unflagging: ([f] A gusty joy far too wild to be sane)
[R. F.] ([personal profile] unflagging) wrote in [community profile] poly_chromatic2012-12-04 03:24 pm

[ σиє ]

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Hel--

[Can you get feedback on the Network? Yes? No? Well, there's a burst of static anyway. I mean, there's a reason he has been known to keep mostly away from PA systems and microphones.

The screeching static clears.

A cheery-sounding voice emerges--cheery, friendly, jovial, maybe even disarming. Friendly, friendly guy here. Clearly.]


Wow, wonder what that was.

[No, he doesn't wonder at all. Not that anyone else needs to know.]

Hello? Hello? Okay, okay. Sounds all right to me.

Snappy little phone here, I gotta say. I kinda like it. Top of the line, right?

Hey, but, I think I saw someone with one of those headsets in earlier too. There was a time when those things were quite the rage. I do recall it. You know, they called them "Jawbones" at the time.

[And he laughs, bright and dark at once, but he won't say what's so damn funny. Jawbones, though. It's funny. If you have to ask, you'll never know.]

Anyway, everyone--well, everyone who thought it was...cool, or who wanted to prove a thing or two about their money and their importance and ended up proving quite the opposite--wandered around with these things plugged in their ears looking a little like, well, like robots [more brightly dark laughter] and like they were shouting at thin air or phantom hallucinations like some kind of deranged madman when they were really just calling out long distance out over the airwaves. And nobody could tell the difference between galloping insanity and telephone calls. But how much difference is there, really?

That was the Zeitgeist then: everyone was always talking to someone who wasn't there.

[The slightest of intentional pauses. Can you feel him grinning on the other end?]

Are you out there?

Hi!
[//voice post ends]

[ooc: Oh snap! A godmod-h4x trans-dimensional inter-temporal semi-immortal wizard troll asshole all up in your City! A few notes: permissions post is here, first of all, for all permission, question, and 4th-wally (likely him 4th-walling your character, if you want that) needs. And second, he is at present operating under a new face and an assumed identity, as is common with him (hence the PB and stuff), so expect fakery and fake names for a while!]
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[personal profile] maoser 2012-12-05 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Mao doesn't generally engage with people on the network. He is an observer -- it's Hei's job to actually talk to people.

But he's bored, and this character sets off alarm bells. It might be worthwhile to get a better read on him.]


Hello.
theassassin: (Default)

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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Would an answer put you at ease? Or would the act of answering simply make it more difficult to decide if you're talking to someone who might not actually be there?
Edited 2012-12-05 16:10 (UTC)
theassassin: (And we'll live a long life)

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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I am. Though, I'm here and not there, because were I there we wouldn't be having a conversation about the actuality of my existence.

I'm well enough.
anunluckypenny: [every drop of rain] (Nervous)

[personal profile] anunluckypenny 2012-12-05 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow. This guy is coping really well.]

Hey there. Are you doing okay?
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

I'm inclined to agree with you, hallucinations can be in fact be very real.

Good. I'm glad, I'd hate to find out that this entire time I'm nothing more than the distorted reality of a man I've not yet to be properly introduced to.
Edited 2012-12-05 16:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It is. [There's the tiniest hint of a smile in her tone.]

Natasha Romanoff. I'm assuming you've just arrived, if so, congratulations you're doing better than most. Welcome to The City.

[Actually, better than she did- mostly.]
anunluckypenny: [don't even have to read it] (Uncertain)

[personal profile] anunluckypenny 2012-12-05 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Good! I'm... good. And Penny--which is my name, not how I am.

[Sir, your exuberance is puzzling.]
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A bit of disappointment isn't it? "The City". [A pause.] But it is what it is...
Edited (fajld icons) 2012-12-05 16:55 (UTC)
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose you'll have to decide that for yourself.
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It certainly is that. It keeps us busy.
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The ones that keep us here, deities of some form or another- [She's skeptical about that part of it, not so much the next part though.] They seem to enjoy toying with us, there are... curses, most only last the day, and some are worse than others.
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh it is... so much.

[Only not so much... she just hates it here, this place has not been kind.]
Edited 2012-12-05 17:27 (UTC)
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[personal profile] theassassin 2012-12-05 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry. We're trapped here, we can't go back. Not...on our own accord, those who do go, they leave with no warning, some return later.

I've been told that this is my third time here myself, though I do not recall being here before now.

I've been trying to work that out for myself. One moment I was home, the next I was here.
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