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Post by Spinister on Jan 25, 2012 13:06:55 GMT -5
"To make sure you hadn't weaponised your socks," Esprit says, very matter-of-fact.
"What were you doing when this... hit? I was in France, plotting to frame the murder of the Prime Minister on England's MI6, so it'd be easy to steal the Eiffel Tower in the confusion," she says. This is a perfectly reasonable statement when one is a Decepticon.
Now Esprit moves to take the lock off the door.
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Post by Needlenose on Jan 25, 2012 20:34:57 GMT -5
Ned starts to pull on his underwear, but pauses to give an absent wave. "Italy. I was trying to give a few... nudges to next year's fashion trends. I hit on a few clothing designs that should subliminally make the humans more sympathetic to us." He smirks, looking somewhat smug. This is why he doesn't normally have a mouth, actually - he's way too damned expressive.
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Post by Spinister on Jan 25, 2012 20:47:25 GMT -5
Ned was in Italy, Esprit was in France; Esprit sees Ned's underpants!
More seriously, Esprit frowns very slightly - unlike Ned, who is over-expressing, she doesn't seem to know what to do with a face now that she has one - and mutters unhappily, "Why Detroit?"
This could just be a weird simulation, but she is going to have to treat it as if it is real until she has further proof, just because of the potential consequences of treating something real as unreal.
Esprit rubs her forehead, frowning slightly more over how her hair bends when her fingers touch it, and she says, "Establish contact with our comrades. Determine situation. Proceed from there."
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Post by Needlenose on Jan 26, 2012 12:32:11 GMT -5
Ned shrugs as Esprit asks, 'Why Detroit?' He's assuming that that's a hypothetical question, or at least that she knows he has no better reason to know than she does. He pulls on his night shirt (because it's night, and he wasn't going out tonight, anyway). "Sure, I'll cobble something together." With that, he heads towards his workshop.
He isn't going to ask Esprit to sleep on the couch, but he really has no intention of spending the bed with her tonight.
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Post by Spinister on Jan 26, 2012 13:13:58 GMT -5
Esprit was sort of hoping that Ned would have a magic explanation that would make everything make sense, but since he does not, she was being hypothetical.
When he starts to head towards his workshop, she starts to follow him. Esprit knows a bit about engineering! Mostly about how to make things completely undetectable, which is not so useful in a radio, but she offered to help earlier.
If he has stuff going on in the workshop he doesn't want her to see, he'll need to point that out and tell her to... well, get lost.
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Post by Needlenose on Jan 26, 2012 21:34:18 GMT -5
Ned glances back at Esprit, frowning faintly. He's obviously not too happy with her company just now. "Where are you going?" he asks, tossing a sheet over a couple of projects as he does.
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Post by Spinister on Jan 26, 2012 22:37:38 GMT -5
Esprit does not quite fathom what Ned's problem is. She didn't kill him. Why is he upset? Jets. If she lives to be ten million, she doesn't think she'll ever understand them.
"To help with the radio?" she says. It is a question.
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Post by Needlenose on Jan 27, 2012 18:15:02 GMT -5
Well, part of it may well be that Ned is just pissed off that Esprit got to him before he got to her.
"I could probably do with some alone time," he observes as he heads over to his work bench. "You did just drug me, strip me, and tie me up." He considers. "And not for fun reasons."
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Post by Spinister on Jan 27, 2012 18:42:55 GMT -5
It not being fun was the point, she thought.
"You're probably up to something suspicious, if you don't want me around," Esprit says, vaguely accusing. Then, she sighs. "Just don't do anything I'll have to kill you over. That would make me upset."
That said, she tries to leave him and give him that alone time he's demanding.
OOC: Out of thread unless stopped.
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Post by Needlenose on Jan 27, 2012 22:35:24 GMT -5
Ned doesn't deny the accusation. Of course he's being suspicious! He's a supervillain!
Which he's going to have to continue to keep secret from Esprit. Oh, well.
OOC: Thread end!
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