Vroom Vroom

[dee_lorean81]

[There is a DeLorean, heavily modified, doing laps in an empty, paved part of the Nexus. One might wonder what the driver is doing -- practicing for a race? Working on their turning? Just burning rubber because they're bored?

And then one might get a little closer -- and see that there IS no driver.

. . .perhaps it might be fairer to say that the car is bored.]

Comments

[dee_lorean81]

Well, like you said, it's what your instincts are telling you all the time. I imagine that gets draining.

[palmerthing]

Yeah, it does. *Palmer thinks for a moment.* Might help if you were mostly the car, but you can't really swim as one now can you? Guess I should get out then. *One last fish and then the Thing glides onto the beach, changing back as it goes and wrapping a towel around himself once the legs return. Pronouns are really becoming a mess now.*

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee surfs back to shore as well, shaking herself off a bit as she follows him up onto the sand] Swimming as one is a bad idea -- though being a car on the sand isn't great shakes either. Though -- my hover conversion does work again, so I could fly ABOVE the sand. . .

[palmerthing]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. You wanna get a bit off the beach? Or just, uh, above it?

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee chuckles] I think I can manage that. . .let's see. . . [she shakes herself off a bit more, then jumps and -- well, it's a weird sight, but it ends in a DeLorean hovering over the beach, wheels rotated flat with light coming out of the hubcaps]

[palmerthing]

*Palmer smiles at the sight--and though it's small there's definitely a relaxing, an untensing, as the prey stimulus is removed. It's a lot easier to play Palmer when there's nothing for him to be violent towards.*

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee gives a quick honk of her horn and does some circles over the sand, making sure to stay well-clear of the surf]

[palmerthing]

*Palmer grins at her, wringing water out of his hair as he does so.* I feel a lot better now. Probably needed the exercise more than I thought.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee's voice crackles through the radio again] Glad to hear it! Though do you mean the swimming, or the shapeshifting?

[palmerthing]

Oh, both. *Of course it's also a big help that she's a car now, but the others are nice too.*

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee goes in a slow circle around him] I guess it's weird for you to just stay in one shape for that long, huh?

[palmerthing]

Back home was worse, but yeah. Even liking being human as much as I do, it's a bit cramped.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee toots her horn] Cramped?

[palmerthing]

Something like that. Or like the way you start going numb if you don't move for too long.

[dee_lorean81]

Right. . .pins and needles, but for a shape instead of a limb.

[palmerthing]

Basically. Getting bound up in one shape feels weird.

[dee_lorean81]

That's something I don't know -- I only have the two, and these days both feel pretty "right" to me. Though I guess then if I got stuck as one or the other, unable to switch, that would feel pretty weird.

[palmerthing]

Humans have relatively compact frames--short neck, not many limbs, no tail. Not even much in the way of fur. Tall, yeah, but it still feels a bit confining sometimes.

[dee_lorean81]

Not enough stuff to fiddle with, basically? [she jokingly wags a door] Try being a car sometime. I don't get ANY limbs to play with. Or fur. Unless someone puts some fuzzy dice in me.

[palmerthing]

*A laugh.* Do wheels count as limbs? Stubby ones, though.

[dee_lorean81]

Yeah, they're basically feet with no legs. [wiggles her doors again] These probably count more as "limbs." Better range of motion and all that.

[palmerthing]

So in a way you have more limbs, you just can't do much with them.

[dee_lorean81]

I can wave, drive around, time travel, and turn small animals into roadkill. [pause] Don't do that last deliberately, but. . .

[palmerthing]

*A laugh.* Alright, fair. You just can't you know, go indoors or manipulate objects.

[dee_lorean81]

Yeah. . .I'd say that having the human form has put into perspective how limited the car form is, but. . .that doesn't feel quite right, as I wasn't sapient before I had the human form.