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sirenspull2012-07-13 11:12 pm
hulkbusted) wrote in sirenspull2012-07-13 11:12 pm
002: Video
[It's Saturday morning and Bruce's NV is propped against something to show him seated with a cup of something (tea, considering the string and tag hanging over the cup's lip) in the foreground. People move behind him, some holding cups of coffee before they take seats out of the camera's view. Looks like he's at an outdoor cafe. It also looks like he's found a charity that offers clothes to the poor and/or new arrivals because he's wearing a slightly dingy pale green button-down shirt with the cuffs rolled up over his forearms and a couple of buttons left open at the collar.]
Hiring in Siren's Port doesn't go the way it does most other places, does it? I couldn't give the panel at Siren's Port University my CV and published papers for examples of my work, but a few days of filling white boards with equations seems to have done the trick. It's much faster than hiring back home, too, but I guess there's a lot of turnover around here.
In addition, I'm offering my services as an after hours tutor while the days are long and until I go home, whenever that may be. If you need help with math or science up to the post-graduate level in most disciplines, contact me [he leans forward and swipes his fingers over the display, and a link appears at the bottom of the video screen] and we can make arrangements.
In the meantime, I'm at Cafe Bijan, and there are a few people who have been helpful to me since I arrived that I would happily buy a coffee. [He smiles, and the humor is meant mostly for himself and maybe one other person.] Unless you don't drink... coffee.
Hiring in Siren's Port doesn't go the way it does most other places, does it? I couldn't give the panel at Siren's Port University my CV and published papers for examples of my work, but a few days of filling white boards with equations seems to have done the trick. It's much faster than hiring back home, too, but I guess there's a lot of turnover around here.
In addition, I'm offering my services as an after hours tutor while the days are long and until I go home, whenever that may be. If you need help with math or science up to the post-graduate level in most disciplines, contact me [he leans forward and swipes his fingers over the display, and a link appears at the bottom of the video screen] and we can make arrangements.
In the meantime, I'm at Cafe Bijan, and there are a few people who have been helpful to me since I arrived that I would happily buy a coffee. [He smiles, and the humor is meant mostly for himself and maybe one other person.] Unless you don't drink... coffee.
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-- uhm, I joined the police force here? I guess...about a year ago now.
It's not the best, but I like it.
[ Most of the time. ]
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I...didn't think you were?
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You didn't...really have to.
[ Ugh, how does he words. Okay changing the subject now -- ]
Is the coffee good?
[ Real smooth. ]
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I haven't tried it, but I have no complaints about the tea bags.
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That's good.
[ Awkward pause. ]
...you said before you might have more questions about the Port?
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[Right... See Bruce jump at something less awkward.]
Yes. I mean most people just say "I don't know" when I ask questions about the Core, how things get in and out, those kinds of things, but that's how research goes. Do you know anything about those things? I don't see Siren's Port as producing enough resources to maintain the level of population and technology that it has in a closed system. Something must go in and out other than newcomers.
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...I think the Core kind of exists in its own category. Most people don't know a whole lot about it.
I know Sector 7 handles the food production here, and Sector 8 is the industrial section of town -- SERO comes out with medical and scientific breakthroughs every now and then. The port in the city doesn't get a whole lot of business, I don't think, but some things do manage to go in and out.
It was in the news the other day that people were bidding on some imported Girl Scout cookies for about fifty dollars a box.
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[Bruce smiles wryly at the camera.]
So this isn't a fully closed system. That's a start.
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[ A beat. ]
Not quite, but...how is it a start?
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It's a start because it's gathering data. Once you know something is possible, it opens new avenues of research and questioning.
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[ That...really tells him nothing, unfortunately. He never set foot on any version of Earth before last year, and learning geography hasn't been that high on his priority list. ]
I guess so.
[ Hm. ]
Someone told you about the Pull, right?
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I've read about it, but I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me what you know.
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Not a whole lot? I've never really tried to leave the island so I haven't experienced it myself.
I just know most attempts to leave, if you're a native or a Newcomer, don't end well.
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[ A beat. ]
That coffee offer still open?