two: voice

[fourcenturies]

[Adam clicks on the voice. He sighs slightly. When he speaks, you can tell he just really doesn't know what to think.]

I'm sorry in advance.

[You hear the tell-tale signs of a cd being inserted in a boombox. After a while, this song starts to play. All three minutes and nineteen seconds of it. When the song finishes, Adam speaks again, sounding slightly bemused as well as confused as all hell.]

So yes. Crystal, that's S Club 7. I'm fairly certain that listening to music like that is considered torture in some places.

Does anybody want this bloody cd? If not, I'm throwing it in the trash.

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[peaceinchaos]

Oh.

They do still work.

[ She's not sure how else to respond.]

[fourcenturies]

At least this one does. I'm not sure if they all work or I just got lucky.

[He says 'just got lucky' like most people say 'got the plague'.]

[medusalith]

[ Please let that not be her sister he's referring to with this music. Please. ]

This is considered music?

[fourcenturies]

I'm afraid so.

[crystalia]

Oh, my-- _{( she just dissolves into laughter. )}

[fourcenturies]

You know, I listened to this thing for three minutes and they never told me just what an 'S Club Party' was.

[gentle]

[WOW HIS HIPSTER SENSIBILITIES ARE SO OFFENDED RIGHT NOW.]

What was that?! Is that what people listen to in your world?! It's terrible, absolutely terrible! Do not pass that CD on to anyone-- throw it away at once!

[fourcenturies]

It was 'S Club 7'. It's not what people listen to in my world, but I think they used to listen to it. The copyright is around 1999.

[spongetastic]

[sorry, Adam, he has to laugh]

Where did you even get that?

[fourcenturies]

The catacombs. Wanda led an expedition down there and I brought this back as a souvenir.

[ima_something]

[That was awful, actually awful.]

If you like, I'll destroy it so completely it can never be played again?

[fourcenturies]

[A pause, while he thinks.]

Let me hold onto it for a day or so, then you can obliterate it.

[fortissimos]

[ No... no. She likes music a lot, but not like that. ]

What the heck was that?! [ It's almost offensive, tbh. ] There's nothing wrong with pop music, but that's just... ugh!

[fourcenturies]

'Ugh' is putting it mildly.

[Private]

[breakablegirl]

[SNERK.] Welcome to the modern age of pop music. All beat, no sense.

It gets a little better in a few years.

[Private]

[fourcenturies]

If you'll allow me a moment of showing my age, back in my day we had actual music.

voice

[kneecaptain]

You got any Vera Lynn?

voice

[fourcenturies]

God, I wish. Now that was music.

[He hums a bit of 'White Cliffs of Dover' to himself, then sighs wistfully.] That woman could sing.

[draconic_historian]

Was there a point to this, er, "musical" interlude?

[fourcenturies]

Educating the public, of course.

voice

[gevurah]

S Club 8 was worse.

voice

[fourcenturies]

Please be joking.

voice;

[charming_jerk]

Goddamn, did NO good music survive to this century?!

voice;

[fourcenturies]

[An exasperated sigh on Adam's end.]

If any did, I haven't found it yet.

[demonbloodblade]

...and the rectors said I was the worst choirist they'd ever heard. They'd be reaching for weapons if they heard that.

Large heavy weapons.

Polearms.

Or perhaps just flame-strike the box.

[fourcenturies]

Perhaps all of the above?

video;

[bittertears]

You can hardly consider that to be music.

permavoice

[fourcenturies]

I don't.

text;

[painfeels]

That was... something.

voice on his end

[fourcenturies]

[Adam chuckles slightly.]

That's putting it mildly.

[audio]

[inline]

...The hell, how'd it manage to last this long? You think someone saved this to mess with us?

[audio]

[fourcenturies]

If I knew, I'd give you an answer.