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

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[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. ]

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.]

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[bestlieutenant.livejournal.com]

The rest is fine. Quite like the shirt.

What happened to you, precisely?

[Someone's been hiding in her room.]

[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?

video.

[tobecaprican]

That's essentially what I'm trying to find out, but I fell off the deck, and got on another one, and wasn't myself anymore.

Me too.

[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.

[tobecaprican]

[ Just.

Breathes some smoke for a bit, before he leans out of view presumably to check his belongings. Gets up. The sound of rifling through things, the close and open of the door, before he settles back down in view of where he's positioned his communicator.

Those were some red leather pants. ]

Looks like I've been spared that one. Is the aim to just make us madder? Sort of like if we go right through to the other side, we'll see the light?

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.

o herro

[tobecaprican]

I'm sorry, do people commonly post to the network for fashion advice? Did I miss that somewhere?

[ Less sharp, more drawling. He's trying not to pick fights with EVERYone. ]

[truth_is_cold]

[Leather pants! He approves of them. And the waistcoat. You rock the pirate look Gaius.]

I've been told to both completely dismiss them, to learn from our experiences, and that we should do something about our feelings afterward. Honestly, I have no idea which notion would be correct.

Sometimes it's all of us. Sometimes it's the whole ship. Sometimes its only some of us.

[tobecaprican]

[ Gaius would be lying if he said he completely hated it. ]

I don't know. I mean. It was disturbing.

But it wasn't all bad.

In its own way.

video.

[bestlieutenant.livejournal.com]

Another deck? There's another... barge like this one?

Were you cursed?

video.

[tobecaprican]

Not like this. It was just a ship. The kind that goes on water.

I don't frakking know.

[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say you're the first to do it, but those aren't as bad as they could be.

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[bestlieutenant.livejournal.com]

Curious. Do tell me if you make any discoveries, won't you?

[Make no mistake, the next is merely an afterthought:] I'm sorry for what you endured. Sounds simply dreadful.

[tobecaprican]

Anything to pass the time, I suspect.

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[tobecaprican]

[ ... ]

Yeah, precisely. Absolutely-- just. Terrible. [ Unconvincing. ]

[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Bored already?

[truth_is_cold]

It was-

[He spent three days trying to woo his best friend, not knowing it was his best friend, because he blinded by ~true loves kiss~

But at the same time.]

-I suppose I've been through worse.

[tobecaprican]

I don't think bored is the right word for it, really.

Do you not find yourself in need of distraction, occasionally, occupied or otherwise?

[tobecaprican]

Death and sex, you mentioned.

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[acid_rayne]

Pretty much...

[truth_is_cold]

I know a few people that would have found the setting more offensive as it was. [Vanessa being one of them.]

[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

If I'm occupied with something important, no.

They have a superstition here that saying you're bored invites the Admiral to get creative.