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"-- should really get a better secretary to record the prompts. Oh! It's recording. Hello! Darkholme residence! I'm not really answering, this is a recording, but I'm told that if you wait for it to beep you can record your own greeting and send it to me.

"Should have saved some of the money for the moon."

*beep*

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tigerundercover

"Because absolutely nothing about that says 'trap', definitely."

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spin_kick_snap

"..."

Shut up, Raven.

"People needed rescuing! Of course I had to go!"

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tigerundercover

"I know," Raven said. "It's adorable and frustrating. So what happened?"

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spin_kick_snap

"Well, I teamed up with Anders and Dante. We fought our way through a cave of skeletons, only to run into this giant robot-thing that spat out electricity. And I still don't know how it was generating the electrical current!"

Which, let's be honest, was really what bugged Kathy the most. Sure, she could just say magic, but where was the intellectual rigor in that?

"Dante was on point, so he got the first blast. Except then he tried to charge it with a bloody sword, so I chased him and took the second charge to the gut..."

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tigerundercover

"It's a robot," Raven said. "It probably just used whatever was giving it energy. So you saw Dante get zapped, and ran in the same direction anyway?"

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spin_kick_snap

"But I'm not sure what was giving it energy!" Kathy protested. "It was a robot in a cave in a pre-Industrial society! What was it's power source?"

Yep. These were the kind of questions that kept her up at night.

"But, yeah, Dante charged it--" pun entirely intended "--ad if he stabbed it with a conductive sword, I was worried that it might overload him with more electricity than even he could bounce back from. So Anders flung a fireball at it, which at least made Dante pause, but then I looked away and then it sent out more of that electricity when I wasn't paying attention, and..."

Yeah. Ow.

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tigerundercover

"Okay, I know you didn't just randomly look away. What were you looking at?"

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spin_kick_snap

"I was making sure Dante was okay," she admitted. "He'd just sucked down a ton of electricity and the fireball just zipped right by him, hot enough to melt half the robot, so I wanted to make sure that he was cool and Anders was good."

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tigerundercover

"Okay, I'm going to suggest waiting until after you know the lightning shooting robot is actually done shooting lightning before you check on your fellow fighters. It's not like you could have helped him until it was done, anyway."

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spin_kick_snap

"I mean, that makes sense now," Kathy agreed with a sigh. "But, really, it was just, like, a second. Two, maybe. Three on the outside. And then I was down on the ground, screaming, freaking both of them the heck out."

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tigerundercover

"Oh god. Did it zap them while they were distracted too?"

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spin_kick_snap

"Not just then," Kathy said. "Anders tried to melt the robot into slag and Dante scooped me up to try to keep me safe. I downed a strength potion to get me back up on my feet and that was when Anders got hit--"

It was almost a comedy of errors, here.