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Forty-Eighth Theory [Accidental Video/Action for Housemates]

Jul 31, 2011 11:46

[It should be immediately obvious that Don didn't mean to turn his journal on, and isn't even aware that it is on. He isn't looking at it. He isn't saying anything. In fact, he might not be awake. He's just sitting slumped in a chair, his head on the desk-like counter before him ( Read more... )

from the safety of his real home, didn't mean to post this, there's no place like home, being experimented on, asleep at his desk, has a history of stealing vehicles

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[Voice] | Filtered 100% semper_cogitans July 31 2011, 23:12:31 UTC

[The first thing Robert realizes is that Don is slumped there. Immediate panic button.

The second thing Robert realizes is that this isn't a filtered transmission. Even more panic button. So he filters his message as tightly as possible before speaking, soft but with a degree of urgency lent by everything repeatedly going to shambles.]

Don... Don, are you alright...?

[It's only after he speaks that he notices where Don is. Is that a vehicle, behind him?

... It's... it's strangely beautiful. The technology in it reminds him of his own home. But Don doesn't look happy.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 00:30:20 UTC

[Don flips down and follows Robert into the cramped space, jammed as it is with consoles and equipment.]

Exploration. Mike and I had a pretty amazing adventure with it once.

[Action] semper_cogitans August 2 2011, 00:43:31 UTC

What happened? [Robert's tone is curious, though he doesn't know if he should be asking things like this with Raphael's recent disappearance. He'd hate to make Don feel bad.

... Knowing him, it'll end up happening anyway, though.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 00:52:39 UTC

[This one didn't involve Raph, so Don doesn't mind talking about it.]

We were taken prisoner by an overgrown trash collector and destroyed an underwater city.

[Action] semper_cogitans August 2 2011, 01:06:35 UTC

...

Are the two things related?

[Because those are the two most unrelated things Robert has ever heard of.]

And... why did you destroy a city? [Don, your life is mind-boggling to Robert.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 01:22:30 UTC

Well, it was his underwater city. He was sinking ships and using the salvage to expand his operation. [He examines a console idly, then continues:] We had met him once before. He was kidnapping homeless people and making them work as slaves on his junk island.

[Action] semper_cogitans August 2 2011, 01:27:27 UTC

[... What. Yeah, Don, Robert doesn't know what even.]

... Your life sounds... even more fascinating than I thought it was.

[Just... junk island?]

What exactly was the point of that endeavour...?

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 01:30:09 UTC

He was trying to build some kind of empire of garbage. [He shakes his head.] I think something was wrong with him...

[Action] semper_cogitans August 2 2011, 01:43:54 UTC

... Empire of garbage.

... That sounds... odd. Very odd. And... not exactly conducive to... much of anything.

[Then again, Terran garbage is relatively... rare in the first place.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 01:48:18 UTC

[Don just shrugs.]

That kind of thing happened to me a lot.

[Action] semper_cogitans August 2 2011, 01:57:35 UTC

[Robert shuffles a little closer to Don. He's missed this, and it's a rare calm moment during this experiment.

If Don doesn't object, he'll rest his head against his plastron, listening to that familiar heartbeat.]

... Luceti isn't much different for you then, I suppose. In some ways, at least.

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 02:03:12 UTC

[Don slings an arm around Robert's shoulders, dipping his head to nuzzle his hair.]

It is and it isn't.

[Action] semper_cogitans August 2 2011, 02:56:14 UTC

[The little scientist curls up closer to Don at this display of affection. It makes his chest ache with the feeling of being loved.

In a way, he almost wishes they were on Don's world. Never seeing Terra again would be bearable for Don's sake.]

For all the awful things that can happen here, sometimes it is wonderful.

... like right now. [Mostly because this is a moment of real happiness.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 11:39:41 UTC

[It would be, but for Don it's tainted with an ache he's trying desperately to ignore.]

Show me your pictures?

[Action] semper_cogitans August 2 2011, 13:51:37 UTC

[Selfish. Robert has to remind himself Don's still troubled.]

... Certainly.

[He pulls the nanocomputer out of his well-protect lab coat pocket. Having been too frightened to put it down once during this mess, it's more often than not been there.

It only takes him a few moments to turn the nanocomputer on and begin bringing up holophotographs and holovideo - anything Robert could get during those moments where he wasn't being harassed, chased or otherwise threatened.

... In particular, the Randi Institute gets a lot of screentime.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 2 2011, 23:34:32 UTC

[Don watches the videos and slideshows with interest. Largely, though, his amazement is at the mere existence of these images. He reaches out to touch a projection of a building.]

A hologram of a hologram?

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