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[mortalcoil]

Who: The new weirdo on the Marsiva
Broadcast: Network-- fleet-wide
Action: Aboard the Marisva!
When: Oct. 22, nighttime

→ [network - audio, then video, and then text]

[at first, there's just the sound of someone fiddling with the buttons on some network station. technology is difficult, okay.

then, the camera turns on, and everyone watching will be treated to the sight of a raggedy, scarred-up teenager blinking in surprise at the screen. or... maybe it's not technically considered blinking, because he only has one eye.

he frowns hard when he realizes that he's turned the video on. that's not what he was aiming for. a second later, the video cuts off... and several seconds after that, a text transmission is sent out.]

hello.


→ [action - aboard the Marsiva]

[for anyone awake this late on the Marsiva--or awoken by the sound of someone angrily messing around with the buttons at a nearby network station--they can find this guy failing at technology.

I'm sure he's very friendly. you should say hi.]

Comments

[mortalcoil]

i know what televio

television is

[sugoooi]

oh ok then tv is just short for that!
and a lot easier to spell

[mortalcoil]

i know!

[sugoooi]

then why'd you ask what a tv is???

[mortalcoil]

i dindt!!!

[sugoooi]

Yes you did it's right up there!!
you went "tv???"

[mortalcoil]

[and he discovers that hitting the console in annoyance does not make the person on the other side of the network smarter]

no

y am i on tv

1/2

[sugoooi]

[ the more you know!!! ]

.......oh

[sugoooi]

how am I supposed to know that?? you were so vague!

[mortalcoil]

you were stupid!

[sugoooi]

that's so mean!!

[mortalcoil]

answer me

[sugoooi]

don't you think you should apologize first?????

[mortalcoil]

no

[if only he thought about capital letters to add more force to his response. alas, this will have to do.]

[sugoooi]

wow

[mortalcoil]

now answer me

[best communicator here wow]

[sugoooi]

[ Coil you are the worst at getting info. THE WORST. So bad Sam assumes he must be his age or something. ]

"please"!

[mortalcoil]

[yeah this is why he spies to get info instead of trying to talk to people. but, in this case, he's ultimately more concerned about information than his pride.

and also the sarcasm and eye-rolling doesn't carry through text. that helps too.]

please

[sugoooi]

[ Coil is so, so lucky it doesn't translate into regular text. Otherwise he would get a LECTURE ON ASKING NICELY. ]

See that wasn't so hard!


uhh

so wait what was your question again

[mortalcoil]

[he's also lucky that punches to the throat don't carry through text]

tv!!

[sugoooi]

[ WOW ]

oh yeah! we're on this like, space tv thing!

[mortalcoil]

[angry ninja boy is angry ok]

???

[sugoooi]

okay look you need to do more than just press one key here what are you confused about?
space?
tv in space?
things???

[mortalcoil]

yes

[hey, it's more than one key]

[sugoooi]

all of them??