☞ 034. (accidental video + text)

[wouldnotkindly]

[When the feed clicks on, it shows . . . a pair of jaws adamantly chewing at the camera lens. They retreat after a moment, revealing the owner to be a small black dragon, evidently one of those left over from the infestation a few weeks ago; it cocks its head, scratches at the camera lens, and then resumes chewing on it.

After about a minute of this, though, it's interrupted by a noise: a loud, low rumbling sound reminiscent of the bellow of a whale. The dragon's head jerks back at once, looking somewhere beyond the camera, and it makes a high-pitched trilling noise in response before it tries to chew on the camera again. Before it can do much more damage, however, the device is lifted up and away, and the feed clicks off.

A short time later, a text post follows:]

Sorry about that, if anyone saw
I dont know how he got a hold of this thing
Anyway

1 wrench, $25
4 first aid kits, $60
3 EVE hypos, $75
1 pistol, $100
36 pistol rounds, $150

This is all thats left of what i brought from home
I dont know what anything else here might be worth
In terms of money i mean
But thats all

Comments

[spotlighted]

Was that a whale?

[For some reason, Ruby is way too excited about that prospect, although obviously that doesn't show over text.]

Why are you counting hypos seperately? Shouldn't they be stored in the first aid kit? I suppose if you're listing assets, all the stuff inside the first aid kits should be counted individually too, shouldn't it?

[She's only trying to be helpful. Besides, at least she didn't ask why anyone would have four first aid kits. Maybe he just has a lot of bandaids he needs to store somewhere.]

[wouldnotkindly]

[Oops.]

No
There are hypos in the first aid kits too but EVE hypos are different
And i dont know how much the stuff inside the kits cost on their own
They were all together when i found them

[spotlighted]

Oh.

[More than a little disappointed. If there was a whale somewhere in the city, that would have been far too wonderful for her.]

Well, whatever it was, it seems like it did the job. I don't understand why anyone kept one of those scaly pests anyway.

When you ... found them? You didn't run off with some poor unsuspecting people's bandages and aspirin, did you?

[wouldnotkindly]

[It's a good thing text doesn't convey tone, because he's a feeling a bit defensive at that.]

I kept him because hes my friend
Anyway
Whoever bought them originally, they werent using them any more
Or going to use them at all even

[You know, on account of them being dead. Or spliced into oblivion.]

[spotlighted]

You must have gotten a much better one than I did. Mine tried to burn down my apartment.

And that's a little better, I guess. [Not that she likes the idea of stealing first aid kits of all things.] Well, I guess they must have kept you in one piece, anyway, and that's a good thing.

[onset]

... You kept it.

[wouldnotkindly]

Of course i did

[onset]

Of course you did.

[but why tho]

[wouldnotkindly]

[Again, with the defensiveness...]

Because hes my friend

[onset]

I thought they couldn't be friendly. Clearly I was wrong.

Text

[rianofski]

Would it be too much to ask to hope that that noise wasn't exactly what it sounded like?

Text

[wouldnotkindly]

[Oops. Again.]

That depends on what you think it sounded like

Re: Text

[rianofski]

Let's not play coy, shall we? It's tiresome.

[wouldnotkindly]

[If Ryan could see him fume...]

No
Not exactly

[whitetwoguns]

[EVE hypos? Better not even ask....]

What kinda pistol do you got that's only a hundred dollars?

[wouldnotkindly]

I dont know
I didnt buy it, i just found it
So i guessed

A hundred dollars is a lot of money isnt it ?

[whitetwoguns]

How lucky is that to find a gun.

[What are the chances. But really...]

That depends.

[wouldnotkindly]

I dont think i would call it lucky

Depends ?

[mortemscintilla]

[ Interesting, interesting. ]

What's EVE short for?

[wouldnotkindly]

I dont think its short for anything
Its just written like that on the label

[mortemscintilla]

So you have no idea what's in the hypo?

[wouldnotkindly]

No i know what it is
Sort of
Its called EVE
Thats why theyre called EVE hypos

voice;

[thermonuclear_birdbrain]

What's an EVE hypo do?

permatext;

[wouldnotkindly]

[It takes him a bit to think of a way to describe it. Answering that sort of question without getting into the whole twisted ecology of Rapture is more difficult than he might have thought.]

I have these special powers
Superpowers i guess
But in order to use them i have to use EVE first

Re: permatext;

[thermonuclear_birdbrain]

dfklgls-=
..
..


Aha, got the voice to text thing.

Oh! They give you magic! Neat. Can I try one?