After someone commented on the A.P.E.S.H.I.T. suit, I was reminded of a Villains & Vigilantes character a friend of mine whipped up once.
This was a guy, you have to understand, who was gifted with a silver tongue. The kind of guy who always seemed to have just the right patter to lay on you, and
even though he was making it up, it sounded smooth and well-rehearsed. We joked once that he could tell you that you were possessed by the devil, and the only
way to save yourself was to burn yourself at the stake. And you'd thank him for this, and go do it.
Anyway, he was playing a character called the "Apple REBEL". It was a demonstration-model combat robot that had twenty pre-recorded spiels that went
on to exhort the advantages of this combat model. And they tended to play whenever he got into a fight. Other than that, you had to pull a cord on his back, at
which point he stated something like forty randomly selected phrases, which often had nothing to do with the situation
at hand. And he carried it off beautifully.
Sheesh, now I wish I had a recording of those sessions.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
This was a guy, you have to understand, who was gifted with a silver tongue. The kind of guy who always seemed to have just the right patter to lay on you, and
even though he was making it up, it sounded smooth and well-rehearsed. We joked once that he could tell you that you were possessed by the devil, and the only
way to save yourself was to burn yourself at the stake. And you'd thank him for this, and go do it.
Anyway, he was playing a character called the "Apple REBEL". It was a demonstration-model combat robot that had twenty pre-recorded spiels that went
on to exhort the advantages of this combat model. And they tended to play whenever he got into a fight. Other than that, you had to pull a cord on his back, at
which point he stated something like forty randomly selected phrases, which often had nothing to do with the situation
at hand. And he carried it off beautifully.
Sheesh, now I wish I had a recording of those sessions.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.