ataraxion | 003. Video

[ Did someone say don't put on the masks? Casey doesn't remember hearing anyone say that. Maybe suggesting caution but not outright saying 'kid don't touch that it might bite your face off'. Besides, his looked pretty cool. What's the harm in trying it out? What's the harm in doing anything just because he wants to?

Whoever said compulsion was such a bad thing?

So here is Casey on the network chilling away his off-time with a video feed to the network. His unreasonable sense of humor is still very much intact despite the difficult few days. He puts on his very best robot voice. ]

Attention passengers. Your deaths are imminent. Resistance is futile. You will be exterminated.

[ A second to let that sink in, and then Casey's face is back on the network, sans-mask, not quite smirking but still distinctly amused at his own reindeer games. ] Nothing strange here, just a guy in a cheap mask. It hasn't even got a voice-changer.

[ He holds it up in front of his face again, but just for a moment to demonstrate that it isn't about to come alive all on its own, then tosses it carelessly aside. ]

And I thought I was the one taking everything way too seriously.

[ How he got through this message without uttering the words 'I'll be back' is beyond him, but there you go. ]

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Killer robots.

[ They've got a bit of a... machinier sounding voice. ]

There a deep and psychological meaning to yours?

Many men have tried.

Hah, I can roll with that. What's yours?

Calender Man. Silver age villain, dresses up like an idiot--you know what, never mind. Decent trivia is wasted on you lot.

I save those kinda deets for the third date.

[ is anyone shocked faith has hers in reach? no? good.

it's lovely, too; a stylized silvery black dog's face, lips peeled back and fangs bared and rippling rope-like patterns suggesting spittle like a rabid animal running down the chin.

oh wait not lovely, it's godawful. ]

Check it-- pretty wicked, right?

So that's a definite no on the love connection, then.

Congratulations, you've just met the one who's going to succeed.

I doubt that somehow. You got nerve, I'll give you that.

I'm just that good.

So am I.

One of us has to be better than the other. And I'm pretty sure that's me.

If that were true you'd bring it, rather than just being all talk. That's all I hear right now. Blah blah blah.

Dude, I can bring it. I can so bring it.

Blah blah blah~

Sorry. I'll work on brushing up in my free time.

[ sulu what free time ]

Right in the face, I swear it.

Damn right you will.

But when you find out when that is, you let me know. And Carolyn, too. I don't think it's in her vocabulary.

That an order?

Hah.

I could learn to like you.

I'm flattered.

We can do Judo.

[ That was easy. Judo was something that Casey, with his upper body strength, had been quite capable of getting down. Smaller had it on him, admittedly, it was hard to anchor yourself when you were as tall as he was against a smaller attacker, but it gave her a good advantage, at least until they were actually on the ground.

But she had to be strong enough to actually throw him, too. He assumed the opening stance, shoulders low, center of gravity over his hip, close enough to her to grab or be grabbed. ]

Whenever you're ready.

[ She's not going to be the one to try and grab him first. She's been the one to do it in her most memorable "fights" and the one who had ended up on the floor each time, so she simply moves into the stance Alice had taught her, exhaling slightly in an attempt to calm down.

It doesn't really work. ]

I'm ready.

[ Judo was about trying to use jabs and kicks to try and get the other wrestler off balance, try and get a grip on them and then somehow to get them over onto the ground and pinned. It was balance and strength and skill - but mostly it gave you a good idea as to how to use your body to escape from holds, since the idea was to make the hold unbreakable, to respond quickly to shifts and never submit.

It was the martial art of never give up, never surrender and it was exactly what Carolyn needed.

He slides in quickly, light on his feet, ready to dodge back if she makes a grab for him, reaching for her shoulders. ]

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