by Manikin » Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:17 am
Meanwhile, in the dorms...
The spectacle outside draws plenty of attention, half of the dorm rooms having a pretty good view of it out onto the driveway and it's loud enough that the noise of something clanging around inside the airducts is easy to miss. Until one of the grates in the hallway is pushed out from the inside and falls to the carpeted floor. The grate is soon followed by a robotic-seeming hand and lower arm, a thick steel wire spooling out from the elbow and pulling a series of sleek, armored pieces out of the airduct. An upper arm, a chunk of shoulder followed by three more substantial pieces that look like they come together to form a torso. Another arm, two legs and finally a blank oval shape rolls out of the duct and lands on top of the pile. A soft whirring noise kicks up as the cables begin to retract, pulling the whole assembly together into a humanoid shape, the torso pieces fitting together along sides that look to be made from translucent material as opposed to the sleek white and steel design of the outside shell. Inside a pulsing, almost organic movement can be seen before everything snaps together seamlessly into the humanoid shape of a blank mannequin, arms dangling loosely and the head lolling about for a moment before the cable pulls it taut against the torso, snapping it upright.