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Hey-o Luceti, how's it going?! This is Pascal coming to you from the super secret tappy-tap things! I've been waiting to come down here forever and get my hands on 'em ever since Precis did her thing not too long ago, they're pretty intense. I bet if I just plonk on this thing...

[Everyone is now treated to a few minutes of Pascal tapping the camera and purposely rubbing her hands over the microphone a few times. Now this setup is pretty sweet, way better than the outdated junk that was found further down the tunnels... Oh right, important stuff. It wouldn't be right if Pascal came down here and just talked, she has a journal for that, so have some typing.]

Okay, so a little while back me and some other guys all went off on this mission to learn about the droids. Not only that, but we went off to make sure all the droidy guys get super messed up! Not sooo messed up that you can tell, but you know, tiny itty-bitty things that are actually HUGE. If any droids showed up to drag you off to the draft then maybe you already know that they've seriously been knocked down a peg, or ten. Or whole stack of pegs!

Let's see. The droids have this endless zappy battery so they can keep going on and on and ooon, but a few of us guys tweaked a few things or whatever and now they're not so endless! Or they might just overheat on you, but that's really good too! Just not for the droids. I think there was some thunkathunk on the armor and joints the droids have, but one of the techies will need to field that!

What else... Oh, yeah, right! There are like billions of lines of code and stuff in those guys! There's so much that you could slip in something without anyone else knowing, but that secret something ends up being major pain in the butt. Or a pain in the crotch, you should all go for the crotch! Those droids might be able to calculate a kabillion different way to fight back, but they'll be totally stumped if you aim for between their legs. Not only that, but if the droids seem distracted or frozen then that was us too! Turns out that if you turn (this) into ((this) then you really kafrazzle them!

And that's it! If you want to ask anything then go ahead, I'll be here to answer all your droid-like questions and stuff.

[Or she'll be answering when she isn't staring intently at the laptop and poking around a little.

OOC - Open discussion. Threadjacking is definitely encouraged, especially as Pascal probably isn't the best at explaining the nitty gritty stuff in a more straightforward way.]

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Of course! Raine's my friend and I'm really glad she helped! I was just making sure since I hadn't known she was on the mission. She actually looks real young! [He's still stuck on her self-image from that one experiment.]

Oh, well yeah, she looks really young! ... For her age. [She has no idea how old she really is. Never mind that Pascal has white hair too.]

Maybe you should sign up for the next mission, then you'll know who's goin'! They're really fun, or this one was anyway.

Fun? A lot of them sound dangerous. But I have been keeping my eyes open for missions. Anything that could help me protect the people I care about.

Yuh-huh, fun! I got to learn a whole bunch about droids,programming stuff and I got to talk to an android, if I didn't go then I'd be really regretting it! I'd wake up and be like 'shoulda gone on that mission Pascal, ugh'.

And yeah, protecting people and helping everyone out is a huge bonus.

Oh, well I'm not that good at science and stuff. So I don't think I'd get the fun.

Maaaaybe you wouldn't get it, maybe you would! You'd have to tag along and see if it's for you or not. And hey, I bet there'll be more missions right around the corner that seem way cooler to you!

I mean, what if a mission comes up and you need to be bald to qualify? You would be all over that!

You think so? I'm not sure a mission will have requirements like that... But I'll definitely keep my eyes open!

It might! Maybe you have to reflect light from the sun into stuff without using shiny things, mirrors or whatever. You would be a major lifesaver on a mission like that!

Y-yeah. I don't think my head's that clean, but that'd be nice. I kinda figured my bending would be more in handy.

Make sure you polish it so it's extra squeaky shiny, juuust in case. [...] You can bend stuff?

[Stick to the squeaky head plan Aang, even Pascal can bend things.]

But... I don't wanna polish my head. And yeah, I can bend all four of the elements.

How does that work? I'm pret-ty sure there's more than four elements out there anyway.

[Fire, water, wind, lightning, ice, light, void... Yup, there's lots of elemental artes out there.]

[Ah, he's been through this before with Masaomi.]

I can just control them. There might be more in your world, but in my world there's only four: air, water, earth and fire.

Oh, I get it. Yeah, we have more.

Sooo if you can just control elements, why do you call it bending? Do you have to twist around all over the place to make fire come out or somethin'?

Well, we don't really have to twist a lot. But all the bending forms require special movements. I think it's called bending because it's like we're bending the elements from the way they naturally are to follow our movements.

Huh, that sounds way cooler than what I was thinkin' of! Isn't it way easier to just cast cryas artes than bending elements or whatever?

[-Oh, better quickly fill in what those are.]

Cryas artes are prooobably like your bending, they let us do stuff with fire and water or whatever. But there's no bendin' around or following our movements, just lots of flashy stuff!

Oh, so that's what a cryas artes does. We don't really... have magic in our world. It's a lot easier to just, you know, bend, then to do something flashy. Because bending just feels so natural, like an extension of ourselves. And we don't have to move around that much all the time. A lot of forms are really simple.

But! Can you do all that 'natural extension of yourself' junk without moving at all? I can totally stand still and do all sorts of stuff.

Not really. Unless... does it count if I'm just blowing or something?

Hmm... [The rules of 'what qualifies as not moving when you're trying to do cool stuff' are very strict. But she can probably let blowing pass.]

Yeah, that can count, only just. Does that mean if you blow really hard you can kick up a tornado? Dude, don't ever me stand in front of you when you feel a belch comin' on!

Well I can't do that much just from my breath. But it's still never a good idea to be near when I'm gonna burp or sneeze!

I dunno, if you burp loud enough or whatever that could totally qualify as some sort of arte! All the monster guys would turn tail and run away they'd be so startled.

Ooor a sneeze could be pretty good at holding stuff in place, if you get enough nasal mucus flyin' everywhere.

R-really? I guess that'd be... helpful.

Mucus? I didn't really think of that? But my sneezes are just strong enough to send me flying most of the time.

... Dude. [One moment, she needs to- Oh crap. Right, she's stuck in here on these laptops.]

Okay, listen to me. You need to go find a pepper shaker or whatever and grind some pepper all over your nose, got it? Great!

What? R-right now?

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