Arc 15 Post 40: No Business Like Show Business
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No Business Like Show Business
11th of March 2007 A.D.
AllSeeingEye: Yes, also how the hell did you find this channel?
You fire off the text before you even consider the swear word, but then if it's one thing you didn't expect to find in a secure sanctuary network is was your little sister.
Leech1995: Social Engineering
As your little sister of all people explains Hollywood has been lying to you for more than a decade. Hacking as it turns out has less to do with jabbing at a keyboard really fast while looking cool and spouting enough techno-babble to rival Mr Spook and more to do with getting people to just hand you the required permissions. She and Wraith have been trading on your name hard.
AllSeeingEye: We should tell Mom about this.
Leech1995: Now?
Anxiety almost seems to come off the screen in waves with just that one word in waves, you don't quite have the heard to confirm it.
AllSeeingEye: Later, but we are gonna have to. Wanna go see the studio?
***
Thankfully school's out for the day which is how you end up in a trailer park in LA with your little sister ready to make a speech to variously bored, drunk and hung over film crew and actors all following along with weary eyes.
"We are assured when we are little," you begin pulling the blinds of the old 'dilapidated farmhouse set' that had been the setting of so many of your favorite movies. "That monsters don't exist. So even should someone see a monster, he still doesn't remember it that way. In his mind's eye," all around you sparks of spectral green start to glow brighter and brighter, orbiting your location like planets to the sun. "They see a 'big dog' or a 'large man' or a 'blur at the edge of vision' — anything except the thing that doesn't exist. That's the easy answer that papers over what happened, and the world continues on, blissfully ordinary. If you want to go back to living in that world I understand. I've prepared a generous severance package and I will be writing glowing recommendations to everyone who walks out that door."
"Oh shit... Darby really was a... something else?" A woman with strips of pink in her hair and decorative chains in a half a dozen metals hanging from her belt.
You nod curious how she'd know and more curious why she's alive to say so, but raise a hand. "Wait until everyone's made their choice please."
Not a single person moves from their seat. Huh, guess you don't work for Red Star production from too much caution or a lack of curiosity.
"He was a vampire of the White Court, I'll explain what that means in a moment..."
"And what's she then?" A tall lanky man you know as Peter Monroe asks, pointing at Leech.
"That is my meddling little sister who knows a lot more than she should," you announce, a dozen startled laughs breaking the solemn silence that had fallen on the place. Leech looks a little too smug when you add: "Also she knows her way around a computer."
"Huh, I'd have guessed 'gnome'," the man says. Judging by Leech's expression she would have stuck out her tongue if she was half as old as she is, but from the towering maturity of tweenhood she has to make due with a 'harrumph'
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OOC: I thought about trying to roll though this but nothing really flowed easily from here so a break seemed most appropriate.
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