003 ⌥ VIDEO -- saturday night

[femshep]

[And here's Shepard, out in the fog but you can tell she's walking briskly (presumably back toward the Flop) by the slight rhythmic sway of the camera. But she has SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY, so listen up.]

If you hear this, you need to get inside and keep your door shut. There's something in this fog--the residents are all clearing the streets, and I think I saw a few putting on gas masks.

I repeat, if you hear this, you need to-... [A pause in which keeping a straight face seems difficult, and then she's busting up laughing.] You need to put on a skirt and stand on your head or something, because shit, I don't get why the hell you all listen to me, anyway. [By 'listen to' she means 'generally take orders from', and she distinctly remembers it making sense an hour ago, but now she's had an epiphany and it's fantastic.

Meanwhile, she tames the laughter down to an ecstatic grin, and in a tone that probably definitely makes you wonder what she's planning next and if you should duck and cover, she offers just two words:]

Shepard out.

[End transmission.]

Comments

[most_feared]

[He swears in yet another language. It vaguely means, 'The government leaders want it', so even if she knew what he was saying the meaning would probably be lost.]

не! Iie! Wǒ bú yào...

[He throws up his hands in frustration. He knows what he's saying, why can't he settle on the right version of it?! So he makes a motion at his face, makes a motion of a gas mask, and points at her. We should get one.]

[femshep]

[At this point, she can't tell if he's not speaking English or if he is and she's just tripping the hell out. But something about it's really funny to her, so she's trying and failing to resist the urge to crack up laughing again.]