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In boxes in Eldri’s basement, powered down and disassembled, there is a rock-paper-scissors-playing robot named Navvy Jim.

He doesn’t lose. He plays it a lot, well, played, I mean, before the scissors fell, he played it;

And never once Navvy Jim’s lost.

For instance, let’s play him right now!

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Three!

If you played scissors, then the story continues much later — skip to section 3, chapter CLEAN.

If you played paper or rock, read on from here.