FIRST ~ {Video}

[youriseyoushine]

{Flailing. Lots and lots of flailing, with a side of unintelligible shouting. In his flailing, somehow, the Professor has managed to turn on the communicator helpfully provided in his room, by throwing it against a wall. It's skewed, showing part of a sinister, foreboding evil lair that is trying so very hard to be even eviller than its evil

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[strangehstorian]

Oh my.

I'm afraid you are no longer... wherever you were. Sir.

[youriseyoushine]

I CAN SEE THAT! I know I'm not drowning in a river! "You are no longer wherever you were." Well, thank you for that information! How else could I ever have known that? OF COURSE I'M NOT WHERE I WAS.

[strangehstorian]

[Chromie's reaction to sarcasm is to be even more cheerful and polite.]

You seemed confused. Welcome to the Barge!

[youriseyoushine]

What are you, the welcoming committee?

{Head tilt.}

You're a very short welcoming committee.

[strangehstorian]

Self-appointed! I'm a gnome, we are all very small compared to most humans.

[youriseyoushine]

You're a what?

[strangehstorian]

[Smiling serenely.]

A gnome! Like the garden ornaments.

[youriseyoushine]

You're a garden ornament?

[strangehstorian]

Not quite! I like to move around a little too much for that.

[youriseyoushine]

. . .You're a mobile garden ornament?

[strangehstorian]

[Giggle. SO UNPERTURBED.]

My species just shares a name with one, sir.

[youriseyoushine]

Ah. {That sounds perfectly reasonably after all.}

{. . .}

{Wait.}

A gnome, like a fairy? {Brief pondering.} Did you bring me here?

[strangehstorian]

No, I didn't. A being called the Admiral brought you here.

[youriseyoushine]

And how do I talk to this...Admiral?

[strangehstorian]

Well, most people when they want to speak to him simply filter a message, like they would to any other person on the ship. Do you need someone to show you how to do that?

[youriseyoushine]

I KNOW HOW TO USE A FILTER. I've been using filters of every kind since before you were knee high a-

{. . .}

-for a long time.