the last voyages // 2. video. no filter.

[tobecaprican]

[ Somewhat less ruffled than the first time he transmitted a video, but only just, Gaius Baltar sits in view of the camera, nursing a cigarette, and looking faintly disturbed. He is also dressed like a pirate, from the elegant open-throated shirt through to gold-buttoned waistcoat. The bandanna has been left to hang around his neck, and there are a couple of rings on his fingers that are somewhat chunky and antiquated.

They glint a little as he takes another drag from his cigarette. It's a self-medicating technique so he doesn't freak out at people over phones again. He's just spent a few days believing he was a pirate, never you mind. When he poses his question, it's quite measured; ]

Does this happen very often?




OOC: I may still pirate!Baltar backtag a bit, but. \ oAo/

Comments

video.

[bestlieutenant.livejournal.com]

Has anyone informed you that bandanna looks ridiculous?

video.

[tobecaprican]

Actually the least of my worries, but I'll take that on board.

[ ...

Hesitates, and then tugs the bandanna off. Pfft. ]

video.

[bestlieutenant.livejournal.com]

The rest is fine. Quite like the shirt.

What happened to you, precisely?

[Someone's been hiding in her room.]

threadjack for great pirate justice

[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't have been ridiculous if it had been on your face where they're supposed to be.

Agent 7272 strikes again.

[truth_is_cold]

It happens enough. At least this time death and sex seemed to not be an issue with our disrupted identities, though that's little consolation.

[Oh, how he hates these identity changes. But.... Pause.]

The waistcoat is nice. [He's a leather man himself.]

[tobecaprican]

You should see the pants.

I fell off've the deck with my warden. I didn't know you could fall off've the deck. There's variations of the theme, then?

[truth_is_cold]

Wildly varying ones. I've been a version of myself on an alternate Barge, an extremely large cat but in possession of my memories, altered to human more than once, and a Union soldier following the end of the American Civil War.

...You should probably check your closet and make sure the Admiral hasn't altered your clothing to keep the theme. He occasionally does things like that.

Video:

[acid_rayne]

Pretty much...

Video:

[tobecaprican]

That clears that up, then.

ZEROING IN ON THAT WARDEN-PAIRED NAME LIKE WHOA

[i_like_your]

Doctor Gaius Baltar?

[tobecaprican]

No!

[ ...no, that's not going to work. ]

Yes. Yes, that's me, hello.

[subtlescience]

More often than one might like.

[tobecaprican]

Foolish though it may be to ask of 'reason' in a place that defies all scientific logic, but-- is there any?

[failedcreator.livejournal.com]

It happens most often! A few times a month, at least.

[tobecaprican]

Is there a calendar somewhere? So I know to be inside and not come out when it hits. [ Not expecting a positive answer, there. ]

[with_discipline]

With regularity. Integrating into the world happens less frequently. [T'Pol made sure to change out of her left over clothes before talking to anyone. Elves do not approve the same outfits Vulcans do.]

[tobecaprican]

Thank heavens for small favours.

[worstsongever]

You get sorta kinda used to it.

[tobecaprican]

I really.

Really.

Rather doubt that.

[batmanschmatman]

Not every day, but I've been through a couple alternate lives, thanks to the Barge.

[tobecaprican]

Like what sort've alternative lives? Do you mean you were yourself or completely different?

Because 'alternative' would be putting it mildly--

...I'm getting so used to talking to complete strangers now. Hello.

AUDIO ONLY

[terminatefate]

"Guess we get to keep the clothes. And I got new smoking shit. If this shit stays amusing..." Sarah? Came home with spicy tobacco with rolling papers. Awesome. "...and doesn't blow. I don't mind being a goddamn pirate."

She sniffed slightly and there's the sound of her rolling a cig.

permavideo just because. later filtered.

[tobecaprican]

"I've managed to, ah, steal away a few souvenirs myself."

But as shiny as they are, that's not what he wants to talk about, glancing off sideways before he goes to switch on the privacy filter. Takes a fresh drag of the cigarette, streams it out of his nose.

Nervous, a bit. "Elizabeth Anderson knows I'm your inmate. Obviously. She asked me to tell you to tell her-- where you are. Just so you know."

Video.

[yourunichase]

[Parker's sitting on the pool table smoking as well, and she just shrugs.]

More fucking often than we'd luck, but not often enough so that people don't fucking whine about how bored they are.

Video.

[tobecaprican]

Boredom isn't my concern, no.

Is that a breaker table?

[ Priorities. Also yes, that's culture-specific slang striking again. ]