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[popculturecon]

Hey! Excuse me! Anyone on this line?

[This voice sounds... like you are talking to Guyman himself. Musical and modulated, and kind of sort of loud]

Since when did Cybertron have grass? Or... y'know still be here? The fact that it's still... I mean that it's not... y'know really... dead and stuff is sort of-

NO REALLY WHY IS THERE GRASS HERE?

[He sounds pretty disturbed by this]

Not that grass is bad! I like grass, it was great on earth, if... y'know anyone here has been there at all, but like- Is that a farm? ... There's a tiny farm he- Did anyone see the tiny farm? Oh my god, I have to get a picture of this no wait, hold on.

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Re: [video]

[the_other_green_seeker]

[He nods]

Right.

And yeah, he is. About some things more than others. Though again, part of that is just the fact that he's young. Only time will tell how big a part, though.

Re: [video]

[popculturecon]

Like how young? He barely sounds like he's even a vorn old.

Re: [video]

[the_other_green_seeker]

I never asked for exact numbers but my guess would be very young. Probably young enough to still be a child even by human standards.

[ACTION]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Glad you're so willing to try to. We're all stuck in the same boat, so it's important.

[The notation's only to 'our home and native land' (or would be, if the words were there) but it's still enough to identify the song. Soundwave won't be able to see it until Sam turns back to him, but the girl's grinning.]

Keep going, and you'll find the rest of the column's Trooper. Sorry I don't have the full song for you.

Re: [video]

[popculturecon]

Ssssooooo... I guess it'd be... really mean to make fun of him huh

Re: [ACTION]

[popculturecon]

That's okay! I'm still getting some stuff, so that's fine! I don't think I have any access to earths frequencies from here y'know... if it's even in existence right now. So I can't really look it all up

Re: [video]

[the_other_green_seeker]

I dunno about that. He can be a real pain in the aft and deserves a little verbal jabbing now and then, in my opinion.

Re: [video]

[popculturecon]

I'll uh... I'll see what happens if I ever meet him.

[ACTION]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[Now Sam turns, though her grin has faded into a small, sympathetic smile.]

Y'know how I said I could confirm the Miasma is not good juju? I spent most of my first month here scrounging up the components for a communications ritual which is supposed to be able to reach anybody, anywhere. I know it can get a message to an addressee on the opposite side of a planet, but on this planet? Its range seems limited by the Miasma; I think it interferes with everything.

But in better news, there's a library here with all sorts of stuff from a bunch of times and places, so we could check it for the full song sometime. If you want...?

Re: [ACTION]

[popculturecon]

A communications wha-

Oh! Sweet, okay so I'll just go to the library and look it all up. Cool, now I have something to do!

Re: [video]

[the_other_green_seeker]

Probly a good idea. Just... take what he says with a grain of silicate. Especially if he's claiming to own something that he shouldn't reasonably be expected to own. Like, say, the entire warehouse.

Re: [video]

[popculturecon]

... He doesn't honestly think someone is that dumb does he.

[ACTION]

[10_20_15_5_50]

A communications ritual. Kind of a weird one, but when it works, it works well.

[Shrug.]

What do you usually do?

Re: [video]

[the_other_green_seeker]

I don't know. But he tends to try it on all the new arrivals, just in case. And he seems to have claimed it in his own processor anyway; last I heard, he was living in a particular corner of it with shelves full of his 'posessions' around him.

Re: [ACTION]

[popculturecon]

But what is it?

Y'know, monitor signals for Autobot frequencies, search for strange readings, pilot the ship, keep our firewalls maintained and keep us hidden from humans and Autobots.

Tech stuff.

Re: [video]

[popculturecon]

... I have to go to the warehouse.

[knight_light]

[He grins.] You know? I don't know. I was far too restless back home to consider sitting down to try any. I'd be willing to try a few if you'd like to meet.

[Video]

[dirge]

Don't touch that grass. It's mine.

Re: [video]

[the_other_green_seeker]

[Jadewing chuckles]

Well you do eventually, yeah, since that's where the city gets most of its supplies from.

But I know what you mean. Have fun. I'm sure you can handle him. Though if he gives you too much trouble, feel free to comm me.

[popculturecon]

Oh! Oh oh, Wing! Okay so I totally just talked to Knock Out-

Like... not my Knock Out but a Knock Out-

And he said you knew how to use a sword? Like for real? And then he mentioned something about a guy with thighs, and I totally... don't think his name is Wonder Thighs uh.... but... y'know anyway...

I have a sword and I have like... no idea how to use it? Like at all? So um... y'know if you don't like sitting around mayyybeeee you could like... show me... how to use one?

Maybe?

[voice]

[popculturecon]

Ooooh, you're Dirge, huh?

...

I'm gonna go to the warehouse, actually so dude you can totally have all the grass you want.

Re: [video]

[popculturecon]

I'm not scared of some baby jet. I graduated the academy, I can handle it.

[ACTION]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Involved. [Sam smooths a hand over her hair, aware it wasn't a very helpful answer.] You take a page out of an epistolary novel that's had every noun and verb blacked out, and you use a feather from a rooster which can't crow to write to whoever on it with lemon juice. Whoever you're addressing it to, you have to use whatever that person was first introduced to you as---might not even be their real name, doesn't matter.

Once you've got the paper addressed, you have to wet it with seawater, sweat, or tears to the point it's soggy enough to hold an impression, and stamp your message into it. The way I learned, a person used scrabble tiles; I've been using wood blocks, since I never found a scrabble set. You have to finish before the paper dries, and then shove it into a bottle, and stop the bottle up with cork. You then have to coat the entire bottle in wax, preferably white, and carve a sign [she gestures; it's a circle, with a line across the middle] in the wax over the cork.

After all that, you've got to chuck it into a river and watch it until it's out of sight. The next time your addressee goes to take up a blank piece of paper, or turns to a blank page, or opens a word processing document, or goes to compose an email or text? The message is there, until the book is closed or the window minimized.

[Like she said; involved. But, for a ritual as useful as the bottled message ritual can be... well worth it.]

Sounds busy.

Re: [ACTION]

[popculturecon]

... Oh so uh... human... magic. Kinda like in a video game. Only less shooty fireballs and more uh... writing and waiting.

It is. I always had something to do and uh... now I have.... nothing... to do...

...

..

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whatamigonnadoohmygod-

[Video]

[dirge]

How do you know my name? [He squints suspiciously into the camera.]

The warehouse belongs t-

....

It. Ehr. Just...don't go there either.