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queenofheartsrp2011-05-07 04:42 pm
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0.6; video/action
[Jackie is actually out of the house, for once, and not just sitting on the front steps. She'd made it all the way to the ruins, but on her way back had gotten tired and shuffled off the path to perch on a nearby knoll. She has her knees drawn up close to her, sun on her face, watching the fucking wild kingdom scurry around her, dodging lithely from beneath the footsteps of a small herd of robots. They appear to be collecting water, pulling weeds, trimming the grass, and a variety of other useful tasks. Obvious busy work.
The vine, gossipy little thing it is, is winding its way around the garden looking for ways to make itself a nuisance, as usual. Jackie calls it over and pokes through the most recent recordings. It's something to do, which she is finding an increasingly rare commodity. She has felt helpless the entire time she's been here, but watching others fight or contain the robots within the last week had her feeling the sting of it again.]
I think I preferred it when all I had to worry about was looking both ways before I crossed the street.
[She's really talking to herself, but maybe she's also getting fairly used to the vine recording her, and used to talking to the others from time to time.]
And I assure you, I was very good at it. Never once did a bus going fifty miles an hour so much as even nick me, let alone a bicyclist in a pair of those ridiculous spandex shorts.
//an added bonus because I like making Jackie unhappy
[And for your added entertainment, while she is sitting with the vine talking to people, one of those clever robots approaches. She lifts a hand to shield her eyes from the sun as she looks up at it and is startled when it reaches down to pick her up.]
Hey, hey, hey.
[She protests, but it slings her over its shoulder anyway. She manages to fight her way into sitting on its shoulder, but when she tries to drop back down to the ground it, it puts an arm over her knees and keeps her in place. Jackie frowns grumpily, glancing back at the vine and calling to it,]
Where is it going? Goddammit. Someone come show it how to put me down.
The vine, gossipy little thing it is, is winding its way around the garden looking for ways to make itself a nuisance, as usual. Jackie calls it over and pokes through the most recent recordings. It's something to do, which she is finding an increasingly rare commodity. She has felt helpless the entire time she's been here, but watching others fight or contain the robots within the last week had her feeling the sting of it again.]
I think I preferred it when all I had to worry about was looking both ways before I crossed the street.
[She's really talking to herself, but maybe she's also getting fairly used to the vine recording her, and used to talking to the others from time to time.]
And I assure you, I was very good at it. Never once did a bus going fifty miles an hour so much as even nick me, let alone a bicyclist in a pair of those ridiculous spandex shorts.
//an added bonus because I like making Jackie unhappy
[And for your added entertainment, while she is sitting with the vine talking to people, one of those clever robots approaches. She lifts a hand to shield her eyes from the sun as she looks up at it and is startled when it reaches down to pick her up.]
Hey, hey, hey.
[She protests, but it slings her over its shoulder anyway. She manages to fight her way into sitting on its shoulder, but when she tries to drop back down to the ground it, it puts an arm over her knees and keeps her in place. Jackie frowns grumpily, glancing back at the vine and calling to it,]
Where is it going? Goddammit. Someone come show it how to put me down.
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Whoa. Haven't seen them make friends like that before. What'd you do?
[She gets in front of Jackie's new buddy, holding her hands out to stop it.] Okay, dude... or dudette. Whatever you guys are...
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Apologies in advance for any typos- I have a bandage on my finger.
[She addresses the robot] All right... we know how to walk, so... [She gestures, putting an imaginary Jackie from her shoulders onto the ground.]
forgiveness granted
Come on...
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No, see, she [indicating Jackie] wants to be on the ground. [indicating the ground]
You gotta be kind of patient with 'em, since, y'know, they don't speak the language. And they think a little differently.
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Hmhmhm, I wonder where you're being taken.
[action] laffo. dastardly trolls -shakes fist.-
I'd rather not find out, actually.
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Or it's going to drop me in the lake, I'd rather know which one long before then.
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action;
She isn't so concerned over that anymore when she discovers Jackie being carried, against her will, by one of the robots. She doesn't say anything to the woman, simply gets in the robot's way, holding a hand out to its chest to stop its progress.]
Put her down.
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...Hi.
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She points at Jackie, then at herself, then holds her arms out, open, speaking slowly with each action.]
Give her to me.
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Dom... go like this.
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( She sounds so cheery about it, too. )
video:: THE SMILING LADY
"1,000 Ways To Die" in reality TV format.
video:: PREPARE YOUR SUNGLASSES, SHE WILL DAZZLE YOU
She laughs, as if Jackie made a friendly joke instead of being... Jackie, and grins. ) That's very good. I think it might be something rather more likely to be narrated by David Attenborough, though, than something so very visceral. Friendly family viewing with our rather Disney-inspired setting and all that, you know?
video:: AAAAH
I'm sure there's a bit too much lesbian sex in this film to be funded by Disney.
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Could be worse. Robots could be wearing shorts.
( And then a long pause. ) You want some cake?
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I suppose it would be petty of me to ask "Why exactly would I want to do that?"
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A snort. That shouldn't surprise her. ) I was trying to make a descent one for Em's birthday, so I've got heaps of this kinda... shitty stuff. ( It's not that bad, but still. ) Might be good for throwing at the robots, I dunno.
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I suppose I could possibly get some of the kinda shitty stuff, just so it doesn't go to waste.
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Hello. There's nothing to worry about.
[Having spoken to the robots so much, she's getting quite good at communicating with them--her means of talking a kind of sign language, with broad, expressive gestures. Once she's said what she has to say, she addresses Jackie again.]
Take my hand. [She extends her own.]
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...Thanks.
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So many people have been teaching the robots to carry things, it's possible some wires got crossed, so to speak. If it's all right, I can carry you down. [She wouldn't pick someone up without their permission unless it was an emergency situation, which this is not. She doesn't entirely trust the robot to do it gently--they can be rather clumsy if they don't exactly know what they're doing--and this one doesn't seem to.]
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I... all right, just don't... drop me in the lake or something.
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