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Mage and OpenBlade face a big MATA_Bot with a big gun.
Bot: "Did you seriously bring a sword to a gunfight?"
Mage gets ready to fight, but OpenBlade interrupts -
OpenBlade: "'A SWORD?!'"
Mage to OpenBlade: "..by Theo, come on, not now..."
OpenBlade to Mage: "Don't you dare touch that volume slider!"
Bot: "um.. what's happening?"
OpenBlade, angrily, to MATA_Bot: "Now listen very carefully you heap of semi-sentient mass produced pile of MATA garbage. I am not a 'sword'. I am a fully-sentient MilTek developed Lisp Machine capable of immediate combat evaluation and threat assessment. I was created by the masters of the ancient tech industry and educated by the most reputable warfare experts and taught to know things you couldn't even dream of attempting to imagine!"
Bot: "...I'm just gonna go..."
The MATA_Bot leaves.
Mage: "I can't believe that worked."
OpenBlade: "We should play poker sometimes."