[text] Self Improvement

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif, uncharacteristically, has left a text post instead of filming himself with the camera out of focus or too close to his face or with a thumb over the lens. Weird. At least the complete lack of capitalization isn't surprising.]

so how is everyone's training crap going?

just curious. no reason.

by the way, you know that thing the flash can do where he uses his speed powers to go through walls? total bullshit.

ps: some of you are new, and i want to know what your deal is. do we have anyone who shoots eye lasers yet? that would be awesome.

(OOC: This is dated to after the mission. Preemptively declaring I do not mind if you threadhop each other to talk about training or w/e as long as the other player involved is cool with it!)

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[whyarewehere]

what is with you guys and assuming i go around running into walls???
i just looked at this from the theory!

[thethinzooline]

if you're looking for the specific reason why people would assume you'd run face first into a wall, the reason is everyone thinks you're not that bright.

[whyarewehere]

i am so insulted. my feelings are so hurt right now, nick. it's almost like i care what you think about me as a person!

what can you do anyway? you didn't tell me and i officially think that counts as holding out on me.

[thethinzooline]

eye lasers.

and i have superstrength.

and i have superspeed.

and i can go through walls.

basically i can do everything.

wanna see?

[He is totally 100% dicking with you, Grif. 100%]

[whyarewehere]

i know everyone is jumping on me about being a bad liar (which i'm not!) but you are definitely the worst liar ever. of all time.

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[thethinzooline]

[He actually undertakes the effort to go to the Habitat Deck. It's a lot of effort, moving, but for this level of screwing with someone, it's worth it.]

[When the video flickers on, he's wearing his sunglasses. He sets the omnicom up on a rock, steps back so that he's fully into frame, then takes off his sunglasses and puts them in a pocket.]

[Eye beams shoot out of his eyes, cutting down a tree. He catches it with what looks like superstrength and tosses it away like it's nothing. Then he zips around at superspeed, phasing through a large boulder and out the other side...]

[...or at least it looks like he did. For the purposes of screwing with Grif. It's a very convincing illusion -- it even has all the proper kzzzack noises and everything.]

[He leans against the boulder, takes the sunglasses out, flips them open, and puts them on his face again.]

You were saying?

[He's not denying that he is a liar. But he's definitely trying to make a strong case for being an excellent one.]

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[whyarewehere]

[ Grif's end is silent for about 40 seconds or so. ]

okay that was pretty cool.

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[thethinzooline]

isn't it though?

[Totally cool.]

...or it would be if I'd actually done any of that. My power's creating illusions.

fooled ya.

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[whyarewehere]

what? oh my god you are such an ass!

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[thethinzooline]

nope, wrong taxonomy, pal

canidae not equidae

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[whyarewehere]

alright robinhood, if you're so smart here's a question for you: what good's your thing gonna do us?

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[thethinzooline]

robin hood? what kind of insult is that? that doesn't even make any sense.

and how about it can cover your sorry tails with some kind of cover up illusion when you're trying to make a tactical withdrawal?

invisibility?

making it seem like there are twenty of us going into a fight when there are only, say, five?

making it so our opponent sees the wrong people attacking them and gets confused because our abilities don't match the illusions?

making it seem like we've lost to throw an enemy off so we can take them down?

i can get get real creative

"what good is your power that can make us completely invisible?" he asks. for someone whose power is speed you're awfully slow.

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[whyarewehere]

that's great and all, but you know what i can do? i can run. really, really, really fast. i'm gonna punch all these guys in the face before you can do any of your shenanigans. it'll be excellent.

and dude, you've never seen robin hood? please tell me you were five years old once. and that they make cartoons where you live. otherwise that's just sad.

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[thethinzooline]

i'm sure you will be able to defeat every single enemy before everyone else

absolutely positive

and yes i've seen robin hood but i have no idea why you think that's somehow associated with me. you're not making any sense.

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[whyarewehere]

he's a fox. it's a joke see because there's one talking fox in human pop culture and that's robin hood.

you're sure you've seen it?

[headinjuries]

There's way more than one, though. Didn't you ever play Sonic the Hedgehog?

[whyarewehere]

no?

[headinjuries]

Why not.

[whyarewehere]

i played good video games when i was a kid.

[thethinzooline]

please tell me you don't have hedgehogs and foxes confused. We're really, really very different.

[headinjuries]

No, I get that, the hedgehog is just the main character. But his sidekick is a fox.

[thethinzooline]

of course it's the sidekick.

i'll assume he's a rowdy comedy sidekick that steals things that the hero has to keep in line?

[thethinzooline]

that seems completely arbitrary.

robin hood isn't usually played by fox actors back home. or animated as a fox.

because foxes get terrible media representation.

[whyarewehere]

i'm just saying robin hood is a fox and you're wrong. i bet we could dig up a copy. i like how this space future seems to agree with me on stuff.

[thethinzooline]

all that does is make it a very narrow pop culture reference that's true back in your universe and maybe here. that still means nothing to me.