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[peektuttut]

So Claudia had this great idea a few weeks ago, and given the lightness of the mood around here lately...Well, we were thinking laser tag would be a great addition to the Barge. I've been messing around with laser weapons, and vests - it's a really basic transmit/receive system - and I might have a few almost finished prototypes.

Would anyone actually be interested in a game? [Slightly sheepish, he isn't sure if he's too old to be asking about laser tag, but laser tag is awesome so shut up doubts.] We could throw in elements of capture the flag, make it really involved. It would be a good way to spend some excess energy, I figure.

[Private to Claudia]

Hope you don't mind I spilled the beans, but I do have a prototype, if you want to take a look at it. It's still really basic. [I.e., feel free to upgrade it. 8)]

[Private to Dick]

Want to watch a movie?

[Private to Sara]

Hey, uh. This is a little awkward, but Dick mentioned running into you during port. Did he seem...himself?

[Private to Luther]

How do you feel about basketball?

[Open spam]

[Usually, Tim would just eat in his cabin. He had his whole apartment in there, and his kitchen tended to be better stocked than the Barge kitchen, especially when they were low on help and they ate sandwiches for days on end. Tim had gotten picky(er) about his food in the past few years, and day after day of ham sandwiches were not conducive to putting on spandex and kevlar and doing backflips.

So normally, he'd keep to his dining room, with his egg whites and his salads, but today he was tired of staring at the same walls, with no one there to eat with. So he headed out in the afternoon, pausing long enough to lock his door (which looked simple as a key in a lock, but really was much more complex than that because Tim is a paranoid weirdo) before heading down the corridor to the mess hall. There he got the dreaded, calorie consuming sandwich, and a soda. He hadn't had a Zesti in way too long, and what they had here wasn't an exact match, but it was close enough.

He picked a table closer to the center of the hall than he usually sat, but kept his back to the emptiest section, keeping the entrance in view. Old habits die hard.]

Comments

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

Yeah, sure. What were you in the mood for?

Laser tag's a good idea, by the way.

[Private]

[peektuttut]

Robin Hood: Men in Tights. [Nope he has a date movie pre loaded. 8)] Can we watch in the common room, though? I've been messing around with the DVD player, and I want to see if it works.

Yeah, well - she has good ideas.

[Private]

[prayformefather]

[Luther is EXCELLENT at pretending to be normal, ty. :|]

It's alright. Why?

[Private]

[peektuttut]

[Pretend harder by NOT KILLING YOUR BIFFLE :|]

I'm bored, and playing HORSE by yourself is kind of stupid.

Private

[psychic_hotline]

Little preoccupied but okay. Not sure he'd appreciate me gossiping. Why?

Private

[peektuttut]

[AND WITH THAT ONE ANSWER Tim has decided that yup, this is a great idea. You are approved to date the brother.] No, he wouldn't, but preoccupied isn't really a good thing with him. [He was going to say 'while vigilanteing,' but. No.]

Did he snap out of it? No more gossiping after this, promise.

Spam.

[an_abomination]

[By now Kon had become a pro at using his t.t.k. to mass produce and serve sandwiches. The lunch hour flew by and he was ready to take his break.

Normally he sits by himself since most people have cleared out by now, but as luck would have it, he recognized a familiar face. He picked up his lunch tray and sat down across the table from Tim.]

Hey Tim, I don't think I've seen you here in...ever, actually.

Spam.

[peektuttut]

[This is why he came out. Not to talk to Kon specifically, maybe, but to hang out with friends. Or...inmates who looked a lot like friends but weren't quite them exactly and he was going to get a headache.]

I have a kitchen in my cabin. I usually don't bother coming here to eat. Conserving food sources and all that. How is it back there? I saw you using the TTK.

[gotgreenmagic]

...

Lightness of mood just screams 'let's try out some simulated violence with experimental lasers' to you, huh?

[peektuttut]

Totally harmless lasers with zero physical contact. Tell me you never played.

Audio:

[i_like_your]

A game?

Re: Audio:

[peektuttut]

Yeah, it's harmless.

Audio:

[childhood_surgery]

Laser weapons...?

Re: Audio:

[peektuttut]

Most are infrared. Even the ones that use actual laser diodes function at less than one milliwatt.

[Private]

[reactivates]

[WELL. She has to peek her head out of research for this.] "Prototype", you say?

[Private]

[peektuttut]

Prototype I say. Want to come check it out?

[flashy_magic]

I'd be up for that.

[peektuttut]

Awesome. I'll make sure you know when we've got a full set.

[ichoosefight]

Yes, yes, and did I mention hell yes?

[peektuttut]

You might have. Once or twice.

Voice;

[insolubleriddle]

[A bored Riddler appears.]

Pit the inmates against the wardens, make it an all out war. No holds barred. Survivors get their own plaques.

Voice;

[peektuttut]

I think you missed a calling in foreign affairs.

[timesbureaucrat]

You're sure no one could modify the lasers into real weapons?

[Narvin is interested, but paranoid. It sounds like the sort of situation where a clever assassin might arrange an "accident" by sabotaging a laser.]

[Private]

[peektuttut]

The power is less than one milliwatt. But I intend to monitor them all carefully, and I'll be distributing and collecting them afterwards.

[ Video ]

[surfaceshine]

I'm so in. [Dean is kind of climbing the walls, when he's not drinking his weight in Wild Turkey anyway, or trying to.]

[ Video ]

[peektuttut]

I had a feeling you might be.

[scentbombed]

...Sorry, could you translate...?

[peektuttut]

It's a game kids play back home. Like a war game, but we don't use it for training. It's all for fun.

Basically, everyone wears a special vest, and uses a special gun - completely non-lethal - and you try to shoot each others' vests. The vests will record each hit taken electronically, so you can compare stats at the end of the game.

[slayage]

I'm in. I basically suck, but I'm in. [HEADCANON STATES THAT SHE WENT WITH DAWN WHEN DAWN WAS LITTLE AND SHE KICKED BUFFY'S ASS.]

[peektuttut]

[LOL DAWN IS JUST TOO COOL FOR YOU BUFFY.] Cool. I'm going to have to work overtime.

[maxwells_demon]

Hey! Laser tag sounds pretty sweet. If I have time I can help ya' out with the engineering of it all unless our aforementioned tech girl genius gets it done before I get to it.

[peektuttut]

She can be quick to the punch. What kind of tech experience do you have?

[trenchcoatedly]

How do you play laser tag?

[peektuttut]

Usually you just try to rack up the most points by tagging one anothers' vests - here, I just explained it to Angua.

[onceandfutureprat]

'Laser tag'? [What are lasers :c]

[peektuttut]

[sigh. :c] It's a game. Here's an explanation.

Private - TWO HOURS AFTER EARLIER CONVERSATION

[psychic_hotline]

Hilarious, kid.

[But she does actually sound like she thought this was all pretty funny, so, yay?]

Private

[peektuttut]

Men in Tights? Yeah, it's pretty funny. [TOTALLY INNOCENT but also kind of loling because he's glad she doesn't sound pissed.]

[doctor_j_crane]

Because inmates need practice at shooting things too?

[peektuttut]

Because inmates can have fun in a harmless game too.

[demigoddess]

[ She's not big on laser tag. She's got nothing against it, but it does nothing for her. ] Count me in. [ Until she has nothing better to do that is... ]

[peektuttut]

[Yep, he knows that feeling really well.] Like you had a choice.