"Ahh, Klick, good to see you. Please, come sit down- or well. Ahem. Come join me!" Boffle requested, only too late realizing that Klick's anatomy wasn't exactly one made for sitting.
"Good afternoon sir. I do hope you don't intend to invite me for tea and biscuits next- I am quite busy this afternoon. If we could- why is it you've summoned me here?" Klick asked pointedly.
Boffle fumbled a moment. He never did like scolding his staff, and usually preferred to ease into less pleasant topics after pleasantries. He reached over to a small stack of documents and sighed.
"Well, unfortunately it seems there have been a number of complaints about you from the resort's guests." Boffle began, flipping through the pages, "Here it says when a guest complained, you told them to go to the other hotel. There's no other hotel on the island Klick!"
"No, not on the island." Klick agreed slyly, "They're free to take a ferry back to the nearest city if they'd like."
Boffle shook his head and moved on to the next complaint, "Another guest said when they asked you to take out the trash you responded you weren't looking for a relationship right now. Really now! Is that any way to treat a guest?"
Klick chuckled a bit at his own joke at the guest's expense, "Well, it certainly isn't any way to treat me! Just because I'm a machine doesn't mean I'm a common servant! You of all people should know how hard I've worked to become more than that." The smaller robot shot back, his propeller whirring a bit faster than before.
"Of course, and I do appreciate everything you do. You're absolutely irreplaceable." Boffle responded calmly. "However, the way you've been treating guests, well it's become an issue." he continued, gesturing with papers now in both hands. "I've seen it myself on a few occasions and I can't keep ignoring it. Why here... A guest complained they didn't like their room. You changed their reservation to a storage locker!"
Klick chuckled lowly, "They didn't think their original room was too small- or expensive- after that. Besides, in some countries they'd consider those to be 'efficiency suites'."
Boffle shook his head before placing a gloved hand where a face should be and thinking for moment.
"With as much as you interact with guests, you really must behave more politely. Perhaps it is your lack of empathy!" Boffle projected, sitting straight up like an exclamation point, as if he'd simultaneously discovered both the cause and solution.
"Or, just maybe, I'm overworked and overstressed." the smaller bot countered, "Have you by chance approved my request for an assistant... or five?"
"Now now, don't try to change the subject. What you need is an opportunity to get to know our guests better. Understand them! Empathize with them. See them as people and not just obstacles to getting things done. Take the rest of the evening off from your regular work, and use that time to get to know some of our guests on a more personal level. I expect a full report by tomorrow morning!"
Klick looked exasperatedly at Boffle, who had now materialized a smile running from nonexistent ear to nonexistent ear. Klick knew once that man got an idea like this in his head there was no convincing him otherwise. Unfortunately, Klick also knew that not doing his usual tasks that evening simply meant they wouldn't get done, and would mean even more work the following day.
Abdicating his position Klick started to fly towards the door, and responded in a defeated voice, "If that is what you wish, sir."
"Oh come now Klick, think of it as an opportunity! You might even make a new friend!"
Hey there, mun here! This open starter is meant to be used multiple times as a way for my muse, Klick, to start interactions with other muses who'd like to RP for the first time with us!
If you're someone I've RPd with before feel free to respond! If not, and you'd like to RP with me, please shoot me a message on my mun account @electricrobotdreams so we can plot before an unknown muse joins! (I don't know every fandom, and while most are compatible there's a few I'd like to avoid.)
You can think of this post as the start of a book, and everyone who adds a response as a new chapter of that book! Once you respond, I'll make a new post so all our replies to each other are separate from other ongoing RPs.
Curious who Klick has met so far? I'll update this post with all ongoing chapters!
Chapter 1: You are here!
Chapter 2: Lost & Foundations: @multiverseofmisfits/Tanjiro [Link]
Chapter 3: [Chapter name ] [Muse name] [Link]
Chapter 4: [Chapter name ] [Muse name] [Link]
Chapter 5: [Chapter name ] [Muse name] [Link]
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