i love the smell of BE=DE in the morning

[wotanon]

Who: BAD END=DEAD END & you
Where: far enough away that the hotel is safe, close enough to be heard
When: Day 434, afternoon

[Wherever you are, your phone buzzes with the notification for a Live. Should you check the broadcast, it's just an overhead view of some anonymous building in the city. The roof is covered with a few mysterious dark boxes, as well as words spray-painted in red:

YOU'RE FUCKING WELCOME
VENGEANCE VENGEANCE VENGEANCE IN THE SEVENTHFOLD DEGREE !!!

In the distance, a few small figures dash away . . .

. . . Just as every single box EXPLODES with a very audible series of booms, throwing masses of brightly-colored paint splattering all over the remainder of the building, all the surrounding buildings and road, and probably any passersby within a couple blocks, too.

Also, the explosions collapse the entire roof and top floor of the building, sending paint-splattered rubble flying to the ground as well. Watch out!

The broadcast then helpfully zooms in on the paint-splattered culprits of this mayhem—the entirety of BAD END=DEAD END, who didn't quite manage to outrun their crimes.]

* * *

[If, for some reason, you don't check the broadcast—perhaps because you have more important things to do than watch every live that happens in this godforsaken city—then your day is interrupted by a series of distant, but very loud, explosions. Maybe you should check that out?]

[OOC: Hosts: 450 points + 450 units participating bonus (10 atm) + 200 for the Art theme, because Art is a BANG!
Everyone else: 300 points + 100 for the Art theme]

Comments

COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ welp ] [ snorting laughter, okay ]

Had to figure out how to do this sort of thing sooner or later.

[ Does it seriously count if he just takes photos of the explosions? Maybe they have to be selfies?

Decidedly better with the camera part of his phone than he was when he first showed up, but it's still not what you'd call artistic framing or anything.

More points for Bad End this way, though, so. He's helping! ]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[covered in cyan paint but he's coming over]

Did you get it?

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

The main explosion for sure.

[ Swiping back through his photo album. There's not a lot in there; there'd be way more, if the dream photos had been taken with his actual phone.

He tilts the phone so that Valor can see. They're not blurry, or accidentally of the ground! ]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[leaning in to see, heedless of the paint that's still drying on him. sorry not sorry Lupine.]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ You absolutely didn't have to get that close, but he doesn't seem to mind. ]

Good enough? Because if you want more, you're gonna have to set off more explosions.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[enjoy getting drying paint all over your clothes then]

Sorry, we're all out. Maybe some other time.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ where exactly are you touching him and how much that it's ALL OVER his clothes, hmmm Valor ]

Really? You don't have some power that just makes explosives? Seems like an oversight.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[he's sort of crowding in behind Lupine to one side, less with intent and more just because he's excited. So it's all over half his back and one arm and leg?]

I fucking wish. No, we just get the ability to punch real hard and fuck up your brain.

[other units get free weapons, why not BEDE!!]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ Snorts a tiny bit. Thanks, Valor. Any chance you're leaving his hair clean, at least? ]

Don't underestimate a good right hook.

[ Like, too bad about the lack of free weapons, but he's never met a game he couldn't just punch into submission tbh. ]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[irregular]

Hey, show me, show me...!

[K would totally be leaning on you right now but he's got a bit of paint on him right here. And over there. And on his back and he probably needs to wash his hair and okay, he's covered in it, sorry.]

What'd you get?

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ Two kinds of people: the kind who'll get paint all over you without preamble or apology, and the kind who will do his best not to. ]

Heh, here.

[ Angling his phone for K's eyes, he swipes through the photos. They're not great, no one's mistaking him for a seasoned photographer, but they're all in focus! And some of the compositions aren't bad, maybe despite himself. He had a good angle here. ]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[irregular]

Hey, thanks.

[K rakes his hair out of his face. Wonders idly what cyan blue and electric lime make, but it's probably just more blue. Better not drip on the screen though, shit.]

You think you could send 'em to me? I like that one. Kinda the problem with being the one doing this shit, you ain't gonna see it so well.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ A chuckle. He appreciates the care for the screen, too. ]

Sure thing.

[ And he's even sent photos to people before, so he doesn't stumble around the interface. Ping! K's got mail. ]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[irregular]

Thanks! Man, you shoulda been here from the start, though. Next time I'll give you a proper heads-up.

[Scrolling through the photos.]

Looks like you missed the worst of it, though?

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ Man, the idea of being called in to do photography is very strange to him, but Lupine pushes it aside and grins wider. ]

Haha, I'm not promising they'll be better than this with warning, but there'll definitely be more of them.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[irregular]

Well, that's how you get better, right? Just do more. It's all practice.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ ...Might rub the side of his nose for no particular reason. ]

We'll see. I'm not bad at cake decorating, I guess.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[gravitydefier]

...what are you doing?

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ welp ]

Uh — taking pictures of your explosions?

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[gravitydefier]

[there was faint curiosity in the soft, detached voice.] ...pictures? Like a drawing?

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ Oh, wow, this is not where he thought they'd be starting this conversation. ]

—Yeah. Our phones have a camera app.

[ Pauses, wondering if any of those words meant anything to Sakura. ]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[gravitydefier]

[slender brows knit together. this clearly means nothing to him. he certainly never had anything to do with the Kamera the Traveler had.]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

...Do you know what a camera is?

[ He can handle this explanation. Maybe?? ]

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[gravitydefier]

...no.

Re: COUNTERLIVE: photography

[at_heart]

[ .......Maybe. ]

Okay, well.

[ H, holding the phone up, he opens the camera app where Sakura can hopefully see it, then angles the phone around to point at a building and. takes a photo? ] [ Then shows Sakura the photo? ]

Cameras can... make a copy? Of what you're looking at. Like a drawing, but a lot faster, and more — accurate, usually, probably.