video/text: un: saccharine

[stickyfingers]

[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.]

Comments

[soru]

I will remind you that there was nothing otherwise stopping you from turning down this mission.

[ god he cant help it. the nagging. it comes to naturally with this guy ]

Did you not consult with other team members about cutting the cost of a room?

[stickyfingers]

....

Oh, I get it. They enchanted these jewelry things to nag at their team members when they get complainy about their situation, huh.

That's pure brilliant, that is.

[soru]

[ ok now lOOK ]

Wh-- I'm not nagging!

[ yes you are ]

[stickyfingers]

'Is all of that candy? Aren't meat and vegetables more important? Where's your stipend? Why didn't you split the cost to share a room?'

[He's ... mimicking Coby's voice. ]

I think that's textbook nagging, if you ask me.

[soru]

[ gOSH DANG IT ]

I'm certain that had it not been warranted, you would not be listening to said nagging.

[ dont let the ginger rile you, dont let the ginger rile you, dont let-- ]

[stickyfingers]

And a man counting out his fuel for Life counts as being 'warranted for a good nagging'?

Yikes, I didn't know enchanted jewelry held such high bloody standards.