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Jun 17, 2009 19:08:45 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Jun 17, 2009 19:08:45 GMT -5
"I find it only prudent to plan for the future."
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Jul 5, 2009 4:41:19 GMT -5
Post by Rorschach on Jul 5, 2009 4:41:19 GMT -5
"Assuming there is a future," Rorschach grumbled.
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Jul 5, 2009 4:41:51 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 5, 2009 4:41:51 GMT -5
"Is that all you came here for? To gossip?"
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Sept 16, 2009 7:49:59 GMT -5
Post by Rorschach on Sept 16, 2009 7:49:59 GMT -5
"Don't gossip," came Rorschach's reply, a little louder this time. His tongue shifted position in his mouth, testing one tooth, the inkblots on his face shifting slightly. Veidt always made him irritated. Smell of Nostalgia familiar - point of Nostalgia is to be familiar. Knew the face too well from the old days. But hadn't been comfortable then, and now - as much a whore as any on the street. But this wasn't the street. This building made his stomach twist. But Veidt had been a good man, despite liberal failings. Daniel had liberal failings. Only men Rorschach could trust were not as trustworthy as himself, but they would have to do. There was no one else.
No point holding off, stalling. Ward unimportant. Part of Veidt's twisted world of business. "Woman murdered. Recently," he said, abruptly, unintentionally. "Police presumed repo killing. Then shelved her without further investigation."
((FIRST RORSCHACH POST. I SUCK. HE IS HARD. NEEDS PRACTICE.))
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Sept 18, 2009 18:05:23 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 18, 2009 18:05:23 GMT -5
"Ah, yes," said Veidt, looking terribly saddened and worried by this. "The poor thing. She'd only been with us for three weeks or so when it happened."
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Sept 19, 2009 15:50:37 GMT -5
Post by Rorschach on Sept 19, 2009 15:50:37 GMT -5
If Rorschach was surprised, skeptical, or sympathetic, the shifting ink blots were saying none of it.
He made a thoughtful, somewhat hoarse noise that sounded a bit like "hurm," and plunged on ahead.
"Wasn't reposession. May yet have been repo man. Veidt Enterprises has bad relations with GeneCo."
There wasn't any judgment in that. Neither company was well-loved by Rorschach, but while Veidt Enterprises was soft, liberal, pampering those who had least need of it, GeneCo disgusted him. Both companies preyed upon the vain, but with Veidt's company at least this was metaphorical. And he might have thought many things of Adrian Veidt, he knew him. He was a good man. The Largo family... nothing good about them. He'd have liked a good half hour with any one of them in a bar. Would probably learn something, given their connections. But for once, that wouldn't be the point.
But all this didn't quite matter. It was one thing for GeneCo to try to do something about Adrian Veidt, but what did they have to gain from the murder of this girl in particular?
"Who was she?"
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Sept 21, 2009 15:46:02 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 21, 2009 15:46:02 GMT -5
"She wandered in here some months ago, raving about some other firm none of us had ever heard of- GlobalSoft, I believe it was. The poor girl seemed terribly touched in the head, but competent, and I took pity on her by giving her a position in the electronic filing department. She was good with computers- damnably good, I would say."
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Sept 21, 2009 15:53:25 GMT -5
Post by Rorschach on Sept 21, 2009 15:53:25 GMT -5
"Hurm," said Rorschach, this sounding slightly agitated beneath his face. "GlobalSoft. Never heard of it."
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Sept 21, 2009 15:56:03 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 21, 2009 15:56:03 GMT -5
"Given her state of attire and her general demeanor, it's likely that she was severely mentally ill," Veidt said, his voice regretful and compassionate.
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Sept 22, 2009 18:04:23 GMT -5
Post by Rorschach on Sept 22, 2009 18:04:23 GMT -5
That statement provoked something in Rorschach.
"Then probably not murdered for information or concerning rivalry," he said decisively. "But probably knew something. Hurm," he breathed, raggedly, through the mask, a hand lifting as though to stroke a beard in thought. Instead, he only tugged the mask down properly, though it hadn't appeared out of place before.
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Sept 22, 2009 19:09:44 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 22, 2009 19:09:44 GMT -5
"Unless this conspiracy theory of hers was true, I doubt it."
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Sept 22, 2009 19:11:12 GMT -5
Post by Rorschach on Sept 22, 2009 19:11:12 GMT -5
"What theory?" asked Rorschach suddenly, stiffening, avid reader of the New Frontiersman that he was.
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Sept 22, 2009 19:21:05 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 22, 2009 19:21:05 GMT -5
Adrian smiled wryly. If anyone was going to want to listen to his reiteration of the late Scaramouche's bizarre ramblings, it would be Rorschach. Rorschach had been a fringe figure even when costumed heroism was popular and respected, and the years, Adrian suspected, had not been kind since.
"She was convinced she was from the future. The very distant future, some three hundred and some odd years from now."
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Sept 22, 2009 19:23:38 GMT -5
Post by Rorschach on Sept 22, 2009 19:23:38 GMT -5
"Hurm," said Rorschach, shoulders visibly dropping a bit. "Unlikely."
To say the least.
"But was good with computers, you say."
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Sept 22, 2009 19:27:23 GMT -5
Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 22, 2009 19:27:23 GMT -5
"Yes. She insisted on saying that in her time, everything was controlled more or less by some kind of monopoly- the GlobalSoft I mentioned earlier- and thought that perhaps access to my technology might be a useful way in changing history. I humored her- after all, her impressions create a number of perhaps discomforting paradoxes; not least of which being that if she were what she claimed to be, then there would be no need to correct the future. She would have created a stable time loop of sorts."
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