003. Video

[sugarbear]

[ 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. ]

Comments

[leaps]

[ sulu's is delayed maybe a few hours, and when he does answer his voice is the kind of groggy that comes from the freshly awakened. ]

Why are you doing this on the Network?

[sugarbear]

Because I can? [ And even though it's audio. ] Hey, you got a bit of drool there.

[leaps]

I don't.

[ but checking anyway. ]

You shouldn't be touching that mask anyway.

[sugarbear]

Why not? Other than that it pisses off Captain Tight-Pants?

SO CARELESS!!

[leaps]

They wouldn't warn against it without reason.

SO MEAN!!

[sugarbear]

The masks 'giving them the creeps' isn't a reason.

U STARTED IT!!

[leaps]

Gut feelings aren't always wrong.

NEVAH!!

[sugarbear]

I've had a lot of 'gut feelings' in my time. Sometimes they've saved my life. But I can promise you that being creeped out by Halloween decorations isn't one of them.

[leaps]

[ sulu is skeptical as fuck, but. ]

Is it even Halloween?

[sugarbear]

[ He squints. ] How should I know? Do I look like Calender Man?

[leaps]

Like who?

[ what is this conversation... ]

[sugarbear]

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

[leaps]

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

[ sulu what free time ]

[sugarbear]

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.

[leaps]

That an order?

[sugarbear]

Hah.

I could learn to like you.

[leaps]

I'm flattered.

not here;

[suddenlycaptain]

[ BUT YOU BETTER NOT MEAN HER, CASEY ]

not here;

[sugarbear]

[ He does and he's going to start calling you that in conversations with everyone from now on. ]