71 - Drunk but hiding it quite well.

[buywithme]

Brothers, Sisters, how much do you think happens in a year? I mean, things-- things just pass you by, don't they? Even if a celebrity dies it's only news for a few weeks, a month and a half at the most and then everyone's distracted by whatever else is happening. Once they've been dead for a whole year? It's like, a completely different world. Everything's changed. Even if they were still alive everything would be different and so would they be.

They'd be forever confined to a separate dimension of "when they were famous", and "best of the 20's", and they'd only ever get work as a novelty act.

A years a really long time in the real world. You miss it and then its just gone. Ater a year you're all rotted away anyway. Comrades, Consumers, consider the concept of "vintage".

Or... something.

[GUESS WHO'S BEEN HERE FOR A YEAR]

Comments

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh, except you are. It wasn't even subtle, Comrade. Aaand I'm guessing that 'outside reason/order/safety' is capitalist nutjob talk for 'I get beat up a lot'.

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[buywithme.livejournal.com]

No Sister. I was just considering the effects of this long an absence from home for a more notable component than myself.

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[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I do get beat up a lot though.

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

A component?

[Private]

Y'know, we could do something about that.

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[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Could we?

...

Like what?

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

It sounds to me like you need a bodyguard, Comrade. A year spent letting these other dweebs push you around is a year too long.

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[buywithme.livejournal.com]

...I can't, Sister. Unbelievable though it may be, uhh...

I don't actually have any of my own money here.

So I couldn't pay you.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

What am I going to do with money when there's no stores here? Sheesh...

But whatever, I'm flexible. And someone told me you trade stuff, is that right?

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[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I do trade stuff, but it's... not much of it is actually mine, Sister.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

You're a fence, I get that. And knock it off with 'Sister', I think I like 'Comrade' better.

Okay. Let me put a proposition to you. I'd like to get some work here, right? Real, paid work. But nobody here knows me, and they need to know that I am a professional if they're going to hire me. Random acts of violence might be kinda fun but they're won't cut it.

So how about a trial period? You don't get beat up any more, and I get free advertising.

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[buywithme.livejournal.com]

...Okay, Comrade. We could do that, if you wanted.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I'll be around, and it's not like I've got much else to do - let me know when you need me, got it?

Private - LOLPARROT.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Okay, Comrade! I'll let you know if I need you.