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Day 39: Intercom, Evening
The Head Doctor seemed a little rushed as he spoke on the intercom, not taking as much pleasure as he usually did in describing the delicious food that would soon be served.
"Hello, everyone! Tonight is turkey night, which means turkey breast in a great turkey gravy with some nice turkey sides: peas, herb potatoes, a small garden salad, and for dessert, a slice of pumpkin pie. We of course have vegetarian substitutes available, as well as our usual assortment of drinks.
"...I believe that's it! I'll talk to you soon!"
The intercom clicked off abruptly.
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"Hello, everyone! Tonight is turkey night, which means turkey breast in a great turkey gravy with some nice turkey sides: peas, herb potatoes, a small garden salad, and for dessert, a slice of pumpkin pie. We of course have vegetarian substitutes available, as well as our usual assortment of drinks.
"...I believe that's it! I'll talk to you soon!"
The intercom clicked off abruptly.
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Re: M71
Though the smile did indicate that Peter was just trying to be friendly, so Brainiac 5 hesitantly returned it after a moment. The teasing in a way reminded him of the Legion, particularly Lightning Lad and how he had always been trying to get Brainy to 'lighten up', but the Legion had also had more time to get used to him and how he interacted with those that he considered friends. Peter had just met him though, so the Coluan boy was surprised at how quickly his new roommate had relaxed and started joking. In a way it was... nice. He supposed anyway.
"Klingon? I'm unfamiliar with that species, but why would you assume that their language would be the one spoken on Earth in the future? Unless there's some history I've forgotten, I don't believe any such species was particularly influential on your culture..."
He sighed and shook his head. "I'm not certain. Much of what I've seen here seems to be rather... randomly set up. For example, there doesn't appear to be any pattern to who is brought here at all. Some people are considered highly significant in their own society or culture," and here he indicated himself, "while others don't seem to have anything separating them from others in the world at all." He indicated Peter, then shrugged.
"It also doesn't help that we have no way of knowing what the goal of this facility is at all. Those in charge, while apparently enjoying taunting us, don't seem particularly interested in filling in those details."
Re: M71
"How should I know? I'm clearly not the criminal mastermind here." An accusing fork was brandished in Brainiac's direction. "You, on the other hand, are some kind of freaky genius."
Then came what was undoubtedly the most hilarious thing he'd heard all day - Brainiac thought that the Klingons were real. Peter covered his mouth, laughing through a spoonful of peas. He answered once he had narrowly succeeded in swallowing them without choking. "No, dude, it's fake. It's from a TV show." A gentler, well meaning smile replaced his maniacal grin. Hopefully he hadn't made the other boy feel too uncomfortable. He seemed kind of stiff, but even so, Peter was warming to him. He wasn't so bad as far as super genius kids went, and some of those? Way more socially inept than this guy. "I shouldn't have said anything. There's no way you would have seen it before."
Under normal circumstances, Peter might have taken offense to being referred to as 'unimportant'. Yet there was a corner of his brain that wanted to tape that victorious moment and email it straight to MJ. In your face, Mary-Jane Watson! I can so keep a secret identity!!
Of course, thinking about MJ was threatening to bring on a fresh bout of home-sick emo time. He hastily shoved those thoughts away.
"Highly significant, huh? So what is it that you do back home? Does it have something to do with that team you mentioned?"
It was plain to see that talking about the institute was getting them nowhere fast. He'd drop the subject for now, at least until one of them had a better clue about what was going on.
Re: M71
The smile vanished however when he realised Peter had started laughing at him. While he liked to think he could appreciate a joke as well as anybody else, it was another matter entirely when the joke was clearly on him.
"You're right," he said stiffly. "There was no way I could have seen it before." Unless Bouncing Boy had decided to show it at some point, but unless it was an old Earth horror movie, it was highly unlikely. "And I wasn't aware that making fun of someone because they haven't seen some obscure ancient Earth show was considered a good idea after you'd just met."
Brainiac 5 pushed away his plate and drew his notebook closer. If Peter was going to resort to making fun of him, then he would rather start doing something more productive with his time. He'd had more than enough of defending himself and his beliefs to others. When Peter spoke again though, he paused and deliberated for a moment before deciding it wouldn't hurt to answer.
"Currently I'm part of the Legion of Super Heroes. We help out with a variety of problems on Earth and other planets. I suppose I am a significant member of the team; if I didn't continually repair our technology, we'd no doubt be useless within a week, and my inventions have been rather helpful. But it's hardly the same situation as it was..." He stopped and frowned. "Never mind. What about yourself?"
Re: M71
"What? No, no!" He half rose from the bed, leaning forward and waving his hands apologetically. "That wasn't what I-"
Whumph! Splurt.
His tray had flipped over. There were peas and potatoes all over his blankets, and now he had gravy knees.
"Great," he muttered sourly. Resigned, he removed the tray, squeezing out his partly soaked napkin to wipe up what he could of the mess.
"I wasn't trying to make fun of you. You just surprised me, that's all," he explained. "And I'm used to saying those kind of things to people, so I just...wasn't thinking." Peter was making little progress on clearing away the sauce from his sweatpants, but he doggedly pressed on, if only to avoid looking Brainiac in the eye. He'd have to put a cork in that motor mouth of his if he wanted to stay on the boy's good side. "I'm sorry."
Well, at least Brainiac was still willing to answer his question. That was a good sign, right? "We had something like that back home," he said, returning to the hesitant tone he'd used when they had first started talking. "We called them the Ultimates. They just stayed on Earth, though, but you probably could've guessed that. And I, uh...didn't do anything interesting." Besides bouncing around town in a webbed unitard, that is. "I'm still in high school, and I work part time at the newspaper - web design, mostly, but I did a little photography too. Other than that, pretty much nothing special."
Re: M71
He hesitated a moment longer, watching Peter trying to clean up the mess on his own, then the Coluan boy pushed back his chair and rose, neatly unfolding his own napkin as he did so and moving to Peter's side. There was still mashed food all over the bed, so he began carefully scraping it up with the napkin and depositing it back onto the tray.
"I should also apologise," he said quietly, continuing to do his best to help clean up the mess without getting too much on himself. "I've been having some trouble with many of the other people here I've spoken to. I suppose I... forgot that not everyone is trying to start some kind of argument with me. Not to mention that today has been particularly trying."
He finished scraping up the last of the food, but there wasn't much he could do about what had become ingrained into the covers of the bed itself. Fortunately Peter wouldn't be sleeping on it for some time, at least until the night was complete and whatever returned them to their rooms took place.
"Most likely you come from an Earth similar to mine," Brainiac 5 said, standing up from what he'd been doing and glancing over at Peter. "I believe in this time period, Earth was largely known for the hero Superman and the Justice League. But much information on them was lost in the Great Crisis, so I'm afraid I can't tell you much more."