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[So Sanji went home over a week ago. Honestly, Seventh Heaven’s been struggling to stay open since and he been conspicuously closed in the mornings where it hadn’t been before since then that time. You see, while there is a part time chef (Spock) and four members of the serving staff left, there is only one full time chef and at least one of the serving staff members isn’t coming in.

Oh, and there’s also a robot. Specifically mecha Sanji. It’s been picking up the cooking slack some, but for all of its frankly impressive robotics, it still can’t really think for itself or do much more than copy stuff it’s already seen prepared. ...Well and shoot lasers, but you know, robot. That is, until Pascal came in sometime yesterday and gave him some programming to "help" out at the place.

Or rather, to get more help. Which is way, sometime in the the afternoon today the robot steals Rin’s journal when the boy isn’t paying attention to make the following voice entry-]

[Voice / Action]
[This post begins with a hideous mechanical thing coming onto the picture, and beginning in a mechanical voice-]

My name is Sanji. We need more shitty workers at Seventh Heaven. Would you like to-

[And then there’s a sound of surprise as Rin comes into the room and exclaims-]

What the hell’re you-! [WAIT ISN’T THAT HIS JOURNAL HAS THE ROBOT GONE ROGUE? Pascal warned him about this!!]

Hello Rin. I am recruiting more shitty workers.

Who programmed you to-- no, dumb question. Just stop it already!

But we need more-

Hydrozz-- aalo nii-san! No, Hydra- Oh come on! [And at this point Rin gives up and goes to tackle the robot, because he turned his face back to the journal to continue his speil. And he seems to struggle with the robot for a bit, including an explosion before a shout of of-] Tell me you damn shut down phrase already!

Hydroxylammonium nitrate-- [And then a buzzing sound before, upon hearing the word, the robot shuts down. Rin sighs in relief and goes to pick up the book himself-]

S...sorry ‘bout that, everyone. [A beat] ...But the thing kinda has a point. We’re short handed, and while we don’t have a new boss or nothing, or even a head chef, if anyone’s willing to help us out however you think you can, could you stop by Seventh Heaven? I’m Rin, by the way, so I guess me and whoever else is here’ll be talkin’ to you.

[Because he wouldn’t want to pull a fast one on Miyabi or the others or anything. He’s really got no authority to do this in the first place...

And for the action portion, true to his word, Rin will be at Seventh Heaven all day. For once, he isn’t in the back cooking, so you might not be able to get a meal, but that’s because he’s manning the fort for anyone who might willing to help out here. This post was made in response to this OOC post]

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You're telling me... If it wasn't helpful most of the time it might be more worth it to just junk the thing, even if robots are supposed to be cool.

Even if you decided to dismantle it in the end, I doubt Pascal would allow that.

Of course she wouldn't.

...Is there a way for you to keep it away from potential applicants? Before it... demotivates them.

Well I'm keeping in locked in the back for now.

And you are certain it does not include a door-unlocking function?

[Cecil wouldn't put that past Pascal.]

It's shut down right now, and it cooks as its main thing. It's not gonna just stop cooking to harass people.

That's good to hear. Can it cook anything, or do you have to teach it every new recipe?

You gotta teach it. Robots don't really think that much for themselves, y'know. Unless they're the type that combine or something.

...My knowledge of robots is mostly limited to the type that dwell in distant towers or caves and kill any trepassers, to be honest.

Well that sucks. There's way cooler robots than that, I bet.

A rude cooking robot is already a great step up. Perhaps the next one will be an interesting New Feather with suspiciously metallic wings.

You think it's likely we're actually gonna see something like that?

Considering the number of species already represented in the village, it'd not be too surprising. Surely the Malnosso seek variety among their experimental subjects.

Oh... oh, you mean that way. I thought you meant someone was gonna build it or something. Yeah, if you put it like that, that does seem kinda possible...

...If there was a way to build New Feathers, I've no doubt someone would try it sooner or later. But I do think a normal arrival is more likely.

[A pause]

Why would someone want to try it?

To see if it's possible. To prove that it's possible. To do something even the Malnosso might not have yet tried.

I guess you got a point but man, that sounds really lame...

Or dangerous, depending on the person trying to prove all of that.

Dangerous...? Oh! Oh, like some messed up guy is harassing people with the robot they built to lure people into thinking it's a new feather!

Harassing, spying on, robbing... One could do much with a loyal New Feather not publicly associated with them.

Why would anyone want to rob here? I mean, everything's free.

[... What about the resources he learned about with Vaskoth though. Eh]

We do have our belongings from home. And for certain people, the power gained from theft is more important than what is stolen in the first place.

That's some pretty messed up people if they're like that. But at least there's no good place for 'em to hide, here.

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