[video][mingle post] Show Me Your Moves: Redux

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif is in one of Legion World's lounges. There's a space future pool table behind him, set up for a game. ]

Hey Legion, how's it going?

[ Wait. No. He holds up a hand. ]

Rhetorical question, don't answer that, it's not what I'm here for. What I'm here to talk to you about today is superpowers.

[ He's found his stride, and taken an almost public-service-announcement tone. ]

Do you have strange new abilities since coming to space? Were you just extra cool before the rest of us and nothing changed? Cause I definitely want to know what you guys got in the Time Trapper lottery and please make it look as awesome as possible.

[ He grins a little. Superpowers are the best. ]

For those of you who are new, which is most of who I'm talking to here? I'm Grif. Doubletime if you want to go all codename on me but... Grif. Really. Sometimes I look like this:

[ He scoops a space-age looking helmet painted bright orange off the floor, presumably, then drops it again with a thunk. It's armor, he's not gonna break it, right? ]

And me? I got this.

[ Grif disappears in an orange blur and suddenly, the pool table clears itself in a flurry of indistinct motion. He comes back down from super speed and casually leans the cue against it. If anyone bothers to slow that down, it was an absolutely disgraceful display and he cheated at least six times. Grif is super smug. ]

So yeah. I kind of got the best power already? Sorry.

[ Oh right, there was something else he wanted. ]

And everybody else? Uh. Anything new that's cool? ...Or just tell me how the last mission went for you. I got to go into the past and wrestle Batman and stuff. He's kind of a dick, honestly.

((( This is a free for all mingle post! Grif will reply to everyone who responds, but this also an invitation to threadjack. If you want to have a character jump into a thread somewhere with anyone else you are absolutely welcome and, in fact, encouraged. This is set after Gods Among Us / To Have And To Hold / The Other Mother and before Time Ripples, so it is slightly backdated to give characters a chance to meet the regular versions of each other before the nonsense begins.
If there's anything I can do to improve your dumb Grif-assisted minglepost experience, feel free to ping me at zitasaurusrex.)))

Comments

[whyarewehere]

[ Exactly! It was the worst! ]

Oh. Well, that sucks.

[ He is a veritable font of sympathy. ]

I'd really recommend not having one of those if you can get out of it, but...

[ He shrugs. Grif understands that these things tend to be unavoidable. ]

[thebioticwoman]

Oh man, why didn't I think of that? Thanks, you just saved us a lot of trouble.

[It's amiable sarcasm.]

[whyarewehere]

Hey, sometimes that works!

[ Avoiding issues by preventing them is probably Grif's only good problem-solving skill, honestly. ]

Maybe you could ask Master Chief for pointers. [ He says it like it's the man's name. ] That guy pretty much ended ours by blowing up the whole Covenant armada.

[ Grif is not really one for details. ]

[thebioticwoman]

The Master Chief?

[It's an echo, not a correction.]

Don't know the man very well yet, but based on what I've seen, if he wants a berth on my ship when I go Reaper-hunting, he's got one.

[She is getting the sense Grif is not a "details" kind of a guy, and thus engages with the spirit rather than the letter of the remark.]

[whyarewehere]

If it's Reapers you're after, take Wash too.

[ It's too good a joke not to make it just because Shepard's won't get it. ]

[thebioticwoman]

[She knows enough to recognize an in-joke when one goes flying over her head.]

Gonna have to explain that one if you're expecting a laugh, Grif.

[whyarewehere]

...We have a guy called Reaper here. Two, actually, but he kind of has this thing with one of them. There are boobytraps involved, it's kind of ridiculous.

[ A thing. That's clearly the most eloquent way to describe it.

Grif just grins. ]

Look, it was a really good joke, I promise.

[thebioticwoman]

[Shepard snorts in a way that's almost a chuckle. Jokes are never as funny once they're explained, but given that Grif barely explained it, she can just imagine some kind of Noodle Incident.]

And they told me "Spectre" was in bad taste.

[It's wryly amused grumbling. She's not actually upset.]

[whyarewehere]

Why did you want to go by that anyway? Nothing about that [ He gestures toward his camera with his jaw, to indicate her biotics ] really says "ghost".

[thebioticwoman]

It's my job back home. "Special Tactics and Recon."

[Grif seriously the only thing she is creative about is killing things.]

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif shakes his head, but he clearly finds this funny moreso than tragic. ]

I swear we're gonna have to start having a codename choosing seminar for newbies.

[thebioticwoman]

Hey, I don't have to sit here and take this from the guy who named himself "Run."

[Seriously Grif people who live in military terminology glass houses shouldn't throw stones.]

[whyarewehere]

Hey, mine is a joke.

[ The quality of the joke, however, is highly subjective here. ]

[thebioticwoman]

Yeah, we agree there.

[Different connotation of "joke," you see, haha she's funny.]

[whyarewehere]

Good.

[ Oh, he got it. But by Grif standards, this was all pretty great. ]

[thebioticwoman]

[Sigh.

She puts up with Joker, she can put up with this.]