shitposting rave 2, electric boogaloo

that'd be me.

 

:3c
fun wagon huh???
sounds like a good time
do you have any candy?

 

do you count the sweet taste of justice?

 

delicious tbh

 

UH-HUH
You know I didn't think that was possible but all the organic media I ahve ever consumed tells me that you just outkinked me and I'm not sure what to think about THAT so

 

...has Scanner never heard of alt-mode fragging??? Because flirting with the wagon doesn't seem too odd, really.

 

glad you approve. always nice to find someone who... appreciates law enforcement. ;)

 

*laughs* And Bill's smarter than me. I never would've realized that the not-a-material being thing would mean that he couldn't actually control me. I mean, seriously, back then, I had no clue about this, really. I thought I was just... normal. Like a fairy but trapped in a lamp and enslaved and without a rulebook limiting what I could do with my powers.

So, I think Bill overestimated me there - which is kinda flattering, I gotta admit.

*smiles softly* Thanks.

And as for binding part, well.. I'm kinda like 'nope' at it but not entirely. Being bound again... the idea of that is scary. But... I wanna stay here too, for now, and I'm pretty sure that you guys wouldn't bind me permanently.

I dunno. Might need to think about it some more. Figure out what I can sacrifice and what I can't.

 

@Norm the Genie

BY THE WAY... I DON'T KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS ON PENNARION. BUT I DO KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS ON EARTH.

TODAY IS... THE DAY BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY! IT'S PRACTICALLY A DAY TO CELEBRATE IN ITSELF.

OR...

HMM. THIS IS THE ONLY GAME WHERE I'M TWINS WITH @sans. MAYBE IT'S NOT OUR BIRTHDAY HERE.

SANS, DO YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE ABOUT WHAT OUR BIRTHDAY IS?

 

*grins* Happy day-before-your-birthday, Pap!

*winks* *smirks* *licks his lips* Can I be your present?

 

Don't despair and better luck next time.

 

WELL, THAT DEPENDS.

DO I GET TO UNWRAP MY PRESENT?

 

*smirks* Obviously!

 

THEN I ACCEPT!!!

 

[prepares a giant fade to black placard]

 

*smirks* Awesome!

 

I was discussing humans. The risk profile is a bit more problematic when you are the heavy machinery, I'm sure.

If neither you nor Wendy is sleeping in that room, we should give it to somebody else.

Just because no one can hurt you here does not mean it's a pleasant retreat for assholes. I think you'll find that if you insist on being unpleasant, you'll spend most of your time here 'hanging out' with Cronus, Bill, Burt and the talking gun.

No worries. I've been an interdimensional traveller for thirty years. This wouldn't have been the first time I was in the presence of an intoxicated alien who was trying to make themselves understood to me and expecting me to behave like someone from their own culture, and you were very charming about it.

You may use either one. I don't mind. But you were having quite a bit of trouble pronouncing "Stanford" at the time.

But you have captains, don't you? A captain has a ship and a crew. Valiska is our leader. If we really were the crew of a ship, she'd be the captain. (Also, I really like it when Valiska refers to me as hers.)

It could indeed be difficult. But first we'd have to get to a calm point in our lives!

Seconded. You do not get to decide what somebody else's name is.

True beauty is almost never harmless.

 

That was not what I was talking about my Licentan beauty, BUT nice try.

*immature snickering*

OOOOOOH Do we get YET another explanation of how Licentan mind-fraggery-friendship works? Let me get the Energon goodies I've been looking FORWARD to yet another round of this!!!

Dunno. Pretty sure that the crystal planes around Remanebimus Station were harmless. Not that I ever got to wander them...

 

...fair. Will continue using "Stanford," then.

[She makes a noncommital noise.]
Cybertronians have captains and ship-staff. My homeplanet hasn't even achieved spaceflight... or lost spaceflight? Guess what else we lost: historical records =[ Reclaimed and repaired and crashed my own shuttle at first just to see what it did, getting away was just a bonus. Things like "captain" and "command structure" are recent additions to personal knowledge base. Acknowledge Life Support and Nichrome's authority in public because they're important to people I care for and fighting in front of the enemy can never go well. (...and also because either of them could theoretically call back to Cybertron for a whole army if they get angry enough.) Doesn't mean I accept they know best always, or should be obeyed always.

Licentan-- [she displays a circular pair of glyphs on her visor] and Neocybex-- [it changes to four squares of roughly equal size, each with different patterns taken out of the sides] have false-cognate words, and the Neocybex word does indeed mean what Stanford says English "crew" means. Never made a full linguistic study of Licentan-- maybe they're from the same root! But PV doesn't have surviving pronunciation and modern Neocybex and Licentan writing are different enough it's all but impossible to tell =[[

...er. Getting derailed, sorry.

Point is: have yet to either find or create a Neocybex translation for Licentan concept of... eh... nearest-dearest-only trusted-beloved. Can swap Licentan word into otherwise Neocybex sentence, but 1) that's lazy, 2) the translator here apparently can't keep up or find a likewise-functional translation in... whatever language it renders in.

...don't need to know about Stanford's berth preferences, thanks.

Well, yes.

...rather worse than that, unless I'm misparsing Stanford. Don't think Oar named Jetski in the first place?? He's just Jetski's superior within Cybertronian command structure, and insists on using discarded, degrading designation for Jetski who has only gone by Jetski on our ship, undermining any attempt Jetski makes at establishing Jet's new identity, and--

...alright, I'm biased on counts of both "Jetski" and "personal autonomy," I maybe get angry very fast over this.

Look, I didn't want to be ambassador either, but that's what happens when they can't find anyone else from the screaming titan >=[ And sometimes that involves explaining the same fragging concept over. And over. And over. If Scanner thinks he has an intuitive enough understanding of both Neocybex and Licentan linguistics, Licentan society, and aligning different societal frameworks, by all means!! Make a new word for Neocybex that we'll have to keep explaining anyway!

Shades all, do you think if there was an easy translation I'd sit through each fragging instance of explanation here? Do actually know how to do my job, thanks, and repeated explanations are only good for refining concepts therein.

 

Your problem, my sweetling, is that you ASSUMED I was being insincere in my excitement. Why does everyone always think POOR SCANNER is trying to pull their leg? I'm way over here I can't even touch your pretty pedes, much less yank at them!