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[mmiab]

Hello, everyone.

[ a little wave from a man who's smiling happily enough - a bit subdued, perhaps, but that's to be expected given the subject matter. ]

It's been a tough month, eh? I just wanted to say a huge well done to those of you who fought for a cure - it's extraordinary that you were able to create one in the time you did from entirely foreign components. I'm glad that our hosts are recognising the effort.

Everyone else, well done to you, too. Whatever you were doing, this has been a stressful situation and you made it out the other side, and that's worth a pat on the back if you ask me.

[ patron... ising??? it doesn't look like he's trying to be, voice soft and warm and earnest. what's visible of the background seems to be cool, stark metal: a glimpse of a glass window bathed in a glow of light coming from within. the ship. stasis chamber. ]

Off the back of that, if anyone fancies, I'll be offering free hugs for the rest of the month. Courtesy of me, while stocks last. Just give me a ring, I'll come and find you.

—Yeah, that's it. ... See you, then.

[ and, with a tiny salute, he's out. ]

Comments

[mmiab]

Are you trying to steal my job? That's my line






I'm up in stasis at the minute

[cacoethical]

i dont know what is your job exactly???? professional bowtie advocate????? if so probably not

probably not in general actually im fairly well satisfied with my own job

anyway ive not been up to stasis in a while and theres someone i really ought to visit so ill be there soon!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[mmiab]

Not today actually today I'm a free hugger but usually that WOULD be my official title and I'm pleased to hear you're not out to pinch it

Let me know when you're here! and I'll come and try and find you in the maze

[cacoethical]

im not after that job either

professional bowtie advocate seems an odd career choice if an understandable one 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 just very niche i suppose not that i can talk really!!! im the only holistic detective ive ever met

may i ask how you came into the job????????

[mmiab]

oh it's easy really I turned up, there was a beach party going on, I told a man I'd be able to get him lots of customers if he gave me ties, and I've never gone back so I've TECHNICALLY never been fired so I TECHNICALLY still hold the job title

the title was self-appointed but still appropriate for the role

Holistic detective? That sounds fun. What about you then how does one stumble into the role of holistic detective?

[cacoethical]

crafty!!!! ill have to try that one some time

in my case i believe the first step was developing an unshakable and ultimately entirely necessary conviction in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things

which i sort of stumbled into also actually sort of like how i stumbled onto all those cats and that dead body and then the cia 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 though i guess you could also argue that they stumbled onto me!!!! in any case that didnt work out differences of opinion you see so i decided to try to put myself to some other use and this is what i landed on!!!! 😄😄😄😄

i suppose one could argue though that it isnt really a job so much as something that happens to a person

me mostly ive never met another one

[mmiab]

[ oh

oh? ]

Just to clarify, you're human? I assume with the mentions of the CIA etc but JUST to check

[cacoethical]

well thats very nice!!!! of course im human

wait are you not????? 😮😮😮😮

[mmiab]

Not even a little bit, no. Time Lord, hello

I only ask because I tend to end up doing the same thing but with sadly fewer cats and more aliens

[cacoethical]

ive no idea what that is but it sounds terribly impressive so well done you!!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮

no im human as far as i know!!!! and i hadnt met any aliens before coming here i think

i dont think thor counts he didnt really come from another planet as such 🤔🤔🤔 anyway no im just a normal detective man im afraid

[mmiab]

You met Thor? As in the God of Thunder, that Thor? That ALMOST trumps nearly marrying Marilyn.

You sound like a bit more than JUST a normal detective man. A very interesting special sort of a normal detective man is what you sound like actually

[cacoethical]

thats the one!!!!! hes not very nice 😕😕😕😕 and not nearly as good looking as people like to say

though i shouldnt say hes MEAN either its just that gods i have noticed tend to have a somewhat different set of concerns than most of the rest of us do which is occasionally terribly inconvenient in the way a fighter jet in ones foyer is terribly inconvenient

anyway thank you!!! thats kind of you to say i think though i cant own anything beyond 'sort of normal' and im DEFINITELY not psychic for the record