adstring_npc: (Chairman)
Adstringéndum NPC ([personal profile] adstring_npc) wrote2010-04-06 07:45 pm

{Unified Universe Project} [Video]

[The PCD comes on, focused on a rather orderly desk. The 'inbox' on the desk is full and Donna is standing next to it. Chairman Springsteen leans into the shot, reaching to grab and open one of the files.]

No, they all say the same thing. Reasonless panic. [He shrugs and moves it to the 'outbox.']

It's not their fault that you have them looking for anything that changes. Or that they're stupid mice, the most of them. How big is the change? [Donna's smirking and leaning over the desk, toward him. It can be noted that her blouse is low-cut, and her heels are perhaps a bit higher than are professional.]

Less than .002%. Nothing to panic over. Though the chemists are bothered. Some substance they were messing with turned into cola. [Springsteen is smirking as he rests his elbows on the desk.]

Well. This world is... [Donna shrugs.] ...predictable in its unpredictability. If they're so bothered, send some of them out. Bao wants out of her cage.

[The Chairman shakes his head.] No. I have her busy with other things.

[Donna straightens, clearly pissed off. Her lips tighten.] Another side project that you didn't tell me about?

[He snorts.] Hardly. It got approved by all of us months ago. It's just taken time to get her to head down that road. She's hardly as biddable as Morimoto was. He was useful, you know.

To a point. [She no longer looks quite as angry.] Send some of the mice out to look around, then. Ones that the snakes won't bite.

Snakes don't bite mice. They swallow them whole. [Another file gets opened; he's not paying so much attention to Donna anymore.] But some of ours should be safe. Send Andrew in on your way out. We'll pick a few.

[Slowly, very slowly, Donna adjusts her blouse. Her voice is frosty.] On my way out. There were several other things on the agenda, as you--

[The PCD times out.]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
You're suggesting teeth be added to tomatoes!

[He shakes his head. This is the first time he's been caught off guard by an Outsider.]

My tomatoes don't need teeth, and I'm not going to start eating things that bite back.

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[identity profile] dreams-are-mine.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Rhode taps her lips with her forefinger]

Politics, how boring. Invent a better story~ Where she's always been hopeless for you but you have to feign disinterest for both your reputations. &hearts

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[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Then I should be precisely the sort of person you like to keep company with, shouldn't I?

I wonder that you "Insiders" seem so quick to mistrust. Once bitten, perhaps?

Or maybe you're all mice.

[identity profile] cornered-circle.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Just making an' offer! Got t'make offers so you know what options you want on your tomatoes, yes?

[Looks a little puzzled at the reaction]

An' that's fine and sensible enough. You don't look too snakey, so at least you don't have to worry about eatin' mice.

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[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
So sorry I'm not entertaining.

My wife doesn't care, and no one here outranks me.

[identity profile] neodaiyoukai.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Mice?
al_truism: (Sigh)

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[personal profile] al_truism 2010-04-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't it be much simpler to just ask us if we've seen anything? Cooperation isn't impossible.

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[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Because I don't give a damn about you?

Go practice insults elsewhere for a few decades. Maybe they won't sound so contrived, then.

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[identity profile] dreams-are-mine.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
You should be! Next time think of a more romantic story!

Why doesn't your wife mind? Is she in love with someone else?

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
They're tomatoes! You just eat them...

[The Chairman sighs, staring at her through the PCD.]

Are you human?

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[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Why would I care to make it entertaining?

She has money, jewelry, security. She doesn't care about anything else.

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Rodents. They scamper.

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[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
You don't know what you're looking for. Why take the time to inform you? You can cooperate with anyone we send out there if you care so much.

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[identity profile] dreams-are-mine.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Because it's more fun.

See you're doing it again. Instead you should say she's lonely because you're cold to her, but what she really longs for is someone to care.

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[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh Chairman, you're too easy.]

I don't believe age could teach me much, if all you have to offer is "shut up" and "I don't give a damn".

Not used to being challenged, are you, or knocked off balance?

I fear for your little Insiders, if you are the best they have to offer.

[identity profile] cornered-circle.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
After washing the bugs off, sure. 'Less the bugs already got inside.

...And a'course I am! Perfectly human!

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[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
She's a selfish bitch who married me because I had money and power. If she's so lonely, she shouldn't have set her sights on me.

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[identity profile] immortalservant.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
You should turn the Animal Planet channel on for once. [he chuckles] snakes bite their victims, whether its to inject venom, suffocate, or break their neck, and then swallow them whole.

Its rather bothersome to try and swallow something that won't stop moving.

The term you're looking for is chew. Which snakes cannot do.

Personally I'd rather be further up the food chain and be the mongoose.

But enough of that.

Care to elaborate on the part of "outsiders" and "insiders"?
Edited 2010-04-07 01:05 (UTC)

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[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Poor thing. So cliche, so boring. I've heard everything you're sayingg a thousand times, now.
al_truism: (Being a better man)

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[personal profile] al_truism 2010-04-07 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
It depends on who you send, and what for.

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[identity profile] dreams-are-mine.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Why did you marry her in the first place, then? Politics again?

And how do you know she doesn't want you~ to be the one to comfort her?

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[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Then perhaps you should have learnt how to respond by now, no?

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Then you don't eat the bug-infested tomatoes.

You're not from my Earth. You think differently than most.

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[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Because she has big tits.

Why would I care? She's vapid. She'll probably be sobbing about breaking a nail again.

[identity profile] cornered-circle.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Unless you like bugs. Poor things aren't very popular, tho'.

Someone has to! But I wonder how many Earths are there, floatin' around. Awful boring name, callin' a planet after dirt, but so many places use it.

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