just keep swimming;

[feathery]

Who: Wonderducks and any visitors!
Broadcast: nahhh
Action: all aboard the bird ship
When: from now until whenever the next crew mingle goes up, probs

[Time to get our ducks in a row! Whether it involves cat scrutiny, waystation avoidance (gotta protect those credits), or interior decorating, it's time to find out what y'all are up to. We're doing it, man. We're making shit transpire.]

Comments

[frigidaire]

Yeah. I mean I think we are. When were you born again?

[ Excuse him as he talks around a mouthful of sandwich. ] 'Cause I've never heard of that language or whatever it is.

[feathery]

[He ignores the question about when he was born for more pressing matters.]

Were you deprived of the internet your whole life. How far removed from reality do you have to be to miss out on the horrors of leetspeak.

[frigidaire]

I pretty much played sports or helped my dad work, okay? Didn't really do the whole internet thing much. I played some video games, though.

[ And he was locked in the freezer a lot, but it's FINE. ] But whatever, I don't know what it is. Big deal.

[feathery]

A huge deal. A fucking gargantuan titan of a deal.

[He scoots around some of the sad half dinosaur magnets left on the table.]

Your deal is so colossal it's trapped you in its gravitation well as it transforms into a supermassive black hole.

[Why is he allowed to talk.]

[frigidaire]

[ No less, why is he allowed to talk to a very sleepy Isaac Lahey. He just stares at him, and it doesn't even look like he's trying to make sense of what Davesprite has said. Pretty house, nobody home. ]

Uh, right.

[ He sticks two of the dinosaur magnets together. ] These ones are pretty cool, though. How'd you say that in leet speak?

[feathery]

[Did Isaac reverse polarity on one of those magnets so they can fuse together to become a hideous frankendino.]

How do I say what in leetspeak.

[frigidaire]

That these look cool.

[ He's found a matching set, but the front end is a brontosaurus and the back end is a t-rex. ] What do you think this dinosaur would be called? If it had wings it could be named after you.

[feathery]

[Tragically for Isaac, Davesprite skips the leetspeaking inquiry, because he refuses to do a vocal imitation of Terezi Pyrope.]

Are you saying I've got thunder thighs. How dare you.

[He doesn't sound bothered in the least. He does turn the brontosaurus's head up to look at Isaac, though.]

Looks more like you in the face, anyway.

[frigidaire]

Yeah, you definitely have thunder thighs.

[ Please, Davesprite. He slouches, folding his arms on the table, resting his head on one. ] My neck isn't long enough, but I guess I can see it.

[ He pulls the dinos apart and sticks their magnet ends on the table, assuming it's metal. ] Newt's gonna try to eat these, I bet.

[feathery]

You're stuck with reparations if he does. I paid good money for these prehistoric magnets.

[He sticks a couple more half-dinos in line with Isaac's magnets. It's like a morbid display.]

[frigidaire]

Whoa, I'm not responsible for that demon fox.

[ He tosses one of the dino butts at Davesprite. ] He might take up space in my room sometime but I'm pretty sure you're the one who spent money on him. So that's your deal.

[feathery]

[He snags the dino butt out of midair before it can hit him in the face.]

Nah, man, the adoption papers went through and everything. You're stuck with him for life, especially since you're his favorite. Next thing you know, he'll be bringing you Number One Dad mugs for Father's Day.

[frigidaire]

Then you're gonna start babysitting because he's found out if he wakes me up he gets attention. Even if I just throw a pillow at him. He thinks its fun. Then you wake me up and it's like I don't need sleep at all.

[ He's a sleepy woof, even now, and chucks another dino butt at him halfheartedly. ]

[feathery]

[Davesprite catches and throws this one back.]

You sleep all the time.

[And Davesprite gets bored and lonely, ok. :'(]

[frigidaire]

Yeah, because I get woken up ever couple hours by one of you assholes.

[ Isaac gives Davesprite a look. ] And the full moon isn't that far away. I think if I actually got eight hours of sleep a night, I might not be tired all the time. Or if it wasn't so boring here.

[feathery]

[Davesprite just looks perplexed by that declaration.]

How can there be a full moon when all we're surrounded by are waystations. Have you been keeping one in your pocket the whole time?

[frigidaire]

Yeah, I carry one around because I just like being a hairy freak all the time.

[ ... really, Davesprite. (NIX!!!!) ] Nah, there were just a bunch of moons at our last stop. Though being with the factions helped when I could just fight it out. It's still tiring.

[ I'm not even. These moons have the special quality needed for Isaac to feel the pull of transformation mildly. Who knows what those qualities are, or when they'll be determined, but they were there, damn it. ]

[feathery]

Still doesn't tell me how you know there's gonna be a full moon, but ok.

[He doesn't actually care how it works; he just does this shit to bug Isaac within acceptable bugging parameters. Should have been a beetlesprite, tbh.]

Do you think the next system will have mozzarella sticks. I really want mozzarella sticks.

[frigidaire]

I was guessing, it would be a full moon on Earth. I wrote it down.

[ Well, he did some shoddy math so his dates are probably all off, anyway. It's just in his head. ]

Mozarella sticks sound good, though. Or a hotdog, maybe. Any real food, actually.

[feathery]

Do you think Eugene could make mozzarella sticks.

[These are the important questions of their time.]

[frigidaire]

Maybe. If he could figure out a way to make really good cheese. But I guess even okay cheese would be good fried, right?

[ Isaac shrugs and slides down, slouching in his chair. ]

Ask him.

[feathery]

Nah. I left my communicator in my room. I'll get it later.

[And obviously he's too busy balancing his chair on two legs to find Eugene right now.]

[frigidaire]

[ The temptation to tip his friend's chair is almost too difficult to resist, but he does. ]

When you fall and crack your thick skull open, I'm gong to laugh my ass off. [ He gestures vaguely to the chair then idly looks around. ] I bet Eugene will, too. Or maybe he'll just blow up because you're interrupting his cooking or something.

[feathery]

K. I'll worry about it if that ever sounds likely.

[Davesprite sets his chair down with a dull thunk and it is really obvious he's about to do something from the way he turns to Isaac. What that something is becomes clear a second later, when he uses the shadow from Isaac's chair to abruptly balance it on one of its back legs. He isn't trying to tip Isaac out of it (yet), but. That sure is a thing.]

[frigidaire]

What do you—

[ Isaac yelps and reaches to grip the table when his chair tips to one leg. Unfortunately for Davesprite, though, the table is metal and in Isaac's panic, a tiny shock runs through it. Surprise, Davesprite. ] Dude.