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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on May 14, 2011 17:14:04 GMT -5
OOC: Month 1, week 2, day 4. Open thread for 'Cons.
A Bored Vortex is generally a very terrible Vortex to be around. One such problem associated with the Bored Vortex is that he’s absolutely a terrible singer.
A fact that the heli is currently demonstrating with extreme enthusiasm at the moment. The raspy, off-tune screeching of his voice can be heard resonating through the room as he tries to belt lyrics in time with the alien soprano singer he was currently listening to. This voice is simply not a singing voice, alas. Which probably quite unfortunate for anyone stuck in the room with him.
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Post by Tarantulas on May 14, 2011 20:38:05 GMT -5
A tiny spiderbike roars down the corridor toward the room Vortex is occupying, somersaulting into a ticked-off Tarantulas who strides into the room.
"What the Pit do you think you're doing in here? I can hear this racket all the way from the labs! Some of us are trying to torture/eat small animals in our time off work! You're either on-duty and have no business singing, (and I use the term loosely), or you're off-duty and have no business in the comm room!" he huffs.
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Post by Blast Off on May 14, 2011 21:15:26 GMT -5
Blast Off is studiously ignoring Vortex. Having the patience to hang out in one spot for eight months, doing absolutely nothing, is almost adequate preparation for having to endure a Vortex. He flips through different comms channels, trying to decide if any of the alien soaps they're picking up are worth putting on the channels in the lounges.
On another switchboard, Blast Off is monitoring for hails and other traffic that is actually important, but there isn't anything there, he doesn't expect there will be.
Hmm, is this a military police drama encoded for sonar? Maybe Hellbender will want that. Hellbender can see sonar, right? Blast Off brings up the personnel file to check. Do they have anyone who sees IR or UV? Blast Off keeps finding shows in IR and UV. Well, Spinister can see IR, but Blast Off doesn't think Spinister goes for the classic sit com trope of 'single insectoid queen struggles to raise hive on her own after her male drone dies after sex'. Then the polarised light shows are just weird. What in the Hexagon is Blast Off even looking at? He tilts his head left and right, and all he can make out is Haidinger's brush.
Blast Off looks at Tarantulas, awfully fascinated. There's just so many legs! Yet Tarantulas stays coordinated. It's almost alien. It's interesting. Blast Off spends a moment just looking at Tarantulas before remembering that he should probably defend Vortex's honour, however futile that might be. He says coolly, "Vortex is capable of doing his duty and vocalising at the same time."
Even Blast Off won't call it singing.
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on May 14, 2011 22:20:09 GMT -5
The not-singing very abruptly stops.
Slowly, Vortex turns his helm to peer down at Tarantulas, the alien soprano still wailing at the top of its many lungs in the background, the music slowly climbing up to its crescendo. He was frozen in the middle of a particularly dramatic pose, a hand on his chest and one outstretched in front of him as if clasping it around a dead mech’s throat.
“Hey, Blast Off,” the heli begins conversationally, voice deadly soft. “S’ it jus’ me, or is that little fella talkin’ to me?”
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Post by Tarantulas on May 16, 2011 16:07:26 GMT -5
Tarantulas takes careful note of Vortex's voice and the position of his hand. His fangs may have just written a check that his spinnerets can't cash. Said check may end up bouncing, along with Tarantulas, into an incinerator.
The important thing is not to show fear. He doesn't go with his first instinct and take a step backwards, and he doesn't go for his gun. Instead, he puts his hands on his hips and states with a confidence he doesn't feel, "As a matter of fact, I was."
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Post by Blast Off on May 16, 2011 21:21:28 GMT -5
"Yes, he is addressing you," Blast Off confirms wearily to Vortex. Oh hey, a sonar show about two male cephalopoids of different species who realise they only have each other and 23 hours to live. Blast Off doesn't think Hellbender wants to 'see' that one, so he flips to the next 'channel'. Suseian dances in UV. No one here actually understands Suseian dance, though, so Blast Off flips the 'channel' again.
Oh, bother, this one is calibrated to be shown via cosmic rays, though the cosmic ray-to-visual spectrum conversion actually looks half decent. There are things exploding, at least. Blast Off thinks. He squints and watches it a few moments longer, trying to decide.
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on May 17, 2011 15:46:23 GMT -5
Vortex’s face lights up with the biggest grin someone without a mouth could manage. Literally, really, seeing as a lot of his face was a visor.
“Ya think this Swindle sells any small cages?” Vortex ponders out loud as he gets out of his chair, glue gun popping into his hand. Yeah, the heli definitely isn’t doing comm. duty anymore.
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Post by Tarantulas on May 18, 2011 19:35:36 GMT -5
"You wouldn't dare!" Tarantulas exclaims, drawing his own blaster from subspace and holding it at the ready, pointed at the floor. If he were to web Vortex in the face, maybe he could end this before it escalates to lethal weaponry.
He really, really hopes the only way out of this doesn't end up being to let Vortex have his fun.
(Incidentally, Swindle does not sell small cages, though he sells traps of various sizes, and a whole line of quality forcefields for the whole family.)
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Post by Blast Off on May 19, 2011 21:43:06 GMT -5
"Procurement is Swindle's specialty," Blast Off comments blandly, trying to neither encourage not discourage Vortex. Vortex often does the opposite of what is desired, so in this matter, Blast Off aspires to have no desire at all. He does reminds, because he must, "Vortex, you are on comms duty."
He does not expect that Vortex will listen. Blast Off does admit, "There is much Vortex would dare. If you two do decide to scuffle, please take it out into the corridor. The equipment in here is quite sensitive."
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on May 21, 2011 9:25:18 GMT -5
A bit too late for the discouragement act there, Blast Off. Vortex saw that fascinated little look you gave the spider earlier, oh yes he did. It was really a pity they didn’t have their own quarters though; all that hassle with shared custody!
Or Vortex can just kick Phobia out of the room. It’s not like the bike actually stays there a lot.
“I’ll only be a bit!” he assures Blast Off cheerfully, eying Tarantulas with a particularly predatory glint in his visor.
“Aww, now I ain’t gonna hurt ya, buddy,” the heli crouches, rotors spinning slowly. “We’ll even feed you everyday n’ stuff!”
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Post by Tarantulas on May 21, 2011 22:11:46 GMT -5
Tarantulas analyzes the situation. If he tries to fight off Vortex, it's almost certain to go poorly. On the other hand, the 'copter seems to want to put him in a cage, apparently unaware that he carries a circular saw capable of cutting through metal. If the spider fights now, he loses. If he escapes later, he can make Vortex's life a living Pit.
He sighs and slowly lowers his weapon. "Alright, you win," he whines. "There's nothing I can really do to stop you." Hopefully the Combaticons buy the act.
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Post by Blast Off on May 24, 2011 20:00:44 GMT -5
Blast Off turns back around to go back to comms duty. He does, however, eye the reflections of Vortex and Tarantulas in the monitor. So while he looks like he's not paying attention, Blast Off actually is. He's not sure what it'll take to get him to step in. Tarantulas submitting might be all it takes for Vortex to get bored, anyway.
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on May 26, 2011 19:52:41 GMT -5
“Aw, you gotta take all the fun outta it,” Vortex pouts most melodramatically. “Now what am I supposed to do with you?”
And then, just when he looks like he was about to give up, the heli tries to glue gun Tarantulas to the floor anyways. Yeah, Vortex is just the sort of person who’d poke small, dangerous things with a stick because it’s funny.
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Post by Tarantulas on May 28, 2011 11:23:00 GMT -5
The thing about poking small, dangerous things is that sometimes they poke you back and/or drug you and hollow you out to use as their living quarters while keeping you alive and in horrible pain the entire time.
At least that's what Tarantulas wants to do to Vortex when he gets glued to the floor. There's not much he can do other than stand there and sputter, though.
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Post by Blast Off on May 31, 2011 23:25:55 GMT -5
Blast Off inquires, "If you are quite done re-decorating the floor, will you be returning to your duties, Vortex?"
He just keeps boredly flipping through channels, making no motion at all to help Tarantulas or even report what happened to him.
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