video & voice; Story-time for All

[abracafcku]

[The video opens on a bare wall and to the sound of very, very corny fanfare. Then Taako's voice cuts in with the sound of applause.]

Yes, yes, welcome one and all to the greatest day of your lives. Today we have a real treat for you folks, so pull up a chair, take a load off and enjoy this banned text we've managed to procure.

[He clears his throat and a puppet appears on the screen - a non-descript looking human priest wearing dark robes and a blue sash around his neck. The voices that read the following lines are similar, but not the same and anyone who knows both Lup and Taako can probably tell it's the twins taking turns to read the passages. People who don't, however, might have a hard time telling them apart.]

"I used to have a lady love,
she journeyed through the sea,"

[A new puppet appears - a beautiful female mermaid with hair that falls just past her breasts. She slides up from the bottom of the screen and the priest turns to her, fawning all over her.]

"Her fins were as the mourning dove,
a mated pair were we.
Our bodies tangled, hand in glove,
a queen and devotee,"

[As the poem progresses, the priest does some...very not PG-13 things to the mermaid puppet. Eventually, the mermaid pushes the priest away, looking tired.]

"But she was called to rise above,
our bond not meant to be."

[Here the mermaid "puppet" flips a double middle finger at the priest and backflips into the sea, leaving him drenched in water.]

"Though I endure, bereft, belove,
I have her guarantee,
I'll be the one she's thinking of,
a little dove told me."

[The priest pines and waits by the water, pantomiming the lament of a forlorn lover as a bird lands next to him, rolling its eyes. The puppet show ends with a curtain drawing across the screen and then the video shuts off. Taako's voice cuts back in once the video is gone.]

Yeah, so the people here? Raunchy as hell. I love it. But then some people were, y'know, boring and said things like--

[Lup's voice takes over smoothly like they're still the same person talking.]

"If any other colonies can hear this message, please respond. This is Havenwell. We're still alive. The city is safe. We will come get you, no matter how far you are. This is not an automated message. Please respond." That there's a radio transmission from "Colony #56'07'4TM", which, obviously, is home sweet home. Not the most interesting, but I won't deny that the archive visits have been… informative.

Anyone else get something fun?

[OOC: It's a joint post! Replies here can be from Taako, Lup, or both of them. If you have a preference, just let us know in the title of your comment or it'll be a roulette of which twin you'll get.

Feel free to use this post to stir up discussion amongst yourselves regarding the lore contributions!]

Comments

video

[abracafcku]

[Taako takes a bow since this is Magolor and he knows both of them.]

Trying to bone down on a god is a time honored tradition, my guy. Love is eternal! And weird, in some cases.

[But that one...huh. That's some info right there.]

But yours? That explains why we don't see a whole lot of robo-kids running around. I wonder if they got their laser hands.

[begguiling]

I choose to believe this story had a happy ending. Laser hands for everyone!

[He lifts his own hands in a shooting-type gesture, giggling, before he sobers again. Well, not that sober.]

It makes sense, when you think about it. If they didn't let their brains mature before porting over into these new bodies, it'd be just asking for some real weirdness going on upstairs.

[abracafcku]

[Hopefully not for everyone unless that laser is used for hair removal. He doesn't want to get shot by a laser again.]

I mean, there's already weirdness going on anyway, but you're probably right. Kids? Are weird. Like - really weird. And usually not in the fun way either.

Giving them laser hands would just be a recipe for absolute chaos.

[begguiling]

It really makes you wonder. Was that a kid's imagination, or did some of them really have built-in weapons like that? That could have turned into chaos even without any kids involved. And I haven't seen any in the present day, at least. There could be all kinds of reasons for that! They sure did hand us a lot to think about, letting them into their records like that. . . . Speaking of which, anyone taking everything down?

[abracafcku]

I mean, if they did have weapons? Could explain why there aren't a lot of them left.

[Maybe there was a great robot war somewhere along the way, along with the world dying.]

But yeah, dummies went and let us bunch of yahoos into their history? Pfft, big whoops on their part. Maybe you should write it all down. Or get that guy with like...a billion hands to do it.

[8. Taranza has 8.]

[begguiling]

[It takes Magolor a moment to pin who that is, but only a moment. It's a real duh moment when he realizes. Who has more hands than Taranza?]

Taranza? I was going to volunteer my services, but he was practically born to be a scribe, now that you mention it. He's got a leg up on me! Or a hand or four.

[Also, he's a nerd. Magolor is also a nerd, but not a nerd nerd. Taranza is like, that kind of nerd.]

I'll give him a nudge! It'd be a good idea to get this all down one way or another. They have to know we'll organize it if they handed it to us to work with, so it's on them if they don't want us studying it.

[abracafcku]

[He snaps his finger like the name wasn't already known. The little spider-dude was just too easy to tease.]

I mean, you're free to do it yourself, but why do that when you can get someone else to do it for you, right?

Which. I guess is an answer to what you suggested too. They have to know we're going to organize things. Maybe they're making us do the work for them.


Fuck.

[begguiling]

Well, that is how paying people for their services works, and they did do that when we signed up.

[Dryly, and with a smile. But on the other hand—]

Not that they paid us for the organization part! So if they are counting on us to have that brilliant idea, we got cheated there for sure. Next time we'll unionize!

[abracafcku]

That's the important part though - we should get paid for all services rendered! [Even ones they were technically doing voluntarily.]

I feel cheated, my dude. It might be time to storm the treasury or something.