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Who: Vash and you. Yes you!
Broadcast: Open to all
Action: Three Twins
When: August 18th

[And yet another birthday. Vash ticks it off mentally. He's never had a real problem with his birthday, but he never felt the need to make a big deal out of it either. Sometimes he'd have a nice meal or something, but this year he doesn't feel much need. There was all these exciting new places to check out!

He was in the cargo area. Putting away some spare ammo he had just picked up for the revolver he had. Finished he decided what he likes more than anything is being around people so making a broadcast would be a fun thing to do, right?]

Wow! Isn't being around all this life, wonderful? The people around here are really passionate! Has anyone been into any of the libraries around here? There are a couple books I'd like to look at but it seems a bit selective in who they want looking at them. Anyone have any luck at getting to some of the more... what's that sound?

[As Vash was talking a quiet chripping noise that sounds a lot like "happy birthday" has started to play.]

And what smells like burn-WHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! [The camera will get a very quick glimpse of a cake in the shape of a donut. Or at least that's what it looks like it could be underneath all those candles. One of the blaring out happy birthday. Just one out of the over one hundred and thirty candles crammed for room together.]

Crap, crap, crap, crap, oh crap!!! How do I put this- BEEP! BEEP! FIRE! FIRE! BEEP! BEEP! FIRE! [Vash drops the communicator as he dances around. Trying to blow the candles out, but there's just too many! Doesn't help that they're the trick candles that keep relighting themselves.

But it's okay! The ship's sprinklers finally turns on and out goes the candles! And... any dry spot on the ship. Hope everyone visiting the Three Twins wanted a sudden and unexpected shower.]

Uh...oh... how do I get those off?

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[Shirley gets doused by the sprinklers along with everyone else on the ship before she sees Vash's video. She can hear the fire alarm and the yelling in the cargo area, though, so she pulls a towel over her head to hide the glow the sudden shower's given it and hurries quickly to that area expecting some sort of major equipment failure or something of the sort.

Instead there's a giant donut with way too many candles on it and Vash looking frantic in the sprinklers' downpour. She's almost afraid to ask.]

Vash? What happened?

[A giant donut cake that Vash is glaring at it so fiercely that it's a wonder it doesn't explode into flames again. He jumps slightly when he realizes he's being addressed. He turns towards Shirley with his cheeks starting to turn red.

Without really thinking of it he stands in an attempt to hide the waterlogged cake with a comical number of candles sticking out of it.]

Shirley! Oh! Hey! Haha! I didn't see you there! Everything is fine! Just fine! Just a small joke by the Atroma! Nothing's wrong! Hahaha! All taken care of already! Some crazy weather we're having on the ship right now, huh? HAAHAHAHAH!

[Shirley doesn't even know where to start with that. She figures the cake is as good a place to try as any, at least.]

Did that come from the sponsors?

I'm assuming so. There was no card, but maybe it burned and I just didn't get a chance to read it.

[Bitter sarcasm is bitter.]

[Ouch. Shirley's not used to bitter from him.]

Vash, is something wrong? Um, besides the fire, that is.

Hm? Wrong? No, not really. [Nothing inherently wrong with his birthday. He just didn't like to make it a big deal is all.]

Just a bit upset the sponsors thought sending something like that unexpectedly was a good idea.

And it's a waste of food! And there's water everywhere!

[Fair point.]

I don't think they thought it through very well. Why would anyone even want to put on so many candles?

To make a guy feel older than he is? [Except in this case they're spot on with the age.]

[...Come to think of it, she can see someone doing this for Will.]

They must have a very particular sense of humor, then.

That or they just wanted to see how many candles it would take to set the ship on fire.

That's just dangerous!

Preaching to the choir I'm afraid.

I guess so. I wonder if they can see what their joke's come to now.

[Then again, maybe they'll just think it's funny.]

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I'm sure they can see the mess they caused and are enjoying themselves somewhere dry.

Or I have an overzealous fan and I just hurt their feelings. One of the two, but seeing how useless most of the gifts we get here are I'm going with laughter.

Probably. I don't think it will be much fun to watch us clean up, though.

No, but they can focus on someone else while we clean up their mess.

[Shirley just sighs.]

We should get started cleaning. And...we need to figure out what to do with that cake.

I was going to toss it. I don't think anyone should eat a soggy cake. Who knows what could be in that sprinkler water. [Because she Shirley wasn't suggesting replacing it of course.]

[Shirley not.

She makes a face, because he's right and the idea is a little bit gross.]

Right. I'll go get a bag to put it in.

Thanks. [Should he hide away about a hundred of those candles while she does? Nah, that would be too obvious.

...maybe just a quick handful then. No, wait. Would it be harder to laugh off how many candles are there if he takes some away? Besides they would make his pocket dirty. Better put them back. Then again...

Shirley can walk in on a wet Vash squatting down next to and glaring angrily at the cake as if it insulted his mother. Scooping it up into a pile. Seems he's settled on making it into an even bigger mess to hide the stupid amount of candles the thing has.

Had.]

[Vash? Vash no. Vash, that's going to be harder to clean. Shirley isn't entirely sure what he's up to, but...]

Excuse me?

Oh, ah, hello! Turns out cake gets really crumbly and hard to pick up when it gets wet.

[Yes. That's it. That's the ONLY reason.]

[Yeah, she's not going to press that.]

All right...do we have a broom anywhere?

[There is Vash's hair.]

Oh, much better idea. I'll go get one.

All right, I'll see if I can clean up some of the water.

[There's a lot of it, after all.]

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