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.]

[Voice]

[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?

[Voice]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
I keep hoping that one day someone will be original. So far you're all disappointing.

[Voice]

[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It is not for the prey to be entertained.

When you send your pawns from the safety of your hole... let them know first, about the dangers of the big, bad wilderness of the Outside, and the dangers they face --

In the form of unoriginal children.

[Voice]

[identity profile] adstring-npc.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, right.

You're nothing. But if you want to send your dog to attack people who can't give you information or get you anywhere, that's your business.

[Voice]

[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. I see you've done your research.

[Voice]

[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Maaaay or may not be vaguely impressed, but he's pretty sure someone else came up with the PCD idea. Yep.]

Then you'll know by now that I am not content to employ mice.

And as for attacking those that venture... I wouldn't dream of it.

[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.

[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.]

[Voice]

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

[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...?

[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.

[Voice]

[identity profile] other-sights.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
If you say so.