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Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan ([personal profile] dendarii) wrote2017-01-02 09:55 am
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[IC] [Mask or Menace] Contact Post

"This is Miles. Leave a message and I'll respond to you at my earliest convenience."

The line has gone silent; any messages sent to this name only return an error.
jacksonian: (looking down)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He fights the urge to elaborate further, to make it sound more believable by adding details. My father sometimes had a temper. A little bit of a temper... ]

That's another question. I don't think you've earned that.
jacksonian: (intense)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I asked it already. Who are you?
jacksonian: (Default)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The truth. Finally. In return, a lie: ]

Lord? Your planet has lords?
jacksonian: (drunk)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
An economics student who wants to become a stockbroker full-time. You already know that.
jacksonian: (smile??? painful smile)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't that sort of an oxymoron? "Surprisingly normal?" Isn't it the abnormal that's supposed to surprise you?
jacksonian: (stressed the fuck out)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
So what do you want me to say? Birth defects make me special? They're not all that uncommon where I come from. Toxicity in the atmosphere.
jacksonian: (drunk)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-23 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shit. He hasn't thought about what he's going to say here. On the one hand, his bones aren't all that breakable, which might become evident if he ever has to engage in any action, but on the other hand - how to explain the synthetics...? ]

That's another question. You owe me an answer on how being some feudal Lord or whatever is complex.
Edited 2016-03-23 00:08 (UTC)
jacksonian: (drunk)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-23 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ God, is this really the crap he's going to have to spout? ]

You collect taxes from them?
jacksonian: (incredulous)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-23 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Uh huh. Then the fact that you want to stay with them doesn't seem all that complicated. Revenue for doing nothing.
Edited 2016-03-23 00:33 (UTC)
jacksonian: (drunk)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-23 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
The fact that you haven't thought of it like that doesn't mean it's not actually like that. People are very capable of lying to themselves.
jacksonian: (incredulous)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-23 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. According to you. Who might be lying to yourself.
jacksonian: (displeased)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-23 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay. Well, this might make them underestimate him. ]

Yeah.

So why did you decide on that crap clone story?

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