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CrankyCave NPCs ([personal profile] cavedwellers) wrote in [community profile] crankycave2012-02-13 07:07 pm

OMG VD!

[Gosh you guys, there must be a holiday on! One of the bigger, more well-lit caves has been decked out for a PARTY, with heart-shaped BALLOONS and also red and white STREAMERS decking the stalactites and shit. There are BUCKETS filled with LITTLE CANDY HEARTS, and there is a FOUNTAIN featuring a rosy-cheeked CUPID who is PEEING PINK LEMONADE into a basin. Also ther are CUPS in case you couldn't tell the LEMONADE was for DRINKING.

Also, everything is HEAVILY SPIKED WITH APHRODISIACS. Eating or drinking the party favors will make you want to MAKE OUT with anyone who gets IN STRIKING DISTANCE. Have fun with that!]
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[it's like an icicle of awkward!]

I should not have assumed your intentions were untoward. Since you have been behaving in the opposite manner.

[she is pretty sure that's what the one diplomacy manual she ever read said you should do in situations where you have accidentally made assumptions?]
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[silence for a moment or so, before he laughs good-naturedly]

Considering today, I think "intent" is really a tricky thing.
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[laughing is good. probably. right? she is going with that interpretation.]

I...suppose there is that.

[military discipline is usually good for something, like telling yourself you are not feeling the effects of drugs. it doesn't make you not feel it. but you can tell yourself it's less than it is.]

[that is what she is telling herself and meanwhile she is absent-mindedly petting the (fabric? leather?) on the seat.]
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[how does one react to having their insides petted? what is the appropriate protocol for these sorts of situations?]

... Either way, you'd be the first. [okay, now that tone was definitely cocky.]
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[mouth opens. mouth closes. mouth opens again]

I--

[is--is this flirting? because it sounds like things Edgar says. So it must be. Right?]

[she makes an awkward strangled noise, because she cannot reconcile flirting with robot that outmasses me by two orders of magnitude, and the drugs have worn off enough for those two antithetical ideas to collide, although not enough for her to stop petting because she hasn't noticed that yet.]

....how does this even work?
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[chuckling]

It doesn't, really. That was cruel of me, I apologise.
ice_and_steel: Celes standing, head bowed, with her sword in hand, looking resigned (don't make me hurt you)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. All right. I was perplexed.

[but if it doesn't work then why is he bothering to talk to her? perhaps he has some plan for which her skills are useful.]
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[has her tone sharpened enough that he'd pick up on it?]

... I didn't mean anything by it. I realise that it didn't quite help the situation.
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
I--no, it's okay. I am...not good with people. or robots, apparently. My soldiers called me the ice queen--when they thought I couldn't hear--because they said that's what my brain and heart were made out of.
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[rematerialises his hologram, so it's now perched on the back of the front seat he pulled forwards earlier with its feet pressed up against the rim of the backseat, giving the illusion that he's pushing up against it to remain sitting]

But that's not true.
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[she tilts her head]

It could be. I don't...really act or seem to think like other people do, is it such a stretch to think that I was engineered such that parts of me specifically don't work right?
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[he smiles, in an attempt to reassure her. HOLOGRAMS YOU CAN'T TOUCH ARE REASSURING, RIGHT?]

Would someone heartless spend so long wondering if they were?
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[the most reassuring.]

I...don't know. It occurs to me that those who designed me were sufficiently paranoid, and sufficiently cruel, that they might have put this in as a failsafe: given too much time to think, to force me to become distracted by whether I have emotions or merely the simulacra thereof.
sei_what: (coy)

[personal profile] sei_what 2012-02-22 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hot damn on a stick, there's enough sugar in all this stuff to bury the Palace.

Bit of a false start: Sei came out to see what all the fuss was about and had to duck back into the cave to get into an ensemble that coordinated with the decorations better and it just took @#$!#$ AGES. But she's got a nice plum-blossom coordinate on now, so that's all right, and she's making up for lost time at the snack table.

Seriously. The punch. It is SO GOOD. There are not even words for how good it is. There is no ancient poem that addresses the full-body joy of this much Vitamin C and sugar in one place. She's slurping away like a bilge pump behind her fan. Judging by the looks she's giving the fountain, it's probably only a manner of time until she just drinks straight out of it.
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[the hologram leans in, eyebrows raised with a lopsided, affectionate grin]

Celes, please forgive me for being so forward, but that's ridiculous.
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[she frowns a little, as she is not entirely accustomed to being called ridiculous] it is?
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[personal profile] bythehorns 2012-02-22 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[hey, the nice thing about being late to the party is that everyone else is blasted when you get there! have a doofy looking little troll with his own cup of lemonade grinning at you and probably already blushing a bit]

Oh, um, hello, it is, good to see you again. This is, really tasty, isn't it?
sei_what: (combing)

[personal profile] sei_what 2012-02-22 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Her mouth had already been drifting on its way toward the indelicate lemonade-fountaining bits of statuary, her eyes a little glazed-over. But here's her favorite little man! What a delightful thing.

"Tavros!" Back from the brink of statue-sucking, she's all sparkly attention pointed directly at you now. "Oh my, you're precious today. Just look at you."

She beams, and strokes his left horn while getting down the rest of the punch in her cup. "Everyone has been good to you, haven't they?"
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
If you're convinced that that's the case, why wouldn't they have instilled something productive to them? The last I checked, doubt isn't a quality most want in a soldier. Something about being mindlessly obedient.
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't think we've met." Celes gives a proper salute.
onlyhonournow: (limitless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[well, this can only end well. Drift's standing a little ways away, shuffling and making sure she sees him coming this time, and waves a hand awkwardly when she notices him]

Hello. [pausing.] ... I apologise for our last encounter, again.
ice_and_steel: Celes looking directly at the viewer (Default)

[personal profile] ice_and_steel 2012-02-22 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[thoughtful expression]

That is one possibility. The other is that they did not intend for me to have sufficient leisure to consider the question.

The difficulty with an intelligent and ambitious person, after all, is that sooner or later that person starts looking above her to see how much higher she can rise. If I had designed me, I would want to make very sure that looking never started.
onlyhonournow: (effortless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-02-22 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[the hologram sits up straight again, and crosses its arms pensively]

You said it yourself. You're intelligent and ambitious. So where are you lacking?

I have a different question. If you could design you, what would you do, for yourself?
sei_what: (coy)

[personal profile] sei_what 2012-02-22 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Why...why is this woman saluting. What is that. Women don't salute. Maybe she's a wandering entertainer. They do all sorts of odd things.

Simpering, Sei holds out a sweet. "Of course we haven't, my dear. Tell us your name, why don't you?"
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[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-02-22 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[that bite gets a noise out of him, and a bit of a shudder, and then his fingers find a spot where he can push and sink in to soft, warm flesh]

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