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Skip Wiley (Tourist Season, by Carl Hiaasen)

Oct 14, 2006 21:01

Skip drops into a chair out of nowhere. He glances with some puzzlement at the hole in his jeans, but appears to decide it's not important. Having nothing better to do, he readies himself to answer the questions put to him.

( Well, it's better than being dead... )

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mmmax_headroom October 15 2006, 04:04:30 UTC

A skateboard rolls up to Skip. Hydraulic arms raise the wood-cased TV set atop it to eye level, and a Head appears onscreen.

"AaAaAaAhHhHhH, a journalist, -list, -list, eh? Always nice to meet one of Edison's spiritual forebears."

*waggles eyebrows*

flameofdecember October 15 2006, 12:39:58 UTC

Is there an echo in here?

Yeah, I'm a journalist. I assume that by Edison you don't mean Thomas Edison, since he lived quite a while before me.

mmmax_headroom October 15 2006, 21:01:05 UTC

"Mor-mor-more of a stutter than an ec-ec-echo really. What we in the broadcast -cast -cast game like to call tec-tec-technical difficulties. hEeEee!!!" The skateboard spins in a circle.

"Nooooo indeed. I meant Edison Carter, investigative reporter extraor-or-ordinaire. Broadcast of course. Don't ask about print, there isn't any. So las-las-last millennium. The biological analogue of your-your-yours truly."

The Head tilts thoughtfully. "So what brings you by, fellow journo?"

flameofdecember October 15 2006, 23:16:41 UTC

Maybe you should get that looked at - I had a TV repairman's number here somewhere. *Skip checks his pockets.* Ah, here it is.

Search me. I'm on an island, having been shot in the leg, and trying to climb a tree to get an eagle to actually leave before the place blows up, next thing I know, 6:27, KABOOM! I think I was dead for a couple of seconds, then I end up here.

mmmax_headroom October 16 2006, 00:08:24 UTC

"AaAaAaHhHhH, a capital bribe, sir!" Max grins his best used-car-salesman grin. Then his brow drops over his eyes and he frowns as he picks through the seemingly random details of Skip's story.

"Did you get the eagle to go?"

flameofdecember October 16 2006, 00:20:23 UTC

I hope so. I think I saw him take off just before everything went BOOM!

Vote: Gryffindor mmmax_headroom October 16 2006, 00:26:05 UTC

"AhHhHhH. They tell me the place for writers is Ravenclaw, but that has just the ring of boneheaded self-sacrifice that Edison's made a career off of that tells me you should be in Gryffindor."

He leans into the 'camera,' winking conspiratorially. "So how 'bout that TV repair guy's number, buddy?"

Re: Vote: Gryffindor flameofdecember October 16 2006, 00:28:11 UTC

ThankS for the vote! Here. *Places the slip of paper with the number on the skateboard.*

Re: Vote: Gryffindor mmmax_headroom October 16 2006, 00:30:33 UTC

"Tha-tha-thank you! Now, there's gotta be a phone someplace in this castle..."

The hydraulic arms lower the TV back down onto the skateboard, and it slides toward the doorway.

"Gooooooood luck!" it projects at top volume as it clears the Sorting Room door.

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