fandomtownies | Wednesday morning, Sparky Repairs

Nadia came in after shop (her only class of the day) and glanced around the shop. This definitely looked like a good place to start her plans for Belthazor. "Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with something?"

Agatha put her book down and blew her nose. "Sure, what areyou looking to do?"

Nadia thought for a moment, still looking around the shop. "A couple things, actually. Um, the first thing might sound kind of odd, but. . . ."

I want to find a way to annoy the hell out of a demon without getting anywhere near him? Yeah, that'll go over well.

"I want a present for a friend of mine." She spotted one of the dingbots. "Oo, those are cute, do you make them? What can they do?"

I should jsut rename the shop to be a seller of dingbots Agatha thought, as she smiled at her customer.

"I do make them. Several of the students from the school have gotten them as presents for their classmates." She picked up a dingbot and held him out for Nadia to take a look.

"They can do a lot. mine tend to help me build things, and generally tidy up. I have made one that was an alarm clock, he would go over to his target and bonk him on the head with alittle hammer when it was time to wake up. Another one was for... well annoying purposes. Someone wanted to create some mischief, and i built him a bot with a unique personality."

More dingbots had come out onto the counter, they knew when they were beign talked about.

"They are sentient by the way."

"Perfect," Nadia murmured, and apparently this woman wasn't adverse to making mischief. . . . "Can they talk? Or play recordings or anything?"

"I am sure i could put in a recording. I ahve never tried to make one that talked. Too much space inside wasted by those mechanisms i think." She looked at Nadia carefully.

"What do you want it to say? Or for that matter do? They will not harm anyone, or cause harm to happen."

"Oh, I don't want it to. Just be a friendly reminder, you know, 'don't cheat on tests', 'sharing is caring', 'hurting people is mean' . . . . My friend, um, he's from somewhere else, and their morals are kind of different there, so I want something to help him remember how to be nice to people. And maybe shoot glitter at him when he isn't?"

"Shoot glitter? I see... I think i can do that. If you write down the phrases you want it to say, and the instances when they should be said, on this paper here, i can record that. You will also need an image of your friend, so we can get hte bot fixated on him, and a container of glitter." Agatha did some mental math. She needed to build the dishwashing bot for Orlin, but other then that she had nothing.
"I could have it done by Friday. It will be *handwavy reasonable ammount*. If you could bring the image and the glitter then, i could have it ready in the afternoon."

Nadia's grin was big, wide, and bright. "That's great! I'll bring everything by on Friday, then! Oh, and my friend is kinda clumsy. How easy is it to break one of these? If it's sentient, I don't want it destroyed if my friend accidentally steps on it, or, say, sets it on fire."

Demons did fire, right? There was a lot of fire in the Inferno, which was about hell, and demons were from hell. Therefore, demons liked fire. So the bot for the demon would have to be fireproof. Right?

"Oh, the other thing I wanted might be simpler. My cat's getting really restless, staying in my room all the time. Can you make him a toy? Something he can hunt around the room and stuff when he wants to."

"They are fairly delicate, but i can try to make this one sturdier the nnormal. They are brass, so they will melt if they are in a very very high-heat flame, but not say in a normal campfire." Just how clumsy WAS her friend?

"Write the phrases down now though, i will need to have that recorded before final assembly. As for a cat toy... sure, i cna make him a mechanical mouse of a sorts." She smiled. The cat toy sounded so much more fun.

"That'd be great." Well, hopefully the demon wouldn't melt the bot too quickly. Maybe she could experiment with some fire proofing in shop?

She pulled out her notebook and scribbled down a handful of phrases:
Sharing is caring
Cheaters never prosper
Hurting people is mean
Drink your milk
Just say no

She thought for a moment. The golden rule would be perfect, if she could remember how it went in English. She thought for a moment, then wrote:

Do unto others before they do unto you

That didn't look quite right, but it would have to do. She scribbled down some example scenarios for each phrase and gave the list to Agatha.

"Oh, and my friend Blair gave me something you made, a multi-tool? It's really great. I wanted to thank you for that, too."

Agatha looked at the phrases thoughtfully, including the last one. "Did you mean 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'?"

She placed the notebook page down on the counter.

"Oh yes. That was incredibly fun to make. I am glad you liked it."

Nadia shrugged. "It's great. I think my shop teacher might even be jealous. That's why I thought of coming here for my present for my friend. You obviously do really good work."

Agatha blushed slightly.
"Thank you, it is very kind of you to say so."

Nadia smiled back. "So I'll come back on Friday?"

"Yes. After noon i think would be best." What was it with these students who wnated to give annoying bots to their friends?

"Okay! That means I can still sleep in." Nadia held out her hand. "I'm Nadia, by the way."

Agatha tried nto to giggle at the sleeping in comment. She almost suceeded.

Shaking Nadia's hand, Agatha said "I am Agatha, it is nice to meet you. I take it you are a student at the school?"

Nadia nodded. "Yes. I just started this semester. It's nice to meet you, too. I have some other things to do in town today, but if you need to tell me something about the, um, order, here's my number." Nadia scribbled her number on another sheet of paper and handed that to Agatha. "Thanks again!"

[ooc: I can't look it up right this instant since I'm at work, but the voicemail is linked on my profile]

"Excellent, thank you. I will call if i have any questions." She put this paper withthe other one. "I will see you friday then."

Nadia waved to Agatha and the dingbots as she headed out of the store.

Kiki steps into the shop.

"Ms. Agatha?" she asks. "I'm afraid Mr. Camulus wasn't home. I have the package here - I can leave it on his doorstep if you'd like me to, but if it's valuable and might get stolen, that's probably not a good idea."

"Oh, hmm..." Agatha thoguht for a moment. The thing probably was worth something.

"Is there any chance you could try again tomorrow? Or... I suppose i can just leaveit here for him to pick up. Could you take a note and slip it under his door?"

Agatha hastily scribbled a note.

Mr. Camulus, please pick up your device at Sparky Repairs ASAP.

"Certainly," Kiki answers, taking the note. She fishes in her pocket and pulls out the money that Agatha had ~~handwavily~~ given her earlier. "Here, you should take this back," Kiki offers. "Since I didn't actually deliver this, I don't feel right keeping the fee."

"But if you deliver the note, it is the same, no?"

[ooc: oops, totally forgot to remember the part abouthte fee, doh.]

Kiki looked a little skeptical. "Well, I suppose so. But still...just a note wouldn't cost much at all." Kiki separated out two dollars, and handed the rest back to Agatha. "That should be fair," she answered with a smile.

[ooc: No worries, that's my fault actually - I usually do a reply on the initial request for what the cost would be, but I was lazy this time and didn't do it. Yay for *handwavy handwavy*!]

"Well, if you think so." Agatha really had no idea of prices what so ever.

"I'll take care of this right away," Kiki smiled, tucking the note in her pocket.

Wednesday morning, Sparky Repairs

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