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

[necromanswers]

[Now if only she had more than the bare minimum.]

And...? [Hmm.] Well, the light thing got us all really hype about that particular guy for a while. We had to force him to throw it up because none of us could get anything done while he was around. As for the cloning, it wasn't all at once. Though it would have been wild to see a whole army of science dorks arguing with each other about this or that theory.

[twistedempathy]

It's hard enough to imagine eating light, let alone throwing it back up..... How do you even digest something like that?

[This world sounds incredibly weird, and incredibly interesting. Lup must've had some ridiculous adventures.]

As funny as that would've been to have them all at once, why did he need so many? Were they meant as stunt doubles or something?

[He's just gonna..... try to ignore the ethical implications of creating a whole new life purely to use as cannon fodder.]

[necromanswers]

What, you've never wanted to have a back-up body lying around just in case? The life of an adventurer is pretty dangerous, after all. You could die at any moment!

[Good luck deciphering whether or not she's bullshitting, there.]

[twistedempathy]

[Mouth opens, mouth closes. He had been going to question the logistics of it, but he finds himself rubbing his chin instead.]

You know, now that you mention it.....

[necromanswers]

[That gets a laugh out of her.]

Uh-oh, watch out, everybody! This is how necromancers are born.

[twistedempathy]

[Will just grins, propping up his chin in his hands. May as well run with it, right?]

It would just be plug and play, right? Like changing outfits! I don't think I'd want to bother with lots of crazy rituals or anything like that.

[necromanswers]

Oh, to be that young and naive. I hate to shatter your dreams, but it's usually a bit more advanced than that! Rituals and zombie-raising is base level shenanigans in comparison.

[twistedempathy]

Awww..... What's the point of even having spares if they're so hard to use?

[necromanswers]

Probably to avoid exactly what we're talking about. Can you imagine how crowded a world would get if no one ever died?

[twistedempathy]

Heh, I guess so. Kind of like this world, except I'm pretty sure robots can't have kids.

[necromanswers]

Probably not. We'd have seen a few robo-kids by now if they could. Plus we'd be able to hear them boning from space.

[Just a whole bunch of CLANK-CLANK-CLANK noises at night across the neighbourhood.]

[twistedempathy]

[Will bursts out laughing; the mental image alone is just incredible.]

If you think it's been hard to get quality sleep around here lately, well.....

[necromanswers]

Right? Maybe that's why our dreams have been so haunted lately. It's the spirit of their sex drive, desperate for a show...

[twistedempathy]

[He may just be facepalming at the thought.]

Mew, the spirit of their sex drive is creepy, then. What kind of crazy sex were they even into to manifest a monster and nightmares like that?

[necromanswers]

Hey, we don't kinkshame in this house.

[Sometimes you just wanna bone down on a monster, okay.]