At the ear piercing scream ringing throughout the mansion, Cammy suddenly sprang up lookin around terrified her notebook falling to the floor, "WHATINGODSNAMEWASTHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?" she scream-sputtered out, "It sounds like someone saw a monster or was murdered! "M-M-M-Mae-san! Y-y-y-you'll protect us right!?" she asked shaking terribly as she frightenedly clung to the angel maid.
Mae's eyes twinkled with mischief even as she raised her chin to give herself a mysterious and noble bearing.
"There are some perks to being an instrument of Divine Will."
Her smile quickly withered however as another agonizing scream reverberated through the mansion and pausing only a moment in front of Cammy, the two of them headed for the kitchen.
"Finally snapped outta it, huh?" Harriet remarked dryly. "Well, come on." While Cammy clung to Mae as she panicked, the Mistress shouldered her purse and walked over opened the door to the hall.
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Domonic took a moment to calm down from his less-than-brief bout of very close contact with... some kind of robo-vampire...? Even though it was only Micra - who seemed devoted to Harriet, and relatively harmless - springing the news that she was a bloodsucker was a bit of a shock, conjuring up all kinds of images of scary vampires - from Dracula to... Domonic didn't remember, but he was from one of Harriet's Japanese animes, and had impaled some poor, helpless girl on a rifle. So violent...
Just as he'd settled himself, the door behind him fell away, and he fell through. "Ack!" "Uhh-"
He landed with a thump, and the Mistress hurried to pick Domonic up. "Sorry, Dom, I didn't know you were there. ...What were you doing leaning on the door, anyway?" "Well, I was-" "Actually, nevermind. Let's go find out what that scream was."
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They passed the dining room and gave it a quick peek, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. Wonderful smells were filling the air - it smelled like the chef knew what she was doing. It might do to check on her, given the great many things that could go wrong in a place full of very hot and very sharp things, but before anyone could go to look, Harriet threw the doors to the ballroom open - being, as it was, mere feet from the dining room's doors.
There, they saw a handsome, dark-haired man in a green jumpsuit, whose chest was on fire, hop from foot to foot around the room while trying to slap the flames out; and Rosarita, watching quite calmly and holding a flaming rose, kneeling nearby the now-lit fireplace.
"What... ugh." The mistress muttered, mostly to herself, voice tinged with annoyance. She then called out, emphasizing her words with gestures for the man. "Alfonzo! Stop, drop, roll! Stop. Drop. Roll!"
Despite her words, though, the man continued to prance about. "He can't hear me. Hey! What the hell's goin' on?!" She yelled to Rosarita, stomping over imperiously and slipping out her laptop from her purse.
Meanwhile, Micra noticed a little square outline in the ballroom's wall. Pressing a hand against it, the little section flipped, revealing a panel vaguely like something you'd see in a James Bond movie. There were several large buttons on it, reading as followed:
SECURITY
LOCKDOWN
FIRE
RED ALERT
DISCO
CONSOLE
Micra rolls a 4 - with Luck 3, we'll say the panel didn't close properly or someshit.
Harriet
S 6/20
Domonic
F 24; S 0/30
Mae
F 21; S 6/10 (!)
Cammy
F 14; S 0/30
Micra
F 9; S 0/20
Rin
F 10; S 9/30
Rosarita
F 6; S 6/30
Sammy
F 6; S 0/30
The god-awful scream that ran through the mansion had the smallest of the maids nearly jumping in the air and rushing back out of the door. She closed it behind her and immediately regretted it. Why didn't Rin hide behind the door?! This was her one and only thought as she stared down both ends of the hall waiting for some hellion to come running in to snatch her innocent little soul.
It was enough to get her to completely forget about Sammy's reply, so when the door opened behind Rin she jumped and let out a small yelp before turning with the widest eyes anyone had ever seen. So when she found Sammy in the KOS-MOS ensemble she was rightly confused. "S... Sammy?" It was definitely the new girl, but Rin didn't remember her having hair that long. Or that blue. Or wearing an outfit that...alien... And why did she only have one boot?
But before Rin could question any of that Sammy brought up the scream. "I don't know... Should we check it out?" Please say no please say no please say no...
The entertainment went along for a good while, the perverted gardener's chesthairs proving themselves as excellent sources of fire. The slightly disturbing smirk on Rosa's face only widened as the burning progressed, not vanishing even when a few other maids appeared through the door, along with Harriet herself. The mistress was indignant and demanded an explanation, not surprising at all with the given situation. "Weeeeell, I just wanted to start a fire. I did, but he got too close and pushy towards me. So, the next decision was to take care that he went away and here we are." the glasses maid replied as she still followed the scene from behind her reflective eyewear. As the scene seemed to be coming to an end, Rosa chucked the rose over her shoulder and into the fireplace. What happened next would be up to the others.
Oh... Mister Domonic, are you fine? Said Micra trying to help him to get up, however Harriet was more close, so the android help was not needed. After that event she decide to follow the others, as there was not a way than she could leave her Mistress go to look around without her. The food dont made her lost her attention in her attempt to help the needed or protect her Mistress. Finally the door was opened and the loli maid get really worried when she saw the mysterious man on fire. Dont stay there watching, Miss Rosa at least try to look for something than could save him Rosalinda words about what happened, not made any change in what Micra was doing, her eyes who were looking around, soon notice a strange control panel when she was looking for something to calm the fire.
In that strange panel was many options, but only one could help at this moment, the pink haired girl pressed the "Fire" button who could activate the systems in case of a fire.
Harriet's eyebrow twitched in annoyance as she tapped something into the laptop. "'You just wanted to set a fire'? Okay, let's for the moment ignore how fuckin' creepy that sounds - what the hell did he do to warrant you setting him on fire? Did he stick his dick in your mouth when you weren't looking?" She shouted sarcastically.
While the mistress was ranting at the relative-newcomer, Micra had pressed the FIRE button. The button lit up, and stayed lit even when Micra released it, but nothing appeared to happen. ...For a few seconds. Suddenly, another panel some yards away slid open, and a clattering metal ball, about thigh-high, shot out, rolling towards Alfonzo. The mistress shut up for a moment, looking first at the ball, then at the control panel and it's user, Micra - and then back to the ball. Still panicking, Alfonzo only noticed it when it was almost on top of him, where it unfolded to stand on three, spindly legs, reaching right around Rosarita's height. A confused "¿¡Qué!?" was all he could say before it blasted him off his feet with a huge plume of fire-extinguisher-foam. Domonic, who had been running over to help the man, was beat to it by the robot - reaching him just as he was shot off his feet, and his help was limited to merely flinching in sympathy.
Another panel popped open on the opposite wall, and the robot it ejected started rolling towards Rosarita, and the fire behind her...
It occurs to me I should kill stress for setting fires for Rosarita. (1d6) -4 for her. Definitely not some form of encouraging or anything.
Harriet
S 6/20
Domonic
F 24; S 0/30
Mae
F 21; S 6/10 (!)
Cammy
F 14; S 0/30
Micra
F 9; S 0/20
Rin
F 10; S 9/30
Rosarita
F 6; S 2/30
Sammy
F 6; S 0/30
"Yes... a pleasant fire that I could look and feel. There it is now." the glasses maid pointed at the fireplace behind her. "But like most of the people here, it seems like he too suffers from some sort of perversion and would not leave me alone. I'm not sure what it is, but personally I consider it normal to not want to sex with strangers at the drop of a hat." she carried on with talking, starting to feel like messing with Harriet. "Hmmm, that angry reaction almost suggests something. Did this small deal actually interrupt something, mistress?" Rosa goaded at the girl despite her better judgement ringing mental alarm bells against such behaviour, the grin on her face going wider at her reactions.
After seeing the firefighter robot take out the fire on Alphonso, the white-haired maid shrugged. "There we go, that's the end of it..." she thought aloud, until the other one came out. It's path was headed straight towards her hardly-earned main fire. This was something she would not allow. Calmly stepping forward to intercept it, Rosarita firmly planted her foot on top of the thing, intent on keeping it away. "Don't you touch the fire. Go back to your little hole."
"Uh.. um..." Sammy fidgets as Rin asks if they should check out what had made the noise, the alien maid casting a look back into the room before turning to face the small maid. "Uh... maybe not... I uh, kind of have a problem here..." Swinging the door open just enough so that Rin can look into Harriet's bedroom the smaller girl would notice that the contents of their mistress' wardrobe now decorates the majority of the bedroom floor.
Mae was uncertain about exactly what to do. Putting out literal fires was not her forte... her job was more about corralling the departed souls of burned people.
"Um... oh!" she winced as well when the hispanic man was taken down by the extinguisher robot.
"Mistress, are these robots... safe to be around? Perhaps you should be somewhere safer?"
"ProbleeAAAH!!!" Sammy most likely wouldn't appreciate the short girl practically screaming right in front of her face, but Rin couldn't help it. Harriet's wardrobe was now littering the floor of her room, and the maid knew what would happen if Harriet saw it.
"WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO GO THROUGH MY THINGS?!"
And then the two maids would be thrown out, Mister Domonic escorting them outside and looking completely disappointed in the both of them for overstepping their boundaries, nothing but a sigh and a shake of the head for Rin as he stepped back into the house and locked both she and Sammy out.
"We can't let her see this!" Rin was nearly frantic now. She had too much she wanted to do, and none of it could be done if she was suddenly kicked out like that. She ran right past Sammy, the taller girl getting nearly bowled over before Rin shut the doors tight behind her, and without a seconds to spare she practically jumped at the pile of clothes and started butting them back in the closet. "Hurry up and help!"
One of the first things she found was Sammy's uniform, and she nearly threw it at the girl. "Hurry up and change!" Rin was determined to put everything back as well as she remembered from her time looking for a swimsuit, and if she couldn't find a place for a particular outfit she would simply hang it and bury it in whatever section it looked like it should go. With all the clothes she had even Harriet didn't remember everything she kept. That much Rin knew from when Borat's thong was pulled out. Everything included the costume Sammy was currently wearing, and if the new girl even so much as hesitated Rin would attack and start pulling that outfit off without a second thought.
The robot squirmed underneath Rosarita's foot, it's legs flailing in the air as it was caught upside-down and unable to unfold. It made a frantic beeping, before curling back up and becoming still.
"YEAH, you DID!" Harriet yelled at the grinning woman. "Just FYI, that's not even important at this point. I am far, FAR more concerned about the part where you set one of my guys on fucking fire!" She took a deep breath. "Is that normal, by the way?" she asked, coolly. "Setting people on fire, I mean."
Meanwhile, the other robot, apparently satisfied that Alfonzo was no longer burning, beeped, rolled up, and started rolling for the fireplace as well. Alfonzo coughed a few times, before letting out a pained "gracias".
When Mae asked her question, Harriet stared daggers at Rosarita. "Yes, they are," she called back. "So long as they're not pointing at you, anyway." It occurred to Rosarita that that little smirk Harriet usually wore was gone.
Technically combat, Rosie rolls a 5, multiplied by her Athletics of 3. That's already enough to beat anything it could do - AND it rolled a 1 - so it divides by it's Athletics of 2 and gets 6 stress - enough for her to hold the robit in place and for it to shut down.
Harriet
S 6/20
Domonic
F 24; S 0/30
Mae
F 21; S 6/10 (!)
Cammy
F 14; S 0/30
Micra
F 9; S 0/20
Rin
F 10; S 9/30
Rosarita
F 6:V; S 2/30
Sammy
F 6; S 0/30
Mae noticed the change in Harriet's voice and visage as she looked towards Rosarita, and maneuvered in a way so that she was close to her mistress. She wasn't sure what she would do yet, but she wanted to be close to Harriet just to be sure that whatever happened next, she could protect her mistress from anyone and anything, including the mistress herself.
"Probably not. But there is not a lot of normality to be found here anyway." Rosa was quick to answer, the pinned robot falling under her will pretty quick. Once it had gone inactive, she took off her heel and scooped the ball up, casually carrying it back to the place where it had deployed from. "Let's just say I'm extremely wary of things like this. I'd suggest warning other people around here too about this, since I'll defend myself if something funny is attempted towards me. With the apparent number of perverts there appears to be in the household, it is probably a good thing to do."
Having said that, the glasses maid turned away from the safely deposited robot. What happened next was yet another curious thing to see, in all probability.
Harriet looked just about ready to start yelling again, but the click of Mae's feet on the reflective tile behind her made her turn around, instead. Giving the angel a little stare, she reconsidered - though her face was still locked in a scowl.
She typed something in on her laptop with her free hand. Too busy carrying the robot back to it's hole to notice the other robot clatter it's way to the fireplace, it unfolded itself... and promptly rolled up again and made for it's hole.
Rosa's robot started to move - being about half her size and made of metal, it was difficult to hold onto - but somehow she managed to do so, carrying it the rest of the way across the hall and dropping it in front of it's hole. It sat there awhile, silent, before beeping and rolling away. The FIRE button's light went out at this point in time - though given the excitement happening elsewhere, Micra might not notice right away.
"Alright." The Mistress pulled out her microphone from before, fiddling with it, and then -
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Harriet's voice rang out throughout the house. Terrifyingly for Rin and Sammy, it came from remarkably close by - right around the corner, where they couldn't see. Worse yet, it sounded like there was a rather cross edge to it.
"Paging Doctor Emily, please bring a burn kit to the ballroom. Ladies and gentlemen, please be aware that the tall, white-haired maid thinks you're all perverts and will not hesitate to set you on fire if you talk to her."
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Harriet put the microphone back in her purse, and marched over to Alfonzo, still sprawled out in the middle of the room.
"Good boy." Rosa thought as she saw the ball robot retreat back to it's home in the hidden compartment. She even brushed at it's top a bit, something of a gesture one would do to a dog to please them. The other robot seemed to be following suit, and retreated back to the second little robot home in the wall.
With her fire unmolested, there was the rather embarassing announcement to listen. Ignoring the majority of the thing, the tall maid kneeled near the fire once more, not giving a shit about the other people in the room with her. She knew that despite that outburst of an announcement, Domonic would surely be someone to get help from in case there was need. The butler might be a chilly thing, but at least his heart was helpful and warm. There should be a way to get back at Harriet sometime, but that had to wait. There was a flame that needed her tending.
Sammy, almost bowled over by the minuscule maid watches as she charges head first into the pile of clothes, determined to put them back in their rightful place. The alien pouts as she's ordered to help tidy up the mess she had created though dutifully complies, following Rin's lead Sammy begins placing items back in the groups that they belong to. "Nu uh," Sammy replies childishly to Rin's demand of changing back into her uniform. "I want to keep this outfit, mistress Harriet's obviously got too much stuff to keep track of what she's got."
At the sound of the announcement Sammy jumps in surprise, a quick scream escaping her mouth. "Woah, wasn't expecting that..." The alien maid comments, her chest quickly rising and falling as she tries to catch her breath.
k...kk...cough--cough! "drip"... "drop"..."Must... post... so Micra could bite Cammy and the world...will be... saved...COUGHHT- kk...K Again!
The whole conflict was really too much for the poor android, why could the maid said than she just put him on fire only for touch her...? and that was normal for her? The maid doll decide to dont try to go against that crazy maid, only more bad things could happen to that sick woman and maintain the order is part of her work, as a maid.
Only the fact than the poor Spanish male was enough rewards for her. She remain learning another peaceful way to solve a hard moment, maybe a day she should talk to her and if she does it wrong, she could cause to Rosa to leave the house, something against her personality, as she want to make the team work like a perfect machine or at least a family.
She decide to close the panel if the Mistress leave the place, but if the fight restart she should press the button
Mae approached the tall, bespectacled maid tending the fire in an eerie manner.
"Rosa, I think what the Mistress is getting at is that setting fire to a man is a bit too much of a response for an unwanted advance. Might I suggest a heel to the top of his foot or a knee to his groin region in the future. Fire might harm the house or others within it. If you intend to be a professional maid around here, you must keep in mind the necessity to preserve the estate and not bring disaster or damage to it."
Barely a minute had passed when there was further interruptions, this time from the angel of the group. The thought was pretty weird to Rosa, thinking about angels in such casual manners. It seemed that she wanted to give her further advice, which was really a given, but her early actions would give anyone doubts that the tall maid knew anything of them. "Hmmm, sure. I'll remember that..." was the brief answer she offered in reply, a gloved hand reaching for a new piece of wood that was added into the flame. It was likely not a convincing answer, but that was all that Rosa had the interest to say in the particular situation.
