.001 [Accidental Video...eventually]
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what_ho_jeeves[Voice]
--at ho? [sound of communicator falling down and shutting off.]
[Text]
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[Video]
...blasted thing come with instructions.
[Lo! The whatsitsthingy is blinking! This might be a good sign. Or this might be like the half-dozen other times that he thought it was working when it actually wasn't. ...No...it really is working this time. In the background is a posh flat designed with hints of Art Deco in the architectural details.]
What ho, what ho!
I say, this is a dashed peculiar sort of ship, isn’t it? I mean, when I was approached by this Admiral chap I knew I’d be on some boat or another, but I rather expected it to be more of a sea-going affair, as is, I think, a natural conclusion to come to when the word “ship” is uttered. Instead, inside, I find a replica of my Berkeley Mansions flat, so perfectly perfect I half expect Jeeves to come biffing in through the kitchen door at any moment, and outside, I find all the starry universe.
Well, this is a rummy whatsits, it is. All the same, this Wooster shall not yield to brooding or despair. Oh no. Did the Wooster who fought at Agincourt look around that stormy and troubled hill and say, “Dash it all, this wasn’t on the cards,” and go home? Oh no. A Wooster always keeps his word, you know.
[He emphatically gestures with the hand that's holding the communicator at the end of his little speech, causing the picture to veer wildly around and ultimately drops it again. Barge-folk, enjoy a view of his ceiling.]
Dash it all, why can't the Admiral use sensible things that start with "tele," like telegrams and telephones to--
[And in picking it up he's accidentally turned it off again. It may be hours before he figures out how to turn it back on.]
--at ho? [sound of communicator falling down and shutting off.]
[Text]
e9oas0-50igf4eaw3l;k82=erwl;dkl;3r0;kxkop8954 0kdska0230-
[Video]
...blasted thing come with instructions.
[Lo! The whatsitsthingy is blinking! This might be a good sign. Or this might be like the half-dozen other times that he thought it was working when it actually wasn't. ...No...it really is working this time. In the background is a posh flat designed with hints of Art Deco in the architectural details.]
What ho, what ho!
I say, this is a dashed peculiar sort of ship, isn’t it? I mean, when I was approached by this Admiral chap I knew I’d be on some boat or another, but I rather expected it to be more of a sea-going affair, as is, I think, a natural conclusion to come to when the word “ship” is uttered. Instead, inside, I find a replica of my Berkeley Mansions flat, so perfectly perfect I half expect Jeeves to come biffing in through the kitchen door at any moment, and outside, I find all the starry universe.
Well, this is a rummy whatsits, it is. All the same, this Wooster shall not yield to brooding or despair. Oh no. Did the Wooster who fought at Agincourt look around that stormy and troubled hill and say, “Dash it all, this wasn’t on the cards,” and go home? Oh no. A Wooster always keeps his word, you know.
[He emphatically gestures with the hand that's holding the communicator at the end of his little speech, causing the picture to veer wildly around and ultimately drops it again. Barge-folk, enjoy a view of his ceiling.]
Dash it all, why can't the Admiral use sensible things that start with "tele," like telegrams and telephones to--
[And in picking it up he's accidentally turned it off again. It may be hours before he figures out how to turn it back on.]
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[video]
Date: 2011-03-15 05:36 am (UTC)[He nods happily, very glad he doesn't have to explain that he doesn't mean the city further north.]
It is one of the more interesting parts of living here. There are people from many different times and even different worlds. I come from 1794 myself. Many people seem to come from the later twentieth century or early twenty-first.
[video]
Date: 2011-03-15 05:43 am (UTC)Good heavens, 1794 you say? With all these future people biffing about you've probably already heard all about your splendid country's triumphs and trials in the next century. Old Boney and all that.
[video]
Date: 2011-03-15 05:48 am (UTC)I've heard some. I had a few months tour of various places in the early twenty-first century. I read some too, but I'm trying not to let it worry me.
[He's keeping this light though trying not to lie actually. He's very worried about the immediate future in his France. He isn't sure he likes Bonaparte at all.]
[video]
Date: 2011-03-15 06:04 am (UTC)But don't worry, France is doing splendidly these days, oojah-cum-spiff even. [Bertie's rose-tinted glasses have conveniently forgotten WWI, which ended less than a decade ago in his time.]
[video]
Date: 2011-03-16 03:59 pm (UTC)