public channel, partway through day 77

[kingsroads]

[ The radio comes on mid-conversation. Or seems to. Now what careless carnival worker could have let their thumb slip on the button today? ]

--time like the present. [ Lambert’s voice, light and mocking, is instantly recognizable. ] Don't be shy now.

I need time, [ Jonathan Strange, the other part of this conversation, responds with a little huff. ] You can't expect me to craft a perfect apology on the spot like this.

Doesn't have to be perfect. [ The witcher drawls, with exaggerated patience. ] Apologies usually start with 'I'm sorry.'

Which is only half the apology. Again, I'll need some time to decide what I'm going to actually say.

What's there to decide? [ And, for those who actually know Strange, what follows is a slightly falsetto yet uncanny impression of the magician’s snobby English accent, though it’s pitched a little whinier than the real thing. (No, it’s just as whiny as the real thing.) ]

'My name is Jonathan Strange and I'm dreadfully sorry for freezing the Carnival for a day. Won't happen again. Carry on!' See? Easy.

[ Somewhere in the background, a Haunter is laughing at Lambert’s impression. Strange, however, is VERY put out and starts to whine. Lambert has him pegged. ]

I don't sound a thing like that! Besides, you're one to talk. How many people know you're the new Nightrider?

You're right. Should have thrown in a couple of peninsulas to make it really authentic. [ There’s a pause, before he adds, like an afterthought: ] You're the first one I told.

[ You know, no big deal. Strange pauses for a moment before changing the conversation entirely. ]

Look, just give me your radio before you manage to accidentally muck it up. [ Strange is teasing, but there’s still a bit of a serious tone underneath his words. ] You didn't know what it was the last time we talked, I'm not entirely certain you know how to work it in the first place.

Little late for that.

[ There’s a pause: about as long as it takes for someone to realize a magic walkie-talkie has been on this whole time. Aaand then post ends with just the sound of a scuffle breaking loose as Strange desperately tries to grab the radio and salvage his dignity. All throughout, Haunter’s still laughing like an idiot in the background. At least the radio turns off before the Carnival’s further subjected to these two morons, though not before someone’s foot goes right through a crate and bodies hit the floor. ]

[ ooc: Lambert and Strange are idiots, news at 11. ]

Comments

[amusicaladventure]

Yeah, and that raises a whole bunch of questions when you're looking at his tail and not mine!

[Good thing he's taking this in the spirit it's intended; Ash isn't gonna stop.]

[whattaprick]

Maybe he likes them scaley, not furry.

[ And so the shit-givng continues. ]

[kingsroads]

You're all just completely ignoring the married aspect, aren't you? And, for the record, Arabella is neither scaley nor furry.

[ Strange really is just that easy to tease ]

[amusicaladventure]

But which does she prefer? [Asking the hard-hitting questions here.]

[whattaprick]

Considering who she married? [ Crazy is the obvious answer, but ... ]

I'd say "messy."

[kingsroads]

My trailer's not accurate of how things are run back home, you know.

[ after all, back home (or at least the back home when he was with Arabella) they had servants. Whoo hoo classism! ]

[amusicaladventure]

Oh okay. He's definitely scouting you for the sexy threesome then. As we all know, I am exquisitely flawless.

[Ash has no shame at all, as they should well know by now. Of course, in this conversation, shame is just a hindrance.]

[whattaprick]

[ Absolutely a hindrance. But if they go much longer to get into weird dead wife territory, so Lambert's going to leave it simply at sighing with faux regret. ]

Well, since I got the promotion, Strange isn't up to my standards anymore.

[kingsroads]

I doubt I would be up to your standards in the first place! After all, I sleep too late and hog all the blankets.

[ said as if blanket-hogging is somehow a factor in threesomes. ]

[whattaprick]

[ In a voice that's all faux comfort: ]

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find someone else into that. The Carnival goes to all kinds of worlds, after all.

[amusicaladventure]

[No one has ever mentioned the 'dead' part to Ash.]

Wait a minute, what's wrong with sleeping in?

[kingsroads]

[ Strange is keeping the whole 'I thought my wife was dead but turns out she's stuck in faerie' thing a secret because coping is for losers. ]

At least where I'm from, one's seen as lazy if they sleep in for far too long.

[whattaprick]

[ Everything resembling human emotion: definitely for losers. ]

And watching someone sleeping just doesn't do it for me.

[amusicaladventure]

You're totally losing major creep points saying that, you know.

[kingsroads]

Can't we make fun of the fact that I hoard the blankets instead? That's... [ a LOT LESS CREEPY ] Well, I imagine that's a personality flaw no matter what world you're from!

[whattaprick]

I'd be a hypocrite if I did. [ Lambert switches tracks without a beat. Yeah, he's an unrepentant blanket hog. ]

[amusicaladventure]

Ditto.

[Yup.]

[kingsroads]

We should probably ask the Acquisitioner for more blankets then, just to keep our poor trailermates from hating us even further.

[ let's give it up for Team Hogging The Covers. ]

[whattaprick]

That's the perk of getting promoted. I don't have to share.

[ Sharing is for plebs. ]

[amusicaladventure]

No one shares my bed. [Sulk, sulk.] And I'm not so bad I'm dragging blankets from the other bunk yet...

[kingsroads]

[ yeah, Strange is that bad, SORRY LARS.... ]

We are in a world of Pokemon. Perhaps you can find yourself a new pet to cuddle with?

[ he 100% knows that's not what Ash means by 'sharing the bed' but that's never stopped actual teasing. ]

[whattaprick]

Now there's an idea. As long as it's not something that would burn down a trailer...

[amusicaladventure]

Well I'm TRYING to catch a giant rock snake so we can have a snake-charming act for the carnival. Not very cuddly.

[kingsroads]

How giant is the giant snake in the first place?

[whattaprick]

Charming a rock? Now that's got to be quite the performance.