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[luckyescape]

[The video flicks on and Freya's smiling happily at the screen.]

Hello boys and girls, we have a great program for you today. It'll include fun topics like: why you should NOT use glitter on the 14th floor of the communal housing, how to make a model using a lot of glue and we'll throw in a little bit about forces and how they work. Let's tune in with our co-host for more information! [The picture blurs and then Lockon appears in focus with glitter... everywhere.]

Don't be alarmed that our co-host looks like a stripper. That's his night job... not his day job/

[Lockon shakes his head, which of course just makes the glitter stuck in his hair more noticeable, and chuckles.] Actually, my co-host here decided that since our model is supposed to be in space, there needed to be stars. And threw the glitter. [He's standing next to said model which, in all honesty, looks like a grade five science project.]

You brought the glitter.

To apply carefully to the model. Which is not me, by the way.

But you're so cute with glitter! Look at you shine. I can't look away because you're so pretty Neil.

Hey, only my brother gets to call me that!

How about I call you honey or snoochums?

[Lockon grumbles.] Honey is fine. [Is he blushing a little? Why, yes, yes he is.]

Great! So, kids or whoever our raved viewers are, you'd like to know about how this model works right? Honey? Want to explain the space elevator?

Right! [Lockon clears his throat and tries to look like he isn't shimmering at every angle. He gestures to what looks like a papier-mâché Earth. The oceans and continents are painted on in rough approximations of their shapes. It's a little lumpy for Earth, but it's not like they had a globe they could just modify!]

As you can see, this is Earth. Here, here, and here are the orbital elevators that lead from the surface into space. [Three long spokes, that look like they were once hangers, stick out from the model.] On the Earth I'm from, we use solar power and these three elevators are the key to harnessing it.

For those kids who don't know, solar power is energy that is collected from the sun! [She flashes Neil a smile.] Tell us honey~ where do these elevators go? what are they used for?

They're the support structures for these, [He points to the two rings, which were also once hangers, around the model Earth.] They also serve as a means of transport between the surface and space. After all, someone has to maintain the equipment in space right?

Right. So what do people do in space Hoooooney.

Maintain the equipment that provided solar energy to Earth. Let me add the disclaimer now: I'm not a scientist of any sort. This is the sort of information you'd get on the documentary on the ride into space.

[He pauses, giving a serious look to the camera, before turning his attention back to the shoddy model. ] This outer ring, the high orbital ring as it's called, is home to the disks that harness the sun's energy like... solar panels. Where the ring intersects with the orbital elevator there's a high orbital station staffed with personnel to protect and maintain the function of the disks.

There we have it! Thank you for tuning into today's session of WE HAVE GLITTER! See us next time

[Freya flashes another flirty smile and then the screen goes black.]

[ooc: Actions are open for floor Communal Floor 14. For video's let us know in the subject if it's for Freya, Neil or both. If it's for one of them and it isn't private, the other might chime in! BLUE is Freya & GREEN is Neil.]

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(action - for Freya, obv)

[lockonstratos]

[ Well, there's no denying he's going to have glitter in his hair for the foreseeable future. The mess made from the papier-mâché is mostly contained, but the paper scraps and glitter are everywhere. ]

I don't suppose there's a vacuum up here?

(action - for Freya, obv)

[luckyescape]

[SO MUCH GLITTER.]

I don't think a vacuum can save us.

This is all your fault. [Freya points a finger at him.] Just so you know. All your fault. Why did you think glitter wouldn't end up with you in glitter.

You're so pretty in it.

[lockonstratos]

You threw the glitter. I think that makes it your fault.

[ He's teasing, mostly. It's not like he's upset about it, though he does feel bad for the residents. As much as he and Freya try to clean, they people living here are going to find little shimmers here and there for a long time to come. ]

I was thinking more like... we could put on the Earth or paint a backdrop with the glitter to look like space.

[luckyescape]

[Freya pauses a little too long while trying to come up with a retort.]

My hand slipped. [It's not at all believable.

She flashes him a warm smile and then leans forward to brush some of the glitter out of his long hair.] It's seriously everywhere. I have no idea how this happens with glitter. It's worse than sand!

OH! That would have been a really good idea. Do we have more glitter?

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[warnotlove]

[Does he look amused? He looks amused. Orion might not have actually been paying attention to the actual broadcast.]

Better him than me.

[No, that is not an invitation, Freya.]

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[lockonstratos]

Careful, you just might give her the idea to start carrying it around with her. She's sneaky like that.

[luckyescape]

[Freya is happy to see Orion's reply. She'd been kind of hoping he'd toss in his 2 cents.]

Awww, but I had you in mind for the squeal. [She looks over at Neil with a smile.]

I wonder which of you would look better dosed in glitter. It was supposed to be the stars.

[warnotlove]

[At her response he laughs.]

Oh, I don't think so! I might be named after stars, but you can keep your glitter to yourself... and your friend there.

[warnotlove]

Who gave her the idea? Speak for yourself, man.

[luckyescape]

The idea has been given!

Thank you both!

[She'll do a little bow on the screen to both of them for that one.]

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[holds_up_walls]

So, we're honey now are we?

Also glitter? Seriously?

[lockonstratos]

It was for science, Lyle.

[luckyescape]

Do you think Honey is too sweet of a nickname for him?

[ALL IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE!]

[warnotlove]

"We"? Are you guys like a hivemind or something?

[A pause.]

I mean, normally I'd just assume twins but then I remember weird futuristic alien world, so the technology is possible, right?

[holds_up_walls]

Well, actually you'd correct with the second assumption. The guy covered in glitter is my twin. Supposedly identical, but I don't see it.

[Yes, he's making his own joke about it]

I guess it was more of a royal "we" than me being in his head.

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[breqintopieces]

Aside from the insight into glitter, I presume the lesson and the model were education about the technology and structures used in other universes?

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[lockonstratos]

Something like that. I wasn't prepared for teach an audience great than one. Have you seen Freya pout? It's hard to stay no to that.

[breqintopieces]

I have not. The model was initially for Freya, then?

un: wolfgirl579

[luckyescape]

[Rude, there are a lot of universes and they all don't have space elevators. Though Freya's fairly sure all universes have glitter because there are assholes everywhere.]

In one universe anyway.

It's not like there where I'm from, just Lockon's place. I think it's pretty cool.

[breqintopieces]

I personally have heard that shuttles and stations are more efficient. I agree that it is interesting, though.

Maybe even more so than public service announcements about the dangers of crafts.

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[mutant_messiah]

[...]

I'll never get back the time that I lost watching this.

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[lockonstratos]

In my defense, this whole thing was only supposed to be for her. I didn't have a lesson plan or anything like that.

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[mutant_messiah]

Don't think a plan would have worked.

[If it helps.]

[luckyescape]

Yes but you did watch it and that's what matters to me.

[No one would be able to guess that Freya is in her late twenties by watching this train-wreck of a video.]

[mutant_messiah]

Well, at least it wasn't me getting the shiny end of the glitter bomb you let off.