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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.]

herotypical: [ snarky; happy ] ] (✝ where blood ties are only blood)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-09-28 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Trifle and puddings and cream tea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've known my fair share of to-the-hilt Brits.
herotypical: [ happy ; snarky ] (✝ on the edge of safe)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-09-28 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I cannot tell a lie, Guy. Mostly? I'm just fond of chocolate. French or English? I don't care.
herotypical: (✝ then they'll give us a talking to)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-09-28 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Beautiful.

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[identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Anthony simply fixed Guy with a look. One that... was trying desperately to hide a smile.]

Wonderful, Guy. But don't wander off like that. Not here.

[A stern father, that's what he sounds like.

Until-- He sees Archie.

He gives the man a once over. Uniform. Antiquated. But still... It's a careful, almost judgemental look.

Though his voice is... friendly enough... as he offers his hand.]


Anthony Blunt.
simplestgift: I sense a flaw in your logic. By gimcrack on IJ. (Not convinced?)

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[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-09-29 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Even his voice. Archie is trying to remember Edrington's family name and failing. He isn't sure if he ever knew, in fact. Either this is a descendant or this is Edrington in the flesh and he is masquerading as a man from 1945. Archie is so taken aback that he only belatedly remembers to shake the man's hand, and only after that remembers to half-choke out his own name.]

Kennedy. [He clears his throat and his voice comes out more clearly.] A-Archie Kennedy. L-Lieutenant. [He's almost embarrassed by the introduction, because this face should already know all this.]
ext_934189: (Aren't you adorable?)

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[identity profile] tehoniongirl.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[there's an amused laugh at the description] That would be me. I've never been a fan of towering.

[it doesn't take her long to reach the fountain and sit. She'd already been out for a walk, journal tucked into a satchel for easy access, so she simply makes her way over to the landmark to wait]
all7seas: (guilty as charged)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-09-29 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Well, aye, it's highly more important to get good and thundered first. Here. Allow me. [And the pirate upends himself over the countertop to reach the Good Stuff that Buffy likes to hide away.]

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[identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
You would find a sailor, wouldn't you?

[He shook the man's hand, giving a bit of a squeeze.]

Well, Mr. Kennedy [best to be polite until he had a better feel of the situation.] thank you, then, for helping Guy out. I do hope [a smile, a friendly jab at Guy] he hasn't been too much trouble.
simplestgift: (Careful...Caaaareful...)

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[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-09-29 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all, my lo--

[He bites that off with a forced smile.]

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[identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Archie? Gets a confused look.

Guy? Gets a glare.

He will not take this opportunity to tell Guy that he can, in fact, ride a horse.

But back to Archie.]


Forgive me, but... May I ask?
simplestgift: (Mm-hm.)

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[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-09-29 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Archie is extremely embarrassed and it shows. His face is red and he is pointedly not looking at Guy. Guy may be laughing at Anthony, but Archie can't quite get over the impression that Guy is laughing at him. But that's partly his own constant worries speaking to him.]

Beg pardon, you bear a...an uncanny resemblance to someone I know. [Something like a smile goes here.] But, as I precede you by nearly a hundred and fifty years, I suppose by your time he has relations everywhere.

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[identity profile] nobodyspoke.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Thank God for that or you could end up being the town crier. [Sarcasm is Kim's favorite but it's particularly wonderful in the morning.]

ext_934189: (Peeking 2)

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[identity profile] tehoniongirl.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[that gets a laugh. While not as rumpled as he is, she's just as ragged as she'd been the night of the party. With the warmth from the sun, she's in an oversized t-shirt, her brown and white wings actually visible for once, with heavy boots and paint-speckled jeans quite happily broadcasting her complete lack of interest in fashion] Well..you're right about the fountain and the assisting, at least.

[standing, her satchel goes over one arm] So...which is the more urgent need? Coffee? Or the makings of a decent breakfast?

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[identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly, it seems Kim had little choice about hearing you. [He has to grin. Because... well. It's not surprising Guy could wake any of them up with his ranting.]

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[identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
This [he chuckles, his tone easy, a peace-keeper at his work] is one of the many reasons I was loathe to let him out in public by himself, Mr. Kennedy.

He has the tendency to make an ass of himself, I'm afraid.
simplestgift: (proud smile)

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[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-09-29 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, it's...nothing, Mr. Burgess. [But Archie smiles at the play between these two.] It's a pleasure, Mr. Blunt, and my apologies for the mistake.

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