nebula 1; video

[flatteries]

[ Guess who isn't used to making announcements over this thing and is heavily trying to surpress some social anxiety right now? This guy.

To his credit, he manages to smile rather convincingly, no matter how much he's sweating on the inside. ]

Hello, everyone..! I'm not sure if a lot of people tried out the arcade back on Diagad, but there was this charming game that involved having to dance..? [ DDR. He means DDR.

He just doesn't know it. ]

Either way, it was a lot of fun, so I got one of those machines for it here on the train! Anyone can use it, just.. please be careful and don't break it? It cost a lot of points! [ He worked hard for those!! ] If anyone thinks that it looks or sounds like fun, but has no idea how to use it, feel free to ask me for help! I can teach people!

[ ...

There's a slight pause, and then he adds with a bit more awkwardness: ]

Ah, and if.. someone could help me move that big, heavy thing.. I would certainly appreciate it.

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[jingyeets]

Mm, just call him Zewu-jun!

( Is Jingyi's "helpful" but honest return, and he grins, giving Inigo a look right back. Yeah, sure, he sees what you're up to, and this is definitely as Xichen surmises.

Jingyi would do a great deal, to help his sect leader get closer to smiling again. Even not knowing what is or isn't different between their worlds, or the depths to which he was or was not equally betrayed. (Oh, but he was, he was.) )

This is back in luggage, right? Are we going to use the transgates?

[flatteries]

[ Inigo is quiet for a moment, wondering if there's any special meaning 'Zewu-jun' that he doesn't quite understand.. But Jingyi seems to have a great deal of respect for the other, so Inigo doubts it's meant to be teasing in any way.

So.. then he should be able to use it as well, right? ]

Zewu-jun. [ He slowly says, as if he's trying it out, before nodding. ]

Yes, I am in the luggage carriage right now, I can see it over here. It's behind some of the suitcases, so we'll have to move those out of the way first. Then as long as we can get it over to a transgate, we should have it in the games carriage in no time.

[ So most of the moving is just from its current position to a transgate, and then from the transgate nearest to the games carriage to an empty spot in said carriage. ]

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[lanxichen]

[ Xichen inclines his head accepting the title - he probably should have suggested master Lan or something along those lines, but his reactions are not... nearly as fast as they should be. And Zewu-jun is a familiar and proper address enough. ]

That should be no trouble at all.

Jingyi, we can meet there?

[ It doesn't take him long to make his way to the luggage car, and he'll cup his hands in greeting without hesitation. ]

[jingyeets]

Yes, Zewu-jun!

( Jingyi slyly (not at all slyly) infiltrating people's vernacular to use granted titles, because Zewu-jun Matters.

Either way, he ends up being there ahead of his other world sect leader, smiling at him and offering a bow of greeting, in the looser, less formal way. )

See, it'd definitely have been awkward to carry alone.

( He gestures to the thing, but leaves Inigo to do any of the talking over his, er, purchase? Communal gift? Shyness self intervention? )

[flatteries]

[ The moment both of them are there, Inigo gives a nervous glance between Xichen and Jingyi - mostly noting the slight bow the other is making, and that's right, that's always what Jingyi is doing, isn't it? Maybe he should do it too?! Will Xichen think he's rude if he doesn't?!

Why can't the train explain these cultures to him?!

Inigo doesn't full on bow, since it feels too awkward, but he does kind of.. nod his head a little deeper than most people might.. Is this polite.

Please help.

After that slightly awkward gesture though, he instead pushes some suitcases out of the way so he can at least touch the big arcade machine hidden behind them. ]

Yes, here it is.. I'm not really sure why the train decided to put it all the way back here. [ Just so it would be more inconvenient to move! ]

[lanxichen]

[ Xichen has been on the train more than long enough to know there are differences in customs... and he was not easy to think other people rude or uncouth in the first place. ]

Do new items arrive in other places on the train? I only have had... one thing come, and it was very small.

[ Picking up a pile of suitcases and carefully placing it out of the way like it is nothing. This should make it easier for Inigo to come closer to it ]

[jingyeets]

It's not like the train is known for being convenient.

( Said with a scoff and flick of his fingers, in annoyance. As far as culture complications, Inigo, Jingyi asks himself this same thing every day. It's great to know he can expect this confusion to never end.

Anyway, with his sect leader moving suitcases, Jingyi follows suit, clearing the way for Inigo. It takes so little seeming effort for all of them to be moved out of the way, it's almost, but not quite, absurd.

Jingyi takes a moment with his hands on his hips and his head cocked to the side to regard the machine, tail swaying back and forth in consideration. )

If we tip it back, you think it'll fit through the doors better at an angle, like this?

( "Like this" has him indicate picking the machine up, tipping it back, and turning it at an angle to handle the bar itself. )

[flatteries]

No. Whether it's items, or people who aren't new to the train, I've only ever seen them turn up in this particular carriage, mi-- [ CRAP, ALMOST SLIPPED. ] Zewu-jun.

[ Still really hoping this is not some improper way of refering to him, Jingyi!!

But as Inigo is talking, he is making his way through the space cleared by the both of them, trying to climb over to the other side of the machine to take a look at it from there. ]

As for this thing.. hmm, I'm mostly worried about the arrow pads, those will make it hard to get it through the door. Maybe they can be flipped up?

[ If Inigo has learned anything about modern things, it's that you can somehow flip everything up. The future is about folding things up. ]

[lanxichen]

If it is easier, mister Lan is also acceptable.

As to that... let me look.

[ He might not have the technopathy from that other taste of life, but he remembers knowing and understanding machines, and he is rather sure he can at least look without breaking anything.

Perhaps they can be flipped up. Perhaps they can be unplugged and carried separately. Xichen crouches down next to where the pads connect to the rest of the machine to take a look. ]

[jingyeets]

( Jingyi, for now mostly helping by keeping out of the way when both these guys look like they're searching for better answers than he can provide, watches the whole with a faintly curious expression. )

Or taken off? I mean the thing went together, there has to be a way for it safely to come to parts, right?

[flatteries]

[ Both of them are right - the pads do seem like they can be taken on and off the machine.

But of course Inigo is not nearly good enough with machines or technology to be able to tell. Instead he's just starting to look more confused by the moment as he stares at the thing. ]

Probably.. Do you think we should find someone who's more used to this stuff?

[ Not to disrespect Xichen over here or anything. But Inigo figures that if he comes from a world like Jingyi's, then this is not going to be much more familiar to him than it is to either of the other two. ]

[lanxichen]

If you wish, but there actually is a plug, right here. It will let us disconnect them and carry them separately. Much less dangerous.

[ To the integrity of the machine. Xichen can make sure the lot of them are safe, he... thinks.

Long slender fingers reach to tug the plug free, safely, and hold it up to show. And then he feels around and presses a few places until there are respective clicks - not cracks, just the clicks of clasps opening - and he almost smiles, pleased that he could manage this much all on his own, and tugs the pads away from the body of the machine. ]

Like this.

[jingyeets]

Zewu-jun is amazing!

( Jingyi comes over to crouch down by him, reaching out for the machine as the pads are tugged away from its base. The sort of handlebar, whatever bar things attached were still connected to the pads, which made sense, but it did make the whole thing more likely to fit through doors without causing frustration. )

Which half do you want to carry?

( He asks Xichen, in the end. )

[flatteries]

[ Inigo feels a little bad for leaving the carrying to them - especially since he always tried so hard to be responsible back home. He feels like he should, therefore, also play a part here..

.. though he doesn't know what. It's not like he's strong like Jingyi, who's a dragon, and Xichen, who.. well, doesn't seem special, but if Jingyi believes in his strength, then Inigo is sure it has to be there. Maybe Inigo has to accept he's not really stronger than your average human compared to all these strange otherworldly people.

So he does what he can do best in this situation - move so he's out of the way of the other two, so they can move the machine without Inigo awkwardly standing in the way. ]

I'll active the transgate once we're there.