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[cutejustice]

[Well. Maya had gotten settled, such as it was. She had found a place to live for the time being. But so far not really doing much of anything was driving her up one wall and back down the other. So, it was clearly time to change that.

The screen flashed on. She at least had figured out how to access the network. Though it had taken many questions (sometimes asked more than once!) of her long suffering robot buddy, Helper.]

Hi! For those of you who don't know, I am Maya! I know there are a lot of people and robots and stuff I probably haven't met yet!

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone needed a lawyer around here? Or a spirit medium/ghost talker type person? Don't think it's weird that I'm mentioning the two of those things in close proximity. You'd be surprised at how often the two intersect!

[Robots could get into trouble, right? Besides, there were human people around. Besides... Maya didn't want to know know about the existence of robot ghosts, thanks. Though she had a feeling she might find out before she got to go home.]

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[cutejustice]

I'm not sure I want to figure out the legal system here, truth be told. I mean... I've seen some pretty weird things back home, but I'm not sure how I'd go about defending a giant robot in a murder case.

[At the redhead's statement that the ghosts were more interesting than she was used to, Maya just groaned.]

All right. Tell me. How weird are the ghosts around here? Are there robot ghosts? Are there zombies? I already had someone tell me that there used to be these guys who could reverse death at a whim, but they don't seem to be around anymore. How much worse does it get?

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Lea shrugged.]

The same as you would anyone else would be my guess. I've lived with these guys awhile; they might be different from us physically, but I've found that if you just treat them like really huge people you won't be too far off the mark.

[That makes Lea smirk though]

The zombies... we had to deal with at one point but hopefully not again. They weren't native, and were brought in by this huge, evil chaos deity called Unicron. You'll be finding out more about him if you stick around long enough, but for now, just take my word for it; the guy and anything associated with him are seriously bad news.

Also there's the cats. One of them looks like a ghost, but really isn't; she's actually some kind of energy based alien, which is weird enough. Both she and the other cat are among the Guardians here.

And that other cat... is Death. Literally. He's the aspect of Death that serves this world, and though he can really look like anything, he usually takes the shape of a black cat with glowing red eyes, so as not to scare everyone. He kinda can't help being creepy, but he's actually an OK guy... force... whatever, and doesn't usually scare people on purpose.

[cutejustice]

[Robot. Zombies. Maya didn't like dealing with any kind of zombies, but robot zombies? This was going to be awful.]

Evil Chaos Deities are usually bad news. I think I'm going to want to stay far away from this Unicron guy. I mean, if he's an Evil Chaos God, I might not be able to do anything if he shows up, but I'm not going to go looking for trouble, you know?

[At Lea's discussion of cats, Maya blinked.]

I've met one of the cats, Sirrah, not that long ago. But Death around here is a cat? Wow. I just... Wow. I never thought Death would be a cat. I always thought he'd be a bear... or an angry old man with a tazer...

[Maya's seen some weird stuff. Though it's somewhat comforting that Death is a cat and not an angry old prosecutor with a tazer.]

[hotheadwarmheart]

Yeah, probly not. I mean, no offence and I realize I could easily be misjudging here, but you don't really look like someone who packs that level of firepower.

And while I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of him, I hope it's a long time before he rears his ugly head again. We stopped him the last time but the cost was... a little too high, for my liking.

[He looked solemn for a moment, but it passed as the conversation continued. Her idea of Death made his lips quirk into a small, amused smirk.]

Well, if you wanted him to look like that, I'm sure he'd accommodate you. He's a pretty reasonable guy, when not there to do his job.

[cutejustice]

I'll have you know that you're talking to the Master of the Kurain School of Channeling Technique. That means I theoretically have quite a bit of spiritual power at my disposal to throw around, Mister. Maybe even enough to take on this Unicron guy. You shouldn't judge people just because they don't look like much.

[She's teasing. She wants absolutely no part of Evil Chaos Deities. Unicron can stay far far away.]

And I think I could live the rest of my life with Death being a cat. Cats are much less threatening than old men with tazers.

[hotheadwarmheart]

[He chuckles, pretending to be chastised for a moment.]

Alright, I get it. Don't judge a book by its cover and all that good stuff.

[Privately, he wonders how much help she would actually be, but as it's a moot point at the moment, he lets the topic drop]

True. Which is why he picked that form in the first place. There's enough regular cats running around here that he probly figured it'd be the least scary option for people.