video.

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[When the camera turns on, Marty's adjusting it before plopping down in a seat clumsily (grumbling 'fuckin' jelly legs' or something to that effect); he's got dust and oil on him, a little toil and trouble with the clean-up assistance he's been performing on the Tranquility (after pilfering a gun from the Scylla, of course). He's bone-tired and there's a bit of sweat on his brow, but in that weariness he finds temporary redirection from the shitty stuff. He's noticed, of course, people fighting plenty. People looking very tense and unhappy. The halls are even quieter, somehow. And he doesn't fuckin' like it, not one bit. Now, he's not particularly attached to this ship--duh, he's only been here a month and it's a horrible place on top of it--but like hell does he enjoy misery as company. That saying can just go shove it.

I mean, he's barely even smoking it up, lately. In fact, he's stone cold normal right now and empty-handed. They're just clasped in front of him as he leans into his knees.]

You know what I need? A break. A cigarette break, but with more words 'n shit. We've been working our asses off. Keep up the fantastic work, and all that jazz, but how about something else for a second? Juuust a second. I know we've all been stressed out, what with the pirates and the freaky-ass murdering specter captains and the--uh--ship clamped on us like a tumor. So just... Hey, I haven't--really indulged in the fact that we're all from every corner of time and space and universes and all that cool sci-fi stuff.

[He licks his lips as he considers what to say, hands motioning in front of him like he's trying to catch his own thoughts.]

You guys, we have all kinds of worlds on board! Tell me some cool shit about your world. Or about you. Whatever. Can I get some cool facts? Some jokes? Stories? Hell, it doesn't even have to be anything outside of good ol' planet Earth. Or even directed at me. No serious or traumatic stuff needed, just... stuff. Hell, if you're a connoisseur of movies or you have a thing for panda facts or you wanna tell a story about your crazy family reunions.

[He suddenly seems a little more excited, a little less tired, shifting in his seat.]

This entry is now Marty's Share Fair. I'm stuck on a funky space ship and all, so I might as well know more than the bleak stuff.

....

Just don't pull a TMI, okay? I'm sure everyone sees enough floppy nethers after each jump. We don't need to know anything about them other that the promise that you'll find a towel posthaste. Thank you in advance.

(ooc: threadjacking heavily encouraged! it'd be fun to have people find common interests or things to relate to, and I just wanted a kinda free-for-all for the S.S. Solemn Worrywarts)

Comments

[testgasm]

the latter

interesting simile

very accurate

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hey man, it's just my line of thought if i were in that situation around here

hows the meat stilts treating you?

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do you want the real answer or the sugarcoated one

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fuck sugarcoating, lay it on me, man

lying about it is the exact same shit as not saying it period, yknow

its a regular Time Waster that way

[testgasm]

yeah true but you'd be surprised how many humans get offended by hearing that as a species they're generally leaky and inefficient

imagine the most disgusting thing you've ever done bonus points if it involves fluids of some sort

now imagine you have to do it twenty four hours a day seven days a week

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people really complain about that??

being alive is like being a soggy germ factory

I mean its not all bad dont get me wrong and our body mechanics can be interesting but we're evolutionly the weirdest bunch of assholes

dude i dont even know why i have nipples

[testgasm]

oh god yeah and hair on places that isn't your head what purpose does that even serve

but you wouldn't believe how many people think i should be pleased about this development oh wheatley isn't it great you can feel things now

i could feel things before you bigot what makes you think i wanted unnecessary physical responses to go with them

thumbs are all right though i'll give you lot thumbs good invention

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see maybe i'd be like one of those people

but i've seen too many sci-fi movies to doubt anything at this point

well that and I've Seen Some Shit

so

but yeah gotta agree, thumbs are radical

[testgasm]

yeah that's about the only plus

anything else you want to know

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are you into girl robots?




or guy robots


I mean whatever, man, we all got our prefs

[testgasm]

oh uh

i'm not programmed for that kind of thing

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what they left that out??

that's pretty rude to leave shit out, what if you want to go on dates or something

[testgasm]

why would I want to do that

[foolproofed]

good point, sometimes that's all too awkward anyway

but you should still have the option, right?? like, giving you all the different things to choose from, be your own robot, etc, etc.

[testgasm]

no i mean i'm sure i could if i wanted to i just don't particularly have an interest in it

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oh, then that's not so bad

it's not all its cracked up to be, so you're not missing much

[testgasm]

yeah i didn't think so

i'll leave that business to the humans

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gee thanks

what kindsa things do robots dig, anyway?

is it stereotyping if i think of bolts and technobabble and whirry metal arms that type at computers all day

[testgasm]

i like science

and reading i love to read

literature

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really?

cant you like — read a book in a few seconds or something?


without being squishy, I mean

that kinda ruins the idea



or do you just do things slow for the sake of enjoying it

[testgasm]

well yes i mean i've read every book to ever exist pretty much even the hard ones

especially the hard ones

but the books here are from an entirely different universe and i've got some favoritesthat i like to go back to from time to time doesn't everyone

have to do it the old fashioned way now though

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bummer

now you know our pain

and our sad little hands and reading speeds




what's your favorite book

[testgasm]

yeah don't know how you lot stand it really

i enjoy a most of then but i'd say machiavelli is the best

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. . . .


all the people in the world to choose from

machiavelli?? really really??

[testgasm]

what's wrong with machiavelli