Shot 02 - IM/Action - log 02

[wintersergeant]

[The IM starts off with your favorite charming 1940s transplant and his skinny asthmatic best friend looking kind of….sheepish. Well, Bucky looks sheepish and mildly annoyed. Steve is just giving him a Look. Bucky is the one who speaks]

So, uh, me an’ Steve...we don’t really know how to use all this twenty-first century technology and...we. Broke something.

[He holds up an iPod dock that is very much broken]

We thought it was a radio or somethin’. Guess not.

[Bucky goes to cut the rainbow but Steve stops him, giving him another Look.]

And we’re sorry we broke it, an’ that we stole it. [To Bucky:] Aren’t we?

...yeah, that too. [As he cuts the rainbow:] Really, Steve?

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[unplucked]

[ She laughs. Yeah, if this is what they do to a dock, then maaaybe getting close to an iPod wasn't a great idea. ]

That thing you broke is an iPod dock-- it's used as speakers to play music from the device, charge it, and depending on the model, can serve as an alarm clock.

[wintersergeant]

[He lets out a low whistle]

I wondered how the guy was able t'use his for music when there weren't any speakers or knobs or anything. An' it's a clock?

[unplucked]

Well, you don't need a dock to play music from an iPod, but it helps. Otherwise, headphones work just as well.

[ She squints. ]

I think it has a display for an alarm clock-- it's difficult to tell from here.

[wintersergeant]

We mighta broke that part....

[The screen bit is cracked, after all]

Headphones?

[unplucked]

Oh dear... what did you two do to it?

[ Throw it against the wall and hoped that made it work?! ]

They're sort of like... mini-speakers you put into your ear so that you can listen to music privately.

[wintersergeant]

Nothin'.

[See this face, Margaery? Total innocence]

What, that doesn't get too loud?

[unplucked]

Just bad luck, huh?

[ And this is the face of someone who's totally not buying it. Troublemakers. ]

Not if you can control the volume, which you can.

[wintersergeant]

How? I didn't see any knobs on the one I saw.

[unplucked]

It's... a button. On the side of the device.

[ The more questions he asks, the more and more her disbelief shows, but she's still smiling. Is she getting pranked? ]

[wintersergeant]

Didn't see any buttons either, but everythin' nowadays is so small so that ain't a big surprise. Huh.

[unplucked]

[ Still not sure what's going on here, but she'll play along. ]

Now you're just starting to sound like my grandfather.

Though he's not nearly as good-looking as you are, rest assured.

[wintersergeant]

[Cue that charming grin]

I'm pro'ly as old as he is though.

[unplucked]

Are you a vampire?

[ Hey, if werewolves are a thing here, why can't vampires be? ]

[wintersergeant]

[He snorts]

Nah, just real unlucky. Or lucky, whichever.

[unplucked]

[ Which is all she needs to hear to understand that there's something funky with time going on here. It sounds personal, likely what he didn't want to talk about when they first spoke, so she doesn't ask any further. ]

Lucky, I think, if you're here with your best friend.

[wintersergeant]

[He smiles a bit]

More like my brother. We basically grew up t'gether.

[unplucked]

And now you're causing trouble together.

[wintersergeant]

Yeah, but that ain't new.

[he snorts]

It bein' my fault ain't new either, but don't let him tell you he's all innocent. I can't count the times I saved his sorry ass.

[unplucked]

So you admit it is your fault?

[ Her smile grows wider. ]

[wintersergeant]

[...shit. Bucky pales]

Uh, I mean---dammit.

[unplucked]

[ She points to her eyes and then back to the screen at Bucky, chuckling. ]

I just hope whoever it belonged to isn't too angry. I wasn't even aware we were allowed to have iPods here.

[ She mostly relied on her iPhone anyways, and that definitely wasn't allowed. ]

[wintersergeant]

We got it from the forge cabin, in a pile'a junk.

[Eheheh]

[unplucked]

It may have already been broken to begin with, then.

[ She puts her finger on her chin. ]

I have headphones if you'd like to try them out sometime. They're convenient.

And not too expensive, if they suffer the same fate that poor dock did.

[wintersergeant]

Hey, if we know how to use it, we won't break it. Promise.

[unplucked]

Good, I'll take your word. I wonder if anyone here has a walkman, or something we could plug them into.