[video] Checking In

[whyarewehere]

[ It’s that time again, gang! Grif’s broadcasting from scenic his room. You can tell it’s Grif’s room because it is an absolute disaster area. There’s all kinds of empty containers strewn everywhere, a pizza box, his other uniform (it’s rumpled and in serious need of a wash), and scattered bits of an orange suit of armor. Of note to those who’ve born witness to this appalling scene before, the far wall has a shiny little plaque on it. That’s new.

All of this is visible in the frame because Grif’s slouching back in his chair with the comm propped up on his desk. He’s a scruffy, somewhat flabby guy swiveling his chair lazily to and fro with one leg while eating… something as he talks. With his mouth full. Because Grif. ]

Alright guys, it’s come to my attention, as the one who tries to keep track of this shit around here, that we have new people. And when we have new people, that means we have new superpowers to figure out how they work.

[ Because clearly, clearly Grif is the only member of the team to take an interest in others and what they can bring to the table. It’s not that he’s nosy and just wants to know if anyone has eye lasers yet. He just gives and gives for this group, he swears.

Grif deigns to swallow before he continues. ]

So: New people. Lay it on me. Who are you, and can you do anything awesome? If it’s not awesome, make it sound awesome, cause that’s what I’m here for.

I’ll start for you:

[ He thumbpoints at his chest, getting space twinkie crumbs everywhere because he’s using that hand. ]

I’m Grif, Doubletime if you want to be that nerd who uses my code name, and I’m pretty much the fastest thing on this ship. Which is awesome.

[ He pauses for a moment, then adds, ]

…And the rest of you should probably come say hi? Tell them stuff? And tell me about the mission because I was stuck back here babysitting the ship and I mean... I took a lot of good naps, but...

[ He shrugs. Then he finishes off the space twinkie, balls up the wrapper, and throws it over his shoulder where it lands on top of the orange helmet. He is not even remotely concerned by this. ]

((( This is a free for all mingle post! Grif will reply to everyone who responds, but if you want to have a character jump into a thread with anyone you are absolutely welcome and, in fact, encouraged. This is set after the end of Lantern Plot, so characters who've been away on that are able to tag in too. )))

Comments

[whyarewehere]

They'd probably beg to differ.

[leverageintceo]

They beg less than you'd think. Mostly they just look surprised and offended that the terrible things they've done have come back to destroy them.

[whyarewehere]

[ He'd make a note to himself not to piss off Parker, because her dedication to retribution kind of frightens him, but he made that note early on when they had that conversation about hitting people. ]

What did they take from you, anyway?

[leverageintceo]

[Her codename is 'Payback', it's kind of a thing.]

All the rings I took off of bad guys. And the orange ring that came to me when the bad guys had me in their creepy fear huts. I didn't even steal that one, I just found it.

[whyarewehere]

That's probably a good thing. You know. Considering I'm pretty sure some of those were making people puke flaming blood.

[leverageintceo]

I wasn't wearing them, except the orange one, and that one didn't make me puke flaming blood. I just had them, and I put some in my pockets.

[whyarewehere]

...I thought orange was one of the bad colors.

[ He's trying to remember, it was all a bunch of rainbow nonsense and he didn't have to go on the mission anyway. ]

[leverageintceo]

Ehh?

[Parker shrugs.]

It's not nice. But Kid Quantum explained that the bad guys wanted to take my stuff, so I fought them.

[whyarewehere]

Based on everyone else's mission stories, I'm really doubting it was that simple.

[leverageintceo]

I was using a ring that let me use my greed to make stuff with my mind, and now I don't have the ring anymore. It sucks.

[whyarewehere]

Please tell me they at least threw them in a volcano?

[leverageintceo]

Why would they throw them into a volcano? They weren't the One Ring.

Also, making that reference probably makes you a nerd.

[kingtyrantranger]

Grif is one of us.

He always has been.

[whyarewehere]

Again: Seeing movies everyone has seen doesn't make you a nerd.

[kingtyrantranger]

There's a movie?

[whyarewehere]

...Jason, you haven't seen The Lord of the Rings.

[ He's mock-horrified. ]

This can't stand.

We're going to the goddamn space library effective immediately.

[iamresponding]

Grif, you're gonna go to the circle of nerd hell that has all the deceivers that lied about being giant, giant nerds in life.

[whyarewehere]

I still think you guys' definition of nerd really needs dialed in.

[kingtyrantranger]

For someone who hates being a nerd, you're pretty dedicated to nerd-dom.

[whyarewehere]

Movies are not nerd things, dude. Lots of people watch movies.

[kingtyrantranger]

You were the one calling us nerds for making movie references!

[C'mon, Grif.]

[headinjuries]

There were like six, because apparently the new thing in Hollywood is to drag everything out for as many installments as possible.

[kingtyrantranger]

Are they any good?

[headinjuries]

They were cool at first? By the fourth one I kinda stopped caring, though.

[kingtyrantranger]

I can understand that. I've never really seen a movie that needed more than maybe one sequel. Maybe three in a series, if it's good.

I saw the last two Rocky movies when they came out, and they weren't as good as the first two. If Rocky can't pull it off, I don't know why anyone would bother.