prank #2 | video/action for cherrygrove

[ghostytrainer]

[A video feed clicks on revealing a picture of...the ground. A pair of bright red sneakers with flames on the side are also visible peeking out from under a pair of dark jeans. A Dunsparce crawls into frame and stares(?) up at the camera curiously(?).]

Okay I think this is on...uhm. Hi everyone! It's John, and I finally made it to Cherrygrove! Aradia showed me how to use the video function, so this time you can actually see me instead of me typing all this out. Isn't that great!?

[A Pidgey joins the Dunsparce on frame, also looking up at the camera with a look that can only be described as exasperated. Clearly it does not approve of this utter failure of a video.]

Yeah, this is great. Except...I don't really have much to say. The trip was pretty much uneventful. I caught a Pidgey though! I named him Tripp after Matthew McConaughey's character in Failure to Launch. You know, because he's a bird. Failure to Launch. Bird. Get it? Haha! Come over here Tripp so they can see you. Come on.

[The Pidgey gives John (who is still off-screen except for his shoes) an 'are you serious look' and doesn't move.]

Okay well it looks like he's feeling kind of camera shy right now. Same with Colonel Sassacre...what are you both doing down there anyway? Okay well whatever, that's really all I have to say at the moment. Vriska if you're still in Cherrygrove I guess I'll meet you at the inn or something. You did wait for me, right? Right?!

[The video feed clicks off.]

Comments

[action]

[eclectical]

[Have a very confused-looking Jade.]

Um... John?

Why are you taking a video of your shoes?

Also, I'm pretty sure you're the only one who would name a Pokemon something like that! [She can't resist laughing at you a little, John.]

... DAMN IT

[eclectical]

((I meant video))

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[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

[The video feed is still focused on his shoes and his pokémon.]

Hi Jade! [the camera shakes kind of violently at this point as John is giving a very forceful off-screen wave to Jade.]It's a great name isn't it? I'm on a roll with these awesome nicknames, aren't I?

Wait...you said I took a video of my shoes? [The video feed once again begins shaking as John presumably messes with the camera trying to get it focused on his face. After a few seconds, his face appears on screen, although quite a bit off center.] Is that better?

Re: [video]

[eclectical]

Hi!

[She looks incredibly amused.] I guess so.

That's a little better, yeah! I can actually see your face now!

[video]

[p2iioniichacker.livejournal.com]

Wow, are you really that bad with thethe thingth? I didn't think that would even be pothible but it lookth like you might even be rivaling KK'th thkillth there.

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[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

[Have another awesome shot of John's equally as awesome shoes.]

Since you know who I am but I have no idea who you are...I'm going to guess you're one of the trolls. Or you were. Since you're all human now. You don't seem nearly angry enough to be Karkat though, so which one are you? And who's KK?

[Oh rainbow text, how John misses you.]

[video]

[p2iioniichacker.livejournal.com]

Okay, firtht, turn the gear around. Or change it to voithe or thomething.

And me being a troll really hath nothing to do with knowing who you are but okay. We talked a few dayth ago, I'm Tholluxth.

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[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

[He turns the gear around, so now it's pointing skyward instead of at his feet.]

Okay, I turned it around, even though that seems like a weird thing to ask. I mean, wouldn't that mean you're looking at the city now instead of me? And...now I can't see the screen so I can't see you either.

I remember you! Mustard yellow text, right? Sorry, the text was the only way I had of recognizing you. Hi again!

[VIDEO]

[threshecutioner.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you're an even bigger moron that I first thought.

[Cue the facepalm.]

First, point the camera at your fucking face, dumbass. Second, what the fuck is Failure to Launch? Some stupid human movie of yours about rockets or some shit?

[If only he knew!]

And third, what the ever loving fuck are you thinking, wanting to travel with Vriska? As stupid as you are, you'll get yourself killed hanging out with her.

[VIDEO]

[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

Oh god it's not pointed at my face?! [The camera jolts wildly before John manages to turn it around the right way.]

There, better? And yes, Failure to Launch is one of our human movies, but it isn't stupid!

[Oh god Karkat, what have you done?]

It's the heartwarming tale of a man, Tripp, who doesn't want to move out of his parents' house. So they hire an attractive "expert," played by Sarah Jessica Parker, to seduce Tripp out of the house. She thinks he's just like any of the other men she's worked with, but she quickly finds out that that isn't the case. She ends up really falling for him instead of just faking it like she planned. And then there's all kinds of other drama but eventually they end up together and Tripp moves out of his parents' house. I'm not going to get into human metaphor with you, but the title has nothing to do with rockets.

And Vriska and I are friends! That's why I want to travel with her. She's cool and she's nice, even though she's kind of bossy. I would travel with you, but you made it pretty clear before that you didn't want me to. Oh wait...wasn't I supposed to be shutting up and not talking to you? Oops.

[VIDEO] saghds went to fix a typo and somehow lost the whole comment, rewriting from memory now

[threshecutioner.livejournal.com]

Yes, better.

[And then the conversation derails hard.]

Woah, since when did you like romcoms? I thought all the movies you liked were shit about who knows what retarded plot elements, but that one actually sounds interesting. Even though your human family structures still seem weird to me. Do you know any others? I've seen more since coming here, but I won't turn down the chance to learn about more.

Just keep away from Vriska. She's a psychotic bitch and she's bound to backstab you sooner or later. And we're talking now, so whatever.

[VIDEO] There was an error? I didn't even notice.

[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't like chick-flicks actually. It's just that Matthew McConaughey's cool charisma can salvage any heap of a smoldering wreckage. Wait, so does that mean that you like chick-flicks? Aw man, lame! I'll have to show you some good, not chick-flick, Earth movies sometime.

Really? She doesn't seem that way to me. I hope she doesn't backstab me, that would suck! She seemed to be really excited that I was here...

video;

[nopuppets.livejournal.com]

[YEAH he has no idea that Karkat just up and went and blabbed to John about Dave's adventures in troll romance. |:

So have a suave lookin' mofo sitting drinking cocoa and grinning at you, John.]

Here I thought you knew a lick about technology.

video;

[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

[Oh god you're reading that? Video locks, how do they work?]

Oh, uh. Hey. Hey there, Dave. How's it going bro?

video;

[nopuppets.livejournal.com]

[It's too funny, I can't resist He frowns and raises an eyebrow at John.]

...

Did you do something stupid that I'm going to have to make fun of you for again?

video;

[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

Me? Stupid? Neeevvveeerrrr! Why would you even think that? [He shakes his head vigorously and smiles nervously.]

ACTION 8888D

[8luh8luh.livejournal.com]

[ Sup, John? Vriska is going to sneak up all sneaky-like, snickering at that silly video feed you just posted. ]

Jegus, could it have taken you any longer? I almost left without you!

ACTION; imagine this icon is about 100x more surprised than this.

[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

[Your sneaky-sneak ninja skills are so great that John is caught completely unawares. He jumps and drops his pokégear into the snow before spinning around wildly.]

Vriska?

>:3 kekekekekekekeke

[8luh8luh.livejournal.com]

[ Disregarding completely the fact that John's got no idea what Vriska looks like-- ]

Duh, who the fuck did you think it was?

[usedmiracles.livejournal.com]

[Hey John, know that juggalo troll? Yeah of course you do. He's right here not to far from you, trying to decide if you really are that one human kid. He thinks you are.]

Whoa--hey motherfucker are you one of those human kids we were suppose to be all up on with some trollin'?

action; I'm that one human kid. It's meeeee.

[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

[John turns his head to get a look at the speaker. And what's this? Why it's a Gamzee! spaced-out stranger in clown makeup! He's not exactly sure what to think of you, but he's about 80% certain you're a troll.]

If you're one of those Alternian trolls we keep getting random time-traveling messages from, then yeah...I guess I am. I'm John.

Action;

[usedmiracles.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

You're motherfuckin' right, I am one of them Alternian trolls. [Dude you just amazed him, how could you have possibly know this information? It is beyond Gamzee, it could only be miracles man.]

I'm Gamzee!

[video]

[soulcool.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait, back it up.

You're John? Dave's friend?

[video]

[usedwindything.livejournal.com]

Dave Strider?

[video]

[soulcool.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Strider.

I've been chillin' with him mostly, up here in Violet.
Mentioned you once or twice, you know.

[Griiins. Sup John. Any friend of Mini-Soul Dave is a friend of his!]