Bolin (
pabulously) wrote in
exsilium2013-04-07 12:07 pm
Entry tags:
- caesar silverberg (suikoden),
- feferi peixes (homestuck),
- galadriel (lord of the rings),
- kaede kaburagi (tiger & bunny),
- kousuke nitoh (kamen rider wizard),
- lucy heartfilia (fairy tail),
- riku (kingdom hearts),
- sarah kerrigan (starcraft),
- sheryl nome (macross frontier),
- yutaka watari (yami no matsuei),
- ✝ asami sato (legend of korra),
- ✝ bolin (legend of korra),
- ✝ buffy summers (b:tvs),
- ✝ daisuke niwa (d.n.angel),
- ✝ lee everett [the walking dead],
- ✝ oerba dia vanille (ffxiii),
- ✝ painwheel (skullgirls),
- ✝ sokka (a:tla),
- ✞ — dropped characters — ✞
action / video / audio
[ action - for roommates (Soldier Blue and Judal) or anyone who wants to stop by unit 510 ]
[Bolin's sitting on the floor in the living area, with his back against the couch and Pabu curled up on his head. He's spent most of the past five days exploring his new home (and training, and hanging out with Korra and Asami as much as he can). But a guy's gotta give his muscles some time to rest and so he figures he might as well play around with the strange little gizmo they gave him. (Evidently he's supposed to be able to talk to people through it -- like a mini radio or something.)
He pokes hesitantly at the screen and gasps in surprise when it changes. It takes him a long time to find the tutorial, and even longer to make his way through it. Reading is hard enough for him even when he doesn't have to figure out what strange words like "video" mean.
In the end, it doesn't help him that much. All he really gets out of it is you can leave messages for everybody who has one of these weird devices to see, and these messages can either be in written words, recordings of your voice, or a kind of moving picture with sound. He decides to just poke around the device and see if he can figure out how to make a moving picture post for himself -- it sounds pretty cool.
Ten minutes later --]
[ video ]
[The feed flicks on and Bolin lights up.]
Hey! I think I finally figured it out! [He leans closer to the device, and Pabu jumps off his head indignantly to go doze on the couch.] Hello in there! Can anybody hear me?
[His thumb slips, accidentally switching it to audio.]
[ audio ]
Wait, what did I just do?
[Bolin's sitting on the floor in the living area, with his back against the couch and Pabu curled up on his head. He's spent most of the past five days exploring his new home (and training, and hanging out with Korra and Asami as much as he can). But a guy's gotta give his muscles some time to rest and so he figures he might as well play around with the strange little gizmo they gave him. (Evidently he's supposed to be able to talk to people through it -- like a mini radio or something.)
He pokes hesitantly at the screen and gasps in surprise when it changes. It takes him a long time to find the tutorial, and even longer to make his way through it. Reading is hard enough for him even when he doesn't have to figure out what strange words like "video" mean.
In the end, it doesn't help him that much. All he really gets out of it is you can leave messages for everybody who has one of these weird devices to see, and these messages can either be in written words, recordings of your voice, or a kind of moving picture with sound. He decides to just poke around the device and see if he can figure out how to make a moving picture post for himself -- it sounds pretty cool.
Ten minutes later --]
[ video ]
[The feed flicks on and Bolin lights up.]
Hey! I think I finally figured it out! [He leans closer to the device, and Pabu jumps off his head indignantly to go doze on the couch.] Hello in there! Can anybody hear me?
[His thumb slips, accidentally switching it to audio.]
[ audio ]
Wait, what did I just do?

VIDEO;
Looks like all you did was change some settings on your communication device. New, I take it?
text;
What Bolin says: Why is it flashing a light at me? How do I - oh! Hey, Pabu, I got a message! Let's see... wait what is it doing? Hello? Can you hear me? Hello!
How the tablet translates it:]
Why are you flashing blue sky moment there. How do I looks igloo change message. Wait new take hello here me.
VIDEO;
VIDEO;
voice
voice
Okay, I know this guy's just messing with me. Rude.
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accidental voice;
I did!
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Video
I can hear you. It looks like you accidentally switched the setting from video to audio - try switching it back, if you like.
Video
He can now deliberately respond by video, at least.]
Thanks! That tutorial they give isn't very helpful.
Re: Video
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[video]
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[He pushes to send, but gets the wrong button and a popup shows up.]
Aaah, what did I do?!
[some frantic button pushing later and he finally sends the comment through]
[video]
[video]
[video] -> text
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text -> [video]
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voice;
And not nice laughter. ]
accidental voice;
voice;
voice;
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video.
You changed it from video to non-video voice-chatty.
video.
...which am I doing now?
video.
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[HE IS TOTALLY CAPABLE OF FIGURING THINGS OUT FOR HIMSELF.
Except Pabu sees the image of Asami. He doesn't recoognize it as her, but it's enough to make him curious. He climbs over Bolin's shoulder and towards the device.]
No, Pabu! I told you -
[click]
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This thing has a lot of buttons.
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[He leans forward to poke at the screen]
What's that cute pet thing you've got??
video
[BUT you asked about Pabu and Pabu is his second favorite subject. Or third -- he does love pro-bending. One of his top three subjects, definitely. Bolin snags the little fire ferret to bring him into better view of the screen.]
This guy here is Pabu! He's a fire ferret.
video
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Re: video
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Audio;
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[ Cute fail... ]
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Ahaha, so I've been told.
[Now this is getting kind of embarrassing. Bolin doesn't normally mind screwing up in public -- everybody's gotta learn -- but so many well-intentioned people pointing out his mistakes just kind of feels like the universe is rubbing it in.]
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.. uhm, do you need help, mister?
video;
..........okay, no, it's not nearly as embarrassing. but still.]
video;
You have to hit [ location of video button ] to bring the video screen up.
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action (if that's alright);
with the sergeant already given a container or two, he has a few left, still piping hot by the time he goes up a floor and knocks on 510's door. ]
action; always!
[Bolin immediately tosses the weird device aside and dashes to the front door. (Maybe it's Korra...)
It's not Korra. In fact, it's a total stranger.]
Hi there. Ooooh, that smells good.
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[maybe...]
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meant text; fuuuuuu
video; haha understood!
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[mock salute because what else is he going to do?]
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It becomes easier with time.
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