happy hour!

[claudiometer]

The elevator to the garage opens, and Claudia walks into the bar proper, looking... pretty content, under the circumstances. The door's still gone, but the El Camino is done, and that's worth being pleased about

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Um."

Ellen's still in her power armor, but she's at least managed to wash up a bit from the scorpion fight.

"I think maybe we have different definitions of 'troll'. What does that mean, 'troll in your order'?"

[claudiometer]

"...I take it you missed the T-Minus memo, then."
Claudia hands over her T-Minus phone for inspection. "Organic technology that lets you talk to people across dimensions. The person who set it up called open beta, so I grabbed one. And 'trolling' on the Internet is being an ass on purpose, so I guess the name came from that? Even though it's not just for annoying people."
While she's talked to Karkat, that hasn't been in person yet, so while she knows he's not human she's missed the 'no, actual trolls' bit so far.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen eyes the T-Minus device in roughly the same way a chimpanzee might be expected to examine a screwdriver, though without the inevitable part where the chimp tries to determine whether it's edible or not. Just a lot of mystified poking. "Huh," she says. "Okay, I guess. That's... I'd ask how it works, but I don't think I'd understand it. At all."

[claudiometer]

"I don't know the exact details, but it's pretty neat. Got better reception in the Warehouse than my actual phone did."
If her voice seems to falter on the second sentence, well, Ellen's probably not imagining it.

[tobeclosetohim]

"So, where can you get one of those phones?"

Obviously, someone was listening in earlier.

It's a bar. Close stools. It happens.

[claudiometer]

And really, even in a place like Milliways, there are only so many places a person can go.
"I got mine from the Bar," Claudia says. "So you might have to wait until I'm done back here. I think the original note said the person who brought 'em in had some with him, but... I haven't actually talked to him face-to-face."
The wonders of modern technology!

[tobeclosetohim]

Jo's suspicions drop a little.
She doesn't trust much here.

But she trusts Bar.

(For more than her paycheck.)

"Is it just phones, or other toys, too?"

[claudiometer]

"It's... more sort of a phone that only has an instant-messaging client. But it's good at what it does."

[tyler_marlocke]

psychotacticalParadigm has started trolling respositoryBadger

PP: I'll take a java ice cream and coffee milkshake
PP: I'll tip if you deliver it to booth 13.

[claudiometer]

RB: Sounds like someone's trying to stay up all night.
RB: Gimme a sec to get it together.
Milkshakes can't be that hard, right?

[tyler_marlocke]

Not that hard at all, just mix ice cream, coffee, milk, malt and some chocolate syrup into the blender and hey-presto! Milkshake!

PP:Sure thing, and yeah.
PP: Got a big tech project to work on and this part needs doing all in one night.

[claudiometer]

RB: Been there, done that, know the feeling.
Before too long, a waitrat delivers the milkshake to its destination.

[crabbycustomer]

CG: YES EXCELLENT
CG: IT IS GOOD TO SEE SOMEONE ENCOURAGING THE SPREAD OF THE TECHNOLOGY
CG: I AM WATCHING THAT MOVIE YOU RECOMMENDED NOW

[claudiometer]

RB: Well, *yeah.* That's what it's there for!
RB: Cool. That gonna work for what you need?

[crabbycustomer]

CG: I GUESS
CG: YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THE LIONS SING *SHUDDER*
CG: SHE WILL EAT THIS SHIT UP WITH A SCOOPING DEVICE

[claudiometer]

RB: Well, I did say it was pretty cheesetastic. If I didn't mention the music at all, sorry. I'm used to that going without saying when it comes to Disney.
RB: One of those lessons in culture shock, I guess.