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[thekidsare0kay]

[Exploring is okay, but right now Sollux doesn't really feel like doing that. He's found himself a perch on a broken-down wall with a good view of the island. It's not a bad place. But it's pretty boring with no internet.

Despite the fact that he's sitting up high and one might think he was pondering the mysteries of the universe, or escape possibilities, he's got his phone open and is poking at the guts with a microtool with intense concentration.

Perhaps you'd like to interrupt him?]

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[guiltapalooza]

[Someone she knows and has bonded with, poking at technology? Willow definitely wants to interrupt.

She gives the crumbled wall a dubious look, and ultimately decides to try her luck with floating. A moment later she's lifted off the ground, and more or less smoothly floated herself to where he's sitting, very carefully setting herself down.] Phew. Haven't done that much before.

Trying to figure out our phones?

[thekidsare0kay]

[Sollux looks up and his eyebrows climb as Willow floats up to where he's sitting. He belatedly recalled meeting her, and that she had claimed to have powers, like his, so apparently that was true

At her question, he smirks.]

No, I've figured out the phoneth jutht fine. I'm trying to fikth the phoneth.

[guiltapalooza]

Fix them to do... what? [she asks curiously, assuming from his smirk that he means something beyond the standard 'fix'.]

They seem like normal phones to me. Granted, I'm not much of a hardware girl. I had to repair the Buffybot one too many times that summer.

[thekidsare0kay]

Fikth them to allow inthtant methhaging, and like, maybe thome kind of intranet. [Yup, he's ambitious. He is also internet addicted] Tekthting ith okay, but it'th not the thame.

[guiltapalooza]

[Mild surprise.] Setting up the instant messaging at least should be pretty simple, but do we really need an intranet with so few of us here?

[thekidsare0kay]

Of courthe we need an intranet! How elthe can KK bullshit in memoth for our univerthal entertainment? Not to mention share information about thith fucked up plathe in real time, inthtead of tranthmitting it one-to-one in a big game of telephone, corrupting the methhage inevitably until the latht guy hath to go "what, did you thay you found an octoputh in your pantth?"

[guiltapalooza]

Okay, that's a good point about sharing information. I guess I'm used to there being so few of us in the group that info sharing is more like chatting over lunch.

... I could probably provide some coding backup if it isn't more complicated than like a BBS thing. [She makes the offer tentatively, as if she's not sure he'd have any reason to be interested.]

[thekidsare0kay]

For me, I barely know how to talk to people fathe to fathe. [He shrugs and smiles self-deprecatingly at this confession] You know ~ATH?

[guiltapalooza]

Hey, I think you do just fine! [Her reassuring smile fades into a slightly worried look. What if different universes meant totally different programming languages?] But uh, no, I've never even heard of that. Is it like C?

Hope this works

[eldritch_princess]

[Cordelia, on the other hand, was still exploring. Her clothes were a rather odd choice for doing so, but they did not seem to encumber her all that much.

In particular, she was exploring the path leading up to a broken-down wall, whereupon she spotted Sollux. She closed the distance, the other person didn't seem to be a shadow, after all, and probably was just another abducted person she hadn't met yet.]

Greetings, I don't mean to intrude, but I spotted you and-

[All of a sudden, her right hand flew to her mouth as she spotted how Sollux actually looked like.]

What in the heavens are you?!

[So much for politeness...]

hahaha

[thekidsare0kay]

[He looks down at her as she addresses him, his four horns quite visible against the sky, no doubt. At her exclamation, he snorts and gets to his feet, deliberately jumping down from the high wall to land not far from her.

His eyes spark with electricity, his body limned in blue and red light as he catches himself with his telekinetic abilities. In a moment, he's landed light as a feather. He grins, showing off a mouth crowded with about twice as many pointed teeth and fangs as it should have.]

I'm a troll. And you're a rude human, did I get it right?

^^

[eldritch_princess]

What-No! I'm sorry!

[Cordelia caught herself from the surprise (never having seen someone with horns before...other than grossly mutated things, that is) and waved both her hands in front of her, as a assuaging gesture.]

I apologize, I didn't mean it like that, I just never saw a ... a troll before in my life!

[thekidsare0kay]

[His grin shifts to a less threatening smile. He nods and shrugs, raising his own hands]

Well, that'th no big deal. Tho yeah, I'm a troll, a mutated one, but thtill.

[eldritch_princess]

[The smile, oddly, hadn't threatened her much - nor the abilities he had shown - as she was used to magicians. Still...]

Mutated...?

[Well, probably in a very, very, very different way than her, that's for sure.]

Uhm, we didn't have a good start, due to my blunder, for which I really am sorry. My name is Cordelia. I'm a ...new arrival.

Are you a troll mage, then?

[thekidsare0kay]

Yeah, motht trollth you thee won't have ath many hornth. Among other thingth that are methhed up about me.

[He shrugs again]

I'm Thollukth Captor. Uh, Thollukth with an eth...

Actually, I am a mage. Mage of Doom, to be prethithe. Which bathically meanth I'm badathh and deprethhing and will probably die horribly thometime thoon after I get out of here. Are you a mage, too?

[eldritch_princess]

Really? Well, I don't think the horns are too bad, I wouldn't call them messed up. I was just surprised originally.

So you're Solluks? Nice to meet you. I'm a kind of mage, yes, but nothing as special as your kind, I think. [Which, technically, was a complete lie.]

But I sure hope you won't die horribly, if you know, I'm sure something can be done to prevent it, right? [That part she meant, and wasn't a lie.]

[thekidsare0kay]

[He shrugs] Well, I don't know about that. But I'm here inthtead of there, and that'th going thome wayth towardth giving me hope. Thooner or later I'm sure I'll get out of here, though, and then who knowth?

[hopelessprince]

[Fuck Sollux. Fuck him and his taking Eridan out here and then not wanting to go back to the main area. There was only so long Eridan could spend filling his sylladex with fish before he lost interest, and this was his breaking point.

He clambered up to face Sollux, scowling.]

You wwon't get another w-one if you destroy that w-one, this isn't the fuckin' City. I wwant my husktop back. This place is shitty an' primitivve an' you'vve been out here wway too fuckin' long.

[thekidsare0kay]

Wow, ed, don't hold back. Tell me how you really feel. [Sollux captchalogues his phone and tools before Eridan can do something to them, then prods him with a foot] You think you want your huthktop? Why do you think I'm fucking around with thethe shitty phones?

[hopelessprince]

It doesn't matter how advvanced you make the fuckin' thing, you still wwon't be able to do anythin' useful wwith it. It's not like there's a Netwwork.

[thekidsare0kay]

I'm planning on uthing the phoneth to create a local intranet. Tho we can create bulletain boardth and contact the whole network at oneth like the phoneth we had in the Thity.

[He scoots forward and reaches for Eridan's fin, tugging lightly] Why are you being tho bitchy today? Or ith thith jutht foreplay?

[hopelessprince]

[Eridan's fins flutter slightly, and then he balances himself up to precariously sit with his knees up to his chest on the wall.]

It's just so fuckin' borin' here. Like S'Grub, only less interestin'. ... I guess it could be foreplay, if you wwanted.

[thekidsare0kay]

[He laughs softly] If I wanted? Don't be tho enthuthiathtic. I can't take it.

[He grabs Eridan's legs and tries to tug them down straight] It'th weird living all in the thame room, don't you think?

[hopelessprince]

[Eridan unbalances slightly, has to brace himself with a hand, and then lets Sollux pull his legs down.]

That's another thing about this place. I had all manner a' rooms back in the City an' I'm down to only w-one. Not that I'm complainin' about havvin' both a' you in the same pile, before you go an' take it that wway, I'm just sayin' I miss havvin' a whole set a privvate rooms.

[thekidsare0kay]

[Sollux climbs up now that Eridan is situated where he wants him, straddling the sea dweller's thighs and slipping his arms around his neck.]

Yeah, thith plathe thuckth. No video gameth or movieth to watch, no network or huthktopth. No big hiveth to live in, with our own roomth.

...No ship to be alone on.