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?
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[personal profile] onlyanapple 2015-07-03 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I've tried that argument, it just spin round into saying that maybe the ineffable plan makes you feel that way. There's no way around all the bullshit.
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[personal profile] onlyanapple 2015-07-04 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I strongly suggest you don't debate with any angels, then. They'll have you going at it all fucking week if you give them half a chance. I speak from experience.
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[personal profile] onlyanapple 2015-07-05 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Was his name Aziraphale, by any chance?

Yes, well, a lot of it has to do with the lack of free will. For most, anyway.
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[personal profile] onlyanapple 2015-07-05 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh...Him. Yes, I remember him.

[He wasn't like the Michael that Crowley remembers back home. Not anal enough. ]

Very literal. It's a human thing, most angels and demons don't get to have it. Even I only have a facsimile of it from spending so much time with humanity.