10th Transmission - Audio

Oct 19, 2011 17:55

... Xanth.

You around, boy? Need... something. Get up here if you hear this.

halp, cranky old weapons master, sneakybot is sneaky, sending out an sos, paging childthing, gdit c4, frag my life

Leave a comment

Audio -> Commentlog stillseecracks October 20 2011, 01:47:02 UTC
[Ironhide doesn't sound injured or worried or angry or anything, but he doesn't usually call for help like this. Xanth almost asks if he's lost another lobster, but then he remembers that Ironhide probably doesn't have them anymore.

That's sad.

Still, Xanth shoots a quick message to Ironhide:]

I-I'll-- be right th--there.

[And then he's off!

By "up here" he can only assume Ironhide means his room, and so in a few minutes, there's a knock on Ironhide's door.]

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 20 2011, 02:15:58 UTC
[The door opens. And there's the big guy himself. Looking... disgruntled.]

[Why, you might ask?]

[There is a frog on his head.]

Reply

Commentlog stillseecracks October 20 2011, 02:55:22 UTC
[The worry drops out of Xanth's expression, leaving only confusion in its place.

Xanth points up at it. Opens his mouth. Closes his mouth. Bites his lip. Pulls his hand back. Scratches his cheek.]

Is-- that's--

Wh-why do you have... a... a-a frog?

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 20 2011, 03:48:50 UTC
[Ironhide just continues to look disgruntled with the entire affair.]

It followed me from the springs.

Reply

Commentlog stillseecracks October 20 2011, 03:59:57 UTC
U-Um.

[Xanth would reach up to try and take it, but even if he's noticed a little bit of growth lately, he's still nowhere near tall enough to reach Ironhide's head.]

D-Do... do you... w-want me to-- p-put it back?

[Because he will! If Ironhide wants him to!]

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 20 2011, 04:03:53 UTC
[Ironhide's good optic tracks up, as if trying to see the little frog perched on his head. No such luck.]

... No.

[He pauses.]

There... something I should... be doing? To look after it?

Reply

Commentlog stillseecracks October 20 2011, 04:43:23 UTC
O-- Oh.

[Ironhide wants to keep it. That almost seems strange until Xanth remembers the frog he had on the Elegante. A different sort of frog, to be sure, but frogs are frogs.

Xanth puts a finger to his lips.]

U-Um, well, it-- i-it needs a-- a place to... s-stay, like, a, a cage or-- s-something, and you... y-you need to-- to feed it. I... I-I think they-- e-eat bugs, b-but I'm not... sure which...

[There are so many kinds of bugs, Ironhide.]

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 20 2011, 05:52:47 UTC
Yeah...

[He sounds a little sheepish about it. He wouldn't keep the thing around if it didn't remind him so sharply of C4. And, therefore, his missing partner.]

[He sort of hunkers down a little as Xanth talks, listening to him.]

Where do I find these things?

Reply

Commentlog stillseecracks October 20 2011, 10:00:55 UTC
U-Um... w-well you-- you catch bugs like-- flies a-and ants and things j-just by leaving out r-regular food, so, th-that's not... so hard.

I-I think you-- you might have to build a--a cage, though. I-I mean. I don't-- I don't think th-there'll be any p-premade.

B-But we-- we could a--ask around?

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 20 2011, 18:20:42 UTC
[He just sort of... gives Xanth a blank look. Catch bugs? Build a cage? Really?]

[And then he looks down at his hands.]

[That's not going to be easy.]

Right. Got... it.

Reply

Commentlog stillseecracks October 21 2011, 08:36:13 UTC
[Xanth follows Ironhide's gaze. No, it won't be easy - Ironhide's hands are gigantic. A handful of frog for Xanth would only be one frog, but Ironhide could easily fit five, six, eight, fifteen...]

I--I can-- I can help!

Um.

I-I mean, I, a-at least-- with-- th-the cage? I-I'm-- I'm not th-that bad with a h-hammer...

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 21 2011, 08:42:49 UTC
[Meanwhile, the frog busies itself crawling all over Ironhide's head. It's like it's looking for something.]

Good. That will work.

... Knew I called you for a reason.

Reply

Commentlog stillseecracks October 22 2011, 09:34:27 UTC
[Yeah, okay, that gets a mostly proud (slightly sheepish) grin.]

S-So I guess-- I guess w-we should, uh, g-get that cage, f-first? It's, uh, k-kind of a... a roamer.

[but where is it goooing]

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 22 2011, 09:38:32 UTC
Probably...

[He tries to catch it, as it wiggles away from his hand, looking for some armor seam or joint.]

It is... hmn. Curious.

Reply

Commentlog stillseecracks October 22 2011, 09:40:25 UTC
I-- I guess it just-- l-likes you?

[It's kinda crawling everywhere. It hasn't even noticed Xanth yet, or so it seems.]

Reply

Commentlog heavyweaponsbot October 22 2011, 20:10:15 UTC
Hmnf. And I liked C4 better.

[The frog croaks in indignation. And settles on one of Ironhide's head-crest-things.]

Reply


Leave a comment

Up