Take Initiative.

[trustharder]

It seems things have been resolved - peacefully, if more than a little awkwardly for most parties involved. However, there's still work to do here, isn't there? Ryuunosuke shrugs after a long moment; tips his head up a bit. "Hey, Glory? Let everyone up." And apparently that's all it takes, though what that actually does isn't something that happens all at once - rather, panels slide out from the wall, forming a staircase up to that balcony they've been standing on. Mettaton doesn't really wait for the others to join them; he just leaves back through that section of wall they entered from, calling something back over his shoulder. "We've got another room to work from back here, darlings, this shouldn't take too long to work out." >Follow?

Comments

[cherryblooded]

...Don't suppose any of these buttons are labeled.

[Really, who makes control panels with unlabeled buttons? Do you want to memorize what every single button does?

Cherryblod stops near Mettaton's side. He's less interested in blindly pressing buttons right now.]

[pokexplorer]

[It's easier than you think, Cherryblod!]

At the very least, I am sure they have come to know the majority of them.

[cherryblooded]

Still seems like it would be easier to have words on them. Or symbols. Or something?

[penduli]

There's probably not much use for any of that if you can just ask Glory to help out and not do it manually.

[ ...probably... ]

[cherryblooded]

Fair enough. Having an AI does help with the boring bits.

[pokexplorer]

Speaking as someone who built something like this...sometimes it is better for only the one controlling the panel to know.

[He likes control, okay.]

But there may have been a manual at one point. I suppose we'll never know.

[captainobnoxious]

You built something like this? Why?

[pokexplorer]

Ah- not this specifically, but a control panel. It was for the airship that I pilot.

[cherryblooded]

That's one way to make things difficult for everyone else...

[pokexplorer]

I certainly cannot deny it.

[Maybe he was assuming too much that some kid wasn't gonna show up and mess with his dang ship.

...Thankfully that didn't happen but it could have.]

[ratingspoint]

Oh, of course not, sweetheart - they never are in things like this, are they?

[...hi, Cherryblod. If he finds this awkward (he does), he certainly isn't going to act like it.]

[cherryblooded]

[Hi, Mettaton. Sigrun hasn't punched him in the face yet so he can't hug, but there weren't any promises about lightly brushing hands.

It's amazing how much you can miss physical contact with someone and not fully realize it until you get to touch them again.]

Figures. So do you know what everything does?

[ratingspoint]

More or less.

I also imagine no one wants me touching it, after everything that was said in there.

[About deleting all the dead people.]

[cherryblooded]

If one of us did it, we'd just end up pressing whatever buttons you two told us worked, and it wouldn't make much difference.

[ratingspoint]

[The laugh that gets out of him is more than a little dry.]

That's true! That's very true.

[After a moment, he gestures vaguely at the courtroom again.]

...We won't wake up in there, you know. Thankfully enough. That was mostly for show.

[amygdalae]

Run it through me, then. I'll handle it.

[...well, he's the guy who was actively opposing against them. Gotta be the most trustworthy thing to do now, right?]

[ratingspoint]

[what fucking logic is that even- ]

Please. Someone I don't think will get Ryuunosuke and I killed would be appreciated.

[garudynamic]

[Yosuke stands a bit away- he's not 100% ready to get to chummy, even if he respects Cherry's choices.]

I can just picture you chucklefucks spending a few days hitting random buttons when this started.

[ratingspoint]

Oh, of course we did. Why leave all the fun to Glory?

[garudynamic]

I can't really blame you there. I kinda got a kick doing it myself earlier. Did you end up popcorning over the other sites?

[ratingspoint]

...I didn't, actually.

[So at least there's that.]

[garudynamic]

...

[he nods, as if deciding something based on that, and finally slides the black headphones off his ears]

Good.

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

That's not because you just can't eat popcorn, right?

[Her shitty attempt at a joke has been made.]

[greatestcool]

I didn't either. You guys kept me busy!

[garudynamic]

[Sorry Ryuu, you don't get the same slightly-less-pissed expression MTT does- he's come to a similar assumption about your vic pool that others did and kinda looks like he stepped in something foul]

Glad to provide then.