video

[robitussin]

Who: opal, nightingale, and you
Broadcast: video!
Action: on the pathstone
When: now!

[When the feed turns on, it’s focused on... so many Christmas sweaters laying on a bed. There are more, hidden beneath those four and out of view of the camera; from what can be seen, it looks like there are at least three or four more. The camera swings around to two girls, one of whom has the most deadpan look on her face.]

I officially hate sponsor drops. I want none of this.

[The other one just looks kind of confused.]

I’m pretty sure this is another Earth reference or something that I’m missing here. What the fuck is wrong with Earth?

[It earns a snort out of Opal.]

There are many things wrong with Earth, and all of them are a long story. Don’t worry about it. Anyways, the point is that someone should come here and take these away because every single one is kind of the worst thing ever? Save us.

Either that or we can throw them out into space. That’s an option too. There’s a sun nearby to hurl these into, right?

[She sounds dead serious about this.]

...Maybe we should at least see if anyone wants them before we toss them into a sun? [But, she smiles.] I am totally saving shoving them out of an airlock as a plan B, though. Thank you for that.

[She glances back at the camera for a moment, though, giving the feed a Look.]

Seriously, though, get these far enough away that I never have to see them again.

[ooc: blue is opal, purple is nightingale!]

Comments

[save_the_souls]

...I'll put you down as something purple then!

[experiencepoints]

... Something about birds, I guess...? I don't know, seriously. Something purple, yeah.

[save_the_souls]

Purple and birds?

Okay! I can work with that!

[experiencepoints]

Should I be worried?

[save_the_souls]

Um...no? Why would you?

Has no one given you a Christmas gift before? [He knows she's not from Earth but with so many earth folks around...!]

[experiencepoints]

... I tried to avoid it as much as I could last year, since I knew it was something religious, and... You know about my world and religion, right?

And the place we were in before that didn't have a real calendar, so nothing like that ever got celebrated.

[save_the_souls]

Ah...yes, you've mentioned some things about religion on your world.

[Killing gods that clearly weren't gods and all that]

Christmas is religious for Christians, but you don't have to religious to celebrate it- especially out here. Here, mostly people just use it as a way to give gifts to people and spend time with them. Oh, and eat good food.

[experiencepoints]

[if jesus is born in this fleet i will set him on fire myself]

Tell me more about that food?

[save_the_souls]

[Wow hey setting messiahs on fire is Thedas's thing, okay. Don't take their thing Nightingale, they have so little]

Oh! Well there's lot of food! Roast turkey, goose, stuffing, gravy, roast potatoes, pigs in a blankets - that's sausage wrapped in bacon, mince pies, cranberry sauce, yorkshire pudding, trifle, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, chocolate, candy canes, yule logs, gingerbread men, cookies- and a lot more other things!

There's no one single Christmas cuisine, so you get a lot of variety.

[experiencepoints]

[i'll do it better than they did]

Those don't sound too hard... Well, the ones I know, anyway.

[save_the_souls]

Mm! I'm sure if you asked, other people could tell you more about their Christmas foods. I don't usually celebrate it with many people, so I wouldn't say I'm an expert on it...

[experiencepoints]

We probably can't get the ingredients for it between stops, either... Maybe our next stop will have something.

[save_the_souls]

Yeah, maybe!

So you're really going to cook for Christmas?

[experiencepoints]

If I can figure out how to get ingredients and a place to put it all, I'll cook for the people I care about.

If it happens to be around Christmastime, it isn't my tradition.

[does this make her tsundere for the concept of christmas now]

[save_the_souls]

[Yes but she's tsundere in every category so]

I see.

Thank you, Nightingale. That's very kind of you.

[experiencepoints]

[untrue, have you seen her talk about natalie yet]

Don't thank me yet, it's still up in the air if I'll be able to at all.

[save_the_souls]

[Okay besides that category]

It's still the thought that counts!

[experiencepoints]

[SHE DOESN'T ENTIRELY BELIEVE THAT but okay she's not arguing.]

I guess...? I'll still have to ask for recipes, too.