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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.
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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Someone else has obviously taught it something.
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[She sighs a little at the robot's insistence that Jackie needs to be off the ground, then waves her hand downward] Little lower there.
[Back to Jackie she adds:] It might be easier to just try to steer it, if it keeps this up.
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Ack.
Jesus christ...
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You okay there now?
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I guess so.