003 ¤ [video]

[fe_male]

[ He's sort of holding up a toaster oven but he sets it down pretty quickly. ]

I've got one appliance that takes a little too much glee in burning shit, and what looks like a maudlin blender. Who wants in on this?

[ He's also set up some programs to just sort of trawl the network constantly for various things. One is the word 'pie'. Another is encrypted messages not encrypted enough to be completely hidden from him. Casual re-pimp of permissions. So, yes. Both of these wouldn't be immediately noticed without someone else doing some sort of tracking of their own.

aka: Tony is bored. watch out ]

Comments

[fe_male]

You ever find anything you thought was particularly interesting?

[boughtabookstore]

A dragon once. A small one, from a species that doesn't grow very large. It still breathed fire, though.

[fe_male]

That's pretty cool. Dragons are interesting. When they're not crazy or something. Kind of an evolutionary trainwreck though.

[boughtabookstore]

Turns out when there's magic to back them up they can exist. I was a little surprised, really.

You're good at changing subjects.

[fe_male]

It's a long term skill, really.

[boughtabookstore]

Clearly one you've mastered. I'll stop asking about whatever it is you're building.

[fe_male]

[ Actually he was just seeing how long you would keep asking him about it. ]

Programming, mostly. The Initiative monitors United Earth - I was looking for how they were doing it. That and anything interesting about whether there's any decent television over there.

[boughtabookstore]

[ she's really not all that persistent. ]

I didn't see any while I was over, but you never know.

[fe_male]

You were over there?

[boughtabookstore]

Briefly. Reconnaissance mission with several others near the beginning.

[fe_male]

The beginning of what? [ how long have you been here, jesus ]

[boughtabookstore]

It was - perhaps a month into our stay here? Not too long. [ too long she's pretty sure ]

[fe_male]

Were you like, one of the first people brought here or something?

[boughtabookstore]

Not like. I was in the first group transported in. Quite a few of the others are gone now.

[fe_male]

Wow. Sort of sucks to be you.

[boughtabookstore]

It gets easier the longer you're here. Not sure if that entirely negates it sucking to be me, but it does.

[fe_male]

I'm not sure that's a lesson or tolerance I really want to build up.

[boughtabookstore]

Unfortunately you are not going to have a great deal of choice in the matter.

[fe_male]

And I am going to continue to pretend that's not the case.

[boughtabookstore]

You do self-delusion quite well.

[fe_male]

Habits.

[boughtabookstore]

Perhaps not the best kind to keep.

[fe_male]

In which case it would be keeping with all the others.

[boughtabookstore]

You enjoy that. I'm sure it's a great deal of fun.

[fe_male]

Of course it is - everything I do is fun.