what's in a wonderball????

[thebarkside]

Who: Wonderducks and pals!
Broadcast: N/A!
Action: On the Wonderduck! IT'S A MINGLE
When: From now until whenever the next mingle is. :')

[ ARE YOU A WONDERDUCK? are you a friend of a wonderduck who might actually be on the wonderduck ship at any point?? then this mingle is for you! top-level and tag around, idgaf as long as it's on the bird ship. ]

Comments

[cajunspice]

Yeah, no, I get that... Last place I was stuck in they gave us wings, ya lose those ya ended up dead. Were a real pain, literally for the first week or so. Made it more or less 'mpossible for those who were back sleepers.

Sponsors? Ya mean people be playin' ads while they watchin' us, or we actin' as the advertisin' as well as the 'ntertainment?

[forsometimenow]

Wings? Really? [She sounds intrigued.] Could you fly with them, at least? Otherwise, I imagine those could be inconvenient if you're not used to them...

[She laughed.]

A bit of both- the sponsors will sometimes give us gifts of a sort, presumably in the hopes that we'll be seen using their products on camera and give them a revenue boost. This show is apparently very popular, so it is a pretty decent strategy, except for the part where the products often aren't that great. I got a crate of beer that was pretty much just water with a tiny bit of alcohol.

[cajunspice]

Sadly no, some people said they could barely glide with them but I never tested it out. [Liar, he totally did. And he was totally too heavy to do it well.

Remy matched her laugh with a chuckle.] So, ya sayin' it ain't a good idea to try 'nd suggest an item we want 'nd seein' if we get it? [As for the weak beer.] Tried reducin' it? Might push the alcohol percentage up a bit.

[forsometimenow]

Seems like a waste to give them to you, then. I'd be disappointed if I couldn't even glide.

[She smiled.]

You can try- maybe you'll get a new taste sensation out of it, like the banana coffee another ship got. [She then shook her head.] No- I didn't even think about that, to be honest. Of course, now I've doomed myself to get another case so I can try.

[cajunspice]

Banana... coffee? [That... just sounded so wrong. Although, maybe able to be made into some sort of dessert? Cross a tiramisu and banoffee? Certainly not for straight drinking, but still possible to use.] Ugh.

Ah, worse case distill it down 'nd turn it into a cleaner or something. [A shrug of his shoulder before Remy asked;] If they know ya ain't likin' it, wouldn't it stop them from resendin' it? Can't be good advertisin' if people don't like the product.

[forsometimenow]

Yeah- it took the crew forever to get rid of it. I mean, it was fun a few times for the novelty, but afterward... nope.

[She laughed.] You'd think so, but sometimes it feels like the sponsors have no common sense. Like, a few months ago everyone on the Fleet got some cola bottles from a sponsor with our names on them- except some of them had the names misspelled, or the soda was some weird flavor. I guess they work by the principle that all publicity is good publicity.

[cajunspice]

Ya'll ever gotten stuff that actually half decent, or be it all pretty bad? [Also, how bad was it in comparison to what came with the ship?]

[forsometimenow]

Fans will sometimes send us gifts of money- and people were able to win objects from home at a casino we visited a few months back.

[cajunspice]

Ah yeah, money... forgot gotta consider that again. [It would take some getting use to again.] Use to the last place bein' everything was free 'nd there was no currency. [Then again, so far it didn't seem like he needed money for much since everything was provided for them, it was more for extra luxuries.]

[forsometimenow]

Wow, really? This has got to be a pretty big change, then. Atroma does provide us with the basics here- food, shelter and so on- but money can be useful when we land on planets or need supplies.

[cajunspice]

Or stock up on that semi decent food, hein? [Remy joked, turning their conversation back to the original topic.] Yeah, heard that planets might have some of the stuff i was missin' when I arrived here. Would be nice to stock back up, even if I don't think 'll get half the stuff I use to have.

[forsometimenow]

Exactly. [She nodded.] Yeah, you probably won't have much at first- you'll have to make the audience like you. They seem to like watching us go about our day to day lives just fine, so that might make you feel a bit less like a zoo animal.

[cajunspice]

Yeaaaahhh I never got the whole reality tv thing, never had a real draw for me. 'nd didn't think I was 'nterestin' 'nough to call for an audience. [Ok, that last bit may be a lie, his normal life was anything but for most people. Mutant, thief, those made for excitin' times.]

Mind if I ask what ya did before all this? [Clearly something medical related.]

[forsometimenow]

Me, either. I still don't think I'm interesting enough, but, well, here I am, so I must be doing something right.

[She smiled.]

I'm a doctor, so it was at least nice to be able to pick up my old profession here.