A direct continuation to FFM 2026 19: An Invitation. More lightly edited than most because I needed this out of the worklist ASAP. Steirdrar felt awful upon waking up. Dehydration. Hunger. Bad signs. But he was lying on his side on something incredibly soft? "Good, keep waking up. Follow my voice," someone spoke. Loud, firm but … Continue reading FFM 2026 20: Waking Up

"Figures." Iazyer shifted a bit. "Are 'ey worse 'an a stranger offering you a place at 'eir guest room?" Steirdrar wished Iazyer had their helmet off so he could see their expression. "Depends on the stranger and location."

Cou-2 kept things professional when they made it to the apartment C'zlu's family lived in. They were getting looks from the civilians — courier Mechs were rare in the civilian parts of the base, Infini'tech Labs Mechs much less so — but they ignored it. They had a job to do.

Damp'n'FurryII: It's all right, no harm done. How are you feeling? Hungover, I imagine? The messaging system informed him that Beyari had turned a speech-to-text system on and was responding.

Before he would do that, however, he had to get backing out of QWERTY's project over with, before QWERTY would come to him to ask if he has time to work on it again. The perfect opportunity came when Beyari was out meeting with the saboteur crew whose work helped make her and QWERTY's previous mission a success; QWERTY was having aers rest period and not recharging.