[itp: loud noises!]

[rimshot]

[somewhere just off the infamous center of camp, a hobo in a hoodie is introducing a crowbar to one of the loudspeaker poles with a ringing clang.]

One! Two! Three! Four!

[and then he does it again.]

[it's ... kind of loud.]

(standard intro warnings apply. currently: consider post dropped, let me know if you desperately want continuation.)

Comments

[notamartian]

...

[I KNOW THAT SOUND. Wait. How do I know that sound. Wait.

... plz hold.]

[notamartian]

-- that can't be right. It isn't -- no. That isn't fair -- I didn't even ... I'm not finished. I still have a million things to do. I wanted to go and see the sunsets on Tia Terina and the Galapagos Pattern. I was going to -- there were so many things, and that isn't fair.

[notamartian]

It's not right! Not while I'm here. I don't want to just remember it, not like this!

[notamartian]

...

[corvideuce]

Is that really necessary?

[rimshot]

Yes.

[corvideuce]

It's disturbing everyone in the area.

[rimshot]

That's the point.

[galacticfairy]

What kind of rhythm is that?

[rimshot]

[doesn't actually stop.]

It's a drumbeat.

[two, three, four.]

[galacticfairy]

It's completely over the top!

[rimshot]

It's supposed to be!

[goddanit]

You'll never sell a single like that! Shut up!

[rimshot]

[lets the crowbar drop for the moment.]

What?

[goddanit]

That's not the kind of music that sells.

[rimshot]

Did you tell me to shut up?

[forcuttingboxes]

Five? Six?

[rimshot]

No! One, two, three, four! [clang, clang, clang, clang!]

[forcuttingboxes]

Hey, a guy who knows what he likes. I can respect that.

[rimshot]

Liking or disliking it won't change it.