[Video/Action] Yelling!

[nyehehe]

[Video]

[The video feed starts up to show a blurry green tube of a finger with more shades of green to either side. Peridot's voice is muffled by her clumsy grip on the videophone but she is clearly yelling.]

Stupid, stupid communicator... thing! Rargh! Why can't I be somewhere that makes sense?! Ugh, fine! Here-

[The video feed turns even more green and zooms a few feet away from scowling Gem, held up by a beam coming out of her stumpy 'palm.' Somehow she already looks worse for wear, missing one foot of her limb enhancers, a smudge of dirt on her visor, and triangular hair a mess.]

Grrr, okay! This thing works right? Not well enough to contact Yellow Diamond- [grumble] -but someone can hear me right?! Ugh, I hate this cruddy old tech. I need to find a way to contact Homeworld! I am not getting stuck on another backwater planet! This one better not be about to explode.

There has to be another Gem here, a warp pad, something! If you Crystal Clods are here you better leave me alone! I'll- I'll blast you to dust if you don't! Urgggh, that would be my luck. I bet those- those idiotic clods are behind this. First they stranded me on Earth and now I'm stranded here! None of this makes sense, what's currency? What's a child?!

Rargh!

[Peridot's agitated flailing breaks the beam holding the videophone and it lands on the grass, face down. The screen is dark for several seconds while Peridot can be heard ranting above. When she picks the phone back up, she's realized how to hold it without obscuring the camera and looks more sullen than enraged.]

Ahem. I am Peridot and I demand someone tell me how to get off this horrible- er, uh, whatever! This planet, I want to get out of here!

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[Action] -- chose a location

Peridot can be found limping around, alternating between yelling at harmless objects, hiding from things like rain and loud noises, and pouting. Often she has a floating green screen up to rant at. It appears she is having a very drawn out and very mobile temper tantrum. Her attempts to find a way off Genessia or figure out things like street signs and organic life are not going well.

Beware flailing metal limbs and hurled objects when she's ranting and stomping about.

Comments

[gundesign]

Who's lecturing? I'm just giving friendly advice! [She laughs a little.] Anyway, it's like I said before: you're here for the long run, or at least until this place decides it's had enough of you and kindly decides to let you go home. I don't know if anyone's filled you in on what currency is or not yet, but let me assure you that it's extremely important to have if you want a roof over your head.

[She looks thoughtful for a moment.]

Unless Gems like living outside. It's not like I'd judge or anything! But if you don't want to, you're going to need to get currency. Which means getting a job.

[nyehehe]

...Do I need a roof? What's its purpose? I know what a job is but what's it relation to this currency? I can 'buy things' with it but I don't know what it means to 'buy' these 'things'.

[Peridot was a bright one but she had little to no experience with anything outside Gem tech.]

[gundesign]

A roof is the thing on the top of buildings from the outside, but I was using 'a roof over your head' as a figure of speech. [Maybe... not the best of ideas, now that Tori thinks about it.] I more mean a place to live, you know? I don't know if Gems live inside or not, but I know it's pretty nice to have an inside home when the weather changes.

[And Peridot doesn't even know what it means to buy things? Oh boy, Tori has her work cut out for her... but Peridot did say please like Tori asked, so it's the least Tori can do. Keeping to her word and all that.]

Buying something basically means you're exchanging a certain amount of currency for something else. For example, I'm a tailor here in Genessia. That means I'll make custom clothing for whoever asks and gives me the amount of currency I ask for. [Tori's just going to assume that Peridot knows what clothing is. Peridot's... wearing some, isn't she? That's what it looks like to Tori.] But you can buy a lot of different stuff! Food, entertainment...

[nyehehe]

[Peridot took a minute to consider all this. She only had a vague idea what most of that meant. 'Food' was a mystery she'd figure out herself some other time.]

So... The purpose of gaining a job here is for extraneous things like shelter and appearance modifiers? I mean, shelter is nice but why go through the trouble of assigning oneself to an assignment just for that? How bad can the weather get? I guess this is useful information.

[gundesign]

The weather can get pretty bad. Unless you like water and soft bits of ice falling from the sky, you know? I don't really know much about Gems.

[She sure as hell wasn't aware that on some planet or another, they were sentient. It's actually pretty interesting.]

The newspaper provides weather reports, but you need currency for that, too. Not much, though.

[nyehehe]

Ugggh, I need currency for too much! [Having access to reports could be worth it. Peridot looks contemplative.] What other reports does this newspaper hold? Where can I get one?

[gundesign]

You and the rest of us. [Tori is personally relieved to need currency after living most her life with too much of it. A nice change of pace after a lifestyle she never wanted.] Just wanting a newspaper seems to be enough to get you one most of the time, so you should be set without much effort where that's concerned.

[She wonders if she should mention the Paperboy and his penchant for breaking windows. Eh. For now, she'll focus on answering the other question of Peridot's.]

As for other reports the newspaper has... well, there's quite a few articles covering what's going on around here as of late. They're pretty snarky, but that can be entertaining! Then there's the bounties. Those could help with your currency problem a little. Not permanently, of course, but hey! It's something, right?

[nyehehe]

One of these newspapers better arrive soon if they show up like you say. [She was not going to be happy when the paperboy showed up but that was a concern for later.]

I would like to know what is happening here, so I can avoid it. [She would try at least.]
I don't know what these bounties are but if they're simple enough I could do them I'm sure.

[gundesign]

They come on a specific day. You'll just have to wait until then!

[She has a feeling that 'waiting' is not something Peridot does well, though. ...not that she isn't the same, in the long run, but.]

There's new bounties every week, so I'm sure some of them are simple enough!