And We Danced (Masquerade Overflow!)

[thespaceopera]

The Captcha is upon us, but the party isn't over! Feel free to continue your threads here, start new ones, and continue the dance party!

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[pneumo]

Wait, you can actually build those?? Can you make the one with the moving pictures too?? [ he means a TV.... Cartoons... ]

[huaaaaagh]

A TV? No, I've never tried one of those. Maybe if I had one to take apart first, see how it works... but computers can pretty much do what TVs can, and more.

[He's never really seen the point of television. With the whole internet at his fingertips, who even needs cable??]

[pneumo]

[ People like Sascha who will only use it for good and not evil of course. Cable is srs business. ]

What's a tv? [ They haven't been invented in his world yet ]

[huaaaaagh]

TV, as in television.

[....wait]

Um. "The one with moving pictures".

[pneumo]

--Gotcha! TV... TV, TV. [ That word is really fun to say, goodness. ]

Are there any on our communicator thingies?

[huaaaaagh]

There's a few, actually. I can't vouch for the quality, or even what they are, but the Atroma dumped a bunch of media onto a public network a while back. Anyone's free to access it.

[pneumo]

[ HOLD THE PHONE ]

The gorgeous ladies have us presents?! [ presents, cartoons--WHICHEVER. Sascha is actually going to stop and hold onto Kirito's shoulders in excitement. ]

[huaaaaagh]

[He is still under the impression that they're beautiful women... Sascha, no...]

The Atroma did, yes. It's on the comms.

[pneumo]

[ He totally does, yup. NEVER GONNA CHANGE HIS MIND ON THIS. ]

How do I find it??

[huaaaaagh]

[Wow, he's really serious about this.]

Er... I can show you, if you want?

[pneumo]

[ He totally, completely is. But hey--it'll interrupt the dance right? ]

Yes please-!

[huaaaaagh]

[Well heck, not like he's going to look a gift horse in the mouth. He steps back and gestures for Sascha to follow, beelining back for the wall so they're out of the way of the other dancers. It'd be kind of rude to stand around fiddling with your phone while people are trying to enjoy themselves.]

Gimme your comm.

[pneumo]

Here you go~ [ Once they're off the floor and all, with Sascha crowding close eagerly to peer over Kirito's shoulder because he wants to see those moving pictures man he is so stoked for this ]

this took longer to find than expected, i need to save a hotlink somewhere

[huaaaaagh]

[It's been a while since he bothered to look for this stuff, but give him a moment or so to sort through the network and finally come upon the directory where all the media "rewards" were uploaded. Once he has that, he offers the comm back to Sascha.]

Go nuts. Some of it's good, some of it sucks. I'll let you decide which is which.

HAHA oh nooo

[pneumo]

Whoa....! [ YUP, this would be Sascha grabbing his communicator back right away, eyes bright and eager as squints down at the screen. Mostly because staring at it is a sure-fire way to give him a migraine, but he'll deal with that later. ]

[huaaaaagh]

Not bad, yeah? Kind of random, but it's a slice of home for a lot of the people here, whether they like it or not.

[....]

I'd avoid the, uh, Icha-Icha thing, though.

[pneumo]

What's the icha-thing??

[huaaaaagh]

It's... a really racy novel. And it's terrible.

[Honestly he barely got past the introduction, and even then it was because he'd run out of things to read. Klein would probably like it, which means it's the worst thing ever.]

[pneumo]

Well...races could be kinda boring I guess.... [ YEAH IT GOES RIGHT OVER HIS HEAD. "Racy" isn't a word he comes across often. ]

[huaaaaagh]

[He should have known.]

...Uh, yeah. Really, really boring.

[IT'S NOT TECHNICALLY A LIE? He found it boring, anyway...!]

[pneumo]

[ Protect your best bud from ideas of.....that, yes. Good man. ]

Which one of these do you think is the best then?

[huaaaaagh]

[He'd probably get the wrong idea about eating out one's partner, let's face it.]

Favourite? Ah... hm. There's plenty that are good enough to come back to, but not much that sticks out...

[He leans in to scroll through the list until he finally stops on one of the silly Jpop numbers.]

I guess this? But only because it reminds me of home.

[pneumo]

[ THAT'S PRETTY FAIR. and true. ]

Ooh... [ This is your chance, Kirito. He'll probably be here all night fiddling with this if you want to make an escape!! or you could do the buddy thing and media on a not!phone with him ]

[huaaaaagh]

[Well. He could escape, yes. But having Sascha here and distracted serves two purposes aside from getting him out of the dance- 1, he's no longer wallflowering alone (which means he's technically socializing like a normal human being!) and 2, he's less likely to get approached by a stranger if he's already got a male companion. Past experience has taught him this.

Thus: not!phone buddies. This is his kind of party behaviour.]