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MAGIROBOTICS CLUB ROBO DANCE OFF AND... oh...

magirobotics club robo dance off

what's up? Dr. Ranui wants some good, clean fun. No mayhem, no sentient robots who need to be put down, no setting the entire shed on fire: tonight, Magirobotics Club gets to show off their little mechanical friends without fearing for the safety of everyone around them!

For most of the month, the club has been focusing on movement and getting their robots to obey commands both simple and complex, and preferably to a beat. There’s already music playing when the members filter into the Artificing Shed tonight, and Dr. Ranui greets them from the middle of a miniature disco dance floor, where he and his own boogiebot, Beatbot, are warming up. He shows off how Beatbot can play just about any song you can imagine while simultaneously busting some sick moves, but the four freshmen recruited to judge the contest give him straight 1s. He sputters and sparks a little at the low score, but otherwise keeps right on playing. What a good omen!

how this works! ⬥ Magirobotics Club students can check using the form under the DANCE-OFF header. A panel of four freshmen judges will score their bot's boogieing! We'll announce a winner later.

⬥ Students who are not magirobotics club members are welcome to come watch, but only Magirobotics Club members may enter the contest. Artificing students, in particular, were made aware that the contest would be happening.

⬥ Oh...and...I guess something happened... Maybe you should go check out that header to find out...

locations! ⬦ DANCE-OFF: It's time to break it down, bots! Magirobotics Club members, post your forms here!

⬦ THE ARTIFICING SHED: The shed's been cleared of its usual clutter. In the very center of the room a tiny wooden dance floor has been set up. A panel of freshmen judges sits to one side, and on the other, there's room for the audience to watch. Dr. Ranui stands with his wand at the ready, in case any fires need to be put out. Want to thread hyping your bots up before their debut? Or maybe you're part of the peanut gallery watching the display? You can thread about it here!

⬦ FATAL EXCEPTION ERROR: SOMETHING WENT WRONG...: Oh—oh no...

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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Magirobotics Club Members! Fill out this form and post it below to get your robot scored!

The contest is winding down and the scores are being tallied, but Dr. Ranui’s Beatbot just keeps right on playing music, sparking or glitching a little all the while. It’s weird, the song the little droid is playing: kind of an earworm — it definitely slaps — and the more its sick beats go on, the harder they are to ignore and the louder they seem. It's difficult not to tap a foot along to the beat. Maybe wiggle a shoulder or hip.

And once that hip has been wiggled, it's hard to stop. Dr. Ranui is the first to succumb to the uncontrollable urge to bust a move, and in short order after that, Beatbot’s got everyone in attendance involuntarily cutting a rug. The musical robot soon gets its clamps on Dr. Ranui’s Megasonorofier — a magically amplified megaphone of his own invention — and starts blaring its beats across campus. Now no one is safe!

For the next four hours (from 3PM to 7PM, game time) Peckenpaugh is plagued by the urge to dance!

[Up to two students per player] may succumb to this musical curse. Victims may be infected by simply hearing the song. There is a chance to resist, but you must have great willpower! That said, this event is 100% opt-in. You are welcome to say your characters escaped unscathed.

As long as you hear the music (and there are few places on campus where you can’t by the time Beatbot has hit the megasonorofier), you’re susceptible to the urge to dance.

Even if you don’t know how to dance, you can’t help but move your body. Dance, my children! Dance badly!

Use this header to scene during the dance mayhem!

Edited 2019-11-20 17:07 (UTC)

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