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[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

From here. Aproximately.

"-And then if they hadn't figured it all out by the time the music hit, the Jolly Rodger should have tipped them off. Or at least I'd hope so. If not I'd be tempted to go back there and leave a calling card of some type or another-"

Enter in Laini and Riley, carrying laptop cases and various other assorted techy-type things. Riley's still dressed like a waiter casino technician, while Laini's in a classic Little Black Dress.

Hey, nobody died (on their side), she proved her l33t sk1llz, and they got away. Laini is still laughing and ready to call for Doing It Again.


[OOC: May have to be calling slowtime for Riley right away, but Laini's totally free to talk!]

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[shortofcrazy]

"Dude," says Riley, gleeful. "The Jolly Roger was the calling card.

"The Macarena and 'It's a Small World' mash-up was perfect, for the record." He's walking backward in order to talk, gesticulating wildly.

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Laini beams. "I've been saving that for something special, ever since I found it. It's rather the perfect mix of 'what the hell' and 'argh, make it stop!, isn't it?"

She finds a free table, and laptop case and various other goodies are getting (very carefully!) dropped on it.

[shortofcrazy]

Riley sets his two bags down, one on the floor and one on an empty chair.

"If those two feelings are your goal -- yeah," he says, raising his hand to the knot of his tie. "I'm gonna have to go with 'perfect' as the descriptor."

(He is now struggling with the tie.)

"And the stuff with the screens--!" He momentarily stops choking himself, long enough to shoot Laini an excited, deeply admiring, awed look. "That," he points at her, "was awesome."

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She giggles, and steps over, reaching up to fiddle with Riley's tie. "One of the lovely cases where magic and technology are very similar, as there's not much difference between a hologram and an illusion. Both are manipulating light into doing what you want, right?"

Laini has some skills with ties, or rather, some common sense when it comes to undoing knots. (It also helps when you can see what you're doing.)

"And then the program is about the same thing you'd use if you had physical screens, so." She grins up at him.

"Does that take away a bit of the 'abracadabra, magic' part of it?" With a wave of the hand.

[shortofcrazy]

"What?"

(She stepped in to fix his tie. She is very close.)

"--Yes. Yeah! Yes. Absolutely."

Riley has no idea what he just agreed to.

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Laini blinks, and then giggles, reaching up to tap Riley on the nose. "I could probably show you how to do it, easily."

"Though, right now-" She steps back, glancing around the bar for a waitrat.

"I think drinks were mentioned? Sometime before?"

[shortofcrazy]

"--Yeah, I think they were," Riley says, after a second's consideration. "I thought about proposing marriage for a second, but I decided that would be," he wrinkles his nose, "weird, so I went with proposing drinks instead."

He grins easily at her.

"So," (a little sing-songy), "what's your poison?"

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"After seeing only one trick?" Laini winks. "Wait til you see the rest, then think about it."

"Hm- either anything with coffee and booze, or they have something called a Foxy Lady (http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/376) I tend to be partial to."

[shortofcrazy]

"Wow." Riley somehow manages to deadpan while grinning (you bet your sweet bippie that that grin broadened considerably at Laini's wink and initial comment). It's a talent. "You? Liking a drink called Foxy Lady? Now there's a shocker.

"You got it." There's no immediate waitrat nearby. Riley takes measures into his own hands. "I'll grab those and be back in a -- well, a minute. Maybe not a flash."

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"Absolute shocker, I know."

Laini doesn't bother with deadpan.

"Awesome, and I'll start seeing exactly how our merry, humorless crew decided to pack some of this stuff up for us." She does eye the one duffle she brought to help carry the smaller stuff. Nothing looked broken, but untangling cables and wire?

... Well, its more enjoyable with a drink, to say the least.

[shortofcrazy]

Riley's gone longer than he intended, thanks to an overly-talkative stranger sitting on a stool beside where Riley bellied up to the bar. Every time that Riley thinks he's gotten away, the guy reels him back in, til Riley just finally says, "O-kaynicebeingtalkedatbyyoubye" and makes his speedy escape.

"Clearly, I would have made a really terrible waiter," he says, setting a Foxy Lady down on the table in front of Laini, and settling in with a Heineken for himself. His eyes flick over the duffel. "What's the damage from the heathens?"

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"Oooh." Laini snags the Foxy Lady, and after putting a considerable dent in the amount in the glass, gestures to the computer gadgets on the table.

"Messy, but no damage. Thankfully. Really could have been worse."

[shortofcrazy]

"I was expecting much worse," Riley says, picking up and glancing over a portable credit card skimmer (it's Riley's; only used for good! only ever used for good!), "you know, from all the clattering and the slamming noises. They weren't the gentle team, were they?"

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Someone is watching them with interesting.

He may or may not be a SPY.





He is DEFINITELY a tech geek, though.

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Laini TOTALLY could be a spy.

She certainly is a hacker.

And ALWAYS a geek.

While Riley's off (as the mun is woefully overthreaded!), Laini starts sorting through the gadget cases, since a lot of things got tossed in a little haphazardly-

Well, you pack a bunch of people into a van that was being used for techie HQ, and see how well they shuffle things out of the way to make room to sit down- which is not well at all.

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...Chuck is watching, aghast. "What happened?"

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Laini pulls out an impressive tangle of cords and cables, gives it a Look, then glances over at Chuck.

"I think the Kid decided to be helpful and pack things up while I was giving directions to the getaway driver. Or were you looking for a larger, more general answer as to events?"

With wry amusement, she starts untangling the bundle.

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"You want any help with those?"

He is saddened by the state of those cables. Also helpful.

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With a grin, Laini hands them over. "Though I usually don't except help from cute strangers without a name. That said- I'm Laini."

She offers a hand, now free of cables!

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He places them down on his table for a second so he can accept it. "I'm Chuck. And help is kind of my job."

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"HmMm." Laini nods, looking him over curiously.

"And that makes you... a saint? Or hero, Chuck? Or something I'm missing entirely?"

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He laughs.

"Just a Nerd Herder."

Who saves the world on a weekly basis is getting to detangling those cords.

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Laini blinks at him curiously, hands paused for a moment on a hard drive that looks like a prop from a bastard fanfic movie of Lord of the Rings meets Star Trek.

"... Nerd herder, or a scruffy nerf herder?"

Alas, there's no copyrights to worry about they don't go by that term in her world.

[allstarchuck.livejournal.com]

"Nerd Herder with the capitals. I work at a Buy More in tech support."

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"... Tech support?"

Laini's tone of voice may have been a bit cynical earlier when mentioning saints and heros, but her awed curiousity should more than make up for it now.

"And in a store, even?" She grins, and reaches for her laptop carrier.

"Alright, before I get my hopes up too high, what year are you from, and does this-" The laptop is set on the table- "look like anything you're used to in your world? Because there's some things I'd love to be able to get but figuring out exact straight human tech, specially when it comes to dealing with what would work in one year and another, is getting to be a little bit baffling."

Said laptop is from 2009, and the result of Laini going into the Buy More equivalent in her Earth, and telling the Nerd Herder equivalent 'Impress me. Don't worry about the cost.'