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You've reached Alfie Solomons. Leave your name and state your business.
Alfie can be reached via the imPort network, or via a home phone and answering machine. He does have a cell phone, but it's not publicly available.
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[he blinks a little dumbly at the shoulder pat. the drink is getting to him.]
Bro, I lived in a ff-- cave in the middle of the ocean for the last couple years. A car, I ain't got.
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[he makes a face, shrugs.]
T'nks anyway.
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[Alfie asks cheerfully.]
Would you like me to complain about the problems with this place, as well?
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[he snorts, half offended half laughter.]
Go. Air your grievances.
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[He says loftily. He's not being himself here, he's quoting someone else.]
"Yeah, registration is a choice. Look how magnanimous we are, not forcing you to sign up for government service after we fucking dragged you here"-- and they don't control the Porter, no, but they own it and it is their fucking fault.
[After that digression, he's back to the put-on voice.]
"So we fucking dragged you here, right, but we're not gonna force you into government service. No, that would be unethical, wouldn't it. But we're gonna wheedle, we're gonna bother, we're gonna make it very inconvenient to live by your own means--"
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[he make an annoyed noise, clearly in agreement.]
They should be giving that support cause when we get thrown in here we ain't got nothin' but the clothes on our back and some powers most of us don't even want! Not to mention the fuckin'-- media up our asses every minute of the day, just-- we ain't people to them. Just... [annoyed, he throws back another gulp.] ...toys.
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[He drums his fingers on his knee agitatedly, and Digby comes cover to nose against his leg.]
We're toys to the natives, yeah, but to the government we're tools.
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[he takes another swig. archie was serious about wanting to get fucked up.]
S'just... I don't get why we gotta have 'em inside us.
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No, neither do I. I don't like them doing anything to our bodies forcibly.
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[it's a joke, frankly. one archie rarely talks about.]
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[Alfie wags a finger at Archie, faux-disapproving.]
Isn't that right; we're meant to be grateful for all that's been given to us.
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[a loud groan, before he finishes his drink.]
I'd say-- start a revolution. But then they'd probably just switch off the nanites and kill us all!
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Y--yeah. I know what they can do. I don't wanna-- think about it.
[you bet your ass he's going to pour another drink.]
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[It's a bold question, but Alfie is rarely shy about asking those. He'll be polite enough to back off if Archie doesn't want to answer, at least.]
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[it's his immediate answer, and not really even the only or right answer he has, but for whatever it's worth with his inhibitions lowered... it's the immediate one.]
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Do you know, I still try to get ported out every day? I'm settled enough, I'm not miserable, but all the same--
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That's prob'ly keepin' people at arm's length, there.
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[he shakes his head, poring his fourth glass.]
Gets fucked with people you love from home show up. [he scowls.] Just like fuckin' Maxie to piss off and leave me here.
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[he frowns.]
I wish it was that easy. He could come back with no memories of this place, and thanks to that timeline bullshit expect me to be a completely different person.
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[Alfie, that is not what you say.]
If that happens, then explain yourself, and if he doesn't accept it then sod him.
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Nah-- he would accept it. It's hardly the weirdest thing in our lives. It's just-- it's a lot to put on someone, y'know? Even if we're best friends. Like-- hey, we fucked up and died a bunch of times in some messed up horror house. You cool?
Or-- hey! We spent ages working out the bad blood I put between us and everything was okay now. You cool with that??