116. [Video/Action for Lake of Rage]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[It's been a few weeks since Heather's terse text post regarding her father-- hardly the longest period of time she's gone in between network posts, but she certainly hasn't been overly talkative.]

[When the video comes on though, it's partially obscured by a fuzzy blue blob-- the 'Gear has been placed on a clothes rack, pointed to view the next aisle over. Specifically, it's showing the back of a shaggy brown head. Henry Townshend, taciturn photography and unsuspecting victim, is slowly picking his way through a rack of swim trunks.]

[Amid the jangling of clothes-hangers, something appears in the corner of the screen.]

[That something is a pair of hands, and between them-- stretched like a rubber band-- is a Speedo.]

[There is a pregnant pause, probably for the sake of letting the network audience take it all in.]








[Then the hands let it fly.]


[Henry lets out a howl and claps a hand to his head as the speedo bounces off of it with a rubbery twang.]</sub>


HEATHER!!


_{[The camera jostles and the feed ends.]}

Comments

video;

[foolishwren]

I'm not so fortunate.

Pretty sure if I went that skimpy, someone'd look at me and just start melting like those Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I'm gonna spare everybody that horror and just wear some swim trunks.

_{[As much as she thinks some of these suits are adorable, some sacrifices must be made.]}

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

Uh... Raiders of the Lost Ark...?

video;

[foolishwren]

... Uh... y'know... Indiana Jones?

Badass archaeologist explorer guy played by Harrison Ford?

... It's a movie.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

[Hmm. Oh, there's one way to figure this out.]

What year was it released?

video;

[foolishwren]

... Uhhh... shit.

I dunno, the 80's?

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

That would be why. It was only 1971 back in my world.

video;

[foolishwren]

.... Oh!

Well jeez.

Sorry, I didn't know.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

It's fine. Not much is allowed in our country anyways as far as foreign movies go.

video;

[foolishwren]

Oh yeah, you're... uh, Russian, right?

I forget, are you guys still communists in the 70's?

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

Mmhmmm.

video;

[foolishwren]

Oh. Wow.

Yeah.

If you ever end up going home, change is on the horizon.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

It won't matter much to me.

[Being exiled from your motherland is rough.]

video;

[foolishwren]

... Yeah?

Re: video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

There's nothing there for me, even if I was allowed back in the country.

video;

[foolishwren]

... Oh.

Jeez.

Sorry.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

[He shrugs, trying to play it off like he's not that upset about it.]

It's fine. Probably for the better. I can safely say this place is much more welcoming.

video;

[foolishwren]

Yeah.

Honestly, for all the shit wrong with it, this place is pretty much an improvement over most other things.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

It really is. I think I'd be happy if I wound up staying here for the rest of my life.

video;

[foolishwren]

Yeah. Same.

There's nothing for me back where I come from either.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

Kind of sucks when you think about it.

Which I try not to.

video;

[foolishwren]

I'm usually pretty good about pushing it out of my head.

'Cept when people I know disappear.

Then it's kinda hard to.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

I imagine. I haven't had that problem yet.

video;

[foolishwren]

... You will.

video;

[majorcrotchgrab]

I know.

[The only person that will upset him with leaving would be Greed. Everyone else is eh.]