Facecopter

My graphics card was repaired today, so I got to head down to the repair shop to pick it up. This is a truly joyous day, when I can finally get my equipment at its best and run things at decent settings again. But as always, I do tend to be less than alert in the daytime.

After I got my card, I was walking down the mall when I noticed an oldish guy looking at me in surprise and making a strange surprised sound. While I walked towards him, wondering why he was making the sound, I heard a whirring and saw a blur in front of me. Then something hit my face and landed on the ground. I realized it was a toy helicopter.

It turns out that I walked right into a toy copter hovering just at my chin level while trying to figure out why the old dude looked surprised. I'm rather bad at reading faces, but my best estimate of his expression afterwards was a mix of surprise and annoyance, presumably because I facecoptered him. There's a lesson to be had here, and it is that if one tries to facecopter Fenris, they get facecoptered instead. Fenris's face is tougher than most toy copters.

Of course, this is a fairly unusual situation since I have pretty adequate reflexes even (or perhaps especially) when sleepy. It's probably because the copter completely bypassed my IFF system. Besides, it's got an effective threat value of zero except if/when it manages to score a crit. Still, it's amusing and I do wonder if the toy was permanently damaged. I wouldn't be sorry if it was, since the old dude failed to keep it out of my path in the first place.