action / video / audio

[pabulously]

[ 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?

Comments

VIDEO;

[thewalkingdad]

Uh, yeah. I can definitely hear you. And I saw you for a moment there.

Looks like all you did was change some settings on your communication device. New, I take it?

text;

[pabulously]

[Woah why is it flashing a blue light at him? Bolin tries to figure out what it means, and inadvertently turns on the speech-to-text function before hitting play on Lee's comment.

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.

voice

[commentboxtroll]

No, nobody can hear you. You're on the wrong intranet.

voice

[pabulously]

[Bolin inadvertently hits the audio record button.]

Okay, I know this guy's just messing with me. Rude.

voice;

[brightsided]

Helllloooo! I think you're suppose to read the manual. Or... listen to the tutorial? Or something...

accidental voice;

[pabulously]

[He doesn't realize he's successfully replying]

I did!

Video

[celestial_wizard]

[ Lucy giggles a little - even though she knows she had as much trouble when she first got started. ]

I can hear you. It looks like you accidentally switched the setting from video to audio - try switching it back, if you like.

Video

[pabulously]

[Okay, that makes sense. And by this point, Bolin's made enough mistakes with the device that he's...kind of. Almost. Figured out how to use it.

He can now deliberately respond by video, at least.]

Thanks! That tutorial they give isn't very helpful.

[video]

[galactically]

Everyone can see you, and hear you loud and crystal clear! [A quick laugh.] You must've pressed the audio function by accident. Try again~

[video]

[pabulously]

That's what people've been telling me. Pretty I've got it all figured out now.

[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]

voice;

[nekoed]

[ Just laugher.

And not nice laughter. ]

accidental voice;

[pabulously]

Rude.

video.

[defending]

[ She cringes away at first because god he's loud... ]

You changed it from video to non-video voice-chatty.

video.

[pabulously]

Ooooooooh. Is that why it went all blinky and beepy?


...which am I doing now?

video

[chittybang]

Having some trouble?

video

[pabulously]

No, I've got everything completely under control.

[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]

video

[fintastic]

Hello! I can hear you! I think you hit a button?

video

[pabulously]

[He's got the button situation figured out...for now. But he gives this girl a forlorn look.]

This thing has a lot of buttons.

video

[ringbeast]

Yo! These things are pretty complicated compared to the tablets back home!

[He leans forward to poke at the screen]

What's that cute pet thing you've got??

video

[pabulously]

We don't have anything like these devices back home.

[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.

Audio;

[originalgaangster]

Yeah, we can hear you!

video;

[pabulously]

Awesome! Can you see me now?

video;

[scienceinacan]

Switched to audio, if you hadn't noticed...

[ Cute fail... ]

video;

[pabulously]

[awkward chuckle]

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.]

video;

[wingtamer]

Hello!

.. uhm, do you need help, mister?

video;

[pabulously]

No, thanks, pretty sure I've got the hang of it by now. [SOB THIS IS LIKE THE NIGHTMARES HE HAD ABOUT NOT WEARING ANY PANTS TO THE PROBENDING CHAMPIONSHIP.

..........okay, no, it's not nearly as embarrassing. but still.]

video;

[copia]

[ Kaede raises an eyebrow at the animal that jumps off of this guy's head. She's never seen anything like that before? Eh, she'll ask after she helps this guy. ]

You have to hit [ location of video button ] to bring the video screen up.

video;

[pabulously]

Yeah, I got it. Thanks. [BEING LECTURED BY LITTLE KIDS ON HOW TO USE THIS THING. HOW EMBARRASSING.]

action (if that's alright);

[limitstorm]

[ he really needs to work on making smaller portions. but with a lot of the vegetables and meat he'd crammed into the fridge, he'd had to make stew, and... it'd been a lot of meat and a lot of vegetables. too much for him to handle, too much for kyouko to handle. so he was going around and giving it away, pretty much.

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!

[pabulously]

OOH! GUEST!

[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.

text;

[painfeels]

Don't worry, you'll get better with practice.

[maybe...]

video;

[pabulously]

Uh, thanks. I think...

video;

[worldswillburn]

I hear you, loud and clear.

video;

[pabulously]

Good. Excellent. Carry on.

[mock salute because what else is he going to do?]

video

[inafadingcrown]

[Mildly amused, but trying not to show it. She's been there, buddy.]

It becomes easier with time.

video

[pabulously]

Good, good. How much time, do you think?