And now for something completely different

[failgoyle]

Okay, so I've been spending a lot of time in Liminal since every time I go out, I get harassed by wind spirits...

...but I think I just lit upon something really awesome while hiding in the Workshop!

[What follows next is a musical interlude played on computer parts.]

Comments

[failgoyle]

I am not even going to stick up for my grandma, man, she was the worst cook ever. Only no one would tell her this.

[haremtrap]

Family can be awkward like that.

[failgoyle]

I'm...um. Helping more by staying in here. Out of the way.

But I can definitely get you from there, yeah!

[helborn]

Okay. I should be there soon. I'll give you a... uh. Call? Thought?

... I'll grab you on the network once I'm there.

[Action]

[tailforbrains]

[Because Greece (Acaia, whatever) is boring and messy right now, and this is more interesting than a magical boat (how that happened, she has no idea), Neeshka decides to visit liminal space and see this thing in person. She pops up into the Workshop and explores until she finds where he's hiding.

Not hard, given the noise. And the first thing she has to ask is obvious, really:]

Okay, so, what even are those?

[failgoyle]

Tell me about it. Mine was...I guess dysfunctional's a good way to put it?

...I wonder how they're doing now. I haven't seen them in a long time.

[haremtrap]

Sounds...

[like a polite way of saying totally fucked up.]

...rough?

[failgoyle]

[Jules jumps a little when he realizes she's right there, and he looks back at her before gesturing at the drives.]

Floppy drives! They're old, and outdated, and not really floppy, but you can make them do stuff they're not really intended for.

[failgoyle]

Sure, sure, do that! I'll get to a good spot!

[failgoyle]

...that's a good way of putting it, yeah.

[tailforbrains]

Yeah, you gotta get more basic than that. I'm from the land of elves, dwarves, and demons. What's a floppy drive?

[failgoyle]

"It's...uh...a really old way to store information on little tablet-things, only the storage units were pretty noisy and outdated, so I'm making them make noise instead." Nailed it.

[haremtrap]

This is starting to get weirdly personal for a conversation that started with singing floppy drives, so, uh...

Good job dude.

[tailforbrains]

Did you just make them? Don't you have to be pretty advanced in liminal stuff to make things that... complicated?

[She crouches down for a closer look at one. It looks pretty complicated, all right-- more complicated than any machine from her time, anyway, though she's seen worse when Traveling in modern times and beyond.]

[failgoyle]

Well, yeah...but I know this sort of thing inside and out! I took stuff like this apart and put it back together all the time when I was a kid.

[failgoyle]

That. Uh...that's probably some kind of record, yeah...

[Kind of depressing. Curse you, Winter Court tendencies.]

...I could make them play something else?

[haremtrap]

Sorry, I meant good job with the floppy drives. No sarcasm.

But yeah make them play more songs.

[tailforbrains]

Even with the tail and horns and stuff, you come from a time with this kind of machine?

[That's curious. Most of the non-humans seem to come from a time more like hers. If not exactly hers, in the case of the Drow.]

[failgoyle]

Oh, sure, sure, let's see...

[He fiddles with something else, and a different song starts playing.]

[failgoyle]

Well, yeah.

[There's a long, awkward pause.]

I. Uh, I didn't always have the tail and the horns. That...kind of just happened when I, um, got taken by the True Fae...

[haremtrap]

Okay wait.

This sounds familiar...

Oh shit this is that one stupid Korean song that was really big a while back!

[tailforbrains]

Like. Fairies?

[Neeshka looks skeptical, even holds up her hands and makes little flapping motions at her shoulders, like little fairy wings. Because true fae are probably closer to elves, in her world, albeit elf sorcerers or something... the "fae" she's met were more along the Tinkerbell type.]

[failgoyle]

Not like pixies or little tiny cute pop culture fairies!

Faeries. Like every single fairy tale omnipowerful magic witch or monster or whatever kind of thing you can think of, only worse.

[failgoyle]

Yes!

Yes, it is.

...Maria likes it, so I figured I'd get this one programmed, too.

[happyhalloween]

Papa once showed the network me dancing to it! It was before he was my papa. He adopted me after Newport.

[In the sense that he'd been her papa in Newport and then afterward she'd still treated him like her papa and called him that and he hadn't stopped her. But you know. It wasn't like she'd had a father before.]