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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
Steel in Wormverse
sturdycoldsteel
"I see. And any other plans, for further into the future? Maybe doing art," he says, gesturing at the sculpture she's working on.
sturdycoldsteel
The sculpture is now visibly a black bear. She's working in the details of its posture and face, which is confident and curious. Then she moves on to detailing metal claws and slightly softer than most rocks fur.
"Maybe, but I don't think I could see art as a serious thing by itself. I'm doing this as a little gift and as practice, not for the sake of art itself. I'd definitely like to make the things I build artful, though."
"Maybe, but I don't think I could see art as a serious thing by itself. I'm doing this as a little gift and as practice, not for the sake of art itself. I'd definitely like to make the things I build artful, though."
sturdycoldsteel
"I'll be cleaning up rubble from Behemoth for a couple of weeks. I'm going to install internet and electricity on my mountain. My assistant is probably scheduling me more jobs right now."
The bear is done. She sets it on the table.
The bear is done. She sets it on the table.
"Rubble here in New York? That's great to hear, many people were very skeptical those parts of town would ever get properly restored."
sturdycoldsteel
"I hope to do similar things all around the world. And I'm definitely going to throw spikes of tungsten or diamond or something at Behemoth next time it shows up."
"Well, I wish you the best of luck." He clicks his recorder to stop it. "Thank you very much, you were very helpful and informative. We'll probably be publishing this next week!"
sturdycoldsteel
"Good luck and have a nice day!"
Back to cleaning up bits of New York. Today was a productive day.
Back to cleaning up bits of New York. Today was a productive day.
And New York helpfully remains cleaned up after she does it. Isn't it nice when giant monsters aren't attacking?
sturdycoldsteel
She diligently cleans up the parts of New York she's being paid to clean up.
Any task gets boring after a while. She watches the city around her while doing simpler parts of the cleanup. Anything interesting happening?
Any task gets boring after a while. She watches the city around her while doing simpler parts of the cleanup. Anything interesting happening?
Well, that depends on what you mean by 'interesting.' If pigeons flying around is interesting, that's happening. People milling about, that's also happening. If your definition of 'interesting' is particularly distinct, that large robot walking through the street and scaring everyone could fit the bill, at a stretch.
sturdycoldsteel
A golem, or this world's version of golems at least. Great, someone's causing trouble.
At least it's probably really stupid. It's now standing still, because metal does as she says. She flies over.
At least it's probably really stupid. It's now standing still, because metal does as she says. She flies over.
It's standing still there.
The robot is mostly leg, two stories tall with three hinges that would allow its main body, an angular construct of metal, to be lowered onto the street. It has four arms, with four fingers each, and the main body looks like it allows someone to be inside piloting it.
The robot is mostly leg, two stories tall with three hinges that would allow its main body, an angular construct of metal, to be lowered onto the street. It has four arms, with four fingers each, and the main body looks like it allows someone to be inside piloting it.
sturdycoldsteel
She peers at the robot. She releases her hold on it with a gesture as she says, "You're causing a panic. And I don't think this thing is street legal."
mxglam
Someone with a very peculiar costume emerges from a hatch on top of the robot. "It's probably not. What'd you do to it?"
sturdycoldsteel
"It's metal. I stopped it. Could've crushed it flat, but that's mean. It should be able to move again now."
sturdycoldsteel
"They is a pronoun? ...Guess it is. English." She shakes her head. "She for me since you said that. Are you planning to do anything unpleasant or destructive? I've got nothing against big robots, just stealing and killing and so on."
mxglam
"No killing. Some stealing. Some scaring people. I'll definitely not hurt anyone who doesn't try to hurt me."
sturdycoldsteel
"Better than I thought but not great. Why even steal? You can obviously make stuff. Someone would buy a giant robot... Wait, that annoying approval process."
mxglam
"Yeah," they agree. "Plus some other complicated stuff. As for the stealing, it's mostly for the attention. The robot, too. I wouldn't really use a giant robot if I wanted to be subtle about it."
sturdycoldsteel
"You can get attention doing flashy stunts in central park or shows and gifts for childrens' hospitals if that's all you actually want. Why get attention in such a negative way?"
She's genuinely curious, it's not a preachy question expecting a response she can use against them.
She's genuinely curious, it's not a preachy question expecting a response she can use against them.