At least there's no elevator music...

[thespaceopera]

[At least two weeks have passed since the Drift Fleet passengers woke up on this strange wing of the Marsiva... Some new passengers have even joined the group instead of being Shuffled off to a fleet ship! The large monitor in the central room remains quiet for now, so how is everyone holding up?

Have you been relaxing? Enjoying the Earth media? If you can even remember them, how have Calibrations been treating you? Has anyone started getting a little stir-crazy?

Don't worry... This ship has no shortage of mysteries, and you'll be seeing a few more soon.]


ooc: here's another mingle for the current game event! players can start or continue threads here from any point during the event. the additional setting information is still being postponed due to sickly mods, but y'all are welcome to post additional topcomments for reactions and investigation once it's up!

Comments

[feathery]

[Davesprite resorted to vandalism not long after arrival, pulling down cameras and covering walls in shitty laser graffiti (a responsible use of his powers!). Too bad it keeps disappearing overnight. So, while it's possible to catch him standing in front of a wall covered in enough radioactive orange profanity to look like a health hazard, he's moved on to other activities (although defacing/dismantling books remains therapeutic).

This is why he is now rotting what remains of his brain with years of missed Earth media. #yolo

He mostly focuses on anything from after early April 2009. He has missed the fuck out. Who knew the future was so prolific. He listens to some songs and watches videos of others (BEWARE OF STAIRS); they aren't really linked in any particular order, but it's all media of varying quality that Davesprite takes the time to ~discover~.

Seriously, what the fuck even is some of this shit (video-wise in some cases, audio-wise in others, or possibly both depending on circumstances). Sitting with his legs propped up and wings bonelessly folded in a manner that looks hells of uncomfortable, he could very well be a corpse. It's hard to tell with the sunglasses. But sorry if you didn't want to listen to his somewhat variable collection of music, aka mostly rap and electronic shit.

He also watches movies. A lot of movies. He even watches a movie about a fast snail. There is a snail meme. Please discuss this with him.

Otherwise, he's giving people a crash course in time travel, a la Marty McFly. This is what you're stuck with, whether it's Part I, Part II, or Part III. I'm sorry, because he's not. On the upside, he has a never-ending Doritos supply, so if you're craving corn chips, you have found your guy.]

[thebarkside]

is this music good or ironic good :T

[ is jade texting him from across the room? jade is texting him from across the room. ]

[feathery]

[And he just flops over to look in her direction as he texts her back.]

who says it cant be both

[thebarkside]

[ she's lying on her back, staring mostly at the ceiling. ]

is it allowed to be both

[feathery]

[Is this depressed staring or bored out of her mind staring or—]

it is definitely allowed to be both
youre speaking to a professional ironicist ive got a degree and everything

[thebarkside]

[ the answer to 'depression or boredom' is probably just 'yes,' for the record. ]

davesprite
i need to be perfectly honest with you
i just do not think i am very good at the rap thing
sorry to have let you down

[feathery]

[This is a tragedy.

He wonders if he should shamble in her general direction.]

if youre trying to let me down easy you could at least put it in rhyme

[thebarkside]

im not a poet
and i definitely know it :U
better?

[ nah, that'd probably just make her feel worse. honestly, she's not big on actual conversation right now, but she does seem to enjoy just... existing in the vicinity of people she likes. ]

[feathery]

i cant even call that a couplet

[He's probably going to do it no matter what, eventually. Call it gravitational pull.]

[kotatsu]

[ speaking up on his right: ]

... That snail really is fast!

[feathery]

[Nanako, why are you so cute??? wtf, yo.]

That snail is so fast, they probably had to set snail speed regulations after all this went down.

[kotatsu]

[ snail speed regulations??? pls. ]

I bet he'd get a lot of speeding tickets.

[feathery]

All of the speeding tickets. Dude doesn't use his turn signal when he switches lanes, like how inconsiderate do you even have to be.

[Davesprite, you have never even driven a car.]

[kotatsu]

[ nanako nods solemnly. ]

My dad says not using turn signals when you're switching lanes is very rude and dangerous. You can get into a car accident.

[feathery]

[How far are they in the movie, because the snail does get into a car accident.]

See what I mean, this snail is setting a bad example. Cops everywhere rue the day a snail memed his way to the top and encouraged street racing among the impressionable youth. Maybe the crows had the right idea all along.

[kotatsu]

[ can we just pretend she conveniently missed that bc i think she'd probably tear up and start weeping a little. ]

But the crows are mean too, aren't they? They tried to eat the snails.

[ nevermind the fact that dave is also part crow. ]

[feathery]

[Oh noooooo. The snail race climax is pretty dramatic. Def worth shedding a few tears.]

Well, no one said they're eating the snails. [He thinks. He may have missed it being more than implied in the sheer wtfery of this movie.] Maybe they're carrying the truly deserving ones off to snail paradise. Or snail hell. Snail purgatory?

[Ah, yes, because a small child will understand references to Dante's Divine Comedy.]

[kotatsu]

... Does that mean the snails were bad? Big Bro said bad people go to hell.

[ dave what have u wrought. ]

[feathery]

[Someone please ban him from interacting with small children.]

What, no. I mean he's probably right about that in some universes and there's got to be some bad snails mucking around that get served as crow escargot. But the rest of the mollusks are probably fine.

[kotatsu]

Oh... okay.

[ she'll take it, going back to watching the movie again. after a while, she turns back to dave. ]

But you're not going to take any snails, are you?

[feathery]

[She asks this while he's thinking the cartoony quality of the snails is probably why he doesn't feel compelled to eat one.

Mostly.]

No way. And there is absolutely no way I was even considering such a thing, I am a firm believer in snail rights. I donate regularly to their charity. I even lobby against gulls for them.

[Oh god he sounds so guilty what is this.]

[kotatsu]

[ at least she doesn't pick up on the guilt because she's too busy trying not to break into a fit of giggles. dave uses a really extensive vocabulary and half the time she kind of struggles to keep up, but it mostly sounds a little silly because he uses all those big words.

gulls, though. in a hushed voice: ]

The gulls are in on it too?

[feathery]

[The look he gives her is serious. So serious. The most serious.]

If you thought the crows were bad, [and he says it like he's imparting Real deets, the kind he should be handing over to the police] you don't even want to know what kind of shady deals the gulls have got going on in their parking lot dumpsters.

[kotatsu]

[ that's terrible. this is terrible. her whole opinion on gulls is forever changed. ]

I didn't think they were so mean...

[ she sounds so disappointed. ]

Everyone's trying to hurt the snails! They didn't do anything wrong.

[feathery]

[What has he done.]

Maybe it's a lesson in being more open-minded. You don't accept your racing snail buddy and a bird will make off with your shell during business hours.

[Is he trying to do damage control? Can this even be considered such a thing? He's terrible at this.]