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Guy Burgess ([personal profile] thatmadbastard) wrote2011-09-25 02:15 am

1st Broadcast- [voice]

[Guy Burgess hasn't been in Luceti long enough for most things.

Being a smaller man with little luck, he hasn't found his own clothes yet, or even been told that they were in a shop somewhere, waiting. He hasn't gotten over his newest accoutrements and the fact that no fine haberdashery could adequately swathe a pair of wings. He does like their colour, however. Reminds him of the coat he misses. He hasn't gotten the chance to make something of his bedroom or have anyone in it, but he certainly has plans. Personalizing his every surrounding is part of what Guy enjoys. His own loudness is everything his world mirrors, but none of that has happened yet.

One thing Guy has most definitely, however, been in Luceti long enough for is to make a bloody fit of breakfasts had so far with Kim and Anthony in mornings after too little sleep.

He's far too damned lazy to write, but he's sorted his way through enough of the guide to know he can press something and broadcast his voice. If there is one fucking similarity in this place, it is that he could broadcast at all. It isn't BBC radio, but what he has to say isn't exactly their material either.]


There's nothing continental about a bloody continental breakfast. At least an empire is built on a start of its kind. The best of thinkers eat empires as their breakfast, lob them into bowls and think of all the ways their countries could devour one another. Yet there's something appalling and dull, spooning into one's mouth the liquid and creamed wheaty remains of a box made hot.

At least in a continental breakfast one has something to chew on, physically, as they realize how bloody little there is to eat. EAT YOUR CONTINENTS TOMMY. THEY'RE BLOODY GOOD FOR YOU.

[There's a pause in his speech, perhaps for dramatics, though it's just as likely he's taking a suck from his cigarette.]

I've yet to find where everything is in this buggering town, but I refuse to endure another unacceptable morning of a spoon in an opened can of something. The best anachronisms are catchy, but I'd prefer not to be using little three letter blots in regards to my morning meal. Breakfast should not be UFO's... unidentified food objects splattered about in a bloody bowl.

Coffee can only take one so far without a country in it. Irish, Spanish, it doesn't matter. There's something to make it tolerable. I never knew it was possible to brew undrinkable coffee but it would seem my beloved compatriots have made a talent of it.

No more, I say. NO BUGGERING MORE.

Hello and good morning, Luceti. RISE AND SHINE YOU SHEEP OF THE WORLD. Guy Burgess, September the 24th, midmorning greetings.

[So ends your broadcast. Hope you like that you're now a substitute for the radio in part.

OOC: Backdated to before the event, that way he can get a proper introduction with people acting themselves. Also will begin tagging after work tomorrow. For now SLEEP.]

all7seas: (I will fly I will swim I will die)

XD beautiful

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-10-06 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jack has to take a moment to take all this in. Things are no different in his time, of course---the heyday of colonial enterprise. Possibly he has less of a systematic understanding of it--certainly his time predates Marx and other thinkers--but Jack is nobody's fool. He's survived this long by learning to live on the outskirts of systems and institutions that require from him things he is not willing to give, and that might otherwise despise him for his own colonial heritage.

He sips his whiskey.]


You're rather an idealist, aren't you, Burgess.
consultmybooks: (You okay?)

Re: [voice]

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2011-10-07 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
As much as coffee is an overall travesty of a drink? Yes, I think we have. And that is what I was referring to - the journals. And it is a useful skill.

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[identity profile] ironizing.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course he doesn't.

Tony heads to the bar himself, but he's an expert at being fashionably late, so Guy may be waiting for quite some time before the billionaire actually comes in.

But he does get there eventually, and looks for someone distinctly British-looking...]
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[identity profile] tehoniongirl.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[a laugh] All I have here is time, really. It's a lot quieter than it was back home. Usually.

[as they approach the coffee shop, she nods to the door, gesturing to draw his attention to it]

So I'm certainly happy to fill it, especially with dear friends.
herotypical: [ neutral ; busy ; chin ] (✝ she'll let you fall asleep)

ahaha it's cool.

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-10-10 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
W-wait. Bombing London?

[ a beat. ] You're not twenty-first century, are you? [ and for a moment she thought he was! ]
consultmybooks: (Hold On)

Re: [voice]

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2011-10-10 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
In person, or just over the network like this?
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Re: [voice]

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2011-10-10 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Easier if it's in person, then. Or, um, that's what past experience has shown. Anywhere in particular you'd like to meet?
all7seas: (where's the rum gone?)

SOKAY!!!!!

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-10-10 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jack Sparrow was one of the lettered pirates, though. His father, as Code Keeper, made sure of that.]

More's fancy thinking about criminals and the peasantry, eh? I like to think I chose my life of crime outside of any systemic influences. 'Course, I suppose I were born into it. But I chose it back again, later.

[And he will take this opportunity to also love that burn.]
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Re: [voice]

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2011-10-10 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I've always preferred tea, actually. Seventh Heaven should work well enough.
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[personal profile] doubleppk 2011-10-11 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Are you a new feather then? If you'd like, I can try to give you a tour!
herotypical: [ snarky ; pout ] (✝ and i could work weekends)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-10-11 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
...Jeez. 2005, for me. I don't think I've -- huh. Usually people are from a real, real long time ago. Or the future. Or the same now.

Sorry. I know the chrono-stuff can get a little awkward.
ext_934189: (A genuine smile)

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[identity profile] tehoniongirl.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Surveyor to a king? I think my studio might seem like a pale thing in comparison. [but it's said with a laugh and not even a bit of embarrassment]

You're from England, right? Can I ask which king?

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[identity profile] ironizing.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You assume correctly. Way to go. Ten points for the Queen. [Yep, he guessed. Someone distinctly British. He's vaguely reminded of JARVIS--you know, were Guy a sophisticated AI Tony programmed himself to run his house. It's probably just the accent.

He takes a seat next to him while perusing a catalog of favorite drinks imprinted into his mind.]


I'd apologize for keeping you waiting, but--I won't. Nothing personal.

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