02; Video/Action

[livinuptothename]

All this shit is pretty above my pay grade, so it's not like I'm speaking from experience here or anything, but it seems like we got a crazy ass mix of folks around here.  I don't think I've ever seen so many aliens in m life and I come from a world where those guys are all over the freakin' place.

Though I gotta say, it's freakin' weird to be around a bunch of people who've never heard of Kryptonians before. [Just.  Throwing that word out there.  Vaguely hopeful.]

Anyway.  It's late, I'm bored.  We've got a shit load of aliens and sword and sorcery types up in here.  Tell me somethin' good about your world.  Or tell me something shitty, we can swap horror stories.

[It's late at night, which means it's time for punks in masks asking bullshit questions on the network to keep themselves from broody navel gazing.  Not sleeping is kind of a thing for him, but this not brutalizing strangers who really deserve it thing is kinda new and borderline unpleasant.  Feel free to spot a brightly colored spot skulking around rooftops.]

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[whatsupcroc]

You don't happen to be much for bouldering, do you?

[livinuptothename]

Not really a lotta boulders in the big city, nah.

[whatsupcroc]

You seriously never got out of the city to anyplace worth seeing? Mountains, lakesides, cliffside shores?

[livinuptothename]

Yeah, sometimes. Mostly went there on business with my boss, though, so. Ya know, not really a lot of time to hang around and see the sights.

[whatsupcroc]

Sounds like a few busy bouncer conventions you're run into out there. Too bad! Maybe one of these days you'll get to really see what's out there. Work's great and everything, but a day or two every once in a blue moon can be nice.

[livinuptothename]

[He laughs, softly. Sounds a lot like an argument he's made at Bruce more than once.]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll have to think about that.

[whatsupcroc]

Let me know if that ever gets past the whole thinking stage to something remotely close to 'planning.'

[livinuptothename]

Hey, I get out plenty around here.

[whatsupcroc]

To our stunning beaches? No, wait, how about the thirsty botanical gardens? Oh! Or our astounding nature preserves? I like to go fro catching. Hopefully whatever they have isn't communicable.

( A brief, amused smile: )

I don't think a third leg's really going to do too much for me. A third eye, on the other hand...

[livinuptothename]

Exactly.

Ya mean to tell me girls aren't born with eyes in the back of their head? My health teacher lied to me.

[whatsupcroc]

Common mistake! We actually just use reflective surfaces and suitably suspicious expressions to make it seem like we might know. The rest is the power of possibility. Works for more than the guilt trip, I know what you did and didn't tell me about thing too!

( Or it should darn it she really tries sometimes. She doesn't even get to pull a good "I know you did something you're not telling me about" here! Except on Barnaby. )

[livinuptothename]

Man, that's even scarier.

[whatsupcroc]

( She shrugs her shoulders, barely caught on camera. )

Girls, man.

( Ignore the particular twitch of her lips at saying that when she's well aware she's one of them. )

I promise we don't bite.

( Pausing for a beat and thinking maybe she won't say -- )

Except when asked.

( Or in the line of necessary duty but that really doesn't fit in right now. She hopes. Please don't end up being a mind-controlled victim or an evil mastermind, that'd just suck a whole lot. )

[livinuptothename]

[ Wow, he has a snappy comeback all ready and waiting and it just dies. Right there, on the floor.]

Yeah, I'm gonna keep that in mind.

[whatsupcroc]

( Oh dear! Collette half laughs, then waves. )

You do that. Catch you later!

( TIME TO MAKE AN EXIT STAGE LEFT )

[livinuptothename]

Yeah, count on it.

[REALLY REALLY]