Case #9: Video

[19centconstable]

[George is holding his communicator in one hand and filming himself as he waves cheerfully. He turns the camera briefly to show a group of aliens sat at a small table amidst what looks like a futuristic street fair who are waving cheerfully back. They are about nine feet tall, and hairy, with sharp talons on their fingers. They are wearing breathing-masks. They are also wearing slacks and crisply pressed button-down shirts. The camera turns back on George, as he continues to stride through the bazaar.]

I've just been speaking to some terribly nice Martians about Martian Jesus! I'm afraid a good deal of it all went straight over my head, but they did give me book which...

[George glances down at, presumably, the book in his hand.]

...appears to be about the Greek God Dionysus. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, but it was quite kind of them nevertheless. They also tested my levels of stress, although I really don't believe I'm under any undue amount of it, and invited me to come to their church tomorrow, although I think I'm going to decline.

[George draws closer to his communicator and imparts in a hushed voice:]

I believe they may have been Mormons.

[He draws back and makes a face that's equal parts "yikes", and "Mormons: whattayagonnado? They're really nice and it's hard to hold it against them".]

Comments

[collector]

I meant the Martians more than the Mormons. [He could defend the Americans, but then, why on Earth would he? He is a British Alien.]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes it's quite possible they are. I only spoke to them for a bit over an hour. That's not quite long enough to know everything about a person, and they really were pleasant.

Have you ever heard of this..."Dianetics"?

[collector]

Yes, it's a feature of Scientology, claimed to date back to the 1920s.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Scientology? That certainly sounds...scientific. Possibly even...scien-terrific!

[collector]

[Braxiatel smiles.] Ironically enough, science seems to have very little to do with it.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

But it's got science right in the name.