thatmadbastard: (Mad... the lot of them!)
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.]

shadedsunlight: (A firefly caught my eye)

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[personal profile] shadedsunlight 2011-09-26 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Tuesdays and Thursdays mostly, sometimes Saturday. Second floor of Seventh Heaven.
herotypical: [ happy ] (✝ giving notice)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-09-26 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Grocery store. Where they store the...groceries. I'm flying blind as to what a proper English breakfast'd be but you're welcome to raid the shop. But I'm guessing you don't know where that is or you wouldn't be, y'know, asking?
simplestgift: (I need a hug.)

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[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-09-26 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't blame anyone for the drink. [Archie pulls out another coat, feeling in the pockets for any bottles. While he does that, he notices one of the coats swinging a little differently, as if weighted. He yanks it out and sticks his hand in one of the deep pockets, pulling out a bottle.]

I believe I've found it.
all7seas: (canny lad)

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[personal profile] all7seas 2011-09-27 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please! Just look for the exceptionally fierce and free-looking gentleman with the superb hat. That would be me, Burgess.

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[identity profile] ironizing.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Couldn't have guessed that. [He means it sarcastically, though the British Intelligence bit is a bit surprising, really.]

I have to ask, though--are you really supposed to tell people you're British Intelligence? Seems like the sort of thing you don't generally tell random strangers you meet over the magical journal in the backwater Twilight Zone.
simplestgift: (Casual lieutenant)

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[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-09-27 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Not Scotland-cold, but cold enough. Although I was dumped into a tree in the dead of winter on a windy day, when I first came. Of course you arrive in those awful trousers, and one of the legs tore, and they were sopping within minutes from the snow. I didn't stop shivering for over an hour, after they got me inside. It made me a bit less fond of the cold than I might normally be, especially after being in the Caribbean only the day before.
shadedsunlight: (Well well well)

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[personal profile] shadedsunlight 2011-09-27 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Clothes store, C on the map. There's also All Passions, building L, run by Shiki. A very talented seamstress, she'll take custom orders or do alternations.

And why do you believe I would like one of your friends?
herotypical: [ sad ; tired ; doorway ] (✝ she got a new apartment)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-09-27 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Please. It's Buffy.
all7seas: (leverage)

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[personal profile] all7seas 2011-09-27 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Aye! And I take it you, sir, are the mad Burgess what I spoke to earlier? [Jack plunks himself down on a nearby bar stool, taking in that cigarette and the baggy clothing.]

Bugger---is the Empire simply not looking after you, mate?
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[identity profile] tehoniongirl.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
If you actually want the basic things...I could show you were the grocery is. It's got a decent selection...and it's like the rest of the shops. There's no money to trade, so you pretty much just take what you need.
simplestgift: (Four times as cool)

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[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-09-28 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
You've not experienced a Scottish winter. Although to be fair, I haven't been to Cambridge. But I've been to London, and I imagine it's about the same.
Edited 2011-09-28 16:12 (UTC)

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[personal profile] mistlegacy 2011-09-28 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I hate to give bad news, but there's no point in sugarcoating the truth. You'd find out sooner or later.

[Better that he be prepared, in her mind.]
Edited 2011-09-28 01:55 (UTC)
shadedsunlight: (The velvet sun shines on me and you)

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[personal profile] shadedsunlight 2011-09-28 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Shiki is your woman then. She's remarkable with what she can do.

I'm afraid there's no voice to be heard. Hence the writing. But then, I suppose some guys like that. [Hey, she's heard all the jokes and can make them herself too.]
herotypical: (} you never have to do that stuff)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-09-28 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
It's not that unusual. Is it?

[ a beat. ] G-Guy? [ oh dear god a bit of a choked sound. ] That's...huh. That's. Wow.

[ her explanation MAY catch up in a moment. ]

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