010 - Blackberry

[deadly_ned]

[Filtered to First Floor - Red Team, affected and unaffected alike]


Come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes.


[Filtered to Thomas MacLaine]

Stay right there. I'm coming to rescue you. Don't. Panic.

We're going to go kick some ass.

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[payshisdebts]

Come again?

[deadly_ned]

Red team. All of us, group together for a plan of action. If we go down, we go down as a team.

[payshisdebts]

I though you made pie.

[ What is this talk of teams and going down. Has the port madness begun!? ]

[deadly_ned]

I do. I make pie. I make wonderful, amazing pie.

But today that's not who I am. Today, my name is Ned, and today I'm going to paint seven-eighths of this barge red.


That was a euphemism for red paint. I'm not actually going to hurt anyone.

[payshisdebts]

...this is the flood, isn't it.

[ He is so confused right now, Ned, you don't even know. ]

[deadly_ned]

Probably.

By which I mean, definitely.

Yes. I am severely flooded right now.

This in no way should stop you from joining me in playing paintball.

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[itstopped]

[Between prepping for the port and Sandoval's CVI crisis, Felix has been more or less holed up continually in either the lab, the CES, or the engine room for the past few days, and he's making no exception for paintball. He has, however, obtained a paintball gun from somewhere (and a real one, but that's not important right now), and the former is resting on the table next to him, even though his attention is off the camera.

He's been keeping very much to himself, speaking only when necessary, and he looks a little tired, so his voice is a little hoarse when he replies:]

Red three, checking in and checking out.

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[deadly_ned]

Red Three, this is Red Twenty-One. What's your location?

[Filter]

[itstopped]

The lab. I'm... holding it down. [Or working, but whatever. He rubs his eyes.]

[Filter]

[deadly_ned]

Red Three, are you going AWOL?

[Filter]

[itstopped]

I'm holding my position.

[payshisdebts]

Explain this 'paintball'.

[Filter]

[deadly_ned]

Um.


Why?

[deadly_ned]

It's like being in a war, only more bloody and terrifying.




Although I may be confusing 'war' with 'laser tag at Chuck E. Cheese'.


To be fair, the two are very similar.

[payshisdebts]

Have you even been to war, ser? I have. [ Seriously what the fucking fuck, you strange man, does he need his armor for this shit? ]

[deadly_ned]

Do pretend wars lasting one afternoon when you're nine years old and it's just you and a classmate count?

[payshisdebts]

No, ser. It does not.

[deadly_ned]

Ah.

Then no. No, I've never been to war.

But I have been to Chuck E. Cheese and I imagine it's very much the same concept.

Red Team

[ichoosefight]

I think the divide between people who've seen Terminator and people who haven't is going to be pretty wide here.

Where are we meeting?

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[with_my_teacup]

Hey, you know how I'm colorblind?

I need you to start IDing ammo for me.

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[deadly_ned]

Are you really colorblind? How did I not know that?

Red Team

[deadly_ned]

My room. My room has the food in it.

Bring guns.

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[with_my_teacup]

Not like hereditary colorblind. Like 'the metal coating on my eyes bends light in and I can see the edge of the UV spectrum and all the infrared you never imagined the world puts off but the old visual spectrum is kind of different shades of gray now' colorblind.

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[deadly_ned]

....



My dog is colorblind too.

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[with_my_teacup]

Digby, right? I've been walking him while Mega's been busy with barge crises. Sweet boy. Kinda neurotic.

...and I'ma still need you to load me up with the right color of ammo.