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[electro_kinetic]

The streets of New York City are an interesting place. You can see anything, and sometimes that anything includes--depending on your particular version--blue-haired mutant girls in semi-professional clothes. (It'd be more professional if not for the blue, the half-cornrowed hair, and the silver gauntlets, but you do what you can. Or you do what you want to and the rest of the world can deal with it, if you're Nori.) And usually, having come in from these surroundings, Noriko finds the bar a pretty calming place, certain additions notwithstanding.

The sparkly pink thing that she's pretty sure she's never actually seen in here before is one of those additions, though. And it's not that she really recognizes it as a karaoke machine as much as she's drawn to it, and takes a couple steps closer. And then when the backbeat starts thudding out, she has the distinct feelings of well, shit and fucking Milliways starting to conflate in her head.

She might be here for a while.

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[hecu_marine]

"....fuuuuuck."

It's been a while since Shephard's seen that happen to anybody other than the blue and black indigo alicorn princess.

[electro_kinetic]

Well the good news is that she is at least good at rap, and doing so clearly and so fast it's almost a pattersong. And there's just something about her doing it that's ind of entertaining, truth be told. Even if the look on Noriko's face says if someone doesn't turn the box off she will kill it so dead.

So very dead.

[hecu_marine]

Yeah, Shephard's just, uh... he's just gonna...

THUMP.

Hopefully it responds to being hit very, very hard on the power button with a metal fist?

[electro_kinetic]

Luckily for them both--and potentially the whole bar--it does, and Noriko drops onto a barstool and takes a deep lungful of air.

"Can you hit it again?" she asks. "'Cause that'd be nice."

[hecu_marine]

"Sure, for what good it does," says Shephard. "Fuckin' thing's magic as shit. Generates its own fuckin' special effects, too."

He hits it anyway. Nori did ask.

[electro_kinetic]

"Nobody thought to put up a sign, or what?" she asks, giving it a distinctly dstasteful look.

[hecu_marine]

"Fuckin' thing ain't always here," Shephard says. "Reckon if somebody put a sign on it, it musta dumped the sign last time it disappeared. It was outside at that beach party a whiles back, I know that much."