002 ϟ open } { high metabolisms are not for the faint of heart or picky of eaters

[supertardiness]

Who: Barry Allen + YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: First Breath for post-video things or Planetside, take your pick!
When: August 2nd-ish.

[video ~ fleetwide]

[And here is Barry! Looking less worrisome than when the fleet first met him, but still trying to figure out his way around this place.]

Hi, guys. It's Barry. I was wondering if there were any food specialists, or scientists, or food scientists around who might be able to do me a favor.

For those who don't know, I have a super high metabolism which results in me needing to eat like, ten thousand calories a day, which is really bad in enclosed areas like the ships where there are limited supplies and multiple people that need to share them. But, my buddy Cisco, who some of you may remember from when he was here, built me these high calorie protein bars so I can eat like a normal human and still get all the calories I need.

Cisco's not here now, but in those baskets that we got from Atroma, I got a few of those bars as a gift, and I was wondering if anyone here might be able to reverse engineer them somehow? If you could I would be incredibly grateful. I can even pay you for them, and they might be helpful for the fleet as a whole, since I know I'm not the only one here with ... metabolism issues.

[He's not going to out them publically, but the Kara (and possibly Mon-El?) know who they are.]

So hit me back if you're interested. Thanks.

[and with that, it's bye bye Barry.]

[action ~ planetside]

[The second Barry sets foot on the ground again, he takes off in a flash of red and gold lightning. After months of being confined on the ship, with limited space and nowhere to go even if he did want to run, the idea of being on a planet with plenty of space for him to let loose is a blessing, really, and he intends to run as far and as fast as he can, getting as much of this antsy energy out before he has to board the ship again and go back to a confined life.

Obstacles have never really been an issue for him, running up the sides of buildings and jumping over cars in order to get out of their way. Occasionally he will stop to devour some food, because surprise, surprise, running makes him hungry, but after that he's off again. He might also even get a job making deliveries for one of the local conglomerates because why not? At least with Barry on the case, they know they'll never have to pay someone for not delivering on time.

Eventually he will start trying to poke around a bit more, but for right now, he's simply glad that he finally has some freedom to move.]

Comments

[supertardiness]

No, I definitely prefer Barry. Have you been in the fleet a while?

[torsion]

Not terribly long, no.

[supertardiness]

Me either. I got here about three months ago.

[torsion]

Newer than that, but hopefully not here that long.

Of course, that's just hopefulness speaking. I understand that realistically I will be here a long while so I'm prepared for it.

[supertardiness]

Yeah, my friend Kara has been here a while. But! I've also noticed that people can kind of disappear without warning, and presumably they go home? So you never know - you might wind up only doing a short stint.

[torsion]

Fingers crossed in that case! Not that it's so bad here or I don't enjoy the company or anything.

[supertardiness]

No, it's not that it isn't nice here, it's just that ... I have important things that I need to do. People who are counting on me, you know?

[torsion]

You're not the only one. Not just me, but I don't doubt there's a lot of people in that predicament.

Maybe that's part of why we're here.

[supertardiness]

To stop us from getting there?

[torsion]

Unfortunately, I'm the one who has the answer to that.

[supertardiness]

You are?

[torsion]

I'm sure this is shocking, but even I'm capable of making typos.

[supertardiness]

You know, I wasn't sure, but for all I know you could have cracked the code and hacked in or something.

[torsion]

Sorry, that'd be my partner. He hacks, I do... other things.

If I had I would've called a meeting on the down-low by now. Would be pretty selfish (and shitty) if I kept that to myself.

[supertardiness]

That is true. I'm not really a hacker either so it's not like I'm doing much better.

[torsion]

Get the feeling there's bound to be something implemented to punish us if we tried, anyway.

[supertardiness]

Yeah, given what I've seen of the way things are run here, that wouldn't surprise me either.

[torsion]

I mean, I'm sure the punishment would be creative, at least. Probably less torture, more mild annoyance.

[supertardiness]

Mild annoyance, huh? What are you thinking, like ... being tickled for hours?

[torsion]

Sorry, I'm not into that.

[supertardiness]

Neither am I. In fact, that pretty much sounds like the worst, but at least it's not painful?

[torsion]

Saying it sounds like the worst is like issuing a challenge for someone to find something worse than it.

But I guess you're right, there probably are worse things. I just rather would be subjected to neither!

[supertardiness]

And no one would blame you there.