bakerstreet | The Eggbaby Meme

"Each of your Eggbabies has a built in computer which registers the amount of care-- or lack of care-- it's given. These readings will determine your grade. As you can see the babies exhibit a wide range of emotions and expressions in need. It's your job to fill those needs."

How to:
✦ Leave a comment with your character's name and fandom. Others will reply.
✦ Congratulations, the two of you are now in charge of an Eggbaby. You can pretend it's for class or, for those who aren't in school, you can assume the baby is some sort of important mission. It is your job to take care of and keep the baby happy. If you drop the baby, you fail. You can not turn it off. Remember, this is a joint effort. This is a very important assignment that determines if you pass/fail the class or save the world.
✦ You can RNG a number between 1 and 8 to find out what kind of situation you're in.
✦ Good luck!

Options:
1. Other plans. You had other plans but now you aren't sure if you can do them because of this baby. Try to convince your partner to do you a favor or else you'll have to drag the baby along with you.
2. Broke baby. Something is seriously wrong with this baby. It won't stop crying no matter what you do and you really wish this thing had an off switch.
3. Lost baby. What do you mean where's the baby? Don't you have it? Wait, you mean, you don't? FU-- WHERE'S THE BABY?!
4. Perfect baby. Your baby never cries. In fact, it doesn't really do much of anything. Wow, this project sure is easy! …Dude, it keeps staring at me.
5. Not my baby. This isn't your baby but you're watching it for a friend until they get back from that super important meeting. They've been gone all day and you hope they'll get back soon.
6. Twins. You're taking care of your baby and someone else's baby. (bonus option: you're taking care of another baby and another and another and another…)
7. MY BABYYYY! What the hell did you do? Your baby is broken. You've failed your assignment. Maybe you can put it together and no one will ever notice or try to steal someone else's baby.
8. Crack baby. Roll again, combine prompts, or make up your own scenario.

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[Martin, meanwhile, is invested in this whole thing going well, or at least not ending in tragedy: if only because Arthur is currently involved in a similar project, and this is just the sort of thing that Arthur would turn out to be surprisingly fantastic at, and if he can't outshine (or at least match) Arthur at something, he'll never hear the end of it.

He will especially never hear the end of it if one of the babies gets damaged, for an entirely different reason. Electronic children: not cheap.

All that said, when Sherlock holds out his hand, Martin clutches the crying child to his chest.]

No.

[ God, it just won't stop howling. Enough is enough. He's quite clearly undeterred by Martin's bizarre urge to protect a malevolent piece of wayward technology, stepping forward and trying to simply grab for the horrible thing. ]

I said give it here, Martin.

[ He will manhandle you to the floor if he has to, captain. In fact, if his initial grab fails, he's going for the distressed man's arm instead. ]

Look, I can get it to stop --

[See, he's got the bottle and everything. Except, oops, there's Sherlock grabbing his arm, and as much as he tries to get away or at least twist himself so that he lands without harming the piece of expensive technology, he's not going to be any sort of match for an experienced fighter like Sherlock.

And still, as he's being wrestled down, he tries to reason.]

Ow! Sherlock, think about this! This is not going to help your standing with the Detective Inspector.

[ What starts as "just grab his arm and take the baby" soon becomes "right okay we're taking this to the floor" very quickly courtesy of a great deal of squirming on Martin's part that ends up throwing Sherlock off balance in his attempt to keep hold; a moment later the captain is flat on his back on the floor and Sherlock is sprawled out on top of them, mechanical monstrosity trapped between them.

And just like that, the doll stops crying. Sherlock's brow furrows and he shifts to look down with a thoughtful frown. Yes, and there's the cause of it: the baby has ended up pressed to Martin's chest in its proper "feeding" position. The detective lets out a noise of annoyance and rolls off of him. ]

Lestrade will straighten it out one way or another. Now let me see it.

[ It's not quite so pressing with the din of noise gone, but he's still going to keep that from happening again. ]

The Eggbaby Meme

no apologizes this is brilliant

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