A Bithday at YWS? What could possibly go wrong...
Birthdays at YWS were never dull but they couldn't exactly be called entertaining either. As Rydia cowered with a plate of cake and her scimitar underneath the blue and white tablecloth, she decided the word was 'eventful'.
There had been the one year when they were invaded by zombies and the only mercy there was that they ate brains and not cake because she'd seriously under-catered and then there had been the cruise ship disaster when they crashed into that really big island-looking thing. The spammians had attacked, the site owner @Nate had been mysteriously kidnapped and it always seemed to happen before they had a chance to cut the cake.
This year Rydia was prepared.
The cake was pre-cut, the guests had mostly arrived and the last few pieces of her plan were falling into place (like hiding under the desserts table).
"Uh... Captain?" @AstralHunter edged closer to her hiding place and Rydia looked at both her cake and her scimitar and reluctantly relinquished the cake to reach for her checklist.
"Psst. Over here," Rydia hissed.
"Oh, there you are!" AstralHunter hurried over and passed her the security card. "I've set up the technology lock-down zone, just like you asked."
"Great!" Rydia checked the box and put the security card away in her pocket.
"Are we playing hide and seek already?" @Lumi crawled under the table from the other side, sat down next to her, picked up the discarded plate of cake and started eating it.
Rydia glared at him. "No... we're completing the final preparations."
"Oh, right. One hundred spare scimitars ordered and waiting in the armory," Lumi declared around another mouthful of cake.
Rydia sighed and checked that off too. "Alright so as long as @TheClockworkConjurer has remembered to lock up that werewolf we found last summer and @Omni and @ReisePiecey have taken care of the bookwyrms infestation then we should be almost there. We're just waiting on-"
"Hey Rydia, I mean Captain, those robot security guards are here!" @TheSilverFox called from where he was manning the door.
Rydia jumped up in excitement and hit her head on the table then with a grunt crawled out from under it and skipped to the door to sign the paperwork. The rest of the crew followed her slowly.
"Uh Captain-"
"Robot security guards?"
"That is seriously cool!"
"Great work Fox, now that should be all the guests so let's get them inside and activate a full building shut down."
While the members of YWS began to party and the storybook crew ushered the robot security guards inside while discussing the downside of a full building shut down - "Won't that mean we're stuck in the YWS mansion for a whole week?" - Rydia felt all of the tension finally drop from her shoulders. This year everything was going to be okay.
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One of the robots veered toward the cake and then pulled out a gun and shot each of the candles with perfect precision aim.
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A robot sped across the floor to the streamers where @Chaser and @Basil were deep in conversation and a long sword sprouted from its arm, at which point the robot slashed furiously at the streamers above their heads.
"Aren't they perhaps a little bit extreme?" @Lumi asked.
Rydia sighed and nodded. "Okay, I'll just log on to my e-mails and get the shut down code."
As Rydia pulled her y-phone out, AstralHunter exchanged worried glances with the rest of the crew.
"So, that full technology lock-down zone which you asked to be instated for a week... that did include staff phones, didn't it?"
Rydia stared at the blank screen of her y-phone and clutched her scimitar a little harder as a frown line dug into her brow. "I suppose it wouldn't be a ful technology lock-down if not."
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