birdsbirdsbirds: (♠ head like a steel trap)
яσвιи яє∂вяєαѕт ([personal profile] birdsbirdsbirds) wrote in [community profile] 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?
hearsthesea: (like myself the way I am now)

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[personal profile] hearsthesea 2015-06-25 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh.]

I think that's something best saved for when I'm actually doing what I should be, at home. But it's always good to know there are others who believe in me...it's much harder without people willing to do that.

[She sounds a little embarrassed, but definitely happy.]
hearsthesea: (please forget I said that)

Video

[personal profile] hearsthesea 2015-06-26 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
I hope I won't need to much, actually. That would mean relations here were much worse than they are now - most of the time, anyway. Although1, if we ever found a way to reach the Atroma...

[Not much chance at present, but maybe one day?]