003 - Karaoke Time!

[tinywife]

[Hello Crux Fleet! Have a Pinoko! She's figured out how to work the communicator, so this might be a little dangerous. Maybe. Pinoko has got to stop looking for friends in all the wrong places.]

Hello everyone! My name is Pinoko!

Since Mr. Quark opened his bar, and he has karaoke, I was wondering if anyone wanted to go sing with me? They have games, and drinks, and all sorts of stuff! It's no fun to go to karaoke alone, but if you don't want to sing that's okay!

[No guarantees that Pinoko wouldn't try to get you to sing if you went with her though. But you at least have assurances that she won't laugh if you do!]

Karaoke is two nights a week. Who is up for it?

Comments

[Voice]

[stellarcoffee]

[Normally, she'd pass over this sort of thing. Bars aren't much her style, unless there's a special element to pique her interest -- historical elements, for example. And she already knows about Quark. But. A Ferengi with karaoke? That's worth some attention.]

I'm a bit surprised he included that in the establishment. You'll have to be careful with the high notes -- Ferengi tend to be sensitive about their ears.

[Voice]

[tinywife]

[Pinoko smiles, though that goes unseen. She was still really surprised that Mr. Quark had included karaoke just because she had asked about it.]

Pinoko asked him to. He included pachinko too, which is a game from where Pinoko is from. I'll have to take my friends and go visit. I hope he has songs that I actually know.

[Otherwise it would be a very interesting karaoke night.]

[Voice]

[stellarcoffee]

[Pachinko is less familiar to her -- not as much of an entertainment footnote for a 24th century Hoosier. She suspects it's a good way to make sure Quark makes plenty of money, though.]

Maybe I'll take a look sometime. I take it you're something of a singer?

[Voice]

[tinywife]

I love singing! I used to have a karaoke machine at home. It wasn't one of the big setups that you see in bars and stuff, but it was still a lot of fun.

[Pachinko wasn't really interesting to Pinoko either. Now if Quark would just install a DDR Machine, then she'd never leave his bar.]

[driftlock]

The frag is karaoke? Some kind of weird kinky scrap you humans do?

[Sure sounds like it, anyway.]

[tinywife]

What? No!

[Scandalized Pinoko is scandalized. Thanks Deadlock!]

Karaoke is really fun! It is not kinky! There's music, usually to a song that you know. And then there's a video screen. And the words to the song are displayed on the screen and you sing along to the song. It's not that hard! Acchonburike! I guess they don't have karaoke where you're from?

[Pinoko sighed. Heavily. The thought of kinky karaoke was gross okay?]

Besides, there's more than just karaoke at Mr. Quark's. They have drinks and games too. So there's other stuff to do aside from karaoke.

[driftlock]

[Hey, he's had to room with a weird Autobot who kept making everything all..weird. It's made him wonder about everyone else. ]

[Not that he's enjoying the 'wondering' process. Ewwww.]

Hnf. Don't know any songs.

[Therefore your karaoke is invalid.]

Yeah, but you're the one excited about all this weird 'singing' slag.

[tinywife]

Maybe you should learn some songs! Then you could go to karaoke! Besides, just because you don't know any songs doesn't mean you can't go to karaoke. People who can't sing go to karaoke all the time. And they give you the words right on the screen.

So there!

[Take that, giant robot man!]

Pinoko likes singing. It's fun. Don't you have anything that you like to do for fun?

[voice]

[blight_phoenix]

And what, exactly, is karaoke?

[voice]

[fuckaccuracy]

Okay basically? You get the beat to a song and then you sing the lyrics in time with the song.

Alcohol might be involved.

I'm pretty sure it has the potential of being awesome, or pathetic. But funny in either case!

Re: [voice]

[blight_phoenix]

Oh no. No no no, I remember you bringing this up before. I don't sing.

[voice]

[fuckaccuracy]

Oh come on! It'll be fun! We can call it a bonding experience, or something.

[Just with less guns and explosions.

Actually, that sounds kind of shitty.]

video;

[fuckaccuracy]

You know, I wonder what the drinking age is over here.

[not like she'd actually respect it. screw the rules.]

video;

[tinywife]

I don't know! But Mr. Quark said that he has all sorts of drinks, and games too! As well as karaoke! So there's all sorts of stuff for people to do!

[Not that Quark would necessarily card anyone, unless Fleet security cracked down on him, let's be real here.]

Would you like to come along? It will be fun!

video;

[fuckaccuracy]

Yeah sure, why not.

Re: video;

[tinywife]

Yay! What is your name, anyway? I don't think we've met.

I'm Pinoko!

[She'd like to have a headcount of who she would be dragging to karaoke with her, after all.]

[video]

[zouichi]

Huh. That sounds fun.

I guess I can show up if it's a regular thing, but I've never really done karaoke before. Wonder if they've got snacks like the bars back home...

[video]

[tinywife]

Hi Zouichi! I'm glad to see you got off of Sharef okay!

[Big smile! She had enjoyed shopping with him.]

Well, if they're going to have drinks, and it's a bar, I can't imagine it would be that different. I mean, the bars where Pinoko's from have food and stuff too. So I imagine this one will too.

Re: [video]

[zouichi]

Same here. So much for relaxation, huh?

[Not that he was complaining; he needed a little action now and then.]

Food, probably, but I'm going to guess they don't have karaage or anything like that.

Come to think of it, I'm curious to see how they'll handle the playlist. I mean, everyone in the fleet speaks the same language, but I only know songs in Japanese and English.

[Voice]

[ja307020]

Am I going to be dragged to this.. event?

[Someone's feeling shy, ok.]

[Voice]

[tinywife]

[Stop being a baby Mr. Tron! And though you can't see it, you are getting the stink eye. Serious levels of it.]

Well... Pinoko promised Mr. Quark that I'd bring my friends... Are we friends again?

[She was still kind of upset about getting tossed out, okay?]

[Voice]

[ja307020]

[Subject change like the wind!]

Did you get your pot back?

[Sorry Pinoko friend is kind of a loaded word.]

voice.

[sickbays]

[Guess who has to come ruin all of the fun.]

Well, that's two nights a week I won't be dropping by.

voice.

[tinywife]

[Man. What a killjoy!]

Oh come on! That's no fun! Acchonburike! You sound just like the Doctor!

voice.

[sickbays]

[Killjoy is his middle name, in a manner of speaking.]

Someone you know?