Series XVII - Private, encrypted to Warren Worthington & Sam Guthrie.

Jun 26, 2009 08:58

Worthington, I need to tell you something rather important. I think I might have, erm, put the proverbial spanner in the gears.

† arnold rimmer | ace rimmer

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 16:16:03 UTC
Good to hear you're all right.

Go ahead and shoot, I'm all ears.

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 16:19:27 UTC
For a certain value of "all right," I suppose.

During the week I'd been, ah, altered. Into that poncy git "Ace." I, erm. Well, I sort of held Hodge at gunpoint and demanded that he tell me the truth about Layla Miller.

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 16:22:45 UTC
You did what!?

Well what the hell happened after?!

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 16:28:04 UTC
You heard. Believe me, I wasn't in my right mind, or I never would have attempted it. Never.

I got there on the night of...god, Thursday the 11th? I think. I was tracking the Polymorph that had gotten me and Penny. It went to Hodge's office for some reason. In any event, I tried to get him to 'fess up, at gunpoint...and a man by the name of McClane interfered. He's a police officer, apparently. I think he'd been affected by a Polymorph too, but I'm not sure.

Then the damn 'Morph tried to attack all three of us, and Hodge slipped away in the confusion. McClane was after the woman named Angela Einshell...sten...something like that, whatever her name is. Apparently everybody thinks they're accomplices.

And, so far, I've not heard peep one from Hodge about the matter. But I'm certain he's not well pleased with me.

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 16:34:30 UTC
Yeah, Layla had mentioned the Angelica woman, so I believe that.

You haven't heard a peep. Great. So I guess that also means you definitely haven't been back or have seen him?

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 16:37:32 UTC
Angelica. Right.

Oh, smeg no. I'm never going back to that office again, so long as I exist. And now, on top of that, we've suddenly got a mass exodus for parts unknown. You're not leaving, are you?

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 16:41:16 UTC
No, I'm not leaving. Not unless I got ported out anyways. There would be no sense in taking off in the middle of a mess, so you don't have to worry about that.

Hodge has been quiet though, even on the network. You haven't heard anything about Starscream yet, have you?

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 16:43:51 UTC
I've seen him floating around, but I've been reluctant to approach him. He apologized to me, you know. In the middle of that week from hell.

The only problem is, I don't know if he meant it. He's lied to me before. But...I don't know.

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 16:47:06 UTC
...And I'm assuming you're not as worried about him hacking into this?

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 16:55:40 UTC
Oh, I am. But considering that the filters and encryptions have gone all doo-lally, perhaps he won't spot it.

Besides, it's not like they're not already gunning for me. The fact that you and I are on speaking terms isn't likely to make it worse.

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 17:03:50 UTC
Let's hope so. You and I talking may not bother Starscream so much, but I wouldn't put it past Hodge, okay?

But to keep on topic, did you learn anything at all when you confronted Cam? Anything new? What he's been up to?

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 17:06:07 UTC
I know. I've encrypted it as best I can.

All I know now is that, one, Hodge has totally locked me out of his computer systems, two, that he's got a bolt-hole in the back of his office that's got a heck of a lock on it, and three, he got really shirty with me when I called him "Cam."

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 17:13:51 UTC
Is it the kind of security someone with super strength could bust through, you think?

...

And what the hell is wrong with calling him 'Cam' all of a sudden? I swear he's getting weirder and weirder.

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 17:15:18 UTC
Hm. Maybe. I didn't even try, honestly. I had to hunt down the smegging Polymorph. After what it did to Penny...

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ascending_angel June 26 2009, 17:17:23 UTC
How is she holding up? I talked to her briefly and she seemed scared out of her wits.

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ajrimmer_ssc June 26 2009, 17:20:24 UTC
She's better now. She lost quite a bit of weight because of everything, and I think she lost her job, too. But she's all right.

She was scared because...well, I don't know how much Cannonball told you about...me. What happened to me last week.

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