[Video] [Backdated to before Sirens] Welcome to The Afternoon of the Living Desk Toys

[gavesugar]

[When the screen flicks to life, the only thing in sight is a carpet - and the only sound a rhythmic ding that sounds like a buckyball hitting the bottom of a trashcan. The screen jostles about as Sheila seizes her NV and then throws herself behind her desk. You're then treated to a side-view of Sheila's face and the rips, tears, and smudges marring her business suit.]

Back with thee, foul demon!

[The view shifts to reveal an electric propulsive perpetual motion machine rocking crazily back and forth, launching an arsenal of buckyballs on every outswing! Sheila puts down her NV.]

Is there no way to cease this foolishness?!

[Grabbing a dictionary, Sheila ducks behind it and reaches wildly for the cord...only to trip and step on her NV, shutting it off. Responses shall come a few moments later.]

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[gavesugar]

[Sheila's still cringing behind the book, her NV settled on the desk as she gropes with her free hand for the toy.]

It..FEELS...demonic...Sir...ORPHEUS!

[She starts bashing the desk toy with her book until it goes still, then sits back with a sigh.]

Art it connected to the violence others on the network have experienced?

[Video]

[dr_orpheus]

I think you should count yourself lucky that it's not a curling iron or toaster. Then you might rightly call it hellfire.

[It's rather satisfying to watch it crumble under her beating.]

Yes, there seems to be an epidemic of poorly behaved electronic goods.

[Video]

[gavesugar]

[Sheila fairly cringes to recall that others have far more dangerous problems afoot than her desk toy crises. The last little chunk of metal falls by the wayside and she pitches the book across the room.]

Humans hath constructed them. One presumes that they mayst know how to tame them!

[Video]

[dr_orpheus]

Those who rely on the ways of science rarely foresee the inevitable inconveniences of their creations.

[Video]

[gavesugar]

La, I hath gathered.

[Cue every flashback ever to her life with Ash. She tries to pat her hair down and sweep the bits of metal into a nearby wastebasket.]

One wishes they might invest in a more obvious off switch!