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Betty McRae (bombsheller) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-06-10 17:55:00

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betty mcrae, dirk strider, elena gilbert, eric northman, helen magnus, martha jones, nikola tesla, piter de vries, rose tyler, spike, xander harris

Day 223 | video - open
[ the feed clicks on, showing a very consternated young woman. and then off. and then on! off! on! off! betty has no idea what she's doing, but there's a switch and she's flipping it back and forth angrily because she can't tell whether it's on or off and didn't pay as close attention to her welcome speech as she should have. ]

Stupid, bloody -- [ off. on. ] -- piece of -- [ off. on. ] -- even is this -- [ off. on, steadily now that she's taken the damn thing off and looked at what she was doing. that helps! but now she looks like she's about to cry and is trying very hard to be stiff upper lip about it. ]

What kind of prison gives you some comic book gadget, anyway? [ she takes some deep breaths now that the battle of the weird head thing is over. deep and calming, leading to an awkward pause as she realizes just what was on that list of crimes. now she's afraid and offended. ]

You know, that list of crimes is a bunch of bunk. If they think building bombs to stop Hitler is a crime then they're a bunch of Nazis!

[ probably (most assuredly) not the best first impression, but the feed clicks off again before she has a chance to fix it. ]

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genius
2013-06-11 02:51 am UTC (link)

[ QUICK, SOMEONE CALL IN RIVER SONG TO EXPLAIN THIS. ]

Churchill? [ have a laugh. a good, hearty laugh. ty for that, he needed a good chuckle after how much the past two days have sucked. ] What a blowhard. Man was all bark, no bite. Eisenhower, though — now that was a man of good, planned action.

[ ...well, that's certainly a first. he's skinny guy in a vest, does he look like a jailer to you? ]

No. I'm a fellow prisoner, much like yourself.

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	video; bombsheller 2013-06-11 03:17 am UTC (link)
	[ betty would spend her time arguing in defense of churchill and god and country and all that, about as fiercely as she'd defend the toronto maple leafs, but there is something far more disturbing than all that to react to. ] You mean here? They stuck us all together, the men and the women? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; genius 2013-06-11 06:27 am UTC (link)
	In case you haven't noticed, this isn't exactly Huntsville. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-11 06:28 am UTC (link)
	[ this guy is really getting on her last good nerve. he might not be acting like his own one man burlesque revue, but still. ] Listen, poindexter. You're in here the same as the rest of us, so don't peck at me like I don't know up from down, okay? I'm not stupid. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; genius 2013-06-11 06:29 am UTC (link)
	Did I say you were? Well — I might've thought it, but I didn't say it. No, that was you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-11 06:31 am UTC (link)
	You've sure got a way of making a person feel like it. [ this whole situation is upsetting, on top of it. betty takes a few breaths, biting back the urge to just go shove him around to get all this frustration out of her. ] If you have to make me look like a dolt just try and say something useful when you do it, eh? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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genius
2013-06-13 08:55 pm UTC (link)

[ he might've been heralded for how much of a gentleman he was during the turn of the 20th century when he was present at a variety of social functions, whether he was in attendance with jj astor and his young wife (and that annoying little dog of hers), or on his lonesome for business purposes -- but those days are long over. he's too bitter, too lost to the times and a lot of himself to be the kind of gentleman he once was. capable of and wanting to are two entirely different things. and if nikola tesla doesn't want to do something, well... ]

Very well. You're caught up in a pocket dimension, a middle grounds on some alien world. Think of it as a dimensional purgatory, where all sorts of worlds and timelines converge. Quite fascinating, if you discount the whole imprisoned part of the deal.

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bombsheller
2013-06-13 09:43 pm UTC (link)

[ woooooosh. most of that flies right over betty's head. apparently, being a farm girl from saskatchewan who makes bombs doesn't prepare you for understanding interdimensional space and time travel or the prisons therein. not that she isn't trying, though. it just takes her a little longer to reply. all she can figure for absolute certain is that this is nothing she can fully comprehend, and that's more scary than being in jail in the first place. ]

So we're underwater in space...

[ the wheels are turning, nikola. they've just got a limited range to move in. ]

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	video; genius 2013-06-16 08:19 am UTC (link)
	Yes and no, but close enough. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-16 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	Guess that means we don't get visitation days, either. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; genius 2013-06-17 06:30 am UTC (link)
	You'd be correct. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-18 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for the notice, poindexter. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; genius 2013-06-18 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	The name's Tesla. Doctor Tesla. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-19 03:47 am UTC (link)
	[ she does not recognize the name at all. ] Betty McRae. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; genius 2013-06-20 06:53 am UTC (link)
	...don't tell me, you have no idea who I am. You're from the 1940s and you still don't know who I am. [ sorry, he's a little frustrated by that. happens when you get completely jilted by the history books when you're pretty much responsible for ushering in the modern electrical age. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-20 08:54 am UTC (link)
	Am I supposed to? [ farm girl. from saskatchewan. learning about the intricacies and betrayals of the history of the modern electrical age weren't really practical studies, okay? ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; genius 2013-06-20 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	I invented the radio, so yes. You're supposed to. [ marconi was a cheapskate and a hack. just like edison and westinghouse. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-21 02:12 am UTC (link)
	[ she gapes for a moment. ] Seriously? They stuck the inventor of the radio in prison? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; genius 2013-06-21 02:18 am UTC (link)
	And alternating electric current, plus a number of other patents I still have to my name. [ he can work with this. ] I'm afraid you'll find Thing 1 and Thing 2 don't have much respect for justice, or a good grip on the law. They've imprisoned mere teenagers for skipping class and jaywalking. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	video; bombsheller 2013-06-21 04:25 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I'm noticing that... [ still, though. he invented radio. doesn't that earn him points, or something? ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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