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[tortileghostwriter]

[New post on the network! New ID, new typing form...might ping some of you.]

i will readily admit that being pulled from a null universe doomed to be yet another footnote in the annals of paradox space and into whatever dimension that this school occupies was quite felicitous indeed
and i suppose that i owe our ever so gracious hosts some credit in that regard
however
i have business to attend to in the incipisphere
and i will simply not be kept from it
so i believe that my first order of business will be to find a way to reverse whatever process snatched me away from the land of crystal and mirage
and proceed to aggrieve aggress and attack
until i have stolen away the secrets that balamb garden has to hide
as i said to strider once before
lets rock the fucking house


[On the action side of things, have a kid who looks...a lot like Dave Strider? Sitting under a tree on the quad, reading a book and looking pissed. OVERDRAMATIC? A LITTLE. But seriously he'll get to the bottom of this shit. "Time compression"? Of all the...those scientists that letter mentioned had better work fast. Is it you, or did his shadow just start moving...?]

Comments

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

I think that would depend on whether the disease is a naturally occurring phenomena or merely isolated to all the Johns of the rainbow.

[tortileghostwriter]

This is what science is for.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting that I should volunteer my John for a pathology study? I think I've seen this film already.

[tortileghostwriter]

I'm not saying that you should. What sort of person would that make me? It simply might be helpful in puzzling out this slightly unimportant problem.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

No, it just won't do. Whatever plaguing my dearest friend will just have to content itself to a single host body. Science can muddle towards illumination on its own in the meantime.

[tortileghostwriter]

The most merciful thing in the world, after all, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

I've never been one for extraneous mercy, but I suppose bending just the one time won't do any permanent damage to my twisted-up psyche.

[tortileghostwriter]

If nothing else, it should keep us from going even deeper into the jaws of madness.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

But that's where all the fun is.

[tortileghostwriter]

Point.
So do you propose a backflip swandive into the depths?

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of an armstand forward triply somersault. I only get to jump once, I might as well make it an impressive move.

[tortileghostwriter]

[He chuckles.]

This is nice. Utterly surreal, of course, but enjoyable.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

[she spreads her arms and raises an eyebrow]

Let it never be said that Rose Lalonde abandoned the etiquette lessons burned into her very being for the petty reason of alternate universes.

[tortileghostwriter]

[is that a come at me bro pose

is that what you're doing]

And the same sentiment in return, naturally.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

[i don't know, do you suddenly feel the urge to charge]

Naturally. I have no doubt about the skill level in facetious politeness that you've mastered.

[tortileghostwriter]

Facetious pretentiousness is our trade in lock, stock, and barrel, dear Rose.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

Of course. I've also expanded to the market of treating my friends as case studies in the most clinically concerned way possible, since the pretentiousness seemed a bit cramped.

[tortileghostwriter]

When one's cornered the market, you can only branch out. It's gone multinational at this point.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

At some point I suppose we should consider the notion of making the company public. I'm sure that would only increase revenues.

[tortileghostwriter]

It's rather lucrative. At some point, certainly.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how we'll do with public shareholders to answer to, but that's a problem for another board meeting.

[tortileghostwriter]

For now, projections for the next quarter look bright.

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

Our largest opposition has recently filed for bankruptcy, and the innovations department tells me there's going to be several new products on the table within the week. Altogether a satisfying conclusion.

[tortileghostwriter]

[He actually pauses here. He's running out of ways to continue the ridiculous business meeting wrap-up metaphor.]

[bookshrew.livejournal.com]

[she laces her hands behind her back, smiling in that bright facetious way only Lalondes can]

Since it seems that you have nothing more of note to contribute, I believe we may call this meeting adjourned.