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

[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

[tacticalespionageaction]

its more complicated than that.

there are giant robots sometimes.

[ilovepuppies]

I

LOVE

GIANT ROBOTS

[tacticalespionageaction]

theyre less fun in real life

[ilovepuppies]

how can giant robots be anything BUT tons of fun???

[kindaruledatit]

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

yeah I think i've heard of them.

[tacticalespionageaction]

yeah...those things. know where i can find them?

[kindaruledatit]

uh, internet?

weird shady video stores?

[tacticalespionageaction]

the internet, huh

where on it?

[kindaruledatit]

are you asking me to explain the internet

[tacticalespionageaction]

[...]

listen i've never used this thing otacon just did it for me

[kindaruledatit]

I really don't know who 'otacon' is. is that even a name?

also there should probably be a search bar or something in here you can use to look up anime or whatever.

[tacticalespionageaction]

it stands for otaku convention.

a search bar, huh?

[lusito]

Who doesn't?

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

[tacticalespionageaction]

i thought it was just an otaku thing

[lusito]

Oh no, haven't you heard? It's very mainstream now, you should really keep up with the times.

[tacticalespionageaction]

its mainstream, huh? its not weird to be into it?

[lusito]

No, no, I hear it's practically a status symbol now in some places, especially among celebrities. If you tell people you like anime, you get more fans following you on your blogs.

[tacticalespionageaction]

that popular, huh?

[lusito]

Indeed. Though, it's been a long time since I watched something specific, so I can't tell you which ones people are obsessing over right now.

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

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

[ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.]

[tacticalespionageaction]

what

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

Annie My known something. Or Maybe she won't

[these aren't even in the realm of good]

[tacticalespionageaction]

...Annie?

Are you okay?