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Post by Mayday/Maddox Wayne on Jan 7, 2011 13:08:56 GMT -5
Mayday always has some sort of cleaning supplies on him, even if you can't see it. Always.
He looks a bit nervous at he steps into the lounges. Lounges are used by people. Multiple people. And frequently. But then so are hallways and he doesn't really get freaked out by hallways usually, so he should probably just let it go and relax. Well, relax more. He's never been very good at relaxing-relaxing. Or something. Now he's just babbling in his head. At least he's not babbling out loud?
While Breakaway goes to look at the selection of films, Mayday inspects the furniture. He eyes a couch like he expects it to bit him, then produces a can of mild disinfectant and attempts to discreetly give it a spray.
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Post by Breakaway on Jan 7, 2011 22:24:37 GMT -5
In the unlikely event that the couch bites Mayday, Breakaway will shoot it.
Thumbing through the movie catalog, he hits upon something that looks likely. "How about Attack of the Giant Water Bears, Part 3: It Came From Tardigradia? Sounds like something one of the Junkions uploaded. Can't seem to find a Part 1 or 2, though."
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Post by Firebolt on Jan 8, 2011 11:49:44 GMT -5
There's the sound of whistling from down the hall, which comes closer as the whistler does. Firebolt turns the corner into the lounge, revealing she's the noise-maker, and then stops mid step, and waves.
"Oh hay!" She says cheerily, then points at the screen, "I was just coming in to watch some movies, cos what we have is so, so much better than whatever is planetside, I think," as she says this, she points towards the ground, indicating Pz-Zazz itself.
"Might I join you two in movie-watching?" she asks, as she moves towards an open couch, most definitely not the one Mayday is disinfecting.
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Post by Mayday/Maddox Wayne on Jan 9, 2011 16:27:15 GMT -5
Breakaway is totally Mayday's hero.
"I... have absolutely no idea what a Water Bear is. It sounds... interesting?" He's dubious, but he hasn't been introduced to the wonders of B-rated monster movies.
He squeaks a little as Firebolt greets them loudly, but waves with a nervous grin. "Oh, uh, sure? Lounges are for public use and stuff, after all. Very public." He eyes the couch suspiciously again and gives it another spray. You can never be too careful.
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Post by Breakaway on Jan 9, 2011 17:38:11 GMT -5
Mayday is a cleaning ninja.
"Oh, hey, Firebolt. Sure, come on in. We're going to watch some scrappy movie about bears or something. Were you hoping for a specific movie or is a horrible B-movie okay?" Breakaway also has no idea what water bears are. "Yeah, I wouldn't want to go into a movie theater down there. The floors are probably sticky with who-knows-what."
Turning around, he notices Mayday cleaning the couch and rolls his optics.
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Post by Firebolt on Jan 10, 2011 10:59:13 GMT -5
Firebolt walks over to the couch she's going for and sits down, stretching out a little before getting comfortable. "I was just gonna choose at random, so I'm fine with whatever," she says. She takes a moment to peer at Mayday and his battle against the couch with its probable germs, then shrugs.
"What is it like, 'attack of the mutant bears' or something like that? Maybe 'bears versus crocodiles,' or 'my neighbor is a terrorist Mexican Bear1'?" She asks, giggling the whole while.
1. Borrowed from Steven Colbert
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Post by Mayday/Maddox Wayne on Jan 13, 2011 13:53:20 GMT -5
Mayday shudders at the idea of movie theaters with sticky floors. Why is it so hard for people to be clean?
"It was something about bears in the water. Giant bears in the water." He isn't actually sure what a normal bear is, let alone a tardigrade. Yes, he will likely come out of this movie-going experience thinking that Earth bears are nigh-indestructible, eight-limbed monsters.
Having deemed the couch suitably disinfected, he sits down. Well, it's not so much sitting as crouching on the seat so that the only parts of his body touching the couch are his feet. Hunching up, he cups his hands over his knees and convinces himself that if there were any horrible disease going around the crew that were contagious through couches, he would know about them.
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Post by Breakaway on Jan 13, 2011 19:09:36 GMT -5
"Nah, it's Attack of the Giant Water Bears. So I guess they're huge and live in water or something. Maybe they're like fish-bears? Shark-bears!" Breakaway shrugs and tells the computer to play the movie, plonking down on the couch beside the two smaller 'bots.
As the opening crawl starts in glorious Technicolor, explaining the spine-tingling thrills of Parts 1 and 2, Breakaway shouts "Shoot!" and springs up to make Robot Space Popcorn, or whatever the technical term is.
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Post by Firebolt on Jan 14, 2011 19:38:54 GMT -5
Firebolt tilts her head to the side as she tries to figure out what a water bear is. It's not in her own information, so she only figures it's a bear that runs around in the rivers, or maybe the ocean.
"Wait where you goin, it's starting!! You'll miss all the backstory as why the bears are giant and in the water!" She calls out to Breakaway as he runs off.
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Post by Mayday/Maddox Wayne on Jan 16, 2011 13:06:23 GMT -5
Mayday's head whips back and forth between the screen and Breakaway. "Wait, wait, should I pause it? How do I pause it!" Wait, he knows perfectly well how to pause it. He flails his hands around a bit and shouts, "Pause, pause!" at the entertainment system, bringing the movie to a brief halt.
He flops down onto his rear, relaxing slightly. Movie-watching. It's serious business.
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Post by Breakaway on Jan 17, 2011 21:29:11 GMT -5
Breakaway turns around to look at the two smaller 'bots on the couch as he circles around the sofa to the dispenser on the back wall of the lounge. He'd just look over his shoulder at them, only his head can't turn that far and he wouldn't be able to see past his wings anyway.
"Chill out, you two, I'm just going to make snacks, not going on a suicide mission." He punches his order into the dispenser, and it dispenses the Transformer equivalent of popcorn: it's filling, but has little to no nutritional value, and all the taste comes from the toppings.
Then he plops back down on the couch, adjusting his wings until he's comfortable and putting the bowl of snacks where everyone can reach it.
The viewscreen is paused in the middle of recapping the original Hollywood cult classic, Attack of the Giant Water Bears, in which an Irresponsible Experiment with Cosmic Rays mutates a group of harmless tardigrades that had been on a nearby patch of moss into ravenous, indestructible, man-eating monsters. The movie ends with the Dashing Hero, the Love Interest, and the Clever Scientist barricaded in an abandoned warehouse, with giant tardigrades clawing at the door.
Once the movie is resumed, the recap will continue to expound the thrilling events of Attack of the Giant Water Bears, Part II: Revenge of the Son of the Water Bears, in which The Protagonists escape from the aforementioned warehouse via The Clever Scientist building a dehydration ray, which temporarily paralyzes the monsters until it rains. Then further adventures happen and the military nukes them (the monsters, not the humans.) Part II ends with the revelation that a single tardigrade has survived the blast, in stasis, but still pulses with life . . .
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Post by Firebolt on Jan 19, 2011 0:37:39 GMT -5
"OOOH! Gimmie some o' that!" Firebolt scrambles over and plops herself down next to Breakaway, and in arm's reach of the Space-corn. She eats a handful and then points at the screen.
"It's still moving! Oooh!" She says in excitement.
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Post by Mayday/Maddox Wayne on Jan 19, 2011 20:22:42 GMT -5
Even before the movie properly starts, Mayday is already gripping his knees tightly, his optics wide and fixed on the screen. "It's unstoppable. Unstoppable."
He knows that movies are fiction and that fiction isn't reality. Obviously this isn't a re-enactment of true events. But at the same time, he totally thinks that incidents like this must be why organic planets are off-limit back home. Considering some of the things Optimus and his crew dealt with on their Earth, it'd be difficult to convince him otherwise.
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Post by Breakaway on Jan 19, 2011 22:03:30 GMT -5
"It's unstoppably bad special effects, anyway. Look, you can see the zipper on the suit!" Breakaway says through a mouthful of popcorn. (I'm just going to call it popcorn from now on to save time.) He's got his facemask retracted so he can snack.
The movie proper starts off with some horribly stilted and badly-written dialog between The Dashing Hero, The Love Interest, and A Military-type General. The General is explaining that The Scientist bravely sacrificed his life to hold off the mutant tardigrades and died in the nuclear explosion at the end of the last movie, even though we never saw that happen and it would have been more interesting to show it. This may be because The Scientist's actor got a better job, one that he could look at himself in the mirror after doing and not be disgusted.
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Post by Firebolt on Jan 20, 2011 0:54:16 GMT -5
"Strings! I see strings. But that's ok. Because it's one of those so bad it's funny sort of things," Firebolt explains to Mayday, and then has a little more popcorn.
"I hope there's a climatic battle scene," she muses.
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