| From: | Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | New boss |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:11:48 +1200 |
>>>>>[Our new... supervisor? L's replacement, anyway... has arrived. Take
a look, and describe this to the Rat.
+++++Begin footage
The camera starts up focused on what appears to be the ground level of a
small warehouse, this floor being mostly empty. A conjuring circle is
chalked out in reds and oranges at one side of the field of view, a human
woman and a troll male are entering the warehouse from the other. The
woman, dwarfed by the troll, has a slim build and ordinary looks, the troll
appears typically sized for one of his metatype.
"So this is where so much of my hard-earned black ops budget goes," mutters
the woman, glancing at the troll, who has no response beyond a shrug.
The camera starts moving at this point, heading for the two of them. The
woman turns to look at it, a sharp grimace on her face.
"That a stray?" she asks.
"No," answers the troll, "more of a mascot."
The camera continues towards the woman, a miaowing noise coming from it
somewhere, revealing that this camera is in the head of a cat. Said cat
wraps itself around the woman's ankles, purring and rubbing it's chin
against her legs. The view changes suddenly though, the cat flying through
the air, then it hits the ground and runs off a short way. Looking back,
the cat observes the woman lowering her foot from the kick that propelled
the cat across the floor. The camera rises, Ice reverting to elven form,
spinning for a moment as he clothes himself, then he walks towards the
pair.
"Evening, Thirstein" he says to the troll, then turns to the woman, "That
wasn't very nice. You would be?"
Up close the woman appears slightly angry, her thin lips pressed together
and a cold look in her eyes.
"LaSalle's replacement," she replies, "I arrived in Seattle this
morning."
"What are your plans for this place then?" asks Ice, waving his hands
around the area.
"I don't yet know, I was going to delay my decision until Mr. Thirstein
here had showed me around the site."
"Then I'll leave you to it," Ice says, retreating, then mutters, "Before
you kick me again."
+++++End footage
She obviously doesn't like cats, which makes her a bad person in my book.
Still, she hasn't made any decision, according to Thirstein, about what to
do with us. I get the feeling she was more impressed with him than with me,
but she wasn't too happy that Kyle and the Rat weren't there to meet her. I
told her that their presence could have been arranged, had we been warned
of her imminent arrival, but she just glared at me nastily. So, all things
considered, we may be about to lose our funding.]<<<<<
-- Ice <18:10:35/07-04-58>
