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[alformthearm]

Hmm.

[Sitting in his room with a certain seedpod on his desk, Alfor squints at the label that had been wrapped about it before setting it aside. With a pair of tweezers he extracts one of the small seeds from within the pod, holding it up and turning it this way and that.

And then the seed abruptly slips and goes flying, eliciting a gasp from the Altean king as he drops the tweezers, eyes tracking the seed's path as it goes pinging off of the wall and then-

Alfor's eyes widen as there's an explosion of vines that come surging from the side and abruptly fill the view from the still recording A.C.E.

One can make out the king's arm sticking out from the thick ball of vines, and after the silence has drawn out for a moment or two, there's a very muffled sigh.]

Oh dear.

Comments

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[shiro2hero]

[ARE YOU KIDDING WITH THIS?]

...

So.

Red Paladin huh?

[May as well be Audio]

[alformthearm]

....yes?

[shiro2hero]

I see it now.

One hundred percent.

[He's very quiet for a long, long while. Before he adds:]

You need a hand?

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[forgeabettertomorrow]

I WOULD LIKE TO FORMALLY GO ON RECORD AND SAY THAT I DID NOT DO THIS NOR DID I ENCOURAGE IT.

Out loud.

Where others could hear.

Honestly I didn't even know he had that pod thing but if I had known I would absolutely not have made mention to anyone because honestly what could go wrong?

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[shiro2hero]

...









Are you done.

[Video]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I don't.

I don't have words...for what I'm feeling?

I feel like...

I feel like this is something I would have done.

And I'm kind of glad I didn't? But I kind of also wish I had.

I don't know what this is. Someone please tell me what I'm feeling.

Oh gods this is what it's like to be Shiro isn't it.

[Video]

[alformthearm]

[The fingers of said hand patiently drum against the viney prison. On the one side, he's glad that the communicator seems to have been on, as it might be later than sooner that he would have been found. And on the other... Well. How many people have seen this? Oh well.]

...Darin?

Are you quite done?

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[forgeabettertomorrow]

Pride! That's it! I feel pride! Because this is absolutely something I would have done except there's a solid chance it would have been with fire instead of vines!

Great job, Your Majesty! You succeeded in not exploding everything and managed to only cover it in vines!

[VIDEO]

[patchricide]

[For most of the video, Allura is sitting back and watching with mild interest, like a human might do while looking up neat science videos on YouTube. It's not a bad idea. Documenting flora is interesting enough, but now others can observe and comment and ask questions. That was the intention, right?]

[Then there's the explosion of vines.]

Father! Are you all right?!

[... wait seriously has no one asked this yet??]

[Video]

[alformthearm]

[It's like people expected this to happen or something.

The hand seems to perk up a little at Allura's voice, then waves in what might seem to be an attempt at reassurance?]

Ah, yes- I'm... Well, I suppose I could be better, now that you mention it. I can still breathe, so that's a positive thing.

[VIDEO]

[patchricide]

[True, maybe the team is growing so jaded that they didn't all scramble for the reply button right away — then they might have heard the sigh at the end, and concluded that "oh well everything sounds good, then, let's go brew up a pot of space tea and laugh about it." But Allura, on the other hand, definitely jumped out of her chair when the vines shot out.]

Good! That's a start! [She still looks worried. It might be hard for him to see that, though, with all the vines in his face.]

It's not crushing you at all, then? Should we start cutting away the vines?

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[squadgoals]

[No point in video when he can't see it.]

Are you okay? Are the vines still growing?

What was that thing?

[alformthearm]

Oh- hello? Yes, yes, I'm... Well, a bit tied up at the moment but otherwise fine! I believe they've stopped. It was a short, quick burst of growth, very surprising!

It was a seed from a pod I got when I was in Kaittos. I suppose the wrap around it wasn't so much for decorative purposes as it was a warning label of some sort.

[squadgoals]

[Mysterious alien flora that explodes in momentarily unstoppable vines. Cool. Cool cool cool. Perfect for a space station in deep space, definitely not a problem.]

Do you need a hand? [Both with vines and disposal.] Lucky they stopped when they did.

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[ventifact]

what the frack was that?

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[alformthearm]

[It takes some time but once he's freed, Alfor can now respond.]

A seed! A seed with an impressive accelerated germination process if agitated, it seems.

[ventifact]

no kidding
where did you get it?

Voice

[araignee_du_soir]

Would you like some assistance being freed, Alfor?

[Voice]

[alformthearm]

[The visible hand holds up a finger as he takes a brief moment to match voice to name.]

Ah, Widowmaker, is it? I wouldn't say no to any assistance if it's no trouble.

[Voice]

[araignee_du_soir]

[At least her accent makes her fairly easy to identify.]

None at all. Are you in your quarters? It's just down the hall from me.

voice

[vdova]

Would you say you did this for the vine?

[Voice]

[alformthearm]

...I'm sorry, what?

[vdova]

Nevermind.

Are you alright?

[nahvenger]

+1

[vdova]

thank you ;)