Xur: ::teasing:: I don't want to distract Zane.
Weird for him to say his name. In front of people and everything!
Xur: ::nods:: Have you met Rokiran? Audra: The big guy with the chest hair that sometimes sticks out his collar?
Timeline panic! Was this after that happened? When are we? When are we ever? Timeline, why can I never make a timeline!?
Anyway, this happening after the Rockmind mission (I think that's what I named it?) makes as much sense as it happening before, and so Xur has his fangs.
I've missed his fangs.
Xur: And Arlas, but he's touchy about it.
It had been so long since I looked up Bosmer names that Firefox didn't autocomplete it.
Audra: I am pretty sure I told you about that. Zane: I thought everyone knew it.
I flail hard when it comes to "thing happened in a different timeline, did an equivalent thing happen in this one?" The sharing body heat thing is one I've struggled with before.
At least that'll be easier in Smoothie. (SMU? STH?)
Audra: When did you have an opportunity to discuss with someone who is not me naked cuddling in the wilderness to not freeze to death?
He knows other people, Audra. :-P
But also, he didn't mean that skin-to-skin is best for sharing warmth. He meant it's the best way to cuddle his boyfriend.
Xur: Enough to seduce my plasma-eyed, copper-haired beauty.
I couldn't figure out a good emote quickly enough, but Zane likes it when he says things like that. He says he doesn't, but in a flustered I-obviously-do way.
Xur: ::supplies:: The only romance novels he reads that have children are the ones that focus on a breeding kink. Biological children, not adopted. Zane: Hey!
Whatever happened to librarian-reader confidentiality?
Xur: There are romance novels where people frazz synths, too.
Or at least a market for them, if the robofuckers on my Tumblr dash are any indication.
Zane: This might get more interesting than you're used to. Audra: Been on one of these before? Zane: Yeah, a few times.
I figure they did the official team thing in this timeline, and have had strange-things-happen-at-the-Edge adventures.
Zane: That's the "usually." I can't predict the interesting part. One time we got trapped in a sapient cavern, one time half the soldiers had their bones liquefied and sucked out of them, one time I got turned into a doll… things get weird.
All from Lower Decks! The sapient cave wasn't onscreen, just Mariner telling Boimler about things she's experienced. The creature that drinks bones was onscreen, and I need need need a toy of it. Doll transformation, also onscreen. It happened to a side character.
Zane: There's not much of a story. Not in the doll part, the rest of the mission was a nightmare, but my part of it was… doll, carried around, cured.
That's how that episode was. Lots of other stuff going on, but the doll was just kinda there. And hilarious, because it was a person who'd been turned into a doll, but still.
Zane: It's not as fun as it sounds.
I imagine it's like being paralyzed, and everything around you being giant. If you even have the senses to perceive your surroundings. Do doll eyes see? Does doll cloth feel?
