[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

[video]

[hero_for_fun]

Wow you're green.

[nyehehe]

Astute observation, clod! How does that help me?!

[hero_for_fun]

I dunno...

[Saitama ponders her problems and comes up with one answer. Just one.]

Oh! Currency is what you buy things with.

[nyehehe]

...

[Peridot glared, damn near vibrating with irritation.]

Why would I need to 'buy things', whatever that means? Does that help me get away from here?!

[hero_for_fun]

...

It doesn't.

[nyehehe]

Then why did you bring it up?! Argh, you're useless!

[hero_for_fun]

Hey, you asked!

[nyehehe]

I- Mmmm! That's beyond the point. I need to figure out how to get off this planet. Failing that, I need to contact Yellow Diamond! There has to be some some kind of communication hub I can use, something better than this stupid 'videophone'.

[She stamped her foot and nearly toppled over.]

[hero_for_fun]

I dunno how to leave, everyone says we can't.

[Not that he's been trying very hard. It all seems as unreal as things did on Earth...]

Who's Yellow Diamond? Friend of yours?

[nyehehe]

Yellow Diamond is one of the leaders of Homeworld! [She said it like he should have known already.] She's intelligent, logical, the best of the Diamonds! But, argh, that still isn't important here! So there's no warp pads, fine, I can still do something. What about communication? What star system are we in?!

[hero_for_fun]

Uhh...

No idea, sorry.

[nyehehe]

I- I- I really don't like you.

[youfool]

Hey, a chance to be helpful! As Mr. Balderson had answered one question, he'd take the other.

"A 'child' is a member between birth and full growth. You can also use it as a pejorative, which you might need once 'clod' wears out."

[nyehehe]

Peridot felt her Gem might crack from the sheer frustration of this. She stared at the screen in disbelief, was this really what she could expect? The Steven gave her better answers than people on this planet.

"So it's some sort of insult...?" She paused. "Child!"

[youfool]

"Hah, well done! Now all you need to do is find a youth, and you'll have known every facet of the word." Then again, given her eagerness to try out naughty words, maybe it's best to keep children's ears virginal.

"As for your more pressing question of how to leave, I could give you an answer, but it's largely theoretical, and dark besides. You may be too delicate for it, and others may be too courteous to offend said delicacy. Are you positively, absolutely desirous for it?"

[nyehehe]

"I don't care about whatever a 'youth' is, tell me about this way off this planet!" The video feed wobbled as she gestured wildly with her free hand. "That's what I need to know, how could I be too delicate for information I need! Mmph! I am more than qualified to handle any information you provide."

[youfool]

"I wonder if you do need it; for all we know, your presence may be very necessary for some great and good work here, in which case your exit would be awful.

But if not, then here: my best guess.

If you want to leave, then you need only fall to despair. Typically by becoming disinterested in everything. Once you completely, absolutely tire of this existence, it will tire of you, then away you go."

[nyehehe]

"...How can I 'fall into despair' when I'm focused on doing just that?!" Ugh! She hated this planet almost as much as Earth already. This didn't make any sense, nothing did. Even the the answers for the questions she didn't care about were meaningless! "Why should I care about any work for this cruddy place? The only 'great and good' work I do is for Yellow Diamond and she's not here!"

Peridot was going to be so, so bored if she didn't escape quickly...

[youfool]

"It's an answer, though I didn't say it was a good or agreeable one. By all means, don't take that path out. The only other way is to become a mystic sleuth; one who can pierce the great mysteries of the world. None have quite managed it, but who knows? You might.

Ah, so you're a servant. A rare trait; it seems most are too proud for that line of work. But what should you do if Ms. Diamond isn't here? Because, if you're anything like most, you're about to have a lot of time to think about ultimate purposes."

[nyehehe]

"A servant?" Peridot was bristling, how dare this whatever-it-was talk to her like this! "I am no pearl! I am a valuable member of Gem society, I was even given such an important mission as- er, the Earth mission. I mean I had to get an escort and an informant and a ship... But that wasn't because I'm not an exceptional peridot!"

"What will I do?!" She faltered, suddenly unsure. "I will- I can- Mmm! I don't know. I don't know but I can and will contact her and she'll rescue me. Maybe she even has a task for me here! I don't care what happens to 'most', I am better than them!"

By the end of her frenzied ranting, she looked desperate for her own words to be true.

[youfool]

Ted's eyes perked up the more of her world's idiosyncrasies were told. Careful, or Ted will poke and prod about that place until even its own inhabitants grow bored. "I don't understand. All the work you do is for a certain person, and you are not their servant? What else, then? Are you not serving them? You seem very fixed on doing nothing else.

Ah, does Gem society have castes then? And I suppose Pearls are part of the lower? What functions do they serve?

Ah, I come from Earth! Or at least a similarly named sphere. What mission was so vital there?"

Ted did soften, trying to be comforting at her panic. "I know how hard it can be to be separate from hierarchy and normalcy. Maybe it might help to..." His eyes went to the side, looking thoughtful. "...use your imagination? If Ms. Diamond were here, what sort of work might she have you get up to?"

[nyehehe]

"I am- Pearls well- Urgh." Peridot had to pause and collect her thoughts, the floating fingers of her free hand each several feet from where they should be. She willed them back into place as she calmed down. As calmed down as she was going to get while this agitated.

"A pearl is a servant, they're useless and just, you know, hold things. I am a technician! Not only that, but one proficient enough to be assigned to a mission to check on the progress of a massive geoweapon!" ...Should she have shared that? Did it matter here? She looked uncertain. "The Diamonds are the best and smartest of Gems, why shouldn't I do what they want? It only makes sense!"

She huffed.

"I don't have to rely on my imagination, I just, er, need time to think about this all logically. The most practical course of action is, um, is- it is uhhh to, to determine the value of this planet! Yellow Diamond will be very pleased with my progress if I can gather sufficient information on this horrible-annoying-weird planet."

[youfool]

His eyes widened as her fingers floated freely, looking amazed and pointing. "And what's that? Do Gem digits come apart so easily? Is it telekinesis?"

Ted laughed. "'Useless servants'? It's a wonder they're still employed, if that's their estimate. And all they do is 'hold things'? Gem society invented bowls, I expect." He looked slightly more concerned, but no less curious about her mission. "A geoweapon? I've never heard of such a thing. Something capable of destruction on a planetary scale? An on Earth, no less? Why was it there?" By now it was clear Ted would never stop till she produced an encyclopedia. He appreciated that despite her annoyance, she was still so willing to talk. Very engaged, she. Very enthusiastic. But most were upon their first arrival. Once the shock wore off, would she still have any life, or drift away like so many others?

So she did what this Diamond person wanted out of, if not service, humility and natural deference to superiority. Seemed a difference without a difference, but it satisfied for now. "Ah, you have your mission: the fulfillment of curiosity. What a coincidence; it's mine too! And nearly everyone else's in all likelihood. Say, how adventurous are you? If even a little, I think I can help you do it, if only a little."

[hero_for_fun]

Aww, come on, that's not fair. You don't even know me!

[nyehehe]

I don't want to know you!