yogen | 💻 Programming & Robotics Club Mingle 🤖

💻 Programming & Robotics Club Mingle 🤖

Who: Club members & anyone else who feels like dropping by!
When: October, during club hours after class ends
What: ??? club shenanigans
Warnings: TBA... please do not murder anyone in the workshop, there's delicate equipment in here

Programming/Robotics Club is held in the workshop on the 2nd floor of the school. There's no official schedule, mainly because Add tends to just... live in the workshop, basically, so club members are welcome to show up whenever. The room is generally kept tidy, with supplies and scrap electronics stored in a locked closet while the room isn't in use. Two highly advanced computers are available for anyone to use, or you can build/bring your own computer.

Before you can enter club area, however, you first must get past the club bodyguard...

Yeah, this fucking thing is stationed by the door now. Anyone not identified as a club member may or may not get picked up and dunked in the nearest trash can. Or maybe you'll get random junk pelted at you until you leave. Or maybe it'll attack you even if you are a club member or given permission to enter... it's a work in progress. Please be patient with our good pal Ball Monokuma, he's still learning.

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( ball monokuma, the terror that wandered the halls for god knows how long within this school is now standing in front of the entrance. he lifts his hand waving at the creature, and the fact that it hasn't attacked him yet causes his mouth to part in a small "o", and he's kneeling down in front of it to reach out to touch its body. it still doesn't do anything, but he's aware that it's not broken, there's no way it could be with its eye lighting up still, probably recording his every movement. )

Fascinating work... Add-kun managed to calm you down...

( he reaches up to try and tap the eye, but it's quick to raise a stubby paw, blocking komaeda's advances, and that figures — it wouldn't allow just anyone to touch there. when someone comes up, there's a smile on the ultimate's face as he turns his head to look towards them. )

What's the first word that comes to mind when you see this machine?

02:

( now komaeda's already made his way inside of the room, and he has his hacking gun in his hands while he sits in a chair in the far back corner — he keeps his distance, not wanting to cause too much trouble with his luck. maybe someone inside already saw him shoot a "bullet" towards the animatronic that disappears as soon as it appeared. whatever the ball monokuma had previously been doing has now ceased all functions.

anyway, he's tapping the screen of the hacking gun in his hand, looking at how long he has to operate it. if someone comes to the door, he moves the machine to stand in the way — "chills! kills! thrills!" is what leaves from it at first, an attempt to be intimidating in komaeda's hands. he won't do anything destructive, but he stares at whoever the ball monokuma sees through it's eyes, waiting to see their reaction.

now, someone from inside can stop komaeda from terrorizing, but he's pretty much in his own world. )

03: wildcard

( komaeda's normally wandering around to bother anyone else, so it's a free for all! if you want to do anything with him, throw something my way, or i can write a starter! )

[Add can be found hanging out in the workshop basically every day, which is good since he has the key to the locked supply closet. He's usually at one of the work stations prodding away at a huge robot claw, modifying the internals of the arm and hand, sometimes working with Komaeda's detached arm as well... trying to make the two compatible isn't easy, but he's been making steady progress with it.

When he's not occupied with the claw project, though, he's likely trying to make adjustments to Ball Monokuma's programming. Is the weird ball robot harassing you? Direct your complaints to this guy, maybe he'll decide to give a shit.

Dynamo is also always nearby, fetching tools and other supplies for Add when its not busy projecting holoscreens full of data for him. It may also fetch items for other club members if asked nicely. Dynamo is trying its best.]

( dynamo will be in komaeda's arm, because he's using the drone to be his little task buddy when he needs it, komaeda doesn't have the stamina to go from one room to the other. he does however make his way over to what add's been busying himself with — he'll take a seat down on the opposite side of the table as he stares at both the arms the other is working with. he's been fiddling with arms for awhile, and that's why komaeda only has one at the moment as he has offered the original for him to model it after along with the extra pieces. )

You're hard at work.

( it's no surprise, he thinks, considering part of add's braincell happens to be the drone he has with him, so it's like being able to gauge where komaeda is at all time. )

Mmm...

( mmmmmmm... it lingers, it's like komaeda wants to comment on something. )

[By this point Shin's set up his own little camp in the corner across from the door, tipping tapping away on his whirring laptop. He's also junk guardian, guardian of the junk pile (nobody quivers before him)... at least in the sense that if you want some floppies, USBs or other misc. that's already been checked and confirmed to be good without having to go digging through it yourself you can ask him. (The secret menu is whatever porn he's found doing this, though he'll try and haggle.)

Right now he's got two projects he's working on; code for the promised body for Rei Bao and something a little more secret that has nevertheless stalled out unless he can get a good look at the core of an AI's code (Rei's is, unfortunately, behind passwords he hasn't cracked yet). You can see him either hooking up the current state of whatever construction has been made and it moving or twitching as he checks Rei's feedback... or getting up from his workstation and pacing the room muttering to himself while tugging at his scarf or beanie or even hair when things aren't going well.]

( cracks knuckles, time to be the predator inside the burrow — when shin happens to get up, komaeda will sit down in his spot. he seems a little restless, and that's a common expression he's accustomed to when handling the other. whether it looms from their shared past, or what he's seen here in yogen, he already knows that something isn't going in his favor. that's why komaeda sits down as he looks at the laptop, and he can see that the other was smart enough to have it locked up so that no one can enter it.

...

...

this can't be why he's stressed out, no, not at all. though he is curious since shin has been keeping his attention on it, and while the idea of using his hacking gun to force himself through — he thinks of doing it the old fashioned way. he reaches out, tapping on a few of the keys to see if he's able to unlock it, maybe he's unlucky, and shin catches him before he's able to put in the last letter, or maybe he's lucky to get in. either way, that's up to your discretion, he's just here to be in the man's burrow. )

[I'm going to say Komaeda's random typings manage to get him in, because luck and chance doesn't seem to favor Shin. He doesn't even get not dying out of it like Naegi :' )

Shin spots him and gets there in time to see the laptop happily flip up it's default screensaver to reveal several windows full of in-progress code and some neatly arranged icons partly visible behind them on the plain desktop. One of them looks ominously like an eye. None of them are labelled.]

...

[He knows Komaeda is trying to get under his skin. That doesn't mean it's not working, but it does give him the wherewithal to try and hide it. He does have more passwords on the important stuff, but how did Komaeda get that one in the first place? First thing he's doing now is changing them all... His internal hackles are a little more on edge with how close is Komaeda is to finding Rei, but if he doesn't let on, if he pretends it's just the usual uneasy annoyance, on top of the lingering irritation...]

...Having fun?

[Get off the typewriter, monkey.]

( you holding the blade above shin's head, contemplating to drop it depending on how far you let komaeda snoop, i'm crying.

he's happily clicking, tapping on whatever it is that he can, but he's focused unlike the other time he's played on a computer, he's thoughtful in his actions. what catches his attention though is the eye — a constant symbol that continues to appear in his life as he makes his way through yogen. it's for a moment that he pulls a rosary out his pocket to hold it up to the icon on the screen. he tries to gauge whether it's the same or not, but the black and red eye is what it is. his lips purse into a straight line, wondering why shin even has something like this on his laptop because the last time he saw it was from nanami.

he hums, lips pursed into a straight line, and it seems like shin's not the only one thoughtful — not anymore when he hears the other's voice, and komaeda turns towards him with a now practiced smile! )

Hiyori-kun!

( he doesn't know who or who doesn't know shin's special name, so he plays it safe just for the other's sanity, and to prevent the stink eye he may get if he tries anything else. )

You're finally acknowledging me... I got the feeling that you hated me...

( maybe that feeling is real, but such one-sided hate isn't needed as komaeda turns away from shin, and instead he clicks on other things that isn't the icon — you know, playing dumb is what he's best at. )

[While Inaba herself may not be a member of the club, she does actually frequent the workshop, as someone who actually cares about electronics and the like. But she is staying a good few feet apart from the robotic thing, laptop clutched in her hands.

And speaking in a loud voice, obnoxious enough for anyone in the area to hear:]

Why is there a round robot bear in front of this room--

[Except the sound of her voice does cause some ruckus. And by 'ruckus', that's defined as what one can almost call a Scooby Doo Chase Sequence™️ where it's trying to chase her to throw her into the literal trash and Inaba trying her best to outspeed it because she is carrying fragile equipment, she's not getting her laptop destroyed a second time thank you very much!!

Please send help.

Alternatively, she might be found later inside trying to scavenge for parts to see if she can use them to build something. As for what she's trying to build, that's for her to know, and you to potentially ask about.]

[Listen,,, he makes it too easy.

He's the junk pile guardian after all... Nanami's junk, Inaba's junk, Kai's junk... it all makes it's way to him somehow.]

Hate you? We're friends aren't we? I've just been busy lately, that's all...

[Who's benefit is this for, when they both know that's a lie? He goes to the other side of the workstation, places his fingertips on the back of the laptop and pushes the lid down, not really caring if Komaeda's fingers get trapped; his own stay there. He saw the rosary comparison, so he knows Komaeda saw the eye-con. It makes him think of the eye keychain of Akira's that he still has, but that's a thought to follow up on later.]

Did you want something?

[Customer service voice and smile... There's only so many times Komaeda can show he has a weapon before the fact that he's armed ceases to scare in the moment and more is something to keep firmly in mind. Shin's terrified of the sword coming down but, with time to think about it, it can only be swung once. The smart move for Komaeda being to save it for something actually important... and just use the shadow of it.]

We're the best of friends, it's why I've came to see you, Hiyori-kun...~

( he adds a little energy at the end of his words despite that's not something he'd do, just to let the other known he's acknowledging him fully. he does manage having his fingers snapped shut into the laptop, and he laughs rather than flinch from pain, or say a common man's "ow" despite the pressure pushing down lightly. his eyes lift up, kind as always as he slips his fingers out, but the rosary remains stuck between which gives him some leverage to slip his finger back between the crack to try and push the computer back open, but he's sure that shin won't make that easy for him. )

I want you — ( r stuff. never have to elaborate with him, but he points at the charm that's clamped in between the panel and keyboard with his other hand. ) to lift it back up.

( the keychain that shin has actually has a pleasant surprise... anyway, anyway, komaeda glances back down at where his finger is wedged, and he presses up in hopes that the other gets the idea. if he doesn't, he can think of plenty of reasons as to why the other should allow the panel to fold back up properly, and he'll start with the most generic and common problem that tech nerds usually run into. not that shin's a tech n... yeah, he's totally a tech nerd, a neet... )

Imagine if you crack the screen, you'll be in an even more foul of a mood... and that's no good, silly... these are hard to come by.

[Ugh, that lilt. That gets a shudder that Shin manages to keep entirely internal for once. Interacting with Komaeda really does require his utmost, drawing on every single stolen piece and experience.]

Well, you've seen me...

[He's totally a tech nerd... but he can't be a neet, he's at school here. (He's totally still a neet, he just exudes essence of neet, it's in his soul whatever he does.)

He sighs, moves his fingers to the front of the laptop... and hooks it back quickly past Komaeda's fingers, as a bonus taking the rosary with it, because turnabout is fair play as far as he's concerned.]

That's all? Sure, here. [He teases out the rosary, twining it around his fingers before exaggeratedly opening the laptop like a clamshell and then shutting it again, tucking it under his arm. Keeping a lid on his reactions is one thing, but a smug air can't help but seep through because it doesn't register to the filters.] Uncracked, see?

( taking the laptop is one thing, but taking the rosary is another — just the invisible red string that keeps them together, and it all derives from shin's actions. in response, komaeda doesn't ask for it back, instead he stands up from where he sat, looking towards shin with interest. )

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

( take the laptop and leave? or is there something else komaeda's alluding to, but he wears that same mysterious smile on his face like something is meant to happen. he does this to put the other on edge, to be wary of his surroundings. )

You've heard the saying about stepping on a crack, haven't you? I'd be mindful of where you go, moving forward...

( he holds out his hand, looking towards the rosary like he's waiting for shin to hand it over. he does NOT have to hand it over, must be nice to have komaeda in the palm of his hand like this. he's on shin's time........

...
...
... )

Huh? Do what?

[Komaeda's not the only one who can play dumb about things. He runs his thumbnail over the rosary, pulling it one bead at a time through his fingers. This is familiar ground. It's all fun and games, messing with Shin. And suddenly, the moment Shin tries anything even slightly of his own, when he's not cute and fluffy anymore, it's all menacing standing and ominous warnings and cold looks and mysterious implications with a smile, huh. He knows how this goes, very well. That's why his heart rate has sped up, underneath.]

Ahaha, I don't think I need to worry about my mother's back.

[That's an unexpected pang from an unexpected direction, really. Realizing that... his parents have outlived him. He wonders if they have any idea what happened to him... If they were given him back. What kind of cover story was come up with to explain the wounds if he was. If he got a funeral that wasn't some sick false nicety of the kidnappers.

...this isn't the sort of thing to be thinking about right now, in any case.]

But thank you for the warning, Komaeda-san.

[One bead. Two bead. He's not making any moves to put it in Komaeda's outstretched palm. That sure is something Komaeda's doing that has nothing to do with him.]

( he knows very well, but no skin off komaeda's bones, not unless shin goes as far as to scrape it off himself, but there's doubts. instead, he smiles softly at the other as he plays with the beads in his hand, and komaeda glances down to the laptop in the other. there's nothing he can do about it.

he looks away, almost too pleasant of a company who isn't doing anything but existing. he can't tell that shin wants him gone, but perhaps those prayer beads do, because isn't it just not in komaeda's favor for them to snap in shin's hands, sprawling all over the floor, and underneath shin's footing as well.

this is both good and bad, could be comical if god wills it. the good luck is that there's a possibility that's meant for shin to trip on them, the bad luck is that komaeda paid for that, and now he'll have to get something new next time around since it's completely broken — the beads were meant to do something specific, and maybe that's what shin was promoting in his smugness.

who knows, but the idea that instantly comes to komaeda's mind at the moment is that if shin trips, and the laptop goes flying, he'll certainly catch it, now it's time to see how things goes... )

[Things Shin expects: Komaeda to snatch it back Sara-style, with his smirk and gleam of eyes practically daring it, or Komaeda to stay there and pretend he doesn't actually care about it actually.

Things Shin does not expect: This. The thread snaps and small glass eyes go scattering all over the floor. He stares down at them with basically this expression. Seriously? Oops.]

...

[Unfortunately he's learnt his lesson with the toy-ota and does not make a move to step on any of this, especially since Rei is in there currently and it's not just him that stands to get hurt if he beefs it, but he is a tad distracted.]

...You really should take better care of your things, Komaeda.

( thinking how shin's blaming komaeda when he was the one who broke it, well, that's one way to turn it around on someone else. the charms rolling around on the floor that surround their feet, and komaeda walks on them like it's another day in hell — at least it's not nails, this is the least of their concerns. he watches the expression on shin's face to gauge whether his attention is on both the fact they broke and are all over the floor, or he's trying to find some way to apologize. )

Bold claim coming from someone who broke it, it's fine, just give back what you have left.

( which he's going to reach out to grab what stray beads may be in shin's hand — never mind, he wants to grab the computer instead (he has itchy fingers, you can roll a d20 on his success, or decide whether he loses or wins this round, idm) and there's a thump, thump coming their way. in the corner of komaeda's eyes, he sees that ball monokuma has been alerted to a mess being made in the workshop — note that add is a very neat individual, so maybe it took after him, but shin was the one to make that mess...

ball monokuma's bright red scanner is on on the marbles... )

[with Shin so focused, maybe he doesn't hear the gentle tap tap of someone coming up behind him, or she may not register as any sort of threat. either way, Helena coming over out of curiosity, she can only hear him typing away, and so it is that a soft, familiar voice comes from right over his shoulder.]

What are you working on today?

[Dynamo gets a greeting first and foremost - she appreciates how helpful it's been, and she can't help being nice to it. but she has a question to direct to Add, when she hears anything like a lull in his work, and she clears her throat - it wouldn't do to startle him where he was, if he's dealing with small parts.]

Add? Do you have a moment?

[An apology... probably not going to happen. :' )]

As you like...

[At this point Shin is incredibly very well aware of Ball Monokuma's little... quirks... so sure thing Komaeda have the rest of the beads and snapped string back good luck he's pushing them into that outstretched itchy hand and then going to slide his butt onto the workstation and sit on it and draw his legs up out of ankle-biting and current-scanning reach while Komaeda stands in the middle of the marbles, laptop held on his lap.]

Things don't just break in normal use... unless they haven't been cared for.

[This is mostly just more of his pedantry, though.]

( he'll hold onto the string and what marbles are in hand, but he isn't too much worried about it, because he knows what they represent. )

Mm, Ball Monokuma's camera is better than that, besides...

( as he says that, the scanner looks up to komaeda, taking in his appearance and the item in his hand that made this mess. rerolling the camera feed in it's body, the scanner now quickly shifts to shin — jagged red eye glowing brighter, looks like its found who it's looking for. of course, komaeda watches the machine pull in both its paws and legs, rolls over closer to them (while missing the beads), and bounces up in a rather animated manner so that its limbs pop out in front of them. )

I'm just unlucky, you know? Well, I'm not you.

( and ball monokuma stands in shin's way, arms outstretched ready to pick him up— )

Yep... I am certainly not in your predicament.

[It's probably a mix of both; his hindbrain has flagged Helena as 'safe', as much as it ever does to anything, and also when he gets super-focused on something he can miss someone sneaking up behind him with a frying pan until it's too late to do more than half-turn his head towards them. The result is:]

Ghk!

[A stiffening, and then a relaxation with an exhale, adjusting his scarf over his shoulder. It's just Helena... but he's still kicking himself a bit for reacting at all.]

Don't do that... [He shifts over so she can uh... not get a good look at the screen, why did he do that. It gives her space next to him at least.] It's just a commission for someone...

[Someone who's currently on the laptop itself.]

[What's with this noise, he's trying to find where that semicolon- oh. Again? Is anyone going to... no? Okay.

He shuts the laptop and gets up, powerwalking over to where there's currently a lot of running about going on and... trying to get in between Ball Monokuma's camera and Inaba because well, he is registered as a club member even if it doesn't always remember that...

There's a non-zero chance his feet are going to be run over attempting this, nobody is having a good time, except for Ball Monokuma.]

Ack! P-put it down somewhere, it's only going after you!

[And being dunked in the trash is embarrassing but mostly harmless, he can attest from experience.]

[Dynamo offers a friendly beep in return! Helena is good and also a Friend, therefore she is exempt from Monokuma harassment, enjoy.

Add is a difficult person to startle, especially with Dynamo around, but Helena wouldn't know that anyway, so... unfortunately, she's left standing there for awhile before Add pauses in his work, squinting at some chip he can't decide what to do with. He puts it down gently for now, glancing over at where Helena is standing.]

Depends. What do you want? [not said rudely, but not very politely either. she's someone he's deemed useful, though, so it wouldn't be wrong to interpret his response as "Add's definition of polite".]

[Yeah, Add has Komaeda's arm for the day so it's only fair that Komaeda gets Dynamo for the day... the little drone is happy to help, though. Komaeda is nice and a friend.

Add is in the process of closing up the outer casing and checking the joints when Komaeda decides to show up. The arm is basically complete, at least for the first revision... he stands, lifting up the hefty beclawed arm with only a bit of a struggle.]

Take off your jacket. I need to make sure the connections are functioning correctly. [aka let him attach this monstrosity and see what happens]

The weight might need some more adjustments as well, it'll probably feel unbalanced... I already made modifications, but it'll lose effectiveness if too much weight is taken off. Try to deal with it for now.

[with a murmured sorry, she comes to be next to him. even if she can't see the screen, she can hear the laptop whirring, hear the machinery, and it colors her mental landscape some.]

A commission? Did someone ask you to make them a program?

[it would make sense, given his talents...but what would someone need it for? who knows, really - this school has many oddities.

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💻 Programming & Robotics Club Mingle 🤖

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add + dynamo

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common man's ow i'm crying

Crying over shin being smug not him excited to have power pleaseeee

he can have little a power, as a treat

im a little obssessed with it, twirls hair is his ego 7'8" with the power

im wheezing 7'8" with the power

"why does your dog sit in the chair" he likes to be tall, "why does he do this at komaeda" power

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it is that moment that i know the agony of having a perfect yet highly fandom-specific meme for this

knowing you have that power is kind of making me cry not him SITTING ON THE WORKSTATION TO BE TALLER

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