Video: UN: PNWSAlex

[11calls]

[Alex is sitting somewhere, and she's got a mug of coffee in front of her, along with a note pad and a pen. She smiles, but there's an undercurrent of nervousness in it because while multiple people have told her she could be on television, Alex's preferred medium has always been radio and podcasts. She's not quite sure what to do with her hands (they'd normally be on the control box) when she speaks so she picks up a pen and rolls it between her fingers.]

Hi! Um. Like a lot of you I'm a [kidnapee?] refugee and I need to find a job. Back home I worked as a reporter, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to use my skills doing the same thing here. I'd give you some references but I'm afraid that they probably wouldn't do you any good anyway now. [And she doesn't want to explain either what a podcast is, or how hers won a best of Apple award in 2015. So for now just a reporter will work.]

But my name is Alex Reagan and I've been working in the business since college, so I've got a fair amount experience. Thanks?

[Stupid camera, stupid being uncomfortable on camera, and Alex just turns it off with little preamble.]

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[bentbloodline]

Perhaps your reporting skills would be best suited to searching for work and reporting it back to the rest of us, for the time being. It seems that most of us refugees are similarly unemployed.

[11calls]

While I won't deny it's a worthy pursuit, I don't know if I'm the right person for the job. But I am speaking with someone else...

[Alex points briefly to the text function and then smiles.]

About possibly coming up with a paper for the displaced. It'd be a great idea to share job postings and stuff about employers there, as well as the rest of the news and what people have discovered about the storm and the like.

[Which is what her and Strand are investigating now.]

[bentbloodline]

I think that could be quite valuable for all of us. It might also be beneficial to research what's needed to get a business permit, and who among Olympia's elites might be willing to loan money to fund a business venture.

[11calls]

Is that something that you have experience in from back home? It kind of sounds like you do.

[bentbloodline]

I do have some experience with it, yes. I had a successful political career back home.

[11calls]

Then maybe it's something you can take point on and we can print it if we get things up and running? The stuff on starting a business or interacting with the local government I mean.

[bentbloodline]

I wouldn't mind contributing to something like that.

[As long as it's in that manner. Anything that gives him a good excuse to get introduced to high society early on is a-ok with him.]

[11calls]

Excellent. Did you do a lot of writing in your political career back home?

[bentbloodline]

I drafted laws and wrote my own speeches. Does that count?

[11calls]

[Alex just chuckles.]

I would say that definitely counts. I'm sorry I didn't catch your name.

[bentbloodline]

My name is Tarrlok. Pardon me for not introducing myself earlier.

[11calls]

It's alright, it doesn't bother me. I just like to be able to put a name to a face, especially in my line of work. Nice to meet you, Tarrlok.

[bentbloodline]

It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance as well, Miss Reagan.

[He's assuming it's Miss, but he's just using that to be polite rather than calling her by first name without being invited to.]

Being able to place names to faces is useful in my line of work, too. I understand completely.

[11calls]

Please just call me Alex, everyone else does.

[She smiles, and decides she's not getting into the whole 'Ms.' thing right now, because it's just too much to go there when Alex works fine.]

I'm glad you understand. Thank you.

[Alex means it.]

[bentbloodline]

Alex is it, then.

[Much simpler to be on a first name basis. There are plenty of people who don't even use surnames where he's from, himself included.]

How long have you been a reporter?

[11calls]

Almost a decade. As soon as I got my Masters in Journalism I started. First at a paper, and then in radio. I've been working for Pacific Northwest Stories (an offshoot of NPR) for four years before I started working on my own show for them.

[And now she may have doomed her world. Whoops.]