} 034 - [VIDEO] - birds!

[creatingalegacy]

[Glancing down into the communicator's camera and pecking at some buttons is a small bird. Isn't it cute, everyone? It's teeny, and adorable, and it's feathers are rather puffed up right now because it's angry! It parts its beak, and to those unaffected by the flood, all that can be heard is a cute little series of trilling chirps. Enjoy that, guys

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[whattheytellyou]

[Sarah's communications device switches on to reveal a muzzle, then an eye, then an enormous paw. There's a yelping sound, a hideous laughing noise made by only one animal on earth.

She can't communicate in English, but she can understand her fellow animals.

She noses the communicator, then gnaws at it, then backs away to give Amanda a fuller view.]

This is fantastic!

[Of course she would think so.]

[creatingalegacy]

You're out of your fuckin' mind!

[Shrill little chirps as she flaps her wings angrily. She probably couldn't look less threatening if she tried.]

[whattheytellyou]

Look at me!

[She turns in a circle, then snuffles at something on the ground, nosing at it, then comes back to the communicator.]

Do you know what an opportunity this is? How I can apply this to my research? I'll have insight no one in my field has ever had before, Amanda. I can-

[Yelp!]

I can test my bite strength!

[creatingalegacy]

Look at me! Does it look like I give a shit?! You're acting like fuckin' idiot over there, and I'm a little goddamn bird! Hey, why don't we place bets on how many people are gonna try to eat me before this is over?!

[She says this as she scathingly views Sarah turning in circles and sniffing things, oblivious to the fact that she's grooming her own feathers with her beak every few minutes.]

You'd better test it out on someone else.

[strangehstorian]

[Voice, and remarkably calm for someone who didn't have hooves a minute ago.]

It does appear to be a flood.

On the bright side, your warden is a large and extremely frightening predator. If you remain with her you'll likely not be...messed with.

[creatingalegacy]

[Muttered:] Hyenas were just scavengers last time I checked...

So can people who are unaffected understand me, or is your ass just suddenly small and fluffy too?

[strangehstorian]

I don't know much about them. [EXCEPT THAT THEY'RE SO SO SCARY RIGHT NOW :C]

I am affected, though. Some sort of deer.

[creatingalegacy]

See, you get hooves to fend things off. Maybe antlers, too, I don't fuckin' know. I get jack shit, and what seems to be my built-in defense mechanism makes me look more edible.

[She thinks Chromie is a regularly sized deer, of course.]

I really got screwed over this time. Thanks a whole fuckin' lot, Admiral.

yaaaay :D

[creatingalegacy]

[She starts chirping, and then pauses to peck out a message.]

hows this shit apprpriate/>?

Re: yaaaay :D

[creatingalegacy]

[She chirps again, tilting her head back. If Howie could understand, he'd realize she was laughing uproariously.]

yeah that's me.

[Attempted communicator use.]

[expectremorse]

[Is it a video post? Is it an audio post? Do we even know what kind of a posit it is? There is a mash and a large closeup of an animal EYE before it fzzts out more.

Hoffman got hit with the flood and went straight into animal mode.]

Re: [Attempted communicator use.]

[creatingalegacy]

[After seeing Sarah's entry and Hoffman's comments to it, she's screaming.]

I'M GONNA KILL YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH!

[Video]

[expectremorse]

[He just growls]

You kill me? Here's where being big's an advantage isn't it. [Have a shot of hyenas teeth]

Re: [Video]

[creatingalegacy]

Just you wait, bitch!