Diary of a Machine Fiend

My inventions work /just fine/, thank you.

Using them in the middle of a giant time crash isn't reccommended.

When the phone rings, Skuld's nearest to it. At the Morisato household, everyone pitches in and helps out, even if they're hip-deep in rebuilding their pet prorject. Oh, the calculations and the stress factors to be designed...!

"Morisato residence, Skuld speaking! How may I ..."

Skuld's fingers drop the phone, the clattering of it on the wood floor of the temple that Keiichi and Belldandy use as their home loud enough for the others to hear. She moves at a dead run, swinging past her room only long enough to grab her mallet, the debugging tool she uses when she's working. To the bathroom, busting in on Keiichi without more than a 'How do you do!' or an 'Oops, Sorry', she dieves into his bath, and teleports home.

When the Almighty calls and says '... Skuld. Come home now.', you listen.

She's greeted with a horrific sight - the normally calm and tranquil area that is Yggdrasil's computer room is full of chaos and error. Everywhere Skuld looks, thousands upon thousands of Bugs move, causing errors and flaws in reality to occur. She's never seen an infestation this bad - and everything screams at being a non-natural cause.

But she can't spend time finding out 'why' - she has to get working, lest the universe be overrun.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I didn't tell anyone about this!! It didn't need to be talked about! It's not...

I'm sorry.

An empty-ish part of the Nexus, that consists of bare ground and very little else.

Skuld is there, as is her pet robot Banpei-kun. Over her shoulder is her mallet, and a small box is within her hands. She fidgets a bit, looking nervous - handing over items for testing is always an uncertian thing!

Batman,

I think I'm ready for a prototype run on what we were discussing. If you have time, that is! Is there a good place to meet you?

So I'm slowly starting to tear apart the equipment I made for detecting and destroying curses.

I did keep plans, at least. I don't know how well anyone else would follow them, but I can at least rebuild it in a day or so if I need to.

I need to build something new. I'm not sure what, though.

Ask Skuld anything, I'll try to answer. Please specify if you want an IC or OOC answer, and expect some IC answers to be answered with a '.... That's a little too personal.' :)

Skuld pops back in to the temple through the baths, holding Banpei's hand so he can come along safely. She makes sure he lands outside of the tub - while he's designed not to be affected by water, it's always better safe than sorry.

"Tadaima~~!!"

Silence, save for the whirring of Banpei's metal gears as he looks around the empty room. Skuld sighs a bit, and slips off her shoes, walking to the door and setting them down in the entryway. She heads to the kitchen, sitting down in a chair after getting herself a small single-serve choco-mint ice cream, and eats.

Taking some time to think things over... Deciding just how much of what she feels for Otto is real, or fake. She'd tried to give him so much..

Could he really not know?

Probably for the best... At least, that's what she thinks as she stares off into nothing, spoon stuck in between her lips, Banpei looking on with worry.

... I'm fine now.

Kamisama answers the phone again.

He told me he knew I'd find the answers...

But all I have is more questions.

I haven't been updating lately. I've been trying to get more sleep and working when I wasn't.

I know what happened now, and I know how to break it.

I'll take care of that tonight.

Skuld goes to the kitchen, looking about - still no Belldandy or Urd? Eesh.

This is odder and odder. Still, she has something she can work with, so she's going to ask for help.

She goes to the phone, and dials Hild's number. Then, she waits, while she listens to the tinny ringing sound.

Please be there, Aunt Hild...

Hello, everyone!

I got... uhm, a whole lot of sleep last night, and managed to get some things puzzled out on a scanning station I'd been working on. It's nice to have pieces fall into place - and I should have realized that panicking and shorting myself on sleep was a bad idea.

I hope you're all doing well yourselves - I'm going to try and fix myself up soon.

-Skuld

"Augh! I dont know how to make tea! Belldandy, where are you?!"

Skuld flails a bit, expanding the quarentine field to expand around the temple, instead of just her room. Someone of Hild's power will be able to get in without any troubles. It may, however, give her an idea of how serious Skuld thinks this is.

She might look a little run-down, a lack of sleep and an effort to be polite and industrious and ... and ... augh!

Tea will be ready soon!

Well...

I figured out what's wrong.

That's good, right?

Skuld's room has a sliding panel door - it's open. However, there's a field of what seems like glass between her room and the rest of the temple. Banpei is the only thing allowed in - and he's been sent around and about to help her get things she needs.

In this specific instance - a phone.

Every ten minutes, she picks the phone up and raises it to her ear. Her fingers dial a number - the number really doesn't matter, as the phone is just a conduit to pass on one of her own messages to the being she takes her orders from. But now, instead of His reassuring voice, she receives a tinny recording.

[[We are sorry for the inconvinence - the number you are attempting to reach is out of service.]]

[[Scanning...

Scanning...

Corruption Detected!]]

"..."

Skuld looks down and away from the screen, towards the implement she holds in her hands. The machine, a stripped down version of a diagnostic that Yggdrassil would be able to run, has just finished its analysis of its most recent subject.

Skuld herself.

"It's wrong. It has to be wrong!"

She'll perform the scan again. And again.

The results won't change.

If you had me alone... Locked up in your house for twenty-four hours and I had to do whatever you wanted me to, what would you do with me?