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hadriel2016-06-04 12:55 am
amos_moses) wrote in hadriel2016-06-04 12:55 am
Entry tags:
Two | Video | Earworm
[The video opens to view Amos perched on top of a mostly-crumbled building. He’s grinning widely, but it’s the kind of guilty grin that suggests while he finds this funny, he knows other people won’t be happy. There are several jabberjays around him, pecking at crumbs he’s scattered around on the rooftop.]
Ya’ll, I am so, so sorry. I really wasn’t thinking.
[See Amos has this bad habit of trying to teach all animals he comes across tricks, as one does with treats and too much time on one’s hands. Little things, like teaching a parrot to wolf-whistle, a dog to shake paws, a squirrel to bow...all in return for food. He’s slightly more successful at it than your average trainer, simply because he can explain the desired nonsense behavior.]
[As for the jabberjays, only two actually like him, so he’s been playing with them and teaching them small things, different phrases in different languages, a Latin prayer or two, and the occasional children’s song.]
[This was probably not the song to teach them, in retrospect.]
[Amos points at the nearest bird, and it happily starts singing in a lovely woman’s voice:
This is the song that never ends…!
Yes it goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was!
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because…!
[The rest of the birds take up the chorus, in the different voices of the inhabitants of Hadriel, and Amos doubles over with laughter. People are going to kill him for this but Lord help him it’s hilarious. This is what he gets for having watched that singalong puppet show with the farm animals as a child….]
NOTE: Most of the birds will only repeat this once or twice, but the two that hang around Amos will repeat it back if you sing or hum it or offer them breadcrumbs.
Ya’ll, I am so, so sorry. I really wasn’t thinking.
[See Amos has this bad habit of trying to teach all animals he comes across tricks, as one does with treats and too much time on one’s hands. Little things, like teaching a parrot to wolf-whistle, a dog to shake paws, a squirrel to bow...all in return for food. He’s slightly more successful at it than your average trainer, simply because he can explain the desired nonsense behavior.]
[As for the jabberjays, only two actually like him, so he’s been playing with them and teaching them small things, different phrases in different languages, a Latin prayer or two, and the occasional children’s song.]
[This was probably not the song to teach them, in retrospect.]
[Amos points at the nearest bird, and it happily starts singing in a lovely woman’s voice:
This is the song that never ends…!
Yes it goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was!
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because…!
[The rest of the birds take up the chorus, in the different voices of the inhabitants of Hadriel, and Amos doubles over with laughter. People are going to kill him for this but Lord help him it’s hilarious. This is what he gets for having watched that singalong puppet show with the farm animals as a child….]
NOTE: Most of the birds will only repeat this once or twice, but the two that hang around Amos will repeat it back if you sing or hum it or offer them breadcrumbs.
[Video]
[It's said with as much flatly dramatic flair as possible, clearly not serious and made even worse by that he's having trouble keeping a straight face. He's not a huge fan of the jabberjays, but he can appreciate really terrible but hilarious ideas.]
[Video]
Hi Chris! How're you these days?
[Video]
Well, dead now apparently, but otherwise you know. Not actually dead, so could be worse.
[Morbid humor.]
How about you?
Re: [Video]
You asked, I delivered, chief.
[Amos chuckles a little, pleased with the joke and the reward of the laugh. He likes making people laugh.]
Can't complain, myself.
Probably doin' better than some people want, honestly.
[He gestures to the birds around him and grins.]
[Video]
[So people should really chill about it. He'd much rather have the birds singing something annoying than copying wendigo screeches or something.]
[Video]
They're annoying but they're also really useful. They like to go yell at new people or check out a commotion.
So as far as an alarm system goes, they're brilliant.
[Amos nods, and one of the birds flutters up to perch on his shoulder. It pecks at his earrings, and Amos winces. That stings.]
[Video]
[Because that's definitely interesting.]
[Video]
Pretty reliable, yeah. I mean, prob'ly only me could tell the difference in what they're makin' a ruckus about, but yeah they'll check out whatever catches their interest.
Which is mostly people. I get some of 'em to fly past the arena every few days to check for newbies.
[Video]
[That'd be well worth the annoyingness, if something like the wendigo event or the blizzard or such happened again.]
[Video]
They would! Sorta. Like I just said, they check out whatever catches their interest, which is pretty much anythin' new.
They're pretty curious critters.
But unless you an hear 'em, like I do, it's hard to tell if they're harassing a person or a monster or just fighting with eachother.
[There, maybe that second explanation is clearer? Sorry, Chris, Amos isn't always the best at explaining this.]
[Video]
Unfortunately that also makes them pretty much not useful as far as Chris is concerned, and definitely doesn't outweigh how much he hates hearing them mimic wendigo screams.]
Oh. Well, at least they'd be good for guarding your place, then?
[Video]
Well, they fly around a lot. So they're really more useful as scouts than guards. But yes! They're a good early warning system for some things.
Honestly it'd be more effective if there were more animals here, but...
[Amos shrugs. He has so little to work with. Sorry, Chris.]