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.]

[Video]

[identity profile] dreams-are-mine.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
But we're not in the real world, mister, we're in some stupid crazy world. Wouldn't it make just as much sense as anything else if you were in charge because everyone loved you and you save puppies?

So are you honest, or is it just rude with connections?

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Sophia, Sophia... [He's flipping pages.]

Fallen from grace, helped to create the world. Why would your sister name you?

[Voice]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
I called him, or it, a dog.

Good, then.

[Voice]

[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
As do I. But then, he's been called many things.

[Video]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Except everyone doesn't love me, and there's no reason to work to get loved when they serve anyway.

All of the above. Combined with the intelligence to know that speaking the truth without tact doesn't make rude things any less rude, and doesn't excuse the rudeness.

Re: [Video] (dashes are him spacing things out verbally.)

[identity profile] immortalservant.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I know that much, you idiot.

What I do not know, nor trust for that matter, is this one you plan to send out among us. Why not inform us instead? Looking to get rid of more of your club members?

[Voice]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
This is relevant?

[Voice]

[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Is it?

[The voice is soft, innocent, could be any child's.]

[Video]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Of course you knew that. That's why you needed elaboration on insiders and outsiders. [The Chairman has a very patronizing fake smile on.]

Why bother informing people? Why would I care what you know or trust?

[identity profile] siriuslymagical.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
I never knew we had a mouse problem here in Adstringendum. Unless, of course, you're talking about the ill-tempered rabbits running around. Reminds me of that Muggle film with the killer bunny. You guys ever see that one?

[Voice]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
You're the one that brought it up.

[Video]

[identity profile] dreams-are-mine.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I still like my version better.

Mm, most people wouldn't know the difference, you're right. But why do people listen to you? What connections mean anything in this place?

[Voice]

[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Am I? You're the one who brought him up.

Regardless...

I think you have a few important questions to ask yourself now, don't you...?

[identity profile] cornered-circle.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
No reason, she just likes naming things, I s'pose.

...you 'ave books you can look me up in?

Re: [Video]

[identity profile] immortalservant.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
If you want us home, then of course you care.

In some strange way or other.

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Where, in all of that, did you get rabbits? And movies?

[identity profile] dualwielded.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Wrong. Snakes kill the mice before they eat them.

Use better analogies for your employees.

[Someone's been reading. He's not as ignorant as he used to be.]

[Video]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone likes their own versions better.

Because they know that I lead them, and I have in the past, and I've done well. Why go to someone unknown in a place as strange as this?

[Video]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
We'll get rid of you without your help. So no, I don't care. We don't care.

[Voice]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes.

What I want my wife to make for dinner. How to make sure tomatoes never wind up in the botanist's lab. Very important.

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
But normally parents name.

No. I have a file on you, but that doesn't help me much. I have a book on religious terms, though.

Tell me about yourself, Arienette Sophia.

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Tell her.

[Video]

[identity profile] dreams-are-mine.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
That's true, you'd have to be more than a jerk to get people angry enough to stop listening to you, if they're used to listening to you.

[identity profile] cornered-circle.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
They do that too, but why stick with just one name, when it wears out?

Nothin' much to me, so no need for a book. An' there's nothing to tell. Don't have any powers, never seen any of th' good wars. Entirely normal!

[Video]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I could see many hurting her. The vampire, the homunculi, so on and so forth. You've all been pulled into this world, but you're not the same as us. Don't ever think you are.

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