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...

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[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.]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

You know, I kind of like your moxie.

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Eh, you only see the moxie I don't keep in cold storage.

[Translation: he has no idea what you're saying but clearly it means he's awesome so he's gonna roll with it.]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

And how much moxie is in there, then?

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

It requires its own special storage dimension.

[A lot!]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

...You have no idea what moxie is, do you.

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Course I do!

[No clue.]

What kind of Wrecker would I be if I wasn't slaggin' busting at the seams with the stuff.

...it's glue, right?

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

...

Glue. Uhm...yeah. We'll go with that.

[Only because he doesn't know what glue exactly is.]

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Hah. Told you so.

[Disbelieve Whirl? HOW DARE SIR!]

Re: [Video]

[youdiedagain]

[Sissel fiddles with the lamp idly as he listens.]

It just reminds me of my friend...you know. The lamp.

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Whirl thought he reminded you of your lamp friend. *sob*]

So you like poking your dead friends. [YOU ARE HIS FRAND. ]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[That gets a smirk out of him.]

Always wanted to. Couldn't before.

[DON'T WORRY WHIRL YOU'LL ALWAYS REMIND HIM IN SASS-FACTOR.]

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Why not? Did your lamp friend fight back?

[How is that even...?]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

Well, I was dead back home.

[He holds up a hand.]

No fingers when you're dead.

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

...Yeah. Suppose that might sorta cramp things.

[Like, living.]

So like all you could do was listen to people and slag?

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

Pretty much. My only way of moving around was from object to object.

And telephone lines. I could go through telephone lines.

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

So like, you could be in a clock. Or a datapad.

[Wow that could get boring.]

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[Actions speak louder than words, so Sissel figures it'd be better to show Whirl. In a split second, his body slumps to the floor, as if he suddenly passed out, but the lamp slowly starts to move--

in a dance.]