video; backdated to during the yard sard

[craftlife]

[Deon looks characteristically excited...but even more so than usual. And he's talking...a little faster...than usual.]

Okay, so I know about the jar of endless coffee beans in the Hotel, right? That thing is a godsend, it really is, but it's just not enough, you know? Well, I found something, during the yard sale, and I'd really really appreciate it if someone could help me set up something similar. It can be done, right? Course it can, there's an endless jar of coffee beans, this is a lot easier, or should be anyway.

[He holds an open can of Red Bull up to the camera. And the way he's holding it? It looks empty.

Take someone away from their fix for a couple months, and give it back, and don't be surprised when the reaction is a little stronger than usual.]

I found a whole case of Red Bull, and I'd like to know if anyone can make it so that it doesn't run out. Violates every law of physics I know, but the coffee jar proves it can be done, and I know there's people who can do all sorts of magic here, so how about it?

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[craftlife]

Well, there's got to be a way around it, right? Can't just be a fluke. No, we just must not have found the way to do it right yet. Got to be repeatable, somehow.

[He looks pensive for a moment, and then brightens.]

I also found something else at the yard sale! A model of one of my Scouts. Want to see?

[bigdamnhiro]

When you discover infinite Red Bull, please tell me you're gonna share.

[Dude, you are so wired right now, and he is 100% okay with that. He has visited that state of consciousness himself one too many times in his young life.]

You mean the dystopian police robots? Yeah, sure, shoot.

[craftlife]

It would be a crime not to!

[It's like a weird transcendent haze of on. One might even say he is...De-on shut up I'm hilarious.

He turns aside and picks something up out of his bag. It's about a foot-high model of this, riot shield not included.]

It's not actually a robot like Megabot...more like an action figure, really.

[Combining Megabot's abilities and the Scouts, though? Aw yis. Please, nobody let these two collaborate.]

[bigdamnhiro]

And you replaced cops in riot gear with bots in riot gear? Dude, scary.

[He's probably not taking this as seriously as he should be, but srsly Hiro. More "dude, scary" than you really understand.]

[craftlife]

Well, you didn't see how bad Johannesburg has gotten, I guess. Or maybe it's different where you come from. Regardless, the Scouts have saved the lives of countless human officers.

[Desperate times call for desperate measures, or something.]

[bigdamnhiro]

Fair enough.

[It's...kind of like what Tadashi wanted to do with Baymax, he thinks, just from a different and slightly more aggressive angle.]

Hate to see what happens if somebody manages to get malware into them, though. Robot Apocalypse is the kind of publicity we try to avoid, back home.

[craftlife]

[He flinches. Just a bit. A little too on the nose, there, Hiro.]

That would be awful, wouldn't it? Well, luckily, we have a system at Tetravaal to prevent that from happening.

[Works great, until someone with authorization and a grudge gets a hold of it...]

[bigdamnhiro]

Ooh, a system. Not like anybody's ever managed to crack one of those before.

[Security measures were made to be defeated, dude]

[craftlife]

I know there's no such thing as a perfectly impregnable security system, but it's still the best in the business.

[The Chekhov's Gunniest of Chekhov's Guns, to be real.]