video - bathroom mirror; timed to Saturday morning

[entertainaplanb]

[Becky's been a little nervous about showing her face on the network thus far, but... what the hell, she's met enough people in person by this point. Besides, she's not really sure how to describe what she thinks is the latest result of one of those vertigo spells.

So she grabbed some old lipstick and wrote her network number on her bathroom mirror; pardon the London Underground shower curtain. Her hair's down, and she's wearing a purple t-shirt and jeans.]

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

[She holds up a gun... sort of. There's no obvious place to load bullets, and that cap thingy at the end certainly wouldn't let anything out. Not to mention all the dials on it.]

Very steampunky, to be sure, but this one's got me stumped.

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[entertainaplanb]

...Oh my God.

[Becky all but runs over to Mamoru, once she's fully regained her balance and sees that he's down for the count. She checks for a pulse first, and he's still got one; that's good, since she has no idea how she'd begin to explain this one.]

Oh my god I am so sorry I didn't know that would happen. [She'll probably say it all again when he wakes up. In any case, she starts fumbling for her phone on autopilot - until one of those damn vertigo things hits her, anyway. Just what she needed out here.]

[When it passes, she looks at the gun and sighs.] Fat lot of good it does for me to remember how to aim it now.

[15minuteslate]

"Ughhhh..." Mamoru groaned as he came back to consciousness, squinting into the light. He didn't feel up to sitting up just yet, but he did shade his eyes with a hand. "You...you shot me," he said, incredulous. "Oh my god, I was just shot with a friggin' steampunk gun and survived."

He's not sure whether this is horrible or really cool.

[entertainaplanb]

"I am so, so sorry. I had no idea it was going to do that. But apparently firing a Tesla isn't that much like firing a gun after all."

...She may not have realised she just gave the thing a name that she didn't have when they started this conversation.

[15minuteslate]

"It's ok. I think I'm fine. Thank god that thing's apparently meant to be nonlethal, right?"

He sits up, blearily shaking the fog from his head.

"I like the name you picked, though. It's a little cheesy but I can't say it isn't appropriate."

[entertainaplanb]

"Very good thing. This would have been incredibly awkward to explain."

And then Becky frowns. "What do you mean? I didn't give it a name."

[15minuteslate]

"Not to mention I'd be dead," Mamoru griped. "Or in the hospital. And yeah, you did. You just called it a Tesla."

[entertainaplanb]

"Well, that's what it is, I - oh, for the love of God."

Becky's just... gonna facepalm now. "Couldn't possibly have known that when I got the thing, could I. That would probably be too easy."