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. ]

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[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.