Communication Central

[flowersonthewall]

Who: Beaker and you!
What: Mingle log + mini-event giving away the brand new communicators
Where: Ellen's lab!
When: August 6th
Warnings: None



[Throughout the first few days of August, Beaker can be found plastering posters all around Progress City. If you happen to see him, he'll look absolutely exhausted, but it's fine- it won't be long before he can finally rest without this project looming over his head. Like the ones from June, the posters aren't particularly well designed or glamorous, but they get the job done. They all have the same message: on the 6th of August, there'll be a booth outside Ellen's lab giving away the newly finished communicators that Beaker has been working on for the past month and a half! And they're completely free of charge!

Sounds like a good deal.

Early Monday morning, while it's still fairly dark outside, Beaker gets to work. Ellen, bless her, helps set up the booth itself and carry the boxes of communicators outside. She even sets out an extra table for drinks and snacks- which, to be honest, is probably more for Beaker's sake than anything else. Not only has he been neglecting sleep, but he's been too busy finalizing the devices to remember to eat or drink. The last thing she needs is for her puppet assistant to keel over from dehydration.

Once the booths are set up, anyone can come by and pick up their communicator! There's even two miniature devices set aside- one for Basil, and one for Jedidiah. They're still a bit too over-sized, but hey- it's the thought that counts, right? And Beaker has plans to design smaller ones in the future, once he gets the hang of making stuff on such a tiny scale.

Beaker's also available for any questions people might have; though bear in mind, as the day goes on, he'll be getting more and more tired. By late Monday afternoon, he has his head on the table, and Ellen might have to take over for a bit.

Eventually, once it gets dark outside, and the remaining stragglers around the booth head home, Beaker'll start packing things up and bringing it all back inside. The remaining communicators will be available in Ellen's lab, for anyone who couldn't make the Monday giveaway. But unfortunately, if you're late, you probably won't be seeing Beaker for a while. As soon as he gets home to Vista Way, Beaker collapses onto his bed, and probably isn't waking up again until Wednesday afternoon.

It's finally time for this Muppet to rest.]

Comments

[stinkypete]

[Pete's not exactly thrilled at the prospect of new technology, especially since he doesn't know how to use it. He picks a communicator up and squints at it, which looks absolutely minuscule in his paws.]

So, these are basically cell-phones? Can I get to my e-mail or something?

[He tries pressing a few buttons, exploring the various features it has to offer. Sometime later, you might see some posts on the online bulletin board, written by a user named "NOTPETE"]

rod stinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we need more toons

peg-leg pete is 100% trustworthy and reliable and you should go to him for advice

[flowersonthewall]

Meep-mi muhmeep mi mi! Muhmeep-muh mee-mimimi muh meep muh mi-meep-mi.

[Basically cell phones, yes! You can't access your email from whatever world you came from, though- just messages by others in Progress City.

... Beaker may or may not be trying to hide his face in the hopes that Pete won't recognize him.]

[stinkypete]

Hmmmm.... [Pete stares at the communicator in his hand, scratching his chin. He tries peering over the stack of posters currently blocking Beaker's station.] You sound familiar. Do I know you?

[ilovepuppies]

[Here comes a reply from one certain "~sHoOtInG~sTaR~"]

can confirm rod smells like mothballs and pinesol

[stinkypete]

SEE. THE PEOPLE AGREE WITH ME

[midnightcowboy]

[Despite being well aware of Beaker's project in advance, Jed still manages to be slightly caught off-guard when he actually turns up to take a look at the finished product. It's one of the only times in his memory that anyone's even attempted making something slightly more accessible, and he spends a couple seconds just kind of staring at it before giving it a go, sitting to the side on the booth and testing out the features.]

Doesn't even have Youtube on it.

[But he guesses that's not as important as the whole communication thing. It takes him a while to work it-- he's not great with technology to begin with, and it's even more of an adjustment to figure out how to use a keyboard when it's close to properly scaled. All he actually manages to post on the bulletin board after the first few minutes is:]

h

[But at least there was an attempt.]

[stinkypete]

look at this clown. can't even use a keyboard right

[midnightcowboy]

[It takes him like. Half an hour to respond.]

now listen i usually have people around to handle this, i aint got time to type shit

[And then an addendum slightly later:]

also, not a clown but i guess theres nothing wrong with being a clown

[flowersonthewall]

Meepmi-meepmimuh meep mi muh meep minimi-mineep mi muh mi muhmeepmi muh-mimeepmi muh.

[He has plans for making a site similar to Youtube in the future, though unless he figures out something with trans-dimensional communication, it'd only be able to access videos made within this universe.

Beaker doesn't seem annoyed at the fact that that's Jed's only comment, luckily.]

[midnightcowboy]

[Hmmm.] Somebody in this universe is gonna have to find a whole lotta cats to make up for the content we'll be missin' out on.

[He has priorities!!! But he does at least intend to give thanks where thanks is due, even if it takes him a while to get around to it.]

It's good work, carrot stick. Appreciate it. [He won't even mention that the scale's not quite right, though he does supply:] You need a pair of smaller hands to help out in the future, gimme a holler. I can follow a direction or two.

[ilovepuppies]

[Star is there, like, immediately, because shiny things.]

...It's the internet.

[And she wastes no time spamming the board:]

OMG its the internet i missed u sooooo much (｡♥‿♥｡) never leave me again!!

[flowersonthewall]

Meep!

[Yep! Beaker looks proud of himself, for once. He starts to say something else, before something occurs to him and he pulls out his own communicator.]

It's a pretty rudimentary form of the internet, definitely, but with any luck future updates will improve upon it

[ilovepuppies]

[HE KNOWS WORDS OTHER THAN 'MEEP'?]

i need animated gifs plz

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

[Eclipsa really just grabbed a free thing without really looking at it and now its late and she has it and she doesn't know why there's so many messages. And Beaker's probably asleep by now so she can't ask for help. Maybe she could... try to respond??????]

hello this is eclipsa butterfly. who is this/ are you stuck in this tiny thing/

[There is a lot this old woman is struggling with.

Later, after much explanation and help, Eclipsa finally seems to have gotten it. Sort of. Mostly. She might have absorbed the wrong information. Because several bulletin alerts show up in a row.]

google shirtless monster

google handsome men with horns

google clawed monsters covered in sweat

google sexy monster women

google sexy monster men

google where are the attractive monsters please i'm begging you

[ilovepuppies]

[wHY]

i dont think ur doin it right

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

Oh, hello darling! :) Doing what right?

[lusito]

If you find out, you should tell me because I'm dying to know.

[Josh no]

[tacticalespionageaction]

[Snake takes one of the communicators and flips it over in his hand.]

This thing get videos on it?

[He can't really imagine using it too much, but some hours later a post appears on the board:]

anyone know 'anime'?

[ilovepuppies]

anime is like cartoons but with swords right

[kindaruledatit]

ymean like the japanese cartoons Soos always watched with the robots and the "laser swords"?

yeah I think i've heard of them.

[lusito]

Who doesn't?

[... boy Josh, do we have news for you--]

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

I may, but I don't know if Annie May.

[ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.]

[beakie]

[Beaker comes around to Ellen's Lab while the Other Beaker is sleeping behind a large pile of papers, conveniently out of view. He picks up one of the communicators. Huh. He could have probably come up with something like this, himself, if he had enough time. This'll make communicating with other people easier, too.

He first tries to input his username as "BEAKER", but every time he tries to do so, an error pops up--"THIS USERNAME IS ALREADY TAKEN". Strange. He decides to make his username "SCIENTIST77" instead.]

Testing 1 2 3

Hello everyone! This is Beaker. I hope everyone's having fun with their communicators so far!

[midnightcowboy]

[not sure why Beaker is asking now after he was already around to supervise the whole thing earlier in the day, but... alright]

i already voiced my complaints about the lack of cat videos :/

but yeah sure thanks anyway

i guess

[kindaruledatit]

there's a dude named Beaker in this place?