Third Morph - Video - Backdated two hours before the morning sirens

[guerrilla_morph]

[ It is too damn early for a post. This young kid, maybe fourteen, fifteen years of age, is looking at NV like Jon Stewart does when doing a show: self-deprecating and a wit clearly evident. Like most kids his age, he doesn't look a bit tired at all, the ass. No, seriously, he is giving you the most shit-eating grin you ever lay eyes on.

He's in a room that the most seasoned traveler can recognize as a flea-bitten motel. Of course, he isn't actually living there, his real hotel room is somewhere else. No, he just snuck in and stole a room for a minute. He sits down on the rickety table. ]

Hi, guys. You know, I've been thinking. I've been thinking a lot, actually. About what has happened to us Newcomers in the past, what, week? Two weeks? That guy, what's his face, the one with the accent all British or Scottish or whatever. I forget his name. Anyway, he said something around the likes of "understanding you aren't free." Wise words, and it's the kind that Keanu Reeves get the sunglasses on and dodge bullets in slo-mo.

[ Oh yeah, Marco's been quick on catching up his pop culture from the past decade and he fucking loves it.

He reaches over and grabs a can of Pepsi, his breakfast of the day. The familiar hiss and click of the can opening is very loud at the silence Marco is making, his face a little closed off, thoughtful. ]

Some of you people have been here for a year, maybe two or three. That hunt wasn't the first hunt to be started. We get to be blamed for natural disasters for and we are still running around with our heads cut off. We got superheroes and aliens and gods and dragons and we haven't done a civil rights parade or anything? Man, Martin Luther King Jr will be super disappointed. Che Guevara would have think of us as lost causes.

Mr. UK is right. I'm starting to think we don't even think ourselves as equal in the first place, and these natives know it. Except in maybe in soccer, if that's what that guy is actually serious of making those neutral games.

[ Another pause. Then: Kanyeshrug! ]

Oh well. We'll just wait for the next awful thing to happen and we'll bitch about it. That always works. And I am really good at complaining. It's my day job and one day, I will actually be paid for it. Or maybe I'll be paid for simply being good looking. That's definitely a possibility.

[ He takes a sip out of the Pepsi. ]

Oh, and to anyone who just arrived: Welcome to Canada. Watch out for the moose people. They tend to get a little hysterical and blame you for the sour milk. …and speaking of which, why are the milk in bags? If that's not a walk-in boob joke, then I don't know what is.

Comments

video. ( pretend this is the right buffy account since i. have four )

[alldestiny]

Of course we're equal. Maybe even more than, since we had no choice in being put here. How could you agree with -- [ Harumph. ] People need to stop bitching, and start doing something. Whoever was hunting the Newcomers needs to know what it feels like to be hunted. But there's no justice whatsoever, so we need to protect our own. If they're going to create segregation, we need to pool our resources and take care of each other. Having a flippant attitude about it? Not gonna get the job done.

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[guerrilla_morph]

[ Sorry he completely didn't get any of that. He's staring at you incredulously. ]

Are you Buffy?

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[ex_stakes70]

[ UHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh --- ]

... Yea-huh? We haven't, um. Talked before. Right?

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[guerrilla_morph]

[ Holy fourth wall Batman. Now what's he gotta do, tell her she's a hot actor -

Wait just the fucking minute, this is actually Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He can't exactly say she's a tv character, he'll get staked for that shit. ]

I've. . . seen you about.

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[ex_stakes70]

[ Uh-...huh... ]

Right! So, um - Tone down the sarcasm, couldjya? Kind of a serious issue we're dealing with here.

[meddler]

[ a pause before... ]

Now, if my ship was properly working, I'd go back and ask Martin Luther King Jr and Che Guevara what they thought. But, none of us have been under normal circumstances for a while.

[ and another thought... ]

If they only let us get close to the Core...

[guerrilla_morph]

Che would probably grab a boat and make a Marxist invasion.

[ Wait. ]

What do you mean, "ship"?

/threadjack

[paterelohim]

Hey, hi, for the record? No.

[sup bro have a face you've never spoken to]

Remember when the island almost got devoured by the Darkness because someone just tried to send a message home? We don't need to let random people screw with the Core.

[meddler]

[ are you ready for a brush-off of epic proportions? hopefully you are. ]

Well, it's a good thing that I'm not just random people now isn't it?

[ after all, hasn't he dealt with far more dangerous things than one measly Core?

...That happens to pull people from all sorts of different universes when inter-dimensional travel should be impossible?

but never mind that. ]

[paterelohim]

That's what he thought, too.

[cursedarrows]

. . . Moose people.

[Blank.]

[guerrilla_morph]

That's right. Moose people. The natives. Canadians. The folks from the Red Green show.

[cursedarrows]

[. . . What do colors have to do with anything?]

And they are some form of animal people?

[Let's forgive Ashitaka. He's not from around here.]

1/2

[guerrilla_morph]

[ Marco is just going to stare at you for a second. ]

2/2

[guerrilla_morph]

No, dude, that's just what you call Canadians. The people of Canada?

[ Except for the part that Marco completely made up the word moose people on the spot. He's unique like that. ]

[cursedarrows]

[What is with this word "dude?" What does it even mean?]

[Meanwhile, actual moose people would somehow be more reassuring at this point, believe it or not. Thus he sounds disappointed.]

Ah.

I am not sure Canada exists at home, so I am unfamiliar.

[guerrilla_morph]

I'm sure no one knows where Canada is on the map where I'm from.

[ He says this dryly. ]

[text]

[theshortestbird]

What is it you want to do?

[text]

[guerrilla_morph]



You know


I like the American route. Not the blowing up stuff, I hate to get killed, but the sit ins. Protesting buses. Something.


Which reminds me. Why haven't any newcomers years ago been vocal? That's what I don't get.

[text]

[theshortestbird]

You know that a lot of people got hurt during those, right?

Maybe the ones who would say something weren't around then.

Re: [text]

[guerrilla_morph]

well yeah
but that's preferrable than a war zone.

You sure about that? Surely the Core burped a few in the past decades.

[text]

[theshortestbird]

Who said this was a war zone? I've seen those and this place is not one.

I'm sure it brought people back then, but that doesn't mean they're here now, or that they care enough to fix things.

[video]

[rapturescreed]

[Just. So much eye-rolling. Seriously.]

I'm always surprised by those who can talk so much, and yet say nothing.

[video] sorry for the wait!

[guerrilla_morph]

[ eye rolling right back! ]

Amazing how the point . . .


you failed to see.

[video]

[rapturescreed]

No. You failed to say.