EMP is fantastic stuff.... but timing is better

Who: Seymour, Rosette, and Rufus
where: Seymours quarters
When: just after the EMP fallout.
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As he limped around the corner he saw the door to Seymours quarters
was open, and screams were coming from inside. He grabbed an EMP
grenade from his pocket, pulled the pin and launched it into the room.
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Inside the room, the grenade wasn't a pleasant sight for the sentient
beings that happened to be in there.
"GRENADE!" seymour shouted, and dived behind a sofa. Unfortunately
for him, this was his robotic sofa that massaged him. the arms from
it rose up, and grabbed hold of him, pinning him to the floor. the
third arm then proceeded to runa knuckle down his spine, rather fast.
"owowowowoowowow" he managed through the bursts of pain from the metal
knuckle jumping to the next vertibrae. Rosette wasn't having much
luck either, the fridge and drinks cooler were assaulting her. She
backed away from the fridge, as it lunged, almost falling on her. it
managed to stay up, regardless of how much of its weight had been
suddenly shifted.
She stopped as her back hit the wall, waiting for it to lunge again.
As it did, she dived to the side, which is unfortunately where the
drinks cooler was hiding. it let several ice cubes fall onto the
floor, as well as a puddle of water. she slipped, and fell flat on
her back.
Looking up, she saw the fridge approach her... thats when the grenade
went off.
Everything stopped dead... except for the fridge. although not moving
under its own power, it was however working under the power of
gravity. It fell on her.
Naturally, having the entire wight of a fridge fall on her knocked the
air out of her, and broke a couple of ribs. And of course, as always,
the pain of broken ribs is enough to stop you from being able to use
your entire strength... this meant the fridge pinned her to the
ground, and she was unable to move.
Seymour didn't have it much better, as the sofa stopped in its tracks,
but still had him pinned to the floor in a position that meant he
couldn't move.
"anybody home?" Rufus asked as he poked his head through the door.
Rosette coughed and spluttered as she tried to catch her breath, but
seymour called out first.
"help! i've been assaulted by a massage machine!"
He heard the splutter first, and walked into the kitchen to find the
source.
"are you ok?" he asked, attempting to pull the fridge off of her. it
slid slowly from her, and fell to the floor next to her with a bang.
Rosette lay there for another few seconds before she got her breath
back. "I'm ok..." she managed, sitting up with a yelp of pain as one
of her broken ribs decided to stab her a little. he instantly lay
down again. she looked up at rufus, and managed a smile. "thanks"
Rufus moved into the main room, and saw seymour pinned to the floor by
several metal arms, next to a sofa. he couldn't help but snigger as
he noticed every other piece of electronics and robotics in the room
were converging on his position. any longer and he'd have been
assaulted by much more than just a sofa. Pulling the arms from him,
he helped seymour up, who dusted himself off. He'd been pinned to the
floor face down, so he couldn't see the large tears in his shirt and
jacket, all the way down his back.
Rosette crawled into the main room, trying not to move her ribs
much. "a little help here please?" she asked, hoping they'd be able to
get her to stand up without the immense pain.
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