003 ¤ [video]

[fe_male]

[ He's sort of holding up a toaster oven but he sets it down pretty quickly. ]

I've got one appliance that takes a little too much glee in burning shit, and what looks like a maudlin blender. Who wants in on this?

[ He's also set up some programs to just sort of trawl the network constantly for various things. One is the word 'pie'. Another is encrypted messages not encrypted enough to be completely hidden from him. Casual re-pimp of permissions. So, yes. Both of these wouldn't be immediately noticed without someone else doing some sort of tracking of their own.

aka: Tony is bored. watch out ]

Comments

[boughtabookstore]

Hah. If these are their army rations, you'd think they were treating their soldiers well.

[fe_male]

True.

I might like this place more if it wasn't contradictory like that. In my made up ideas about it.

[boughtabookstore]

It's just as contradictory in reality.

You seem bored here.

[fe_male]

I am insert-colossal-adjective-here bored here. Aren't you?

[boughtabookstore]

I'm fairly bored most of the time, yes.

When I get truly bored I go travelling.

[fe_male]

I like travelling. Do you want to travel? That shouldn't be too hard.

[boughtabookstore]

If you don't mind camping. It gets fairly uncivilized out in the majority of the rest of the island.

Travelling to the mainland is a little more difficult.

[fe_male]

Oh right. This is not-England. Camping, you know, really not my bag. Surprise, surprise. When I say travelling I mean... Well, I don't know. Normal travel is sort of ridiculously out, yeah.

[boughtabookstore]

I would never have guessed that. Normal travel is certainly out though, yes. You can try the United Earth if you don't mind having to go undercover the whole time, but it's dangerous.

[fe_male]

How about we travel like, 'The Grand Tour of Not Totally Shitty Restaurants and Bars Nearby'? That sounds way easier. Potentially more fun. I'm not a great spy, you know, I have some pretty defining characteristics. [ aka. I glow in the dark. ]

[boughtabookstore]

It's worth a try at least, I suppose. I've been to some but not nearly all.

You do make a very unique spy.

[fe_male]

Maybe we can turn it into a club. You know, give the drab inhabitants of the whatever this is something to look forward to on someday nights.

Yeah, 'unique' and 'spy' never really seem to go well together, right?

[boughtabookstore]

I'd be careful about who you open it to. Not everyone here is worth entertaining.

I have a few friends in the CIA. They're as bread and butter as it comes. So at a guess, no, unique isn't a characteristic they look for in spies.

[fe_male]

People who aren't worth entertaining are usually pretty entertaining in themselves.

Good thing I'm a superhero then. About as anti=spy as you can get.

[boughtabookstore]

If you say so.

Flashy costumes, explosions - yes, I'd agree. How does that work out for you?

[fe_male]

Hey, if no one else, I am a prime example of this, okay. Just look at me. [ He's entertaining as shit, and totally not worth the effort put into him constantly by other people. Shhhh. Don't pay attention to that part of what he just said. Subconscious'll screw you over every time. ]

The explosions or the flashy costumes or the being a superhero?

[boughtabookstore]

[ A slight look at that because that was weirdly self deprecating, okay. But she makes a point of avoiding going into other people's psyches. ]

Any or all of the above.

[fe_male]

[ Awesome, because he wouldn't know what to do with you calling attention to that. ]

I live for explosions, flash comes with explosions, being a superhero legitimizes blowing things up all the time. It's great. Best job ever.

[boughtabookstore]

[ this will work out just fine, then. ]

Lucky for you. How does one get started into that field?

[fe_male]

As far as I can tell, nearly die, should die, don't actually die. It's a wonder there aren't like, a billion ex-cancer patients wandering around as superheros, really.

[boughtabookstore]

Possibly they tried but couldn't manage it. It doesn't sound like the easiest career option.

Should die?

[fe_male]

I don't mean they should die, I mean, under the circumstances, there's no reason for the individual to be alive. So, technically, they 'should be' dead.

[boughtabookstore]

A lot of effort to go to to throw themselves into more danger. [ a pause. Fucking smalltalk how does it work. ] I don't think I believe that you're only working on kitchen appliances.

[fe_male]

Expensive way to become a hero. Most people just hang around the beach or something.

[ He doesn't know how to smalltalk. Only how to talk big. ] Yeah? You got any empirical reasoning there, or just playing the odds?

[boughtabookstore]

The beach is less dangerous.

[ A moment to consider her response. ] Playing the odds. I don't think they'd hold your interest long enough if you're this bored.