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Gaius ([personal profile] stickyfingers) wrote in [community profile] futurology2016-10-04 01:32 pm

video/text: un: saccharine

[The video startup seems pretty normal at first, until you realise that a certain freckled ginger isn't actually paying any attention whatsoever to the camera. He's sitting on one of the saloon beds, taking inventory of... snacks. Cookies, candies, fruit--even little wrapped bars of chocolate. He's talking to himself about something about 'not having enough for such a long trip', and it's only then that he realises that his bracelet is flashing with some... sort of irritating light.

He frowns, a look on his face that's pretty offended as he moves to put a hand down over it, and the video cuts off for a second, only for the screen to flip instead, to text.
Were ALASTAIR's clever little (magic?) bracelets not programmed with a thought-to-text function, it might be alright, but of course--Gaius has pretty poor luck, so instead:]


Just what I need in my life, weird gods-be-damned enchanted jewelry making eyes at me when I'm in the middle of something important.

[Someone really has no idea how these things work, being from the dark ages is utter bullshit with all this new tech.]
agrizzlysin: (but elizabeth got there first)

text; un: king

[personal profile] agrizzlysin 2016-10-05 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
[The pain of a medieval mindset taking in science-fiction tech. King knows it all too well. Still...]

"Important"...?

You don't think the magical communication jewelry you suddenly have now that you've been dragged into the affairs of an alien organization should be slightly higher on your priority list?

agrizzlysin: (ban i see tentacle porn in your future)

[personal profile] agrizzlysin 2016-10-06 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
My name is King, and I'm writing to you through your bracelet the same way you just addressed everyone in Team Audentes with it.

Now are you starting to understand why this is more important than your sweets?
agrizzlysin: (how to kill an immortal 101)

[personal profile] agrizzlysin 2016-10-15 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Just King is fine.

[The sentence is devoid of any helpful tone (unlike that last one, wink wink). Is he being sarcastic? Completely straight? Playful? The world may never know.]

And you will definitely come to appreciate it when this mission goes sour.
agrizzlysin: (you wanna start an improv group?)

[personal profile] agrizzlysin 2016-10-20 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[That's just cruel. It's his alias, okay! At least it's less conspicuous than Fairy King Harlequin.]

We were sent here because things are already going sour. ALASTAIR wouldn't drop off us off on a perfectly stable planet. That would be a vacation, not a mission.
agrizzlysin: (are you sure hawk won't eat her?)

[personal profile] agrizzlysin 2016-10-25 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Optimism? What is this nonsense?]

Hope all you want. Just don't cry when you're let down. Or when your bracelet "makes eyes" at you.
agrizzlysin: (tits or asses?)

[personal profile] agrizzlysin 2016-10-27 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Short answer: no.]

That's why you learn how to use it before you start counting your candy collection. I'm saying that if you'd just take your focus away from your sweets long enough to ask, people would tell you how to keep this from happening.

Hope only goes so far.