The Wayward Vagabond (mannerly_mayor) wrote in marinanova, @ 2012-09-15 23:43:00 |
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Entry tags: | angel(us), bruce banner, dirk strider, madoka kaname, wayward vagabond |
[video | action] [backdated to late afternoon]
[the video turns on to a close-up shot of a few pieces of colorful chalk lying on a black road. Then a small hand, its black carapace smeared with color, reaches into the frame and picks up the piece of blue chalk. Then another, equally smudged hand takes the communicator and picks it up, and the video bounces and sways as the communicator is set on the edge of a nearby bench. As the frame is adjusted, the side of a building comes into view:]
[it's covered in a chalk drawing of a blue sky, drifting white clouds, and rolling, chessboard-patterned hills dotted with low, spreading trees and patches of bright green grass. With no black chalk available, the artist has had to improvise: the black chessboard squares are really a fuzzy purplish rainbow of several colors, blended carefully into something a bit like black, but at once much more interesting.]
[the frame is adjusted a little more, enough to bring the artist himself into view, too: WV, a short, black-carapaced alien with a smile on his round face and nearly every part of his person dusted with chalk.]
Denizens of Marina! Greetings, and good afternoon. I am the Wayward Vagabond.
[with that out of the way, he continues:]
What unexpected good fortune this is! I had never thought to seek out this particular medium before—not for a very long time, that is, until today. Perhaps, for once, our machine wardens have shown sense, for I can attest to the therapeutic benefits of chalk! I sought it out once before in a time of dire misery—oh yes, most dire, indeed.
[he blinks. It's a pretty cute blink; his eyes are bitty and quite widely-spaced.]
I trust everyone who has thus far made use of it can attest to such benefits, as well!