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vestigenet2021-01-17 07:49 pm
earthshine) wrote in vestigenet2021-01-17 07:49 pm
video; @body.snatcher
[ that’s cool. hours after being revived through what will only be referred to as space magic, shiro here has been abducted and unloaded for some good ol’ torture an’ death. hold up, let him get out his tally sheet:
abductions: III
fodder for ptsd: ∞
maiming: III
deaths: I
rookie numbers but chances for boosting those tallies are lookin’ good!
speaking of lookin’ good: the video feed opens to shiro’s face. a bit disheveled, a touch exhausted, a whole lot perturbed, he keeps it together for roughly two seconds before he breaks on a sigh. okay, maybe he wasn’t as ready to make an announcement as he’d originally thought. ]
I guess it was too much to hope that this time Earth’s welcome would be better than my last return.
[ dry, very dry, the humor helps dispel his spiking annoyance. ]
Points for originality. [ been there, done that comes to mind, nonetheless. just another dire circumstance to add to the pile. ]
Right. I’m Takashi Shirogane. I’m a new arrival.
[ features setting to an expression more neutral, it’s easy to fall into the more reliable routine of diplomacy. authoritative, matter-of-fact, he sums it all up rather quickly with: ]
I have the pamphlet. The archive. The general gist of what is… happening. [ supposedly happening - but he won’t voice that. it seems far-fetched… though, being abducted by purple aliens waging a ten-thousand year long intergalactic war to take over the universe would have sounded like a b sci-fi movie a couple years ago. so.
clears his throat, refocuses and-- there’s the slightest tell in the waver in his voice and the half-curl of his mouth, the wisp of a smile self-deprecating. ]
Anyway. I’m what you’d call… a little rough right now. [ and he angles the phone, the angle showing more of himself, namely the hub at his right shoulder. ] But even if I don’t have two working hands, I’d like to lend one, in any way to help.
abductions: III
fodder for ptsd: ∞
maiming: III
deaths: I
rookie numbers but chances for boosting those tallies are lookin’ good!
speaking of lookin’ good: the video feed opens to shiro’s face. a bit disheveled, a touch exhausted, a whole lot perturbed, he keeps it together for roughly two seconds before he breaks on a sigh. okay, maybe he wasn’t as ready to make an announcement as he’d originally thought. ]
I guess it was too much to hope that this time Earth’s welcome would be better than my last return.
[ dry, very dry, the humor helps dispel his spiking annoyance. ]
Points for originality. [ been there, done that comes to mind, nonetheless. just another dire circumstance to add to the pile. ]
Right. I’m Takashi Shirogane. I’m a new arrival.
[ features setting to an expression more neutral, it’s easy to fall into the more reliable routine of diplomacy. authoritative, matter-of-fact, he sums it all up rather quickly with: ]
I have the pamphlet. The archive. The general gist of what is… happening. [ supposedly happening - but he won’t voice that. it seems far-fetched… though, being abducted by purple aliens waging a ten-thousand year long intergalactic war to take over the universe would have sounded like a b sci-fi movie a couple years ago. so.
clears his throat, refocuses and-- there’s the slightest tell in the waver in his voice and the half-curl of his mouth, the wisp of a smile self-deprecating. ]
Anyway. I’m what you’d call… a little rough right now. [ and he angles the phone, the angle showing more of himself, namely the hub at his right shoulder. ] But even if I don’t have two working hands, I’d like to lend one, in any way to help.
@Jiang.Wanyin
farmercultivator, this one not quite as helpful maybe. Has a good scowl, though. ]My name is Jiang Wanyin. The general gist is that you have been captured, imprisoned and will be repeatedly ritually murdered.
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the scowl though-- huh, wow, okay. guess there won’t be any offers of instrumental music with this one. for his part, shiro’s smile is a faint thing, one soon replaced with a far more neutral expression. ]
Captured, imprisoned, and murdered… [ GREAT TO MAKE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE JIANG WANYIN. buzzkill. ] Right. [ and what does shiro do best when faced with his impending doom? joke about it of course. ] Since I’ve already done all of that, do you think for this first go around they’ll take it easier on me? Or harder?
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And, oh yes, more scowling. ]
Do you think it's a joke? It isn't. If you don't take the dangers of this place seriously you will only be more vulnerable to it. [ A scoff. ] But if you don't believe me, you are welcome to learn the hard way.