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[There is an octopus sitting in the town fountain. He's white as the inside of a clamshell, curled up in the smallest corner he can find. It takes him a few minutes to trust the world enough to cautiously slip up to the surface and crawl out of the water. His new wings flick away droplets of water, causing him to shuffle around to get a glimpse of what's attached itself to him.]
What?
[It's bone and muscle and feathers, and it's none of the things an octopus should have. A delicate tug indicates they can't just be yanked off. Hermes spits out a jet of water and turns back to see where he is.]
...what.
[This is not Chicago. It's not even the parkish bits of Chicago that he's seen out of car windows. This is all wrong. Hermes switches from nervous white to irritated yellow, his tentacles curling.] What. Where? What? What?! [Where is his apartment? What put him here? What is with the wings? What what what what.]
[VIDEO]
[Hermes has chilled out and returned to a comfortable woodsy brown. He's sitting on the rim of a filled bathtub, with the screen propped up on the lid of the toilet.]
Have apartment, but apartment insufficient for octopus. Furniture and movers required. First requirement: tank. [He moves his tentacles to indicate a rectangle shape.] Large fishtank. Also hose and pump for emptying and refilling. Bathtub leaks out drain, is located inconveniently.
[Hermes gestures to himself. If one compares him to the tub for a sense of scale, it's obvious that he's only a foot high.] Cannot carry by myself. Food, toys, also need in future, but tank is largest. Will trade goods or services for tank and tank-moving. Make offer.
[There is an octopus sitting in the town fountain. He's white as the inside of a clamshell, curled up in the smallest corner he can find. It takes him a few minutes to trust the world enough to cautiously slip up to the surface and crawl out of the water. His new wings flick away droplets of water, causing him to shuffle around to get a glimpse of what's attached itself to him.]
What?
[It's bone and muscle and feathers, and it's none of the things an octopus should have. A delicate tug indicates they can't just be yanked off. Hermes spits out a jet of water and turns back to see where he is.]
...what.
[This is not Chicago. It's not even the parkish bits of Chicago that he's seen out of car windows. This is all wrong. Hermes switches from nervous white to irritated yellow, his tentacles curling.] What. Where? What? What?! [Where is his apartment? What put him here? What is with the wings? What what what what.]
[VIDEO]
[Hermes has chilled out and returned to a comfortable woodsy brown. He's sitting on the rim of a filled bathtub, with the screen propped up on the lid of the toilet.]
Have apartment, but apartment insufficient for octopus. Furniture and movers required. First requirement: tank. [He moves his tentacles to indicate a rectangle shape.] Large fishtank. Also hose and pump for emptying and refilling. Bathtub leaks out drain, is located inconveniently.
[Hermes gestures to himself. If one compares him to the tub for a sense of scale, it's obvious that he's only a foot high.] Cannot carry by myself. Food, toys, also need in future, but tank is largest. Will trade goods or services for tank and tank-moving. Make offer.
[Voice]
Date: 2012-11-17 10:16 pm (UTC)In a way Robert is not actually too surprised about this. Cephalopods, even on Terra, are quite intelligent. But still, an outright sapient, who can vocalize - that, that is new. That is very new, actually.
Some pang of memory shoots through him. The residential dirigible jellies would love this one.]
... I am a-afraid that... such provisions may be, er, d-difficult to attain...
There is an o-oceanic environment in Luceti, though it is... r-rather expansive. And... I am not so c-certain your journal would... be very usable there...
[Yes, he talks a lot, Hermes. Sorry about that.]
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Date: 2012-11-18 01:23 am (UTC)[Journal shmournal, it doesn't even have internet access.]
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Date: 2012-11-18 02:22 am (UTC)Luceti... is n-not known for being particularly... accomodating to its... non-human sapient r-residents...
... Unfortunately, this... o-often leads to situations in which we... are l-left to our own devices to procure some... sort of s-substitution. Though, perhaps one could... m-make an argument for your case...
[After all, if this octopus is that small, it shouldn't be too hard to spare a single tank, right?]
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Date: 2012-11-18 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-18 02:56 am (UTC)Ah, w-well... [That's actually a good question.] Have you considered asking the M-Malnosso directly?
Or, er, have you... even been i-introduced to the concept, yet? [Because perhaps this person is a very recent indictee.]
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Date: 2012-11-18 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-18 07:41 am (UTC)The M-Malnosso are those responsible for your... i-indictment into this facility. Though it is not c-certain specifically what their protocol is on why, it is... e-evident that they have less-than-scrupulous ethics and... a p-penchant for very strange and sometimes-distressing manipulation of us v-via Shifts, the n-name used for spontaneous alterations of... the e-environment both inside and outside of the enclosure in various fashions...
... In t-truth, though they are... difficult to trust, I would... s-still advise requesting them. At the very least, you m-might be able to obtain information on... when to expect s-supplies for such a tank to be... constructed.
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Date: 2012-11-18 02:55 pm (UTC)How request?
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Date: 2012-11-19 02:17 am (UTC)Or maybe not. Robert's just long-winded regardless.]Generally, one... u-uses the journals to contact any of the Malnosso, though... it is i-impossible to know if they will respond...
[He knows it's not that helpful, but he honestly can't tell Hermes much more in the way of specifics. The Malnosso are capricious as anything.]
In the interim... p-perhaps something can be done as a temporary m-measure...?
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Date: 2012-11-27 03:17 pm (UTC)/hideously late tagback, yep.
Date: 2012-12-21 08:27 am (UTC)I am... n-not certain how many would make a... s-suitable receptacle, in... in all honesty.
It... b-baffles me, how the Malnosso can... indict certain individuals into Luceti, without... a-any particular method of sustaining them properly...