No. 2 [text, unfiltered mostly]

[hackeralastair]

Hey, hey - can anybody do me a favor? If you speak any language other than English or Japanese, can you come talk to me? I need to check something out. It may be just a weird coincidence but I gotta know.

I've got this system mostly figured out, there's still a few things I want to try to hack but I've got the basics down. That's a start. But while lurking my way through everybody's posts, I've learned a few things. One, this superhero crap is a lot of bullshit. You guys got more villains than heroes, honestly. Two, you've got too many hackers. My talents are gonna be useless here, nobody needs to hire a guy for his skills because everybody's already got one. So, I'm screwed for jobs. Three...I need money. Flirting to get dinner works but it's getting old.

[edited after some conversations]

Anybody need a pilot?

[private, filtered to Duo]

Shinigami. Damn it, I can't wait around for a better offer. Hook me up, I'll do whatever I have to in order to pay.

[end filter]

Comments

[satisfiedsigner]

Hey, you. I could pay you for teaching me.

...I hadn't tried flirting...[laughs] The could be interesting for a couple days.

[hackeralastair]

Hey, yourself. It wouldn't take much, you could probably just feed me in return. I think I'm all settled in, you got time to hang out?

...it only really works on men. Chicks expect the guy to pay out of some notion of chivalry.

[Video forever]

[atoningforsin.livejournal.com]

I speak, ah. Egyption, of my time. And Greek.

[Video on]

[hackeralastair]

No shit, really? Well, at least those are two languages I can guarantee I've never learned. Lay some on me, see if I understand it.

[satisfiedsigner]

Heh, feeding you wouldn't be a problem.

Maybe. I'm showing someone around, but she seems like the type who wouldn't mind...I'll have to ask her.

[laughs] Yeah, that's not a problem at all.

gahh I can't spell for some reason

[atoningforsin.livejournal.com]

[Egyptian]

Can you understand me? It's been awhile since I've spoken this.

[Greek]

This as well. Have you been settling in well in the City?

[Back to English]

Did that help?

[hackeralastair]

Awesome. Don't worry about it, if it's a bad day, we'll just pick another one. Right now I've got all the time in the world.

...really, now. Then all I'll say is, watch your back and pick the right ones. Some of 'em are real softies and believe in wining and dining their way into your heart. Or pants.

[VOICE]

[chewtoyoffate.livejournal.com]

Wazpinator speakz szome High Cybertronian, but would probably melt squishiez pro- brain.

lol

[hackeralastair]

[replying in somewhat astonished Egyptian]

...yeah, I can...I guess that settles it.

[English]

That's too weird. Yeah, thanks. I'm trying to figure out if something that happened to me last night meant this is my power.

[VOICE]

[hackeralastair]

Who're you calling squishy? I've never even heard of that, is that some alien language?

HEY CAN HE UNDERSTAND CYBRTRONIAN?!

[atoningforsin.livejournal.com]

That's a very useful ability.

Perhaps you can work as an interpreter?

[VOICE]

[chewtoyoffate.livejournal.com]

Human iz squishy, of courze.

Not alien to Cybertronianz. Why do humanz keep throwing 'alien' around?

IDK is it spoken or digital? I'm exploring his limits I guess

[hackeralastair]

I guess. If that sort of thing is in demand here, I suppose I could.

Do I want to know how you know an ancient dialect like that?

[VOICE]

[hackeralastair]

Hey, I work out so I don't get squishy.

...because it means you're not from here. Duh. I'm game for anything today, man, I want to find out what's going on with me.

[satisfiedsigner]

Wanna come by tomorrow, then? I'm pretty sure I don't have anything planned.

Really. [This smirk is practically audible.] I'll be sure to pick the interesting ones.

spoken afaik. talk to the 'botcast!

[atoningforsin.livejournal.com]

[She laughs.]

That's where, no, when, I'm from.

[hackeralastair]

Sure. I'm there.

...heheh. It's a fun little game, sometimes.

[VOICE]

[chewtoyoffate.livejournal.com]

Would human go 'splat' if human fell off building? Yez? Then human iz squishy.

Wazpinator waz here before any humanz, szo there. And maybe Wazpinator doezn't want to speak Cybertronian now.

[hackeralastair]

What? No way. So that porter really doesn't discriminate, does it? I already met somebody from my future, now the way past...

[VOICE]

[hackeralastair]

Are you saying you wouldn't go splat if I threw you off a building?

Tch, fine, I was just asking for a little help figuring out my power. For all I know, I wouldn't understand it anyway.

[VOICE]

[chewtoyoffate.livejournal.com]

Nope! Wazpinator wouldn't. [fails to mention that this is due to flight powers, not a current lack of squishiness]

Probably not. Mozt dumb humanz won't.

[VOICE]

[hackeralastair]

What are you made out of, then? *he's slightly curious, actually*

I said I'd try, though, geez. I already seem to have picked up Russian, French, ancient Egyptian, and Greek. Cybertronian could just be next on the list.

[satisfiedsigner]

Sounds like it. I can see why you'd get bored with it after a while, though.

[VOICE]

[chewtoyoffate.livejournal.com]

Zzzz... [thinking quickly] Wazpinator iz made of thing that will bounce, not splat!

Well, too bad! Human will have to azk szome other speaker to do it!

[VOICE]

[hackeralastair]

Tch, fine. Be that way, Waspinator. Are there others around here who can speak it?