Case #8: Video

[19centconstable]

[George is COMPLETELY DRESSED. So dressed. He also looks slightly pink and wrinkly, like he's spent too long in the bathtub.]

I've been in the tub.

[For two days, apparently. And still so unclean. His hair is also not parted and slicked down as usual, and is currently making a sort of wild, fluffy, dark halo around his face. The ends curl a bit. George's hair may eat combs. George is too sulky to do anything about it. This flood has tested even his unwavering positivity.]

I want to apologize for...

...

...everything.

[A curt nod, and the camera is switched off.]

...

[Then switched back on again.]

I would just like to say, also, just so you know, that I am never...unclothed, not even underneath my clothes.

...I'm getting back in the tub.

[The camera is switched off.]

...

[Aaaaaaand switched on again. He's here, he might as well. George clears his throat.]

Who...does...the art?

Comments

[worstsongever]

California?

...2010.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

What are people like there?

[worstsongever]

Prone to intense gossip and susceptible to rumors of all kinds. Occasionally cool. Sometimes entertaining. Why?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I just think it's interesting to hear what you modern people are like. And I've never been to America.

[worstsongever]

I hear it's like Canada but bigger. And more densely populated. I don't know, we've got electricity, and running water, and computers, and the internet...we're actually set up to be pretty lazy.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Actually, I suppose I can't say I've never been there, as the Admiral sent us all there recently, in 1867. And we were all different people out in the American west. I rather enjoyed it.

[worstsongever]

...You're gonna have to explain that in a little more detail.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure I can, it's just another of those things that tends to happen here. But if you'd like to try and ask me specific sorts of things, I'll do my best to answer.

[worstsongever]

What do you mean, you were all different people?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Like this weekend: nobody was themselves. I was a private detective.

[worstsongever]

You just mean another flood?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

No, the whole barge itself turns into another place. There was no boat at all, just The West.

[worstsongever]

...And no one knew who they really were?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

No, not at all.

[worstsongever]

Total submersion in the old west. Holy shit.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Er, yes. If you like.

[worstsongever]

I'm not sure if I'm thinking of that as kind o f awesome or completely fucked up.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Most felt it was the later, I'm afraid.

[worstsongever]

Great. Majority rules again.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

But as I've said: I rather enjoyed it.

[worstsongever]

So occasionally there are perks?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I'd say quite often. I'd never have gotten to travel through space back home. Or use a washing machine.

[worstsongever]

Huh. I guess that's a good point...