sharpe: (a trance sublime and strange)
richard sharpe. ([personal profile] sharpe) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2013-01-05 01:09 am

o2 ✍ sharpe's distractions ✍ video

[ The video opens to a pair of hands. Hands, paper, and a line of tobacco. A cigarette being rolled before the camera is tipped upwards and Sharpe comes into view. He drags a hand through his hair, which is more than slightly wet by the rain. It's obvious after a while that he's outside, sitting below the awning of one of the houses in the Hold. His rifle, leaning against his shoulder, is completely dry.

He takes out a lighter and snaps it on, lighting the homemade cigarette and taking a drag. ]


Convenient things, these. [ Tosses the lighter up, and catches it again. ] Works better than any flint. [ Pause, and he shrugs. ] But I ain't here ta talk 'bout fires.

I'm a soldier and I ain't use ta just waiting 'round here. Even travelling and sightseeing [ he grins at this, because going out to the Outlands was fun but not the kind of sightseeing and travel most gentlemen go for ] gets tiring after a while. [ He leans a bit further back against the wall. ] There any books 'round? [ Beat, then he clarifies, because his accent tends to mark him as illiterate: ] Fer reading, I mean. English'd do, but if there's something in French or Spanish, I ain't going ta say no.

[ He takes a drag of the cigarette contemplatively. ]

Stories'll do as well, if no one's got any books ta read.

[ He makes to switch off the transmission, but then he seems to remember something. Scramble, scramble, oops, ash and burnt paper on the camera, which he brushes away irritatedly. ]

Can someone explain ta me how a man and a woman can share the same house without being married or related ta each other? [ He tips his head ta the side. ] It don't say much for decency or the woman's reputation, no. [ Beaaaaaaaaaaaat. ]

And what's those noises on the thirteen floor of that damned building we've been housed in, eh?

[ This is actually Sharpe's point in making the transmission but he wants books as well. Whatever. Look, it's shut off for real now. ]

a little bit later, 10% (crappily) encrypted to morgana

[ Awkwardly: ] How fares you, milady?
keep_smiling: (laughing)

video;

[personal profile] keep_smiling 2013-01-05 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
"People" might be good! [He laughs]
keep_smiling: (shrugging)

Re: video;

[personal profile] keep_smiling 2013-01-05 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You shouldn't have to. It's not a crime anymore. And I hardly doubt that's the sort of thing the Exsilium police force are going to concern themselves with when we have other things to worry about, eh?
keep_smiling: (don't mind me)

video;

[personal profile] keep_smiling 2013-01-08 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't! In some places. I can't really speak for some places in the southern USA, yet. [He laughs.] But I'm sure the same thing stands here! Much more to worry about than who marries who, or who lives in who's flat. Seems silly, what with everything else going on.
keep_smiling: (got this bridge to sell you too)

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[personal profile] keep_smiling 2013-01-09 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, quite true! And, well, you know. War, fighting for survival, acclimating scores of people to life in a new era and possibly world... that sort of thing!