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Re: (SG) Less Than Perfection - The Office
« Reply #180 on: July 07, 2013, 01:22:41 pm »

Check the article on the magnetic rail "accidents", and carefully investigate the room we are in.
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« Reply #181 on: July 07, 2013, 02:43:50 pm »

You, following your standard ritual of checking the news before doing anything else, consider which particular piece of news you wish to know about. The inspiring tale of Leaden Claw, the cutting-edge engineered creation that could and did put victory above and beyond its own personal safety, or the rather more pertinent bit about the maglev accidents?

After a mental coin flip, you decide the accidents take priority right now, so you quickly look them up. Essentially, the news say that some people with a reasonable media presence and a rather comprehensive conspiracy theory background have said that it is very likely that the so-called "accidents" really aren't accidents at all! These trains are fail-safe, after all - got permanent magnets in the guideways, so how could a train derail on them? And the idea that a head-on collision could happen in this day and age by sheer accident is equally ludicrous. Experts, upon hearing this, have said that that's... actually not inaccurate. Huh. Still, there's no official confirmation for any of this, as the "investigation is ongoing".

Hm. Okay. You slowly sit up, wincing as your wound makes itself known, and look around. You conclude that you can't see much from this position, as it is still rather dark. You suppose these suited guys have low-light vision or something.

"Where am I?" you ask the entire room at once. Only one guy pays attention to you, though, the one reading the manual. It's the kindly one. Well, you assume so, because that's the way he's looking at you.

"You're awake? I'm glad. You were out for a while, you know. Finally we can get you out of here."

"Where's Ms. Bartolucci?" you ask.

"Oh, she's dead," the guy remarks in an offhand fashion. "Went out the breach, you see, straight into the heart of the poisonous chemical irritant cloud or something. What a crazy thing to do. You're free now! And so are all your coworkers! Sweet, huh?"

You feel a not insignificant amount of fear bubbling up within you and rapidly transforming into rage, your breath becoming shallow and your blood running cold. The nerve on the son of a bitch, to kill your treasured employer like that! And then he tells you how that's a good thing, the prick!

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« Reply #182 on: July 07, 2013, 02:56:01 pm »

((I was right. I guess these must either be faulty models or naturals that want to free engineered people, since I think Mannkorpf would be thorough enough to make the engineered people not revolt.))

Read the news on the executives escaping.
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« Reply #183 on: July 07, 2013, 03:02:22 pm »

"Please excuse me while I not take that at face value."
Blubber a bit? and read the happiest chunk of news around. Besides, now we dont have to deal with Jerry.
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« Reply #184 on: July 07, 2013, 11:39:50 pm »

Man, I missed some important stuff this weekend. So ... the mistress and her paramour are dead, we've been marked and sworn to obedience to some mysterious, callous, and dangerous group whose goals are far different to our own, and we are very angry and about to get into a heated interchange with our captor-liberators. Yell and scream. Mention Ms. Bartolucci's good point. Cry.

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« Reply #185 on: July 08, 2013, 05:28:42 am »

You've never actually experienced grief, to be honest. It's difficult to say what you're supposed to do when someone tells you they killed the only person of any importance in your life. Your first impulse is, as usual, to look at the news. The ones about executives escaping.

Well, you see, the executives in charge of handling the horrible disaster happening at the chemical plant, they decided to run away from all the angry mobs of corporate security out to get them and extract payment for all of the damage their negligence has caused, and they went and made a gunfight and adventure-rich escape from the corporate HQ, successfully evading death for now. You suppose... well, you don't suppose anything. Right now, you don't really give a shit about those guys, so supposing anything about them is not on your priority list.

Okay, that didn't help much. What else are you supposed to do? You feel like you should do... something, really. Though brutal violence is certainly an option, you find it best not to encourage such awful behavior. Instead, you choose to blubber a bit and process this information in only the way a really emotional person could, which is to say by not really thinking about. But blubbering, while undeniably something you see as something a grieving person would do, doesn't quite capture how you feel. What could... oh, right.

You start screaming in a shrill, incomprehensible fashion about Ms. Bartolucci and her good points, and tears well up in your eyes as you try to drive it into the man in front of you that you do not just kill nice people like that! It's rather fortunate that you can't seem to properly string a sentence together, as you really can't think of anything good to say about your employer. After all, you only really met her today, and she was rather out of it, you think. You do seem to be making the guy uncomfortable, though, and that makes you feel a tiny bit better. More in control, at least.

"Calm down, lady! You might not see it yet, but this is a great opportunity for you! And for mankind as well!"

That's odd, you think he was just asking you to stab him in the eardrum with a dull knife. Repeatedly. It's a strange request, certainly, but you feel you should do it. It's only good manners, after all.

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« Reply #186 on: July 08, 2013, 05:33:45 am »

Check the news on Leaden Claw, and calm down and ask the man how it is a great opportunity for us.
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« Reply #187 on: July 08, 2013, 07:51:47 am »

let's not bother with the news for a bit. Save that for a slow point. Instead, just simply look confused and reply: -snifle- "I don't understand. What are you talking about?"

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« Reply #188 on: July 08, 2013, 04:08:04 pm »

Then ad in at the end:
"You really want me to stab you in the eardrum with a dull knife repeatedly?"

Then read more news.
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« Reply #189 on: July 08, 2013, 05:07:13 pm »

Okay, maybe you need to calm down. Fast.

[0] Yeah, you'll stop thinking about stab-stab-stab-stab-stabbing! this guy for a moment. Take a deep breath. Let your heartbeat slow a smidgen. Read the news. Like about that Leaden Claw. Yeah. That sounds calming.

Ah, Leaden Claw looks to be in fairly good condition - you can thank its advanced regeneration capabilities for that. And the marvelous care at the Chelo Industries Biomedical Center, that too. Looks like the creature will survive just fine. Yes. And then it'll live happily until it gets the chance to smash into another barrier at full speed, because that's what it was made for. But that's okay. Everything's okay.

Well, it isn't, but there's nothing sensible you can do about it anyway, so you suppose you should calm yourself before someone gets hurt. You stop staring in the distance and look back at the killer stranger. You sniffle, realizing that you probably look terrible right now.

"I don't understand. What are you talking about?"

The man stands up, getting closer to you and looking into your eyes earnestly.

"I'm talking about you! Us! The engineered and our plight! We can be free, don't you understand? There's only five million naturals in the world and a billion engineered, and yet somehow they tell us what to do? That's messed up! Should be the other way around, don't you think? We all got the skills to run society, to do all the really necessary jobs, keep everything in order. The naturals, meanwhile, they just dine in their luxury homes, sit on their asses and so forth. And they call this the perfect society, since they don't need to enslave any of their own to do anything anymore - they've got us now!"

He looks just about ready to spit on the floor, but then seems to remember that he'd probably just unnecessarily dirty up his faceplate.

"One question."

"What?"

"Do you really want me to stab you in the eardrum repeatedly with a dull knife?"

The man stares at you for a second, then takes a step back, putting a chair between himself and you. You're not entirely sure what that means. Couldn't he just say yes no?

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« Reply #190 on: July 08, 2013, 05:16:09 pm »

Check the news on Antarctica, and ask the guy why it should be us ruling them. There's nothing that would stop us from sharing rule.
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« Reply #191 on: July 08, 2013, 05:47:47 pm »

"I'm only nine months old. I don't know anything about ruling! I barely know anything about hostessing. All I know is that I really like cake, and that the winner of the engineered derby is going to be okay, except that it isn't and, and ..." -sob- "I just wanted to serve well and enjoy a conversation with my boss today. It was my big break! Jasmine was so proud of me, and Jasmine was so kind and helpful. I ..." -sniffle- "I've ruined everything!"
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« Reply #192 on: July 08, 2013, 09:46:57 pm »

Yes. To both.
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« Reply #193 on: July 09, 2013, 06:25:01 am »

"Why do we have to rule them? Why can't we share?" you ask of the man, who still looks a bit put off by your earlier remark.

"Because we are better than they are! We are built to be better than they are - more intelligent, more durable, more capable! They are superfluous, inefficient! And yet they are rulers! We could also be rulers, just as capable and skilled, probably moreso!"

For some reason, this doesn't quite ring true to you. It soon occurs to you why exactly.

"I'm only nine months old. I don't know anything about ruling! I barely know anything about hostessing. All I know is that I really like cake, and that the winner of the engineered derby is going to be okay, except that it isn't and, and... *sob* just wanted to serve well and enjoy a conversation with my boss today. It was my big break! Jasmine was so proud of me, and Jasmine was so kind and helpful. I... *sniffle* I've ruined everything!"

The man looks at you with a touch of guilt on his face.

"Don't worry, sweetie. You've lost your boss, sure, but you might gain a family. Doesn't that sound nice?"

As you think about this, the news story about Antarctica pops into your head. Looks like Antarctica's going the way of most other reservations in the world and becoming a nature park, complete with traveler trails and schemes to attract tourist attention. Apparently, this also involves zoning some of the area of the continent as residential, with plans to construct both subterranean villas and a rather large hotel at the South Pole. Naturally, all of these will be optimized for the climate, filled with most comforts a person might expect, not to mention carefully designed to prevent any waste escaping out into the environment where it would hardly decompose at all. It is expected that the place will become a fashionable place to visit in the coming years. How nice.

But anyway, that's not really relevant to the situation at hand. You aren't sure what to say now. This guy really seems to be convinced that he'd make a good ruler of the world. And he also seems eager to make you one as well.

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« Reply #194 on: July 09, 2013, 06:29:19 am »

Considering that we like cake, look up the story about cake.
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