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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Nov 20, 2011 22:04:02 GMT -5
Month 5, Week 1, Day 1, semi-private, lounge, mention of Impactor done with permission
Emirate Xaaron is feeling devious today, which is to say that he is feeling normal. He is feeling almost... playful about his deviousness, however, when he's usually much more serious. Of course, his playfulness is like a cat playing with a canary, but he doesn't mean any serious harm by it.
He ducks his head into a lounge, looking for his natural prey, and boy, does he score big-time!
There, playing at astro-pool, is an Impactor who already looks mildly inebriated. There is a Primus, and He loves Emirate Xaaron. He can't help but grin. He sidles over to Impactor, cocky as sin, and he asks, "Want to play a drinking game?"
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Nov 21, 2011 14:54:50 GMT -5
Impactor finishes his shot, sinking the intended ball, then straightens, picks up the glass next to him, and finishes a different shot. He eyes Emirate Xaaron warily. Had anyone else asked that question, the answer would have been an immediate "Yes." But this was Emirate Xaaron. He's up to something, because Emirate Xaaron is always up to something.
"What drinking game?" he asks instead.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Nov 21, 2011 16:15:17 GMT -5
"The one where we watch a holo, and whenever something on a list of certain events happens in the holo, we take a drink. For example, whenever someone is decapitated, we take a drink," Emirate Xaaron answers, beaming, "or whenever a politician is pointlessly obstructive."
He tries to put a hand on Impactor's hip and lean against him winsomely.
Impactor's hand (or more often harpoon) and optic coordination has always been... impressive, Emirate Xaaron thinks. He bets that Impactor's been drinking just to make astro-pool a challenge at all in the first place. Certainly, the Saturnine rings around the balls make them roll oddly, but Impactor's capable of putting a harpoon right into a brain module and then using the still-thrashing body as a wrecking ball against further targets. Emirate Xaaron is no expert, but he thinks that sounds harder than playing astro-pool, if only because the pool balls generally do not return fire.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Nov 25, 2011 13:31:54 GMT -5
It might be worth noting that, though Impactor currently has his harpoon rather than his hand, he's not using it as a cue or anything. That would both be less challenging and would likely ruin a few balls. Instead, he has the harpoon twisted in such a way that it can snag the cue stick towards the end, providing the guidance near the tip as he controls the strikes with his hand.
As he studies the table in front of him, considering his next shot, he seems to almost ignore the man trying to lean against him, behaving as though he can make Xaaron vanish by failing to acknowledge his presence. This fails, however, as he grunts, "If it's one of Twin Twist's damned Wreckers movies, it's the politician that's getting decapitated."
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Nov 25, 2011 21:32:36 GMT -5
If Impactor ignoring Emirate Xaaron could actually make Emirate Xaaron invisible, Emirate Xaaron would exploit the heck out of that.
Emirate Xaaron says soothingly, "Oh, Primus, no! This is a holo from Skyblast's reality. Most of his holos are... experimental, most of the rest are about airplanes, but this is a fantasy action holo based loosely off a historical incident. Very loosely, I suspect." He smiles broadly, stretching his stitches. "Set back in the era when Megatron was their Lord High Protector, before he went frankly jetslag, I am given to understand. Should be interesting to see how the media portrayed him, but he's not the focus, anyway. Movie's mostly about someone called... Beta. A crossbow sniper and commander. Had to hold one of the moons against an alien invasion."
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Nov 27, 2011 18:07:47 GMT -5
Impactor considers this.
"So pretty much like those stupid Wreckers shows, only for some other group in some other reality," he observes. This will apparently be how he defines all fictionalized historical action movies until the end of time. "And you already know enough about the vids from this reality to set the rules for a drinking game?" he asks suspiciously.
It's not wise to trust any rules set by Emirate Xaaron, but that goes double if he knows the game and you don't.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Nov 27, 2011 22:08:30 GMT -5
"I am given to understand that this has higher production values, competent writing and acting, and interesting aesthetic choices," Emirate Xaaron remarks dryly. There are some Wrecker movies that are good, like Trannis Strikes Back, but most of them are pretty much rubbish. "Skyblast gave me the drinking game when he recommended 00110011 00110000 00110000 to me."
He pulls out a datapad and pulls up the rules on the screen, which contain things such as: - Drink whenever Beta headshots an enemy. - Drink whenever someone shouts, "For Cybertron!" - Drink whenever a politician is pointlessly obstructive. ...
And others.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Nov 30, 2011 21:13:47 GMT -5
Impactor snorts when he hears that this 'Beta' person warrants higher production values. He listens to the list, then shrugs.
"Sure, what not." He puts the cue stick away then heads towards the dispenser to grab a cube, ignoring the fact that this may unbalance the Emirate leaning against him.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Dec 3, 2011 11:15:50 GMT -5
There s a moment of Emirate Xaaron flailing to reclaim his balance, but he does, and once he does, he acts like nothing has happened. He just ambles over to the media curio and keys up the holo. This being a proper Cybertronian holo, it is in the sort of 3D wherein one can wander around and actually see different vantage points.
Oh look, DRM.
Copy this illegally, and Shockwave's mining worm will hunt you down and kill you?
...okay.
Emirate Xaaron sits down on a couch, somewhat near the edge. There is plenty of room if Impactor (or someone else) wants to join him, but there are other couches and chairs, too.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Dec 3, 2011 19:48:21 GMT -5
Impactor heads to the couch, balancing one cube on top of another. He throws himself down into the couch that Emirate Xaaron is on, though on the opposite edge, and holds the cubes over for Xaaron to grab the top one. "You're not getting out of this," he warns. "If I gotta take drinks, so do you."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Dec 3, 2011 21:27:59 GMT -5
The sounds of cinema draw their natural predator!
Pee-Dee peeks around the door frame into the lounge. "Whatcha watching?" Then she sees that it's projected all over the place and the characters are Transformers. "Oh, Cybertronian stuff."
Meh, says her tone of voice.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Dec 3, 2011 22:10:13 GMT -5
"There is a blue one who can't accept the green one for living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one1," Emirate Xaaron comments sharply to Pee-Dee, optics narrowed.
What, Xaaron watches her xeno teevee and tries speak to her as she would be spoken to, and she's so insultingly dismissive of his choice of entertainment in his own spare time? Honey, tolerance is a two-way street (which means double the chances to get run over).
He grabs one of the cubes from Impactor and eyes it like he wants to nip into it now. When the menu comes up, he hits 'play' and sinks back into the couch.
Emirate Xaaron observes dryly, "At least the opening credits are impressive."
Swoosh.
And is that a shiny-new hatchling-aged Beta soloing a wild rampaging mining worm in a flashback that explains why she became a commander later in life?
1 "Everyday People"
OOC: Feel free to make up stuff for the plot and/or add drink worthy things to the list.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Dec 4, 2011 16:20:22 GMT -5
Impactor looks at Emirate Xaaron like he's just sprouted a new head. "Wha-?" He looks at the screen and narrows his optics. "Okay, I see the green one, but where the heck's this blue one?"
Impactor does not talk TV, and he's unlikely to start any time soon.
As young Beta battles the mining worm, she screams, "For Cybertron!" Impactor snorts and takes a drink. "Getting off to a good start, I see."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Dec 4, 2011 16:48:39 GMT -5
Pee-Dee's optics flash in a blink. That was... okay, that was rude of her. She would not have said anything like that to a fellow Junkion who had made an effort to get into her stuff. Emirate Xaaron being an Autobot didn't make it polite for her to do so.
She glances at Impactor and bites her mouth, saws cutting into her metal. Not like any of her fellow Junkions would blame her all that much, though.
"Thank you for the attitude readjustment, Xaaron," she says. "Info assimilated.1"
She wanders into the room, picking a chair with no back to sit on, pushing up her windshield a bit so she can sit comfortably. Then she sits very quietly and just watches. If the Bat-Xaaron likes this, then she should at least make the effort to sit through it.
Who knows, maybe it's less boring and incomprehensible than the so-called Cybertronian classics usually are.
1. Demolition Man
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Dec 4, 2011 17:52:14 GMT -5
"Pee-Dee speaks a different dialect than most of us do. I try to address her as she would have herself be addressed," Emirate Xaaron explains to Impactor, shrugging.
Indeed, he adds directly over at Pee-Dee, "What you say is not enough. It's what you do1."
Emirate Xaaron sure isn't going to force her to watch a holo she doesn't want to see! But if she actually wants to watch, that's fine, too. He tries to hand her the list of drinking rules, somewhat hopefully, and he takes a drink.
Now the mining worm is coming right down at young Beta's head! Emirate Xaaron swears he can count every grinding tooth on the thing. Young Beta looks up at the thing, not faltering...
...and puts a crossbow bolt down its gullet and out the other side of its head. The fuel splatter from the exit wound conveniently hangs in the air for a slo-mo second and spells out '00110011 00110000 00110000'.
Scene-cut to young-Beta dragging the thing's corpse back home and being lauded.
Slaggit, that counts as a head-shot, doesn't it? Emirate Xaaron takes another drink.
1 "Spit or Swallow" - KMFDM
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