come one come all to newts chop shop

[kaijugrrroupie]

Who: Newt Geiszler, Kit Peddler and YOU
Where: Newt's clinic in the shady part of China town that Newt sort of lives in.
When: Pretty much whenever. The clinic is open five days a week, and this is a catchall.
What: Newt's clinic is still open for all wayward aliens, robots and cyborgs to be seen to without questions for free. Kit is his rude secretary hacker who is also pretty good (better) at fixing up the cyborgs.
Warnings: Bullshit science and Newt is a warning on his own, but will update if medical stuff happens.

[there's a few thread-starters within, but please feel free to hit this up!! The clinic's location is easy to get a hold of for anyone who needs it and a google search of Newt will reveal that he's actually really great at what he does and has lots of credibility as well as 6 pHDs. Back and Post dating is fine, just let me know!]

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[thanksoptimus]

[Optimus has already spoken to Newt once about the situation, but he's come in again to check up on things. He's not surprised that Newt is busy, though. The woman is curious enough that he comes in anyway.

He's in his jade blooded troll avatar again.]

Hello. You work with Doctor Geiszler?

[liberaition]

[Kit finally looks away from her work.]

Yes, I-- [wow. They don't get many Alternians at the clinic. There are really only a few Alternians in LA period. Kit wonders if this one knows Sollux.]

I work with Dr. Geiszler. Are you experiencing a medical emergency? [just concentrate on running that receptionist subroutine, tune out the weird distracting signal and being worried about Sollux.]

[thanksoptimus]

[Optimus blinks.]

I am not. I have been discussing a few...projects with Dr Geiszler. I am looking to meet members of the related community.

[liberaition]

[oh, good. It's hard to tell with aliens sometimes.]

Which community would that be?

[with her cybernetic hand, Kit rubs at her temples. The signal is kind of loud, and it's nothing she's ever heard before, which is really weird. Maybe some kind of Alternian tech? It's kind of giving her a headache.]

[thanksoptimus]

[Uhh. Hmm. How to actually phrase that...]

The human community, though specifically those with the skills or abilities to adapt to otherworldly phenomenon. Dr Geiszler is very adept in the ways of my kind for one of his species.

[liberaition]

Humans don't generally consider themselves one community.

[case in point: Kit would be mortified if mistaken for an organic.]

[she just can't tune out that signal, and it's making her head hurt more by the minute.]

I'm sorry, do you have some sort of radio on you? A device? Are you broadcasting? It's very loud.

[She's tempted to just reach out with her mind and shut it down, but thinking about getting closer to it sets her teeth on edge. Which isn't unusual, it always takes her a while to get used to new frequencies. When one new phone startup moved into LA Kit barely left her Faraday cage for a week.]

[thanksoptimus]

[Oh. Optimus looks uncertain for a moment, glancing down at himself, and then up at Kit again.]

I apologize. This is not my true form - this is instead a hard light projection. I am not, in truth, an Alternian. I am instead an autonomous robotic organism known as a Cybertronian.

[liberaition]

[oh. oh. Well then.]

You! You're one of them! [Kit rockets out of her seat, knocking over her chair and shoving some of her neatly laid out tools off of the desk in the process.] One of the robots from the fight downtown. I knew Dr. Geiszler was helping you.

[she hurries out from behind the reception desk, still limping slightly on her not fully healed leg.] My name is Kit Peddler, and if there's anything I can do to help you please let me know. I'm, I do robotics and cybernetics and software engineering and other engineering, and if you ever need any computer work done or... actually really anything, I can help. I'd love to help.

[it takes everything Kit has not to blurt out 'can I see your secret hideout']

[thanksoptimus]

[Optimus was not prepared for that level of enthusiasm, and steps back a little. Oh. Oh, okay.

In the end he manages to politely nod his head.]

It is good to meet you, Kit Peddler. I feel that we may need all the help we can get, in the coming days. The Earth now faces...a significant threat.