Private Conversations with the Lady
Jan. 5th, 2020 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soulspice[Welcome to the Lady's...not home far from home, but it's a place she tolerates. The moment you enter it's clear she did her best to make this office in the bookstore a place she approves.
Outfitted with an overly plush chair on a rather elaborate rug, the desk is overflowing with countless books stacked everywhere, with everything serving as a makeshift bookshelf including an errant fax machine. The Lady seems to have tried her best to make the amenities up to her standards: there’s a tray with a teapot, notes everywhere written with confusing ciphers, and what seems to be an attempt to make a generator, but wasn’t completed.
Where the Lady sits it’s far more orderly, facing the door and giving her the high ground against anyone who enters. On the far wall hangs a large portrait of the Lady, adding character and additional charm. Truly, this is the office of someone who wants you to feel small before her presence.
And, there on her chair, there she is. When the door opened she turned her head towards you, seeing who it was. Invariably of who it is, she sighs like this is a big interruption of her work, and keeps writing and drawing]
Don't touch anything and make sure you don't track mud in. If you have any complaints go see Rembrandt.
[She didn't even look up while saying that. So, what brings you to her office today?]
Outfitted with an overly plush chair on a rather elaborate rug, the desk is overflowing with countless books stacked everywhere, with everything serving as a makeshift bookshelf including an errant fax machine. The Lady seems to have tried her best to make the amenities up to her standards: there’s a tray with a teapot, notes everywhere written with confusing ciphers, and what seems to be an attempt to make a generator, but wasn’t completed.
Where the Lady sits it’s far more orderly, facing the door and giving her the high ground against anyone who enters. On the far wall hangs a large portrait of the Lady, adding character and additional charm. Truly, this is the office of someone who wants you to feel small before her presence.
And, there on her chair, there she is. When the door opened she turned her head towards you, seeing who it was. Invariably of who it is, she sighs like this is a big interruption of her work, and keeps writing and drawing]
Don't touch anything and make sure you don't track mud in. If you have any complaints go see Rembrandt.
[She didn't even look up while saying that. So, what brings you to her office today?]
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Date: 2020-01-07 01:05 am (UTC)Other pieces of paper on the desk depict complicated devices, while others show...the fax machine, a cellphone, and the subway]
Sure you didn't. Spiteful, all of you. As if a little blood-spilling is that much of a burden.
the tech level for his world is pretty much modern/today's stuff
Date: 2020-01-07 02:13 am (UTC)[ He could show her, if he had a knife.
His attention does scan over those diagrams and he gives an appreciative whistle. ]
A lady of class and brains. Are you trying to figure out how to get them to work?
[ He'll snag the paper about the complicated devices to see if it reminds him of anything at all. ]
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Date: 2020-01-07 02:54 am (UTC)[Most are an enigma, but there's one that may ring a bell: it looks like schematics for the steam-powered coffee machine out in the bookstore]
It didn't take me that long, but it's fascinating what kind of technology I can get my hands on! Having still images of something...there's a lot of potential on that!
[Photos, she means]
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Date: 2020-01-07 04:24 am (UTC)[ He's a you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours kind of guy.
Looking at the coffee machine. ]
Do you get these schematics from different worlds?
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Date: 2020-01-07 08:12 pm (UTC)[She frowns]
Of course not. I created most of those. Before this ordeal started I had a lot of downtime while I worked on the preparatiobns.
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Date: 2020-01-07 08:46 pm (UTC)[ He needs to see what they are capable of first. ]
Hmm. So how did this ordeal started?
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Date: 2020-01-07 11:07 pm (UTC)[You have to give 'the good guys' the information in a very dramatic manner, this won't do! And as far as she's concerned, everyone but her and Rembrandt are 'the good guys', regardless of their D&D alignment]
And that includes why I came here in the first place. Not telling, Osamu Dazai.
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Date: 2020-01-07 11:13 pm (UTC)[ He'll lean his hip against her desk as he studies some of the foreign schematics. ]
Could you tell me if the power was always broken here then?
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Date: 2020-01-07 11:36 pm (UTC)[...]
Yes.
[There indeed was a rather noticeable pause there, but it wasn't like the Lady was thinking if she should be deceitful or not. It was more like she was trying to determine something before answering]
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Date: 2020-01-08 12:02 am (UTC)Do you have interesting tech up in your castle? Like a camera?
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Date: 2020-01-08 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-08 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-08 02:19 am (UTC)I'm not letting any of you get close to my castle!
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Date: 2020-01-08 02:28 am (UTC)I'm not interested in taking it if that's what you're worried about.
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Date: 2020-01-08 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-08 04:09 am (UTC)Seeming to take it in stride, he'll hold his hands up like he's holding a camera and pressing a button.]
What about taking still images then? Photos.