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Kitty Jones ([personal profile] rathercommon) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-10-19 09:26 am

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[ Oh, look, it's Kitty Jones. She seems a little tired - though you'd only know it by looking at her. Her voice is unchanged from normal. Indeed, she speaks with her typical firm bubbliness - a cheerful, kindly tone and an adorably youthful London accent obscuring the fact that her speech is (as usual) a bit on the manipulative/calculating/forceful/aggressive side. ]

Hullo, all. First, a job offer. I run a charity garage. It does pretty good work - we fix up and build really, really good cars, and sell 'em to the richer members of the local populace, and then the proceeds go to fund public transit in Heropa. Anyway. I recently... [ Just a little flicker in her smile. ] Lost an employee. So if there's anyone out there who's good with cars or mechanics or whatever, I definitely want you.

[ And now to the less businesslike portion of her announcement: ]

Anyway. Obviously there's been a lot of talk of elections lately, and there's also been a lot of cynicism about the whole electoral process. For obvious reasons. Since there are some politicians who are lunatic idiots. So I guess I just wanted to throw this out there, 'cause all of you have so much different experience from different worlds.

Who had power, where you're from? What was the government like? And were they good - just - or unjust? What do you think's the best form of government? How much power should the people in charge have?

And if you could build a government, build a country from scratch, what would it look like? Would you limit the freedom of the press, or would everyone have the right to speak? Would you build social programs, or would you leave people to fend for themselves? Would you go after warfare and expanding your borders, or would people live in peace?

[ These questions are a little bit leading. Perhaps. ]

Anyway. Share your thoughts, please.
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[personal profile] magnitudes 2016-10-19 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Make a board of sugar gliders the Ultimate Authority of Everything. If anyone disagrees? Guillotine, or letting a white dog and a black cat roll on all their clothes.

That little friend you sent my way was a tiny tyrant, by the way. No appreciation for my concerns for its health. Make a terrible leader, that one, too easily swayed by pastry.

( no she loved the tiny cinnamon roll addict )
helpline: (for fuck's sake)

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[personal profile] helpline 2016-10-19 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well based on prior experience, someone'd hand me the job then I'd leave.

[ does it count if you were Lord President and responded to the job with "fuck this noise". Cause that happened....like three times. ]
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[personal profile] magnitudes 2016-10-19 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
( Sarissa, for her part, sounds deathly serious. Or, rather, that kind of dramatised too-serious, where the eyebrows are just a shade too expressive.

Covering up Excessive Angst by ignoring it with humour disguised as severity. It's super effective. )


Well, that's true. Most persuasive flying marsupial I've ever met, thats for sure. Still, a good oratorer ( she leans into that deliberate wrongness, somehow making it more Australian sounding than anything else ) does not an automatically ethical glider make. Investigate, that's all I'm saying. Don't buy into her hype.
helpline: (humans are SO stupid)

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[personal profile] helpline 2016-10-19 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I was Lord President. I didn't want to be Lord President. I ditched. Simple as that.
helpline: (oh shit it's corridors)

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[personal profile] helpline 2016-10-19 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Which time?

[ we're gonna be here for a while.... ]
grimreaping: (SEATED ¦ having fought and won peace)

( not here )

[personal profile] grimreaping 2016-10-19 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Like last time, the sealed envelope sent to Kitty's home is handwritten and unsigned. Unlike last time, there are no stacks of bills, but an already endorsed cashier's cheque to the garage, and it's for a LOT more than the previous donation.

You've been doing just as impressive a job as I knew you would. Don't forget to take care of yourself as well. ]
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[personal profile] magnitudes 2016-10-19 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
( squint )

— how do you know she didn't want vegetables? Is she like that all the time?
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[personal profile] magnitudes 2016-10-19 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
( her nose scrunches up )

Wasn't that the first you heard of gliders, but? Or—

( huh ) Were you bullshitting me about not knowing sugar gliders to send me a tiny flying sugar addict? I nearly lost a finger.

( dramatic flair!!! )
excessivehubris: (Thoughtful Professor)

[personal profile] excessivehubris 2016-10-19 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Call him a coward but for the moment, Charles wasn't going anywhere near the government question.

However, the first bit definitely caught his attention. ]


Good afternoon, Kitty are you having any luck in your employee search?
grimreaping: (CLOUDS ¦ with father in death room)

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[personal profile] grimreaping 2016-10-19 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kid stays well away from most political issues, both here and at home, due to a number of reasons. So his answer is carefully worded to be unspecific, but thoughtful. ]

The world's political structure here is... largely similar to the one I'm used to at home, in regards to many countries, the Soviet Union being an exception.

It's always been my thought that a government's role should be in supporting its people, not ruling them. Laws are needed, of course -- order and balance are needed -- but they should be ones that people with [ a sound soul ] healthy intentions would already be following.
helpline: (awright let's hang with vikings)

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[personal profile] helpline 2016-10-19 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
People thought that I offed the old President, so I ran for the vacancy so I could exploit a loophole to give me time to prove my innocence. Turns out that my opponent was the guy who helped to off the old President, so I was stuck with the job by default.

Naturally, as soon as that murder mystery matter cleared up, I left the planet.
hunksmash: (don't mock my rock)

[personal profile] hunksmash 2016-10-19 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, man. I have nothing for the politics stuff, but the car thing. I've been hoping for mechanic work, and this... That sounds pretty cool.

I just, um. Does it have to be full time? Not that I'm automatically assuming I'd get it or anything! There's just a vague possibility that I miiiiiiiight be in a bit of a timing pickle. Maybe.
hunksmash: (yeah i dunno bout that)

[personal profile] hunksmash 2016-10-19 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
A friend just inherited a business and was looking for kitchen help, so that might be a thing. I don't wanna back out entirely all of a sudden, you know? Plus, it also wouldn't be a bad gig.

Working with machinery would be great, too, though. And the cars are... They're different enough here that everything's interesting, but similar enough to not be a pain. That's how it's looking, anyway. Plus, working on something other than ships might feel kinda nostalgic at this rate, and isn't a sucker for that?
helpline: (look at this smile)

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[personal profile] helpline 2016-10-19 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Claimed the office of Lord President to help thwart an alien invasion of Gallifrey, that's my home planet. Turns out I had to thwart two alien invasions, both of which I couldn't have done if I didn't have certain items only available to the president.

Then I left the planet. And since I know you'll ask about the third time, Borusa took over but the poor chap went insane trying to find the secret of Rassilon's supposed immortality, so the position defaulted back to me. At least that time I appointed a successor before I buggered off.

I think there's just one more time after that when I was Lord President.

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