driftfleet | First Cut

Who: Talon and whoever!
Broadcast: Video, fleetwide
Action: Marsiva if at all
When: Nowish

[The video blips on, communicator turned to one side on a table as if it were never picked up. Of course, that's because it wasn't picked up. It takes a moment of focusing before something blurs on by, something that if you slowed the video feed down a lot looks a lot like a shirt. Maybe. Probably.

At least, that's the most sensible guess when someone can be seen mashing his face into a nearby window, voice full of awe and wonder.]

Whoa! That's so many stars! I mean, I've seen them before but it's like there are a hundred times more and they're so close! [Talon laughs, and despite the fact that his voice is relatively deep, he sounds... downright childish, really. His hair is shock-white, perhaps tinged with just a little blue to it, and it sticks out at odd angles to form a fluffy mess.

After a moment, he turns away from the window, revealing olive-toned skin, wide, brown eyes, and a bright smile that's far too wide and earnest to be faked.]

Haley, come here, you've gotta see this! [Haley? Well, judging by the way he looks around and finally pauses, he's... finally realised he's not in Kansas anymore. Welp.] ... Haley? Oh, I wonder if I made her mad last night...

[Scratching his cheek, he considers that for a moment, looking around the Marsiva.] ... Where are we, anyway...? [ISN'T THAT THE FIRST QUESTION YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD, TALON...]

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[Enjoy that thousand yard stare, Pinkie. Talon has to register... er... well he has to choose what to register, actually. When he does, he snaps his fingers, grin only broadening.]

So it's outer space! That definitely sounds like it's in Shalebrim! Right, right? [Look at that shining puppy face. Look at it. Then he squints at the monitor, leaning in.]

...... Waitaminnit! Hella Jeff, is that you? You look more pink! And you can talk! ... And you sound like a girl pony!?

[I do not know you, child.]

Hm, don't know where Shalebrim is, but the Atroma took me from a whole other world! Aaaand nope, don't think I've met anypony by THAT name before!

Wait, does that mean you have ponies in your world?! How many, what kinds, does that mean there are humans AND ponies?!

[Child, slow down, he's never gonna be able to answer you at this rate!]

Whoa, another world?! Wait, so Space is in another plane, then?! [So close, yet so far...]

Oh yeah! We have lots of ponies! And horses and like centaurs and stuff! [He gestures wildly was he talks.] But the centaurs are the only ones that can talk, because they have people-faces I think? Well usually the only ones. There's a ton of different kinds, though! We had like six breeds on the farm when I was little! [He looks so pleased with himself.]

Wait, so you guys breed ponies and CENTAURS?!

[That's... um... kinda creepy. Especially since the only Centaur SHE knows was a psychopath bent on stealing all the magic ever. He was locked up in LITERAL PONY HELL for a reason!]

Whaaaaat are YOUR centaurs like?

[ Are they NOT magic-sucking psychopaths?]

Ehhh?!? A centaur would decide what they wanted to breed with, right? I mean they're sentient...

[He tilts his head a little too far to one side, squinting.]

I didn't have any centaurs on the farm, though! Just a couple ponies and some horses!

[Aaaaand then he has to stop and think. Uhhhhhh...]

Welllll I've only met one of them? He shot at me with a couple arrows and yelled at me for wandering in the woods. I guess he was okay though? Maybe he had a family in there or something...

Okay, PHEW I thought you said you had centaurs are your farm too! But that sounds like a centaur, at least the one we have back in OUR world! At least YOURS wasn't trying to steal everypony's magic so he could rule the whole world!

So YOU'RE from a world where ponies CAN'T talk and think, right?

Nah, he was just kinda grumpy and surly! Like--

[And Talon's conversation drops off so he can make his surliest face, which effectively boils down to him FROWNING SEVERELY with his lower lip jutted out too far. It's pretty comical.]

Yeah!! Animals don't usually talk and stuff on Eyrion! I mean sometimes a wizard will enchant one or there's one that looks like an animal but it really isn't an animal and then they can talk... [Um. What?] Oh, or the magical ones that they make out of other creatures... but those are usually kind of berserk and dangerous so they have to be handled by adventurers...

Pffft heeheehee that's a GREAT grumpy face! [Kinda reminds her of Cranky.]

Wait, hooow do you make something out of other creatures?

[FMA CHIMERAS?! You're telling me your world has FMA-style chimeras?!]

Right, right? He was so grumpy! [Laughing, Talon shakes his head. He's still pretty genial when he responds to the question.]

Ehhh I dunno! I think it's a Wizard thing. Wizards and mages are weird and they like mashing things together. Like making sentient brooms! [He waves his arms, as if there's a reason for it, then blinks.]

Well, no? We have Chimeras too, but Chimeras are just one kind of magical beast! They have like three heads and wings and stuff. I dunno what a "FMA" is.

[Who tf is he talking to]

... Neeeither do I. Where'd you hear about an FMA?

Whuh? Oh, they said-- oh. [Talon points at nothing where he heard the voice, then gets a sheepish look on his face.] Sorry, that happens sometimes! People tell me they can't hear it but somebody's definitely talking, you know?

... Maybe I have supersonic hearing or something. [YOU DO NOT, YOU MORON]

Huh, that's kinda neat! Kinda like when I start looking off to the side like there's a camera there or something!

[... THEY'RE ONTO US, RUN AWAY!]

[RED ALERT--wait they already think they're on a tv show this is natural we good]

Oooh! [Wait for it... waaaaaaait for it] What's a camera, though? I've never heard of that! [o3o]

[... Okay, the Atroma fourth wall they know about. But what if they figure out about US?]

You know how you're looking at me right now? That's because there's a device in there taking LOTS and lots of pictures every second and recording my voice, turning them into energy, and sending them back to you!

[... Maybe if we act really casual about it they won't figure it out.

Talon won't, anyway.]

... Wait, really? So it's not some kind of mirror-portal? I mean I'd never seen one this small, but Mages are weird.

Nope, not a mirror portal!

[Trust me, she'd know. Twilight especially has LOOOTS of experience with world-hopping through mirrors.]

Ooooh. I guess that explains why tapping it didn't do anything.

[As if to prove his point, he taps the communicator screen, creating a clinking noise on the recording.]

How does it work? [o3o????]

[She... already said. Good thing Pinkie's people-patient, though!]

So there's a device in there taking LOTS and lots of pictures every second and recording my voice, turning them into energy, and sending them back to you!

Yeah, but I mean! Like...

[He turns the communicator upside down, squinting at it. His hair looks exactly like it would if he actually were upside down, incidentally.]

Does it have cogs? Or a power source? Or what?

Yup! Wires and an electrical battery!

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