeandcarbs]

Not to me, at least.

[It's tricky to talk about those things on the cursed network, with everybody is listening. Jean should have spent more time learning psychic skills.]

...A lot of people were weird after the gargoyle Jaunt, but most of them are all right now. Have you tried returning to your usual self?

[cameracoded]

-=prompto always like Eliot with disheveled hair anyway. it would make him smile if he wasn't so scared right now. he so very much hates feeling scared=-

-=vern barks when he sees Eliot, tail wagging excitedly. Prompto turns when he hears Eliot's voice, and it's a very disorienting thing to realize your suddenly taller than your supertall boyfriend. he reaches out, but then hesitates because he has four arms and- and- wan- what if he hurts him? what if- what if- what if...=-

[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]

-=hearing jean's voice, his jean's voice, does actually help. right now the whole situation just feels wrong, but the more he calms down the more he's going to realize how absolutely cruel that was to do to someone=-

B-b-but I'm some kinda freaky dreamland magitek robot! Do I even have a body to go back to anymore?