Voicemail/IC Contact

[neurotoxined]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL]

"Hello - you have reached the personal voicemail inbox of INSERT NAME HERE; they're not available right now, but please leave your name, number and a brief message, and they'll get back to you as soon as they can.

In the event of an emergency, hang up and dial whatever authorities may be available to help you with your crisis. In the event that there are no authorities, may whatever God you believe in help you because there's a good chance that INSERT NAME HERE can't help you either. If the world has fallen under martial law, become a police state and/or has otherwise become a dystopia, please be aware that Big Brother may be watching you for quality assurance purposes.

Thank you for your interest in contacting INSERT NAME HERE; have a nice day, and remember, 'science' rhymes with 'compliance'!"

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

Comments

[neurotoxined]

Where you're from, and what year it is.

[doitrockapella]

Which means you're assessing the level of technology I'm familiar with, I presume.

It's 1997, and I'm from the United States of America, if that means anything to you.

[neurotoxined]

Something like that.

Where in America?

[doitrockapella]

There aren't many places I haven't been. But the last place I called home was San Francisco.

[neurotoxined]

What do the words 'black mesa' mean to you?

[doitrockapella]

Assuming you mean the Black Mesa that touches parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado — it's a landform with the highest point in Colorado. There's a state park and a nature preserve, if I'm recalling correctly.

[neurotoxined]

Right. There's a corporation named after it. They created a fuel system icing inhibitor.

Did you hear about what came of that?

[doitrockapella]

I didn't. Should I have?

[neurotoxined]

Probably not.

Long Fall Boots are exactly what the name says they are. They're designed to prevent impact injuries from long falls - the longest drop I've seen someone take with them was four kilometers. They hit the ground at terminal velocity and were perfectly fine.

They can also withstand being launched with great force, since you mentioned that. They're used with Aerial Faith Plates all the time.

[doitrockapella]

I wasn't aware someone else had already beaten me to my own personal innovation. But I'm hardly going to complain, if it makes it that much easier to get my hands on a pair.

How difficult would it be to make them here?

[neurotoxined]

You said you could provide materials. I'm also going to need somewhere to work, as I would really prefer not having people asking me what I'm doing. And I don't think that they would approve of me throwing my test subjects off the roof.

But it's possible. Assuming you don't need them by tomorrow or anything ridiculous like that.

[doitrockapella]

What are your specifications on the workspace? I presume you'll send me a shopping list for the materials.

[neurotoxined]

I'm used to the workspace not being ideal. I was absent from the laboratory for a while back home. Twice.

Let's say that things went...badly. Both times.

And I managed to work with that.

So don't worry about it being adequate, exactly. Just worry about it being somewhere that people won't care if someone flies off the roof once in a while.

[doitrockapella]

So a secluded retreat in the mountains would suffice? I can provide that.

[neurotoxined]

How attached to it are you?

Because I may want to make a few modifications.

[doitrockapella]

Given the experiences I had with the place, I'd frankly welcome renovations that rendered it completely unrecognizable.

[neurotoxined]

...That can be arranged too.

All right.

I'll give you a list of what's required. You give me the location for this secluded retreat of yours. And I'll get you your boots.

Who am I talking to, anyway? Other than a friend of [INFORMATION REDACTED], who seems hesitant to have his name attached to anything to do with this deal.

[doitrockapella]

He asked you to block that, did he?

You can call me Sarah. Sarah Jordan.

[neurotoxined]

I'll be in contact with you soon, Sarah Jordan.

With that list.

[doitrockapella]

I'll look forward to it, Caroline.