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driftfleet2015-06-10 06:17 pm
birdsbirdsbirds) wrote in driftfleet2015-06-10 06:17 pm
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Who: Robin
Broadcast: Video!
Action: None!
When: Now!
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[hey, it's Robin. he's lounging around in his captain's chair, feet up on the control panel. he's twirling something around in his fingers--it looks kind of like a glow stick? it's a glass cylinder filled with some sort of glowing, red liquid.]
Back in those casino stations, I won one of these.
[he stops twirling the cylinder. when he holds it up closer to the camera, you can see that it's capped with silver on one end. the insides seem to be bubbling a little, as if the liquid is carbonated.]
This is a Luxilizer... though most people below the surface just called them Dummy Sticks, as in, you were an idiot if you walked around the lower levels without them. They're filled with a liquid extracted from a luminescent fungus that grows in the caves of my hometown.
[he twirls it again. Robin himself doesn't seem particularly delighted about the thing, he's just casually explaining, perhaps out of boredom.]
They were originally designed as a backup light source, in case a person got lost in the tunnels. It also makes it easier for others to see them. It can get pretty dangerous down there, in the dark...
[after a pause, he grips the glowing tube and smiles at the camera.]
It's funny to me. No one where I'm from would give these a second thought, but I've learned that underground cities are not a familiar concept in most worlds.
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[PRIVATE TO JASON | TOTALLY HACKABLE, HE AIN'T NO COMMS OFFICER]
Hey, remember me? [waving from his side of the video feed.] Mr. Mean Everything?
Broadcast: Video!
Action: None!
When: Now!
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[hey, it's Robin. he's lounging around in his captain's chair, feet up on the control panel. he's twirling something around in his fingers--it looks kind of like a glow stick? it's a glass cylinder filled with some sort of glowing, red liquid.]
Back in those casino stations, I won one of these.
[he stops twirling the cylinder. when he holds it up closer to the camera, you can see that it's capped with silver on one end. the insides seem to be bubbling a little, as if the liquid is carbonated.]
This is a Luxilizer... though most people below the surface just called them Dummy Sticks, as in, you were an idiot if you walked around the lower levels without them. They're filled with a liquid extracted from a luminescent fungus that grows in the caves of my hometown.
[he twirls it again. Robin himself doesn't seem particularly delighted about the thing, he's just casually explaining, perhaps out of boredom.]
They were originally designed as a backup light source, in case a person got lost in the tunnels. It also makes it easier for others to see them. It can get pretty dangerous down there, in the dark...
[after a pause, he grips the glowing tube and smiles at the camera.]
It's funny to me. No one where I'm from would give these a second thought, but I've learned that underground cities are not a familiar concept in most worlds.
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[PRIVATE TO JASON | TOTALLY HACKABLE, HE AIN'T NO COMMS OFFICER]
Hey, remember me? [waving from his side of the video feed.] Mr. Mean Everything?
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Not really. It's got a self-sustaining chemical composition, but its effects aren't anything extraordinary. [he holds the tube up to look at it, a little.] Unless you've got a machine that runs on tiny bubbles, we're better off leaving it in the tube.
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Too bad. It reminds me a little of a crystal I used to have. It worked kinda like a battery, which is why I asked ...
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[still, a little bit of home is home. he pauses to fish a chain from around his neck and hook the stick back onto it.]
But I guess I'm happy for a little reminder of home.
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Yeah. I have to admit, they did a pretty good job of putting together prizes that were actually kind of nice.
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Do the standard customers wind up with Gratian cash and trinkets from our worlds, and wonder what it could possibly be good for? I can't see anyone else liking this stuff.
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[ She doesn't seem all that weirded out about it, though ... ]
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I don't think there's any way those things would have been in there if we hadn't.
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You know, of all the things we run into, I'm not sure why I find this one so unsettling.
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i mean, it is, but -- they put a chip in our heads, and they were able to take us from where we came from. It can't be that hard to find out something we'd want and retrieve it.
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[ugh, more of that stuff he can't ever explain because it goes around in circles. joy.]
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[ This conversation is quickly making her realize exactly how awful Paradisa was and the terrible things she got used to happening there are very much Not Normal. ]
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Not really, actually. I don't like to talk about it too much. But it's easier with people who've been through that sort of thing, like you, or the other people from Paradisa.
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If you ever happen to find yourself in a spiraling cycle of depression and frustration over the situation, come talk to me. All right?
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And then she laughs, mostly out of surprise ]
--Uh? Sure, I guess ... What brought that on?
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A couple of things. You're not worrying me, I promise... I just wanted to make it a plain statement, in case you ever feel you could use it.
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[ She says it like it's a joke, but it's ... it's really not a joke ... ]
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[he probably should have bothered phrasing this like a joke, but he did not.]
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It's right up there with snapping a tree in half. Less splinters with the vase, though.
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I'm in! I'm there.
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