04// [Accidental Video]

[youdiedagain]

 [Well, someone had found their present the Lambda gave them, although a little late than most.  He's just not very perceptive, okay? In fact he's a little surprise he even had a gift wrapped and addressed to him. so he the feed clicks on to show him lightly touching the paper, delicately trying to open it. A part of him wants to keep it wrapped, knowing full well the 'humor' this place seems to have, but alas, curiosity gets the better of him.  When it's unwrapped, it appears to be...a red desk lamp.  Well, it matches his coat, right?

And from the look on his face, you'd think he'd just been shot.  No...it couldn't be...]

Ray? Ray!

[He leans over, inspecting every part of this present, eyes as wide as dinner plates.]

Ray! It's me, Sissel! 

[The lamp doesn't move, but one of those words seems to trigger something, and the lamp flickers on. Sissel recoils back in surprise.  No, no this was too good to be true. He gave the lamp a slight poke, and it's stem bent in response.  There was no reaction, no nothing. Just a lamp who's light had flickered on.  It made Sissel's 'heart' sink as he slumps back, looking at it sadly.

He'd gone from completely happy to...pranked in about five minutes.]

Whoever did this has a weird sense of humor...

Comments

[video bc this calls for a heartless jerk...who looks like a lamp]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

You normally talk to furniture?

[Video o whirl :3c ]

[youdiedagain]

[A hand scrubs over his face a moment, as if trying to compose himself. Oh...the feed was on?]

You'd be surprised what they have to say.

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Guess maybe they don't like talking to me.

[Shrug. HE FEELS THE LOSS ACUTELY.] Who's Ray?

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[It takes awhile for him to answer, idly poking the lamp's stem back and forth.]

He's... a good friend. He helped me out when I...died.

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

...you have some crummy luck. [This is a record: as close as Whirl gets to sympathy.]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[He's got to agree with you on that, Whirl.]

Only can go up from here, right?

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

SHhhhhhh. Seriously. Never say slag like that. [You only tempt fate.]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

Then what would you say?

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

That I'm so badaft even death wasn't enough to take me down.

[Duh.]

[raceme]

Sissel? Are you okay? Is that lamp one of your friends? [After all Blurr got a cube that looked like him, is not that much of a weird question in his opinion.]

[youdiedagain]

[A hand goes over his face a moment.]

I thought it was. But it just looks like him. Just an ordinary lamp...

[And he sounds so down about that.]

[raceme]

I'm sorry SISSEL. It seems like this place likes to play tricks on us.

Your friend was turned into a lamp?

[youdiedagain]

So I'm finding out...

[Because it's too much of a coincidence.]

I wouldn't say he was turned into a lamp, exactly. Just inhabiting one. He was an older ghost, too weak to possess anything more than a lamp.

[raceme]

[That's the weirdest thing Blurr has ever heard.] That sounds like magic.

COULD the lamp talk then?

Is there anything I can do to help? Do you want to go for another ride?

[youdiedagain]

You could say it was magic. I thought so too when it happened.

But yes. He was a ghost inside of a lamp. A lot like I'm a ghost inside of a robotic body.

...I don't want to put you out of anything. If there's one thing I don't want to be seen as, it's garnering attention.

[raceme]

I'm sure that Jetfire or Perceptor would try to find a proper explanation but _magic works for me. You could say it was magic. I thought so too when it happened.

I'm sorry that he's not here with you then.

I don't mind really, I wouldn't be offering if it was an inconvenience.

[youdiedagain]

I'm not too much a believer in magic myself...but I guess you can't scientifically explain ghosts.

[He rubs the back of his neck.]

If you're not busy.

[dinnerdate]

[Sad looking Stunticon is sad.]

Sissel?

[youdiedagain]

[Oh Dead End, don't be sad. Sissel's just having a little moment. Because this planet just hates him.]

It's nothing.

Interesting Christmas present.

[dinnerdate]

It doesn't look like nothing.

[youdiedagain]

Just...thought this was someone I knew.

[Yes. You heard him right. The lamp.]

[dinnerdate]

You know a lamp?

[youdiedagain]

Well...more like a ghost inhabiting a lamp.

[dinnerdate]

...Sorry.

[youdiedagain]

It's okay.

It's just a lamp.

[He takes his sunglasses off for a moment, rubbing his eyes.]

It's a nice lamp, though. I need the light anyway.