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Post by Oracle on Mar 9, 2008 15:40:27 GMT -5
Apparently Oracle didn't have to worry about getting a rush of sense, because distractions were going to arrive in the persons of Skyblast, Skyfire and First Aid. Lucky her.
"Skyblast, welcome back!" The news about more arrivals had her looking to see if she could spot any, but after only a moment she shrugged and turned her attention back to the other two jets just in time to hear Slingshot say he was inviting one of them over anyway. Worked for her.
Lifting her still quarter full cube she shook her head. "I'm good Skyfire, but thanks." Looking over at Perceptor, all she could do was shrug. "He's dancing I think?" If previous comments about moving to music were generalized anyway, otherwise she didn't have a clue.
When First Aid arrived she shifted around to better accommodate the sudden increase in people standing together, but otherwise just smiled and waved slightly as she hadn't been introduced to the ambulance before.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Mar 9, 2008 16:49:54 GMT -5
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Apparently Slingshot knows this ambulance, and Mr. Sulkypants even sounds happy to see him. Why has Skyblast never heard about this First Aid person in Slingshot's life? They're room mates! Skyblast found Slingshot's irritable teen jet afterburners out on the beach and hauled him back to everyone else.
Skyblast squints at Slingshot for a moment, and then he shrugs. Whatever. Maybe Slingshot doesn't need a memorial painting to Optimus Prime. At any rate, Skyblast lets Slingshot's question drop without an answer. Can Skyblast dance? Sure, but it doesn't have anything on flying. He waves off Skyfire and points to his own drink, noting, "Got one. They're just dancing. Don't know the style."
He should probably greet First Aid, shouldn't he? Shouldn't he? Well, Skyblast didn't ask him over here. Slingshot can greet First Aid. Skyblast has never heard of 'don't make the medic angry', and even if he had, he's a reckless little jet who would ignore such advice, anyway.
Skyblast turns to Oracle and smiles like he means it, agreeing, "Right you are!"
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Post by Slingshot on Mar 9, 2008 20:02:37 GMT -5
Slingshot only just met First Aid the other day when the jet went to have an emotional fit in the morgue! Before that, he was "ambulance that hangs out in Medical". Now he's "my ambulance who hangs out in Medical and needs to get out more".
The Aerialbot frowns slightly as Skyblast ignores his question, but two more people just joined them. It's not like it's hard for answers to get dropped in the shuffle of conversation; Fireflight could do it in plain one-on-one shooting the breeze.
"Got a drink, Skyfire. Hey, First Aid! You've met Skyfire, right? This is Skyblast, he's my roommate, and he's a sharp little sky-painter." Slingshot uses his hand to actually adequately mimic some of the stunts he's seen Skyblast pull. "Real maneuverable. That's Oracle. She is not a Seeker. But you're probably going to have to repair her a lot anyway."
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Post by Skyfire on Mar 9, 2008 21:33:26 GMT -5
Skyfire nodded at the introductions. "I believe we met in Medbay, when First Aid was re-attaching bits."
He looked quizzically at Oracle and then back at Slingshot. "Not a Seeker? But her build and transform scheme looks just like Starscream's and Fleetwind's and Thundercracker's... Different from yours, though."
"Rather good at conventional painting, too," Skyfire added, tapping his fresh Autobrand. "Dancing, eh? Is it a specific ritual, or just general celebration?"
He knocked back one of the cubes, cutting down on the number of extras he has to dispose of, then looked around the dance floor party to see who might be refreshment-poor.
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Post by First Aid on Mar 10, 2008 15:24:07 GMT -5
“Pleased to meet you,” First Aid says, paying full attention to the introductions. And everything else, too – he’s interested in this little knot of people and what they have to say.
“Oh, you did the sigil free hand, Skyblast?” he asks (it takes considerably more to off put or irritate First Aid than a mild snub), “That’s really cool! It takes a very steady hand to do that sort of thing, doesn’t it?”
He studies Perceptor for a moment, then says, “I think he’s riffing off of disco. And earlier rock styles, too. Mostly disco, though.” Skyfire’s question wasn’t meant for him, exactly, he’s sure, but it’s a hard to resist question. “Some dancing has connections to ritual, some is just for fun, but I never heard of disco attaching itself to a ceremony.” Unless you count wedding receptions. Should you count wedding receptions? Probably not.
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Post by Oracle on Mar 10, 2008 22:54:02 GMT -5
After a brief glance between Skyblast and Slingshot, Oracle decided she didn't want to know whatever that had just been. Clueless suited her just fine. Besides, Slingshot's assertion that she wasn't a Seeker very quickly had her looking at him in confusion.
A momentary self survey assured her that no, she hadn't been reformatted or anything else strange, so now she was clueless in a way she hadn't intended to be. Hopefully Slingshot would answer Skyfire's question and she would have an answer, though after a moment she wondered if it had anything to do with him associating Seeker with Decepticon. Interesting logic, though it didn't change her build type any.
"Skyblast is a very good painter." She had to second Skyfire's comment. "I haven't gotten a chance to see too much of his work, but what I have seen has impressed me." Their room for instance, and the talk of that dart board from before though she didn't actually see that.
Glancing at Perceptor, she looked back at First Aid. "So that's earth style dancing?" While Oracle had been to the planet before, cultural studies hadn't been the first thing on her mind.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Mar 11, 2008 8:54:27 GMT -5
Slingshot said he was a 'sharp little sky-painter'. Maybe Skyblast isn't so mad at Slingshot, after all. However, he has to contradict, "No, the important thing is that she's not a F-22."
He beams as Skyfire echoes the praise, and then First Aid has to go and prove himself totally unworthy of being snubbed. Skyblast nods, rocking back a little, back and forth on the tips of his feet, and he explains, "Of course I did it free-hand. Stencils are useless in sky-painting, so I don't make a practise of using them anywhere else. Can you imagine trying to hang up a stencil on a cloud?" he laughs. "Doesn't work that way."
Then Oracle chips in with her own laudations, and so Skyblast raises one hand behind his helmet to rub it and looks at the group as whole, chirping out, "Thanks, guys."
To Oracle, he comments, "If that's Earth dancing, we aren't missing anything. Now, there's this little planet out near Antares, and the natives are winged, see. They know how to dance."
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Post by Slingshot on Mar 11, 2008 17:32:55 GMT -5
"She's an Autobot. So she's not a Seeker." Tipsy Aerialbot logic at its finest!
Slingshot stares out at the various people all dancing differently. "Be kind of cool if they all picked a style and stuck with it."
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Post by Skyfire on Mar 11, 2008 17:51:33 GMT -5
Skyfire pondered this logic for a few microseconds. "If you are using the word in its original etymological sense of 'Decepticon Hunter/Seeker unit'1, then yes, you are correct; Oracle is no such thing. However, I gather that colloquially it has come to mean a jet Transformer of a certain build-type and transformation scheme. In that sense, Oracle appears to be a Seeker."
"Variety is the spice of life," Skyfire said, hoisting a cube. "Are you familiar with any of these styles?"
--- 1Skyfire has been looking up/asking people (like Perceptor, cleared with player) about those unfamiliar colloquialisms he keeps hearing since arriving in this time and place.
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Post by First Aid on Mar 12, 2008 14:47:39 GMT -5
It’s a really weird feeling, being the person in the group who seems to know the most about Earth. First Aid is a little startled to realize that there aren’t any humans around to laugh at him and tell him he would see things that way, being a kid/doctor/alien robot. He’s not used to that at all – even around Autobot City there’s a good sized contingent of human staff, and he hasn’t really come to terms with the implications of his new situation.
“It’s a Earth style – styles,” he says to Oracle, “There are a lot. There’s hundreds of cultures on Earth and all of them have different ways of dancing.”
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Post by Oracle on Mar 12, 2008 17:08:58 GMT -5
Oracle appeared to at least somewhat follow tipsy Aerialbot logic. Maybe she should be worried.
Then Skyfire went scientific about the whole thing and she decided either she had too much to drink already or not enough, because that explanation only vaguely made sense to her. Etymological what?
On the subject of dancing, she wasn't sure who she agreed with. "Variety is good Skyfire, but that looks more like chaos so I think Slingshot might be right about picking a style. And that seems like it would be pretty graceful done well Skyblast." She points to Xaaron and Pee-Dee. "Admittedly it's nothing like aerial dancing, but well, they don't have wings." Aerial dancing was more violent too, but Oracle still thought it was pretty.
"Well I suppose if you don't like one kind of dancing, there's always something else then?" She asks First Aid, shaking her head in bemusement. "Makes me wonder if any human has time to learn all the different styles though, their lives are pretty short aren't they?" Well if you compared them to a Cybertronian's...
OOC: Oracle knowing about aerial dancing cleared with creator.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Mar 12, 2008 20:10:24 GMT -5
Skyblast comments, "I somehow doubt that we all know one form of dance between us. Some of us have never been to Cybertron, and some of us have barely left. I guess someone could organise dancing lessons, but I don't think everyone would show up. I mean, I'm seeing at least three, maybe four," it's hard to quantify what's going on with Perceptor's group, "discrete styles out there, and I don't know one of them. That, and you have to really know something to be able to teach it. I'm not sure I could even teach painting. Think there's anyone here who knows dancing that well?"
The, he tilts his head, and he inquires of Oracle, "Aerial dancing? What's that? I mean, I understand what the words mean in conjunction with each other, and I've seen things of various planets when you could put those words together, but you're saying it like you say a style name."
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Post by Slingshot on Mar 12, 2008 20:39:36 GMT -5
Skyfire is babbling. Skyfire probably thinks what he's saying makes sense, and it might even do that if Slingshot didn't have a few drinks in him.
The Aerialbot muddles through it a bit, then decides, "Well, she looks like a Seeker. But she's not."
"Yeah, what is aerial dance? We've got wings. 'Cept for First Aid."
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Post by Skyfire on Mar 13, 2008 11:54:37 GMT -5
"Very well, Slingshot, I' will not refer to our Oracle as a Seeker. If the other Xaaron's Oracle shows up, should I refer to her as a Seeker?" Skyfire gave him a slightly mischievous smile.
"Aerial dance? I've heard that term somewhere recently, but I can't remember quite where," Skyfire said to Oracle. "Please tell us about it."
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Post by First Aid on Mar 13, 2008 12:06:50 GMT -5
“Please do!” First Aid makes it unanimous, “I may not fly, but I’d like to know too.”
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