Nightbeat
Minor
Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Aug 7, 2011 16:17:14 GMT -5
It doesn't hurt to ask. Some people will only watch shows or read book series in order. (Like Nightbeat's player, for instance.) If anyone is going to have weird hang-ups like that about how they consume their TV, it'd be Junkions.
"So, anything interesting happen back on Gillianan?" he asks as the opening titles roll.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Aug 7, 2011 16:41:33 GMT -5
It doesn't hurt to ask at all! It's probably better to ask, really. Pee-Dee is just one of those people who thinks this kind of thing should be obvious. (She still doesn't fully grok how different Autobots and Junkions are.)
"I filed reports," Pee-Dee says brightly. This is not helpful. Pee-Dee's reports are nearly unreadable without two different Earthlang dictionaries and several cop show DVDs on hand. "Every now and then we had to let the general public know we could still blow shit up.1 I ain't never been in a cell that had no phone in it. I got to stay for a while. Ordered pizza.2 Jazz, at least he knows how to show a lady a good time.3 It was just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book.4"
1. Rush Hour 2. Beverly Hills Cop, mangled a bit 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark 4. The Mummy
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Aug 7, 2011 17:32:08 GMT -5
Nightbeat nods along as Pee-Dee talks. He finds that when talking to Junkions in full TV-talk mode, the best strategy is to just nod and wait for them to be done so he can respond.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Aug 7, 2011 17:40:40 GMT -5
"Apparently, I had a very good time!"1
Pee-Dee leans forward as the cold open reveals the murdered woman. She fidgets a bit as they cut to the female partner's phone going off on a date, wanting to comment but knowing Nightbeat hasn't seen the episode yet.
1. The Mummy[/size]
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Aug 7, 2011 18:15:45 GMT -5
A wild fuelaholic appears!
One who walks up to the couch while giving the TV an uncertain look. Are those...Nebulans? No, not bald enough. And not green. Humans? "What the frag are you law thumpers watchin'?"
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Aug 7, 2011 18:53:34 GMT -5
"'Law thumpers?'," Nightbeat parrots. "Some sort of police procedural from Earth. The female is apparently going to beat the slag out of two guys barehanded at some point," he answers, moving his legs so he's not taking up the whole couch, in case Guzzle wants to sit, or Pee-Dee wants to sit like a normal person.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Aug 7, 2011 19:27:31 GMT -5
Pee-Dee sitting like a normal person requires her not to have a large chunk of her motorcycle alt on her back. Yeah, she could totally take it off for teevee-watching, but she's not gonna.
She sticks two fingers in her mouth and wolf-whistles at Guzzle. "Now there's a guy who's really packing! First base?1"
1. "Who's on First?", Abbot and Costello[/size]
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Aug 8, 2011 5:47:37 GMT -5
"Yeah. Law-thumpers." He repeats in a half-hearted confrontational way. If Nightbeat doesn't get it, then it's not his fault.
Guzzle looks at the TV, hears to what Nightbeat has to say, and promptly plops down on the couch. "Hrn. I can dig that."
...Why is the Junkion whistling at him? Packing? What? "What are you-" No, wait, he got this. She's not the first Junkion he's run across. He can do this. He just needs to try and make sense of it. Aha! She must be talking about his weapon loadout, and asking whether he's new!"'Course I'm packin'. I'm a tank. And nah. Been here a while. You?"
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Aug 8, 2011 18:35:58 GMT -5
Clearly they need a cushy memory-foam couch for really kibbly people.
"Guzzle, Pee-Dee. Pee-Dee, Guzzle. She's been here a good while, but she got shipped off to Gillanan before you arrived," he says. "Hold on a sec," he adds, pulling off his head and setting it on his lap.
Muzzle unfolds, stretches, cracks his back and rotates his arm, commenting "That's better," his voice tinny inside his helmet. Said helmet is promptly removed as the Nebulan sits down on his partner's knee, produces a hip flask from some hidden compartment in his armor, and begins watching TV.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Aug 8, 2011 19:22:34 GMT -5
"Hello, Mr. Muzzle," Pee-Dee says as Nightbeat takes off his head. Mr. Singe is still her favorite Nebulan, and she still hasn't figured out why Nightbeat opted for a head over a gun, but she likes Mr. Muzzle. Probably more than she likes Nightbeat.
Nightbeat isn't a small humanoid in a transforming suit, after all.
"Since long ago, in a galaxy far away,1" she says to Guzzle. "What... is your quest?2"
Teevee is happening on the screen. Please do not ask Pee-Dee's player what sort of teevee beyond "Law and Order, CSI, and Bones had a baby".
1. Star Wars 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I'll post some video links next post for our heroine beating up people.
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Aug 8, 2011 19:39:12 GMT -5
Muzzle and Guzzle. Surely that's material for a sitcom. The way that Guzzle reacts to it alone is pure gold, leaning away with a look that just says 'squick'. It doesn't scare him, or disgust him really. It just unsettles him. It makes his circuits crawl.
"Hrn. Yeah, I know who she is, glanced over her file." First time he's met her though, but hopefully Pee-Dee won't expect more then a grunt from him.
Thankfully, Nightbeat's comment makes it a bit easier to figure out what the first comment means, but he has no idea what the second one is. But just as he tries to figure it out, he is disgraced by something weird on the screen. "...The frag. Is that." He just stares and points at the baby, a look of complete and utter confusion on his face. He has genuinely no idea. He knows what infants are, but they are smaller models, with mostly the same proportions! That is way too tiny and big headed to be one!
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
Posts: 453
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Post by Nightbeat on Aug 8, 2011 20:51:26 GMT -5
Add in Fizzle and Sizzle to Muzzle and Guzzle, and you can have Snoop Dogg do the narration for the sitcom.
"Heya Rust-cheeks," Muzzle replies to Pee-Dee between swigs of nourishing elixir.
"Seriously, Guzzle? It's a human baby. They look just like Nebulan babies, only without the tails," the little detective says. It's unclear whether he's being serious or not. The larger detective continues to chill out headlessly on the sofa.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Aug 9, 2011 9:00:12 GMT -5
Pee-Dee smiles and makes a happy little 'hm!' sound at Muzzle calling her 'rust-cheeks'.
Guzzle's comment causes her to up-cycle her optics. "When a man and a woman love each other very much... Or when they're drunk off their afts, or really any other time when they're exchanging genetic information and don't keep up adequate firewalls..."
OOC: I lied. The baby thing is too entertaining to interrupt with a fight just yet.
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Aug 9, 2011 13:00:30 GMT -5
The baby comment just gets a blank (if slightly pissed off) look. Then PeeDee starts something that sounds suspiciously much like a Talk from Farlane. He quickly raises one hand, muttering a "Nevermind, I'll ask my roomie" before he tries to focus on this weird show. The humans have guns, maybe they will use them!
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
Posts: 453
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Post by Nightbeat on Aug 10, 2011 19:43:08 GMT -5
Muzzle gives the big (to him) tankformer a look. "Trust me, if you're gonna hear this, you wanna hear it from her, not Farlane. Farlane probably has visual aids. You'll short circuit or something, big guy," he says, smirking.
Nightbeat, though headless, somehow gives the impression of laughing as a brief shudder passes through his body.
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