At around noon, the silence was broken. The Extras resumed their idle nonsense chatter, and any citizen checking their tablet would note that voice and video transmission are available again. After a little experimentation they will also realize they have their voices back ( Read more... )

我恨这个该死的地方。他们付出了我们的声音。下一步是什么？我们的球吗？

请不要说，他们可能把我们的球。我还不如自己的头部开枪，如果说到了这一点。

[translation: I hate this goddamn place. They done took our voices. What's next? Our balls ( Read more... )

It wasn't like there was a shortage of bars in Taxon, it was just that a vast majority of them lacked a certain something. Atmosphere. Style. A staff not consisting of Extras ( Read more... )

River hasn't been sleeping, not well, not since Dawn, and when the tablet clicks on from its place amidst a haphazard pile of flowers to show Serenity's cargo bay.

Every few seconds she walks across the frame (step step heel turn step heel turn step turn step step step). She's holding her necklaces (one a cross, the other a locket of vervain) taut ( Read more... )

[ sookie has decided to eschew emotional honesty for the moment-- after the weekend with bill and angel's scarcity of late, it just seems easier that way-- and after scrubbing the whole house top to bottom more than once, she set to work cooking ( Read more... )

When the haphazardly tossed tablet skittered across the work table and clicked on, it broadcast a scene of Invention In Progress ( Read more... )

"This shouldn't be happening! It can't be happening!" Stefen hadn't intended to speak out loud, but the frustration and the fear obvious in his voice had, it seemed, other plans aside from stunned silence. Maybe not stunned, if the look of resigned terror on his face said anything--like someone watching their worst nightmare come to life, only ( Read more... )

Jason Stackhouse had never been to college unless one counted a semester at tech school a university experience. He had however, watched plenty of movies that (many of them inaccurate) depicted college. This party was a new experience for Jason and he was damn well going to get it right.

The party would take place outside on the lawn in front of ( Read more... )

Behold, Taxon, possibly the most ridiculous thing ever seen on the tablets: Glitch, bathed in the intense gleam of a rainbow, standing beside a pot of gold ( Read more... )

It wasn't until near noon on St. Patrick's Day (or what passed for it) that Paul actually spoke words to anyone-- he'd been hunkered down in his clock-shop-home, per his words to Dawn about not intending to do anything stupid, and as such hadn't been talking to anyone, just working on sketched plans and lists for how he intended to refurbish the ( Read more... )