Enter your mastermind.

[theoverseen]

[Once all the votes are in, there's a hissing sound, like fog escaping a fog machine. However, there's no fog to be seen. Until you look up to the Overseer's booth, with its glass walls that are slowly becoming more opaque as the room fills with white smoke.

A bright bluish-white light illuminates what it can, from lights on top of and below the platform like a rock star stage. There's a barely-visible shadow, and the menacing cackle of a voice that you're all quite familiar with, even though you haven't heard it in a while.

And then the cackling turns into coughing and yelling.]

HGGCKKK! ACK! KHHCHKSH! HAKH AHAKH AHAKHAKH!!!!!

[The glass around the platform shatters from the blunt force of two long, spindly metal arms, and white smoke pours down from the Overseer's platform and to the floor, spilling out the long distance to the floor like medical-cherry-scented clouds.

The alien man is...a lot smaller than Kip, actually, held aloft by four long spider-like arms sticking out from somewhere on his back. And as soon as he stops choking on his own mistakes, the cackling resumes again.]

Behold!! Humans, robots, AI, and... anything else you may identify as! Your "Kip Larimer" does not exist! I, KIP! AM YOUR OVERLORD!

Comments

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[daughterofthemark]

Sir Kip...?

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[daughterofthemark]

You're so adorable!

[scourgingstars]

....I thought you might be taller. Are you hurt?

[myocordial]

...Not the most impressive of entrances, but I suppose I should give you points for effort.

[goteachother]

[Forget the singing this is important. Her wand is out in a heartbeat and, spider legs or not, she snapping off a spell even as she marches towards him.]

Incarcerous!

[theoverseen]

[Kip screams indignantly. The two arms over his shoulders shoot lasers that vaporize the ropes that shoot toward him.]

Queenie, not in public! Jeez!

[shikosuki]

.......................What the fuck.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Spider. Called it.

[serrata]

...

He's so short.

[ WHAT ELSE IS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS???? ]

[scourgingstars]

[he's trying so hard not to laugh]

[shikosuki]

...I guess I'm not the shortest guy here anymore.

Or even the shortest green man.

[everylittlesecret]

[LOOK SHE'S STILL DYING BUT SHE'LL THROW HER TWO CENTS IN]

He looks like a possessed version of the Android mascot!

[everylittlesecret]

........

[SORRY, SHE'S GOING TO COLLAPSE ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING]

Y-You're so cute!

[desperateprayer]

Kip...

[ She may be tearing up to see he's okay. Alive. Just fine. ]

You're okay.

[theoverseen]

[His huge shiny red eyes find her (how he ain't got no pupils fam), and his eyes get even bigger.]

Agh... Clarith, don't cry...

Catherd

[theoverseen]

[Kip's robot legs skitter up and over the ceiling, keeping him well out of range. He turns and hangs there, tiny arms crossed over his chest.]

Now that you've seen my true perfection, I'm sure you have many questions for the great Kip!

[everylittlesecret]

[That is still so cute and this may seem off topic as Nari stands back up.]

Yes! [She holds up the shipping list.] I love this. You should have told me about it and I totes would have helped... wait. That's not a question.

[scourgingstars]

First of all, whatever the larger picture of the situation may be, did you honestly believe this group would condemn you after all of this? You've terrible observational skills if that's true.

[shikosuki]

[ Hello fellow little green man, he's also crossing his arms. ]

Okay. Here's one.

How'd you get into the bathroom that morning without anyone seeing you.

[myocordial]

"Perfection", really? That's reaching.

I think you fall a little short of that.

[did he just]

[goteachother]

Why didn't you tell me?

After you saved me? Why didn't you-

[Two days in that room and everything would have been so much better and easier if you'd just told her idiot.]

[desperateprayer]

...The cupcakes were too sweet because you didn't account for humans not being able to handle that much sugar, weren't they?

[desperateprayer]

...Um. While it's nice that Kip is back, what now? We're still stuck. Aren't we?

[ How do they get out. ]

[scourgingstars]

Queenie seemed to imply she was being told to 'await rescue', didn't she?

Kip, is there something you know on that front that we don't?

Autobots roll out

[theoverseen]

Alright!!

[Kip raises himself up high on his PAK legs so that he can be the center of attention.]

Everyone get out, I'll get PAL ready to go and pull a limo around front to meet you guys.

...And I guess let Ceec out too. Someone remember to tell her the best ever idea that I had about taking the morgue.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Hey, wait. Could I have let her out with this?

[Waves his arm. You know, the cool robot one.]

[theoverseen]

[While everyone's gathering their shit, they'll notice that Kip didn't come with them.

Also, that the patio doors locked behind them.

But never fear, after a...while. There's the sound of a horn honking from the front. Surprise, bitch, it's one of the limos. With...two giant jet rockets attached to either side of the back of it so that- you know what it's a penis.

Come on kids get in the penis.

Kip opens the door and gets out on his own two feet (showing off his spectacular height of... 4'9"), but more importantly a small robot jumps out after him like a hyperactive puppy.]

Let me do it! I am the master computer.

[goteachother]

[Oh good! Limo is here~

She has some spellwork to do on that trunk okay.

After she's done squealing over PAL.]

Oh my goodness!