They say there's nothing new under the sun

[10_20_15_5_50]

Who: Hiro, Sam, and anybody else who wants to watch Tremors
What: Watching Tremors and possibly discussing swear words prior to the show
Where: The new outdoor theatre in the Northwest
When: Backdated to Thursday night, dusk.
Warnings: Language? Probably language.

The ‘official story’ was simple, if outlandish: Sam had happened across a VHS tape of Tremors (true) while lost (false) in the dense mire of mess which was Hiro’s room. Though the tape had actually been uncovered in the Warehouse, she had no intention of saying so; she didn’t want to wonder if the truth would reach Dirge, or want to deal with the seeker if he heard and, hearing, took it into his head to reclaim the cassette. What she did want was to make good on what she’d said to Jadewing.

’Sometime, we’ll find for you a few decent horror flicks.’

Tremors had turned out to be the first of that few. With luck, and a little---or a lot---of looking, there would be others, and so the whole theatre project had been buttressed by the hope of having more movies. The screen was situated at one side of the clearing Irja had kindly created, suspended between the trunks of two massive trees and braced by branches across its back. (The controls were there, as well, and at two elevations; the human-scale console sheltered in what looked, to Sam, like an ice shack.) A viewing deck had been built opposite the screen, encircling one wide walnut tree at a height which would have any occupants up enough to talk to standing Cybertronians comfortably, without craning. The deck had been outfitted with a ladder, a small collection of mismatched chairs, and (importantly!) a small free-standing fire pit. Two ridges crossed the clearing so that people could park angled up to better see the screen, but the clearing itself was otherwise almost ordinary---and only ‘almost’ on account of its creation.

All things considered, the set-up was pretty sweet.

Comments

[the_other_green_seeker]

"I'm really the wrong bot to ask about the Dinobots' personalities," he said. "I know what they look like and what they can do. They're powerful and dangerous opponents in either mode. Most all of them tend to be pretty dumb, though, especially the first three, Grimlock, Slag, and Sludge. Yes, his name's actually Slag; his main weapon is fire, and he's the most violent of the group, so it fits. Snarl and Swoop, the two built later, seem to be slightly brighter, but not by much. Grimlock's beast mode is a tyranosaurus rex, Slag's a triceratops, Sludge's a brontosaurus, Snarl's a stegosaurus, and Swoop's a pteranodon. Other than that I don't know much, but they are Autobots so I doubt they'd be kept around if they couldn't at least be civil with humans."

Jadewing shrugged. "As for 'Jurassic Park', I've heard of it but not seen it. Like I said, the selection of human movies I had access to was pretty limited. Wouldn't mind seeing it though, I guess."

"Really?", he asked, a bit surprised that humans would use the word thus too. "What does 'slag' mean in that context?"