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come_sailaway2022-11-16 09:27 pm
sictransitgloriamundi) wrote in come_sailaway2022-11-16 09:27 pm
Entry tags:
- changeling the lost: erin peters,
- changeling the lost: giles,
- changeling the lost: oswald wuthridge,
- critical role: cassandra de rolo,
- fate/grand order: dioscuri (castor),
- fate/grand order: dioscuri (pollux),
- fe3h: dedue molinaro,
- fe3h: dimitri alexandre blaiddyd,
- geist the sin-eaters: darcy lejeune,
- generator rex: six,
- groundhog day musical: phil connors,
- homestuck: eridan ampora,
- identity v: helena adams,
- ikemen sengoku: nobunaga oda,
- lavender jack: johnny summer,
- malevolent: john doe,
- mcu: ava starr,
- mcu: marc spector,
- mcu: steven grant,
- murderbot diaries: murderbot,
- npc: the captain,
- original: april caouette,
- original: siffleur,
- original: valdis,
- original: ylva wolfsdottir,
- overwatch: bastion e54,
- scion: bash st. expedit,
- skulduggery pleasant: skulduggery,
- stranger things: chrissy cunningham,
- stranger things: eddie munson,
- tales of the abyss: jade curtiss,
- tales of the abyss: tear grants,
- tales of vesperia: rita mordio,
- the 100: clarke griffin,
- the black phone: vance hopper,
- the prisoner: number 6,
- the umbrella academy: klaus hargreeves,
- westworld: maeve millay
YOU'RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT
WHO: the Captain + You
WHAT: contractually obligated price is right game
WHEN: 11/18, like nightish?
WHERE: Bellona Theater
WARNINGS: N/A, currently
[you've heard the announcement, the sound of Friday's cautious optimism as she spoke it. you've waited all day. now, it's time for the game.
the amount of effort that has gone into this production at Bellona can be safely defined as “minimal.” there are three podiums, with three slate boards and three pieces of chalk. there is another podium, currently empty, next to a plain folding table. there is a tablecloth draped over the table, covering a lumpy, inscrutable shape.
the most remarkable thing is the giant wheel set up on the other side of the empty podium. the slices of the giant circle are colorful, but also completely blank. the Captain actually spends 30 minutes prior to the start of the event simply sitting in front of it, back to the audience, and spinning it, listening to the loud clacking noise pick up and then die down again, before spinning it once more.
clackclackclack clack clack. clack. clackclackclackclackclack.
it's gonna be a long night.]
WHAT: contractually obligated price is right game
WHEN: 11/18, like nightish?
WHERE: Bellona Theater
WARNINGS: N/A, currently
[you've heard the announcement, the sound of Friday's cautious optimism as she spoke it. you've waited all day. now, it's time for the game.
the amount of effort that has gone into this production at Bellona can be safely defined as “minimal.” there are three podiums, with three slate boards and three pieces of chalk. there is another podium, currently empty, next to a plain folding table. there is a tablecloth draped over the table, covering a lumpy, inscrutable shape.
the most remarkable thing is the giant wheel set up on the other side of the empty podium. the slices of the giant circle are colorful, but also completely blank. the Captain actually spends 30 minutes prior to the start of the event simply sitting in front of it, back to the audience, and spinning it, listening to the loud clacking noise pick up and then die down again, before spinning it once more.
clackclackclack clack clack. clack. clackclackclackclackclack.
it's gonna be a long night.]
ROUND FOURTEEN
Your object is...
A table.
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MCMXC ₳d
Silly other contestants and their Arabic numerals...
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850 USD
[Now granted, that's approximate 1960 USD, adjust accordingly.]
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( cheering, cheering! )
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Well, uh. He glances at the captain and then very quickly smudges out part of line, changing his answer to:]
950 USD
[With a glance back out towards Pollux to see if he's doing this right.]
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( she doesn't know how to do this either so he's looking at the wrong one for help as she tried to sell jason numerous times... but does that matter when she looks happy and pleased to see him playing? besides, he's doing this so coolly that she begins to clap to offer praise.
then she speaks softly to herself. )
He has a lot of usds... ( what is that? alcohol? ) Wonder what those are...
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Aaaaaaaaand that description gives him nothing. ]
What kind of fucking table? What currency?
[ Yes he could just scrawl down a random number and lose on purpose but then he wouldn't win... ]
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IT IS A LONG TABLE THAT LOOKS AS THOUGH IT WAS MADE BY A RECLAIMED PLANK OF WOOD, NOW POLISHED. TWO GEARS INTERSECT IT, DIVIDING THE TABLE INTO THIRDS; THE GEARS APPEAR TO BE PAINTED A METALLIC BRONZE COLOUR AND THEY ARE HELD IN PLACE BY AN AXLE WITH IRON BENT INTO A TRIANGULAR SHAPE ON THE INSIDE EDGE OF BOTH GEARS. IT LOOKS HEAVY.
[you're welcome]
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...Fuck it, Arthur yells back. Now he sounds less mad and more like he wants to get to the bottom of this. ]
SO A- A SORT OF CARPENTRY ACCIDENT? SOMETHING CRASHED INTO A TABLE?
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WHY?
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He cups his hands to his mouth and bellows, "Arthur, it looks like what some rich asshole would put in the lobby of their fancy hotel as a statement piece. Bid high!"
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John finds Crichton easily, given they were both close enough to talk to Erin, and in a voice just a little quieter than what he was shouting to Arthur: "What the fuck kind of hotel would have that in it?"
Said as if he's been in more than one hotel, and as if the one hotel he ever was in wasn't abandoned and falling apart. But Crichton doesn't need to know that and John's point stands!!
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"The kind of hotel that charges five hundred dollars a night for you to get an obscured view of the Gulf Shores and still makes you pay extra for the cabana, that's what!" He shoots back. "The rich assholes kind. Pay attention."
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He doesn't argue further because with the care taken in smoothing and painting the parts of this alleged table, he agrees it isn't cheap either. No matter how much of an asshole Crichton is, John's invested in Arthur winning now, or at least making a good effort. Second, maybe, because that table (for all the effort put into making it) sucks. The point is, John was helping Arthur first so John gets credit either way for helping whatever result comes of this. Fuck you, Crichton.
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Before sitting back down himself, he adds one last, "You got this, Arthur!" Just because he can't stand not having the last word on things.
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He's already found the chalk and slate (they're easily recognised; he remembers using them in school) and with some care and spacial awareness he writes his answer. Arthur thinks of a ridiculous rich-guy who-would-pay-this-for-a-table number, and then triples it to account for... who knows how much inflation, and comes out with: ]
$900 USD
[ Is that over? That feels like it's going to be over. ]
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ROUND FOURTEEN: WINNER
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