This is all Amanda's fault :I

[manipul8trix.livejournal.com]

There is entirely too much trauma on this space station lately. Which means it's time for the

Broken Elevator Meme!

...Yeah.

• Your character is riding on an elevator when - oh no - it breaks down and stops! How unexpected.
• Oh look, someone else is in there with them. How about that.
• That elevator isn't going to move until your thread amasses at least ten comments. MAYBE MORE.
• Commence arguing/going stir-crazy/making out to relieve the tension/all of the above.
• Agree to never speak of this again (and just use the stairs in future).

To achieve the correct atmosphere for this meme, I highly recommend these tracks. HAVE FUN~ :B

Comments

Clearly we just have to make it happen in game.

[theuserabides]

[The only constant in all your dissatisfying relationships with electronics is you, Grid.]

Well, this one's dead. I'll show you how to do it with mine, so you'll know for next time.

[Flynn takes off his wearable and goes to switch it out with Grid's ruined one.]

Grid can stalk him and call him saggy.

[dismembers.livejournal.com]

[ Grid hisses quietly and momentarily tenses. Relaxes. Hisses again.

She's not keen on what is clearly an Inferior Male messing around with this technological bs so close to her, but her own ability to use these things is, uh, mostly limited to smashing it until it goes on or off. She's just smart enough to know when to suck it up and let someone help.

...She's still grumpy about it, though. ]

FINE

show

She's so charming.

[theuserabides]

[Flynn would be really insulted to be categorized as "inferior" by what amounts to a sulky seven year old in the universe's ugliest alien body--oh wait. No he wouldn't.]

Awright. If you want to make a call, you turn it on and get the holomenu.

[He demonstrates, tapping the wearable. See? Easy!]

The most lady-like.

[dismembers.livejournal.com]

[ She'd sulk more but suddenly there are glowing things on the screen. Grid's head slowly tilts to the side as she focuses in on the source of the moving light. ]

make call

Well, for a xenomorph, she pretty much is.

[theuserabides]

This is the call icon.

[He points it correct one out.]

Go ahead, touch it.

[dismembers.livejournal.com]

[ Her mouth opens and the inner jaw shoots out at the display--only to abruptly stop halfway and disappear back inside. Using her mouth was what got her into this trouble in the first place, right?

Veeeery carefully she raises one huge, two-thumbed hand and pokes at the indicated shape on the screen with a claw. ]

[theuserabides]

Good job!

[Does positive reinforcement work on xenomorphs? Whatever, Flynn's still going to try.]

This is Delta.

[He points out another icon. Delta's in his Contacts.]

Touch that one to make the call.

[dismembers.livejournal.com]

[ Hey she's only like six months, treating her like a five-year-old works wonders. Sometimes. ]

glowing triangle ghost

this is

[ Another poke. ]

[alaspooryork]

[Pop! It's your friendly neighborhood Delta.]

Hello! How may I be of assistance?

[...

...

Well, it doesn't look like she's attacking him....]

[theuserabides]

Hi, Delta. Someone wanted to talk to you.

[If Flynn's disconcerted by being trapped in an elevator with an ill-mannered carnivorous alien, it doesn't show.]

[dismembers.livejournal.com]

[ Oh dear sweet xeno jesus it worked. She doesn't have it in her to wag her tail or smile, but she does make an odd rattling sound somewhere in the back of her throat. ]

triangle ghost

am make call

[ c: C: C8 HI DELTA HI YOU REMEMBER HER RIGHT you'd better because she is now totally disregarding the old dude to stare at your leetle glowing self .]

[alaspooryork]

You have done very well, Grid. Would you like to try from your own bracelet?

[He'll quickly send a hotlink to her Contacts page with the glowing green triangle symbol.]

[theuserabides]

That one's scrap, I'm afraid.

[Flynn holds up the toothmarked piece of junk that used to be Grid's wearable.]

[dismembers.livejournal.com]

[ Suddenly Grid's body language is positively sheepish. ]

made too much noise

had to make it quiet

[alaspooryork]

Understood. I will requisition a new one for you, if you would like.

[He'd ask how she even managed that, but he's seen her in action several times now.]

Is there anything else you would like me to assist you with?

[theuserabides]

The purpose of the exercise is to ask you to get the elevator moving again, or so I understand.

[Now that he and Grid have reached a modus vivendi, Flynn's in no rush.]

[dismembers.livejournal.com]

[ OH. Yes. The reason she'd started screaming at the human in the first place. ]

cage not move

want out

stupid loud meat not fix it