001. [ Video ]

[bloodandwhiskey]

[ The feed starts up at a somewhat unflattering angle of Cassidy's long face. The lighting isn't great, but there's enough to see his features. He looks tired, confused, and maybe a little frustrated. The setting for most people will easily be recognized as The Bay. ]

Right, so. Not sure who's gonna be seein' this, but, if this phone is what this little booklet says it is, then someone out there's got to hear me, right? Glory of technology and communication and all that

So now that we've gotten that out of the way, I've got some things to say. Whatever sick game's bein' played here? Not havin' it. It's bloody mental, is what it is. Bloody liftin' people off the street, they are, shovin' em in bloody space capsules and shite, givin' em a chance t'make a life? Don't buy it for a second. And whatever government agencies're listenin', cos you're always bloody listenin'... I'm sorry I exposed your foreskin-lotion cartel, all right? So.. now that we've got that out of the way, you'll let me go back, then? Got important things I need t'take care of..

[ His face falls a little. ]

Someone's hurt and I need t'help her. Or... if anyone's listenin' who gives a shite, maybe if you've got a heavy blanket or an umbrella or somethin'..I've got a terrible sun allergy and I can't go out durin' the day, now. Or... just a time when the sun goes down.

Comments

[bloodandwhiskey]

would love t'tell ya what prompted this idea. Truly, I would, but near as I can tell, they didn't want t'be wasteful with all them severed foreskins, and found some actual honest-to-god medical application for them.

What actually happened, I haven't got a clue, mate.

[frankensteinian]

And they have the technology to extract genes. That's comforting.

[Or, you know. Not.]

[bloodandwhiskey]

Well, I don't know about all that. Medical science is so far advanced from where it was when I was a lad. We hadn't even really cracked the atom yet, and yet here we are, gone to the moon, blowing each other to hell, making foreskin face creams. Not sure how it all works myself, but as long as they keep making drugs I can get high on, I'm not all that worried.

[frankensteinian]

You're not concerned about what they might do with your genes if they got their hands on them?

[He certainly is.]

[bloodandwhiskey]

Maybe, if they were extraordinary in any way. Been pretty good at keeping myself out of hands who might want to take blood samples or run tests. Helps when you're a degenerate lowlife.

[frankensteinian]

I doubt that all of those foreskins had extraordinary genes, and look at what they did with them.

[bloodandwhiskey]

Shit. You're right. But I mean, that's different, isn't it? Basially biohazard waste... if whole people went missing, especially on that scale, wouldn't people notice?

[frankensteinian]

You would think. But you're assuming that they would care enough to do anything about it.

[Or be able to, but Erik doesn't think in those terms.]