- VIDEO - live from the Vault House -

[kickeminthepistons]

[[OOC: This is a joint post. Denim-blue is Gaige, orange is Krieg, and black is Zer0.]]


[The video feed turns on, and there's a face that's too close to the TAB. Not, like, straight up against the eyeball, but close enough that you can only see the face: green eyes, red hair, a little bandage on the cheek. Her mouth scrunches up thoughtfully as she backs up, looking at something behind the TAB for guidance. An unseen cameraman. Come to think of it, the feed is bobbing up and down, like the TAB is sticking to something floating. She backs up enough that the camera can see her in all her punk rock glory, and the interior of a fancy tree fort. There's very little in it, and very little concern for what gets thrown where.]

Okay, that should be good, right? [The cameraman doesn't answer. She finally looks straight at the camera.] Awesome. So! Okay! Hello, to all my soon-to-be-subscribers! You don't know it yet, but I'm about to become your favorite it ECHOcaster-- or, well, um-- they said this was a TAB, so maybe-- TABcast? Whatever, I'm going to be your new favorite talking head on your comm devices.

[She keeps talking quickly, with the kind of nerves that channel any stage fright into adrenaline:] My name's Gaige -- I'm a major league pro Vault Hunter and gadgeteer extraordinaire -- and this is a behind-the-scenes look at my fun-filled life of shooting up bandits and monsters for fun and profit. [A pause, before she adds,] … eeexcept maybe they don't have any bandits here? Whatever, we'll find SOMETHING that needs to be blown up, and then YOU will be close enough to the action to--

[MEANWHILE, this lanky ass helmet wearing noodleperson drops in behind Gaige. Like literally, he just drops down from the ceiling. Maybe there's a hole in the roof, maybe he was doing some spiderman shit, like who even knows. He manages to land without making a sound because ninjas are slick that way. Once he realizes that Gaige is recording something, he promptly starts heading for the nearest exit. He doesn't want to interrupt, but mostly he doesn't want to end up all over this network thing.]

[UNFORTUNATELY for the lanky ass noodleperson, he runs right into a giant slab of towering muscle shaped more or less like an extremely stacked human man. His exit is inconveniently blocked, and also rudely called attention to, when the shirtless individual's gaze drifts from his little ninja buddy to his little anarchy pal.]

IT'S RUDE TO LEAVE WITHOUT SAYING HELLO!

[He has a voice like a freight train with volume control to match. Does he know he's interrupting Gaige's ECHOcast? It's likely. Does he care? Not at all.]

Hello.

[So much for sneaking out unnoticed. Hopefully the hurried and slightly irritated greeting is enough to appease the shirtless muscle stack, because that's all Ninja McSneaky is going to say before trying to duck around him to make his escape.]

[Unfortunately, Gaige hasn't just been talking through this commotion, and gets one cybernetic hand on his shoulder before he can get away from the camera.] I think Krieg's got the right idea. Why don't you introduce yourself, Zer0? Name, age, sex, five-page backstory, all the good stuff that you've been holding out on.

[To help out - because he is a very helpful guy - Krieg puts his hands on Zer0's shoulders, spins him in place to face the camera, and then takes one of the assassin's skinny noodle elbows in his hand and manipulates the limb to cause Zer0 to wave at the camera.]

And don't forget to smiiiiiiile!

[Oh, there are no smiles. There is a holographic " :| " projected in front of Zer0's faceplate, though. Close enough, right. He is not on board with these shenanigans okay.]

I'm very busy. / Perhaps I'll have time later, / Though it's not likely.

[He's just going to let Krieg waggle his arm around for a moment while he makes a shooing motion at Gaige with his free hand. FUN IS OVER]

[Gaige gives an office stare at the camera.] Sooooyeah. That's Zer0 in a nutshell: Man of mystery, dork of no-fun. [But she grins after, with a faint hiss of a laugh -- he's a friend, so if he's not going to join in the fun, then she's having the fun at his expense.] And over here -- Deathtrap, point it up a little higher, you're probably cutting off like half his face right now -- over here, we have Krieg, who makes up for Zer0 by shouting about nipples. These two guys are like my partners in crime!

[Krieg absolutely takes that as his cue to laugh - a loud, raucous, vaguely unhinged sound.]

MnahahahAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! NIPPLE SALADS!!

[As for Zer0, he has nothing to add to any of this. He just silently glances between Krieg and Gaige, a red ". . ." blipping up in front of his face plate. Sigh.]

All right! So, since this is the first TABcast, how about Krieg and I answer some of your viewer questions? And we can probably force Zer0 to help, somehow.

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[ryuuzaki]

[That was quite something, yet "Ryuuzaki" sounds unimpressed -- unenthused, even. It's not personal. In any case, his voice is low, calm, and if you recognize the accent, British.]

Why don't you tell us more about where you've come from?

[still doing the video feed]

[kickeminthepistons]

[Hmm! She nods as she listens, like she oddly appreciated that question. She does like a good accent even if "British" is not what jumps to mind when she hears it. Maybe he's got the whole old timey gentleman shtick going on, too?]

Yeah, all right! I mean, if you want to talk about where I'm originally originally from, that would be Eden-5, which is--[she interrupts herself with a giggle of nervous laughter]--which is probably a nice place, if you've got the money to buy your way to the top.

But the three of us are all fresh off Pandora, land of opportunity. And by opportunity, of course, I mean psychos, slag pits and bullymong piles.

[voice forever but that's cool!]

[ryuuzaki]

Bullymong?

[The slightly raised eyebrows of curiosity are evident in his tone.]

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[brokencode]

[To anyone else, this might sound like an absolutely manic clusterfuck. To Angel, this is her friends. And these are the friends she positively beams at the second their post comes across on her TAB. The last time she'd seen them all together, it had been for a much more traumatizing occasion. Good then, that they were getting on well in this newer, perhaps happier locale.]

I am glad to see you are all settling in well. Zer0 especially.

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[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

[SEE Zer0 can think of a thousand other places that he'd rather "settle in" to, most of them involving sniper rifles and/or explosions, buuuut Angel seemed happy so he was just going to keep that to himself for now.]

Sharing living space / Presents it's own challenges. / I'm not used to this.

[Traveling around Pandora with these clowns had been one thing. They were usually fighting shit, and fighting shit is fun. He doesn't know about this whole long term housemate thing, but he does enjoy a challenge, Soooooo yep.]

[brokencode]

Well. You have always enjoyed a challenge. I look forward to seeing how you tackle this one. [She spoke seriously, but there was a grin on her lips and a wobble in her voice, the likes of which only seemed to come out when holding back a laugh.]

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[fuelthefire]

[Oh, Angel, if only you knew...!]

He's still a wet blanket stick-in-the-mud!!

[And now she knows! Perfect.]

[brokencode]

And you are just as loud as ever, Krieg. [Another laugh, sweet despite her criticism.] I've missed you dearly.

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[grandpaladin]

[well, Reinhardt is amused, at any rate. He's sitting back in his chair, applauding.]

Welcome! Welcome to the planet, my friends! It is a pleasure to meet you!

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[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

[Well this seems like a happy guy. Zer0 gets over his crankiness and flashes this enormous dude a smiley face. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY]

Such heartfelt greetings, / My spirit has been lifted. / The pleasure is ours.

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[grandpaladin]

Oh! Look at that!

I can make those as well!

[So he'll switch briefly to text in order to send a :) of his own.]

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[fuelthefire]

[Wow that is one large, large man.]

I see meat muscles!

[...Krieg wants to fight him.]

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[grandpaladin]

... and I see you.

Hello.

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[redshitlord]

Whoa!

Where'd the robot dude come from! How'd he do that? Was he up in the ceiling?

[Sideswipe, asking the real questions here.]

'Cause that was awesome!

[kickeminthepistons]

Robot dude? [It takes her a moment before--] Oh! You mean Zer0?

I don't think he's a robot. I mean, I don't know he's not a robot, but he's all vague and mysterious about it. Could be an android, could be an alien. Right now, though, my bet's on three midgets in a cybernetic suit.

[BECAUSE THIS IS THE IMPORTANT TOPIC AT HAND, NOT ZER0'S SWEET STEALTH MOVES.]

[redshitlord]

...

Wait, hold on. I wanna say that's really cool but I gotta ask, dude.

What's a midget?

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[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

[So Zer0's not going to really reply yet, he's just going to peek in over Gaige's shoulder while she's chatting with Sideswipe and flash him a heart emote for the compliment. Damn right it was awesome son.]

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[redshitlord]

Whoa! Hey dude!

[Of course he notices. And then he's making one of those hearts with his fingers right back at Zer0.]

Sweet helmet.

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[shiro2hero]

[This was all kind of amusing, and nice to see popping up on the TAB for once, instead of the usual kinds of introductions.]

[Up until Krieg's little addition there at the end -- which surprises him into fumbling not to drop the TAB. Thanks, one good hand.]

... that's. Quite the entrance.

[kickeminthepistons]

[Good hand? That had better mean that the other one is the really awesome hand.]

[Speaking of, she's talking with her hands a bit now, waving her own cybernetic arm around for the camera to see.]

Thank you, thank you. We'll be here all night.

[shiro2hero]

[Well that's. A surprise, to say the least. And actually puts him more at ease, surprisingly enough.]

I'd give you a round of applause, but... it'd turn into more of a 'one hand clapping' thing.

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[inconsequence]

[Text involves distance, that which they sorely require. Particularly now.]

Inform your "number" that I find myself able to relate.

[still on video!]

[kickeminthepistons]

[Gaige is gonna use this chance to try out the Text to Speech function of her TAB. The message gets read aloud in a computerized voice.]

So... another member of Zer0's cryptic people club? I mean, I'm guessing. It's a little hard to tell because -- you know. Cryptic.

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[notglitching]

First: inaccurate.

[As far as Rinzler can tell, publicizing their glitches is most of what users do with this feed.]

[still video YOU CAN'T CONTROL HER]

[kickeminthepistons]

[The text-to-audio function reads this one out, too.]

Uh, yeah it is? I mean, he first TABcast of this feed, obvs.