Audio then Video | UN: oceangem

[riptidequeen]

[SO, she got that whole sex education thing done and dusted. Now she's trying to figure out the device a bit more so at first it's audio.]

Okay so it's like this, and oh!

[Visuals now! Showing anyone who is watching this a woman who is. Well. Blue, literally she's the colour blue. She mutters under her breath something that sounds like "Oh like the video call" before turning her full attention to the device.

Now to ask an important question, especially after what things she has seen so far.]

... Is sex really that important here?

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[riptidequeen]

[Oh My God, Karen, You Can’t Just Ask Someone Why They're Blue.]

No, I've just been holding my breath for too long.

[Mmm, delicious sarcasm.]

[nipzips]

[ oops. he knows sarcasm when he sees (hears) it. ]

sorry, i was just pretty curious. i've never seen, uh ... someone who's blue before.

[riptidequeen]

Well, now you have. Congrats.

[nipzips]

yeah ...

so is everyone back where you come from also, uh, blue ...?

[riptidequeen]

... No, there are Gems of a lot of different colours.

[nipzips]

Gems? Is that what your people are called? That's a pretty weird name.

[riptidequeen]

Yes, and it's not that weird. It's what we are, we're gems.

[As in literal gemstones.]

[nipzips]

Like ... the rock?

[riptidequeen]

Yes.

[Here she's going to make her point with a visual, so enjoy her struggling with the device so she can show that large teardrop-shaped lapis lazuli gemstone on her back.]

video!

[nipzips]

[ It feels a bit weird to still be texting when she's been on video for a while now, so he changes too. Lapis will see a d00d with weird hair (but don't tell him it's weird). ]

Wow, it's really pretty. But only that part's the gem, right? The rest of you looks almost human.

[riptidequeen]

[Don't worry it's another moment before she's facing the screen again, so she doesn't react to his ridiculous hair just yet.]

Oh, the gem is me. Everything else is like, hm... Light with weight?

[nipzips]

Just light? Like a ghost and stuff? If someone touches you, do they feel anything?

[riptidequeen]

No, not like a ghost. I have mass, which means I can interact with the world and such. So if anyone touched me it's like touching anyone else.

[nipzips]

That's pretty hard to get my head around. Do you eat though? Like everyone else.

[riptidequeen]

I don't need to eat, I could eat if I felt like it though.