God damn I let this die again right after re-raising it. I'm never gonna be a Master Necromancer at this rate! Still, I have to stick in there and become the best like no-ones ever been, because you're all counting on me!

In unrelated news, ya'll are gonna enjoy what Wu I rolled.

And related news,

Spoiler: Winning Votes

WEDNESDAY: Choose 2 Worth of Action Points Below

Spoiler: Winning Votes

[X] Build Jackbots: 2 Builders(Costs 1 Action)
[X] Build Jackbots: 4 Flying (Costs 1 Action) WU INTERRUPT!

CHAPTER START!

You had just begun your third round of the victory dance when a crash came from a side of the Lab, knocking the revelry from your system and replacing it with a stab of fear.

With a scream best described as 'shrill', you hastily jumped into the arms of the nearest Jackbot, looking in the direction of the sound ad ready to order the Bot to safety, the Third-Arm Sash already set to thumb along with haste.

When your eyes found the source of the noise however...your eye began to twitch.

It was a Jack the Builder Bot working on another of its brethren, with the sound having been made from the pressure bolts going through plating.

With great haste Jack tore himself from the Bot's arms, even as the Third-Arm patted its head for trying. He paid this no mind as he marched over to the loud builder.

"C'mon man, what're you doing! You saw I was celebrating! Ya nearly gave me a heart attack!" You complained to your bot shaking him round a little but doing nothing else.

If anything, the Bot looked down for moment, as if in shame, before turning to his newly created brothers, which you now saw had slight differences to them. One had a small lightbulb on the back of his head, as if a hair-bun, and the other had small metallic shavings gathered around its top casing, as if curly hair.

You already felt a headache coming on as you saw the three now line up and await orders.

"Ahh, right, forgot what happens when you guys make each other..." You sighed for a second.

With how you'd designed the personality matrix's of the Bot's, they tended to get...not emotions but impressions of certain actions or characters they could access and find 'interest' in through use of their internal servers. This wasn't a bad thing mind, it showed just how far your genius spanned, but the bot's usually had...other priorities than they should.

"STATEMENT: Aww, Geez I told you guys he wouldn't like us." Came from the Curly one.

"REBUTTLE: No you didn't you Bolt-Head, you were data-streams a few minutes ago!" From Bulb.

"ARGUMENT: You two wise-guys want to keep up the prattle or do I need to fry some curcuits?" Came the original Builder bot, who you were just now noticing had some extra plating to his arms and torso.

"STEREO: NYANGNYANGNYANG!"

What happened next was literally a show. The three were running around each other pulling tabs, knocking heads into chassis, and side-winding burners to cherry red 'bruises'. What would have been fatal to normal people was made hilarious, and you didn't try to hide the laughter when you spotted Shoulders plugging Bulb into an outlet, making him spark before grabbing hold of Curly, 'hair' now looking like a bed of nails.

Eventually though, it had to stop.

"Okay, that's enough for now. Fall in." You commanded.

And like that the comedy stopped, each stepping before you, Shoulders with a salute even, making you grin even as the Third-Arm returned it.

"Alright, obviously you guys aren't the usual batch, and that's cool. So, I'm gonna give you some new designations. Got it?" You grinned.

As one, they replied in sync.

"ANSWER: READY FOR ASSIGNMENT/SOMETHING!" Well, almost sync, curly switched it off at the end leading shoulders to raise his arms servos as if he was about to leap.

You wasted no time.

"13C7, you are now Moe. 14C1, you are now Larry. 14C2, you are now Curly. Acknowledged?"

"STATEMENT: ACKNOWLEDGED!"

"Great! Then get to work!" You called over your shoulder as the Third-Arm waved goodbye, off to make some actual bots now.

You still listened in to their conversation as you walked away through.

"QUESTION: So, you think we're alone out here? Just, nothing else in the universe?"

"REPLY: Oh, A Wise-Guy eh? C'mere, I'll let ya see those stars nice and close, then you tell me!"

And with-held a small snicker. Yeah, bots developed by themselves inevitably went a little weird, but most of them were a good weird.

GAINED: The Three Builder-Bros!: Self developed Bots that run off a closed network, giving them a +15% increase in finishing a job they are assigned to! However, they don't get things done straight forwardly, and can lead to high-jinks galore. All Actions will take one to two more time slots than necessary to finish.
Can be used as a Distraction.
Can be Upgraded.

Still, thoughts of those Bots was fresh in your mind. Time to strike while the iron is hot and the spine is unbroken! Time to unleash-!

"A NEW SHEN GONG WU HAS REVEALED ITSELF! IT IS THE EAGLE SCOPE!" Wuya screeched in your ear, making you sweep the Third-Arm Sash across your work space as you turned around and gave the biggest damn grin you could at the moment.

-Yourself on an unsuspecting world! Jack's back, and he can swing ass with the best of them!

...that sounded wrong...

END OF CHAPTER!

GAINS:
The Three Builder-Bros!: Self developed Bots that run off a closed network, giving them a +15% increase in finishing a job they are assigned to! However, they don't get things done straight forwardly, and can lead to high-jinks galore. All Actions will take one to two more time slots than necessary to finish.
Can be used as a Distraction.
Can be Upgraded.

END OF GAINS!

THE SHEN GONG WU HAS REVEALED ITSELF IN THE CITY OF LOVE, FRANCE!

CHOOSE YOUR TRANSPORTATION AND WU!

[] Take the Jet: Get there in 4 hours, gain Prep time and chance to search with little hindrance. ?,? chance of ?

[] Take a Boat: Drive to the nearest marina and go by the Sea! Get there in 12 Hours, create Tactics for possible interference/
fail-safes, ?, ?

[] Take the Jet-Pack?; Put your new gear to the ultimate test! Get there in 18 Hours, gain +2 COURAGe, and possible new Skill. Chance of ?, ?

CHOOSE ONE OF THE ABOVE

Which Wu Will You Bring?

[] Ring of the Nine Dragons

[] Third-Arm Sash

[] Lasso Boa-Boa

[] Bring two Wu? Name Which

PICK ONE

END OF VOTING

I'm glad I've done the things I did. Also, still no email back from Konatsu or Mifune. They have lives too, and not really steady access to computers apparently.

The next one won't be 50 days from now.