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animus_network2013-04-12 11:11 pm
oathshackledbird) wrote in animus_network2013-04-12 11:11 pm
Once the Honeymoon is Over... [Video]
[The face on the camera is tired, the look in Diarmuid's eyes making it clear that the source of his weariness isn't physical, but mental and emotional as it so often has been since he arrived here.]
Has anyone see my brother? Ah...you probaly know him better as Lancer. I know he is still in the tower because his belongings are here and his name is still on the door, but I cannot find him anywhere and I have looked. Those who know my skills know quickly I can do that.
I am worried because I just remembered something he said to Jason a while back. He said he would volunteer for his next experiement and since this is Jason's month in charge and so many others have gone missing, I fear for what that means for him.
If anyone has seen him in the last few days, will you please let me know?
[Diarmuid pauses a moment, suddenly looking a lot more uneasy.]
Also, I want to apologize to all the people who were affected by my curse about week ago or got caught up in everything that was going on. For those who don't know, I carry a curse that forces the women who see my face to fall in love with me. It has been mostly inactive in this place but for some reason during the end of March and the beginning of April it flared back to life affecting both men and women. Unfortunately, I have never been able to tell when it is active and when it is not so far too many people were affected before I knew what was going on.
I...do not know why this happened. It has gone inactive again and I think by this time all those affected should have had the effects wear off. If not, take the knowledge that your strange feelings are caused by something outside of you and focus on that...
[Suddenly, he turns away from the screen as if someone has tugged on his arm, which they have. When he speaks his voice is quieter and directed at whoever is standing just off camera.]
Tony, just a moment, okay? I will play with you then.
[Diarmuid turns back to the camera, quiet for a moment as if he is collecting his thoughts and then continues where he left off.]
Focusing on the fact that your feelings are not your own will help you overcome the effects sooner. It is not something that worked that well during my first life, but there is a very strong pattern of it working here...
[There is a sudden scuffling behind Diarmuid and he is yanked away from the camera. The scuffling continues as his voice drifts back toward the terminal.]
Tony! Tony wait! I'm not done...
Gah! Does anyone know how to stop an alien abduction?
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(OOC: Diarmuid's responses will come a few hours later when he has given Tony the attention that the little gray alien seems to want so badly.)
Has anyone see my brother? Ah...you probaly know him better as Lancer. I know he is still in the tower because his belongings are here and his name is still on the door, but I cannot find him anywhere and I have looked. Those who know my skills know quickly I can do that.
I am worried because I just remembered something he said to Jason a while back. He said he would volunteer for his next experiement and since this is Jason's month in charge and so many others have gone missing, I fear for what that means for him.
If anyone has seen him in the last few days, will you please let me know?
[Diarmuid pauses a moment, suddenly looking a lot more uneasy.]
Also, I want to apologize to all the people who were affected by my curse about week ago or got caught up in everything that was going on. For those who don't know, I carry a curse that forces the women who see my face to fall in love with me. It has been mostly inactive in this place but for some reason during the end of March and the beginning of April it flared back to life affecting both men and women. Unfortunately, I have never been able to tell when it is active and when it is not so far too many people were affected before I knew what was going on.
I...do not know why this happened. It has gone inactive again and I think by this time all those affected should have had the effects wear off. If not, take the knowledge that your strange feelings are caused by something outside of you and focus on that...
[Suddenly, he turns away from the screen as if someone has tugged on his arm, which they have. When he speaks his voice is quieter and directed at whoever is standing just off camera.]
Tony, just a moment, okay? I will play with you then.
[Diarmuid turns back to the camera, quiet for a moment as if he is collecting his thoughts and then continues where he left off.]
Focusing on the fact that your feelings are not your own will help you overcome the effects sooner. It is not something that worked that well during my first life, but there is a very strong pattern of it working here...
[There is a sudden scuffling behind Diarmuid and he is yanked away from the camera. The scuffling continues as his voice drifts back toward the terminal.]
Tony! Tony wait! I'm not done...
Gah! Does anyone know how to stop an alien abduction?
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(OOC: Diarmuid's responses will come a few hours later when he has given Tony the attention that the little gray alien seems to want so badly.)
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[Or yeah maybe she's just in love with you and this will all come crashing down horribly but lets stay positive here]
Tha-tha-that's quite a name ya got there, bu-buddy. I think ya got all the letters in the alphabet with that one. I'm Rabbit!
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Gaelic is like that. Especially the oldest versions. A great many people in this day have trouble with it. I am lucky there is one other in the tower who can speak it so that I can hear it once and a while.
It is good to meet you, Rabbit. I have to admit, while there are a few other robots here in the tower, neither of them are anything like you.
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Oh ye-ye-yeah, there ain't no one else li-like me! I'm one of a ki-kind.
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And, if you don't mind me asking, the other robots I have met were all made for a specific reason. What reason were you made for?
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Me? I was made for mu-music! A singin' mu-mu-musical automaton. Ya ever wanna song, just fi-find me.
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Ireland is a beautiful place, though I will admit to being rather biased. San Deigo...that's in the United States, correct?
[Patchy Grail information why can't you be more helpful?]
So you are a musician? My father and my best friend's father were both very talented singers. What kind of music do you perform?
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Yep!
[And he's so proud of this fact.]
A-a-any kinda music! Lotsa old stuff, from the fifties an' all that. Go-go-got some from the twenties an' thirties too! We li-li-like the old stuff.
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We? You are a part of a band then? Are they all robots like you? How big is your group?
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An' all of 'em are robuts! Well... cept fer Michael Reed an' Sa-sa-sam. They're our humans.
[He loves his humans yes he does]
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It sounds like your world is very different from my own even if the names of places are the same. Do you travel around a lot? Are there a lot of robots in your world or are you and your brothers among the few?
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[Good thing too, menaces all of them]
We travel a whole lot! U-u-used ta see the world!
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[Diarmuid gives him a confused look.]
Did you used to work in some kind of odd circus?
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E-e-e-ever see a fi-fi-fifty foot tall elephant before?
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I have not. The only reason I know such creatures exist is because I was told, but they are not normally so large. Why were those?
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S-s-so we got sent down ta take care of 'em.
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[Granted, Diarmuid had once fought and defeated a giant himself, but it certainly hadn't been 50 feet tall!]
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P-p-pappy gave us stu-stuff ta fight with too... We rr-r-road a st-steam powered giraffe in ta fight.
[It sounds ridiculous. It's also true.]
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Steam powered giraffe? Ah! Is that where you guys drew your name from?
And your pappy? Would that the man who made you? What kind of man was he?
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He was gre-gre-great. He na-named all of us an'... gave us stu-stuff to play our music an'... We were his kids, yanno? Treated us real nice, t-t-t-took care of us.
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[Family has always been important to Diarmuid. Even after being in the tower for several months and having died and become a servant before that, he still misses his kids all of the time. It is probably why he has formed such an odd little family of his own here.]
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Doesn't s-s-s-sound right at all.
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There is a lot here that is not right. The people who run this place claim to have saved us, but seem to have more fun torturing us it seems. Even the young ones who are here are not safe. It is why I work so hard to protect and inform those who I meet. Death comes far too easily here. It may not be permanent, but that doesn't mean it still doesn't hurt.
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I don't want anyone ta die.
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The hilarious part is he is totally not being careful at all
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