bathymetric: (Mayor Fontaine)
Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2022-06-12 03:53 pm
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Ladies and gentlemen, your mayor...

True to the word of the random pieces of paper next to your desks, at exactly 1:30PM New Rapture Standard Time, there's a chime on all radios in the whole area - and there are a lot of radios. Both the portable radios you've all been issued and speakers all over chime before a pleasant woman's voice calls out to all of you, slightly tinny and distorted.

Greetings, prospective citizens! Please make your way to the lobby for a personal address from Mayor Fontaine! Presented by Fontaine Futuristics, where we bring your present into your future!

Upon everyone's arrival into the lobby of the hotel, several televisions set into the walls light up with:



Until, after a few moments, the screens flicker and cut to the face of... someone, in silhouette, just like the rest of Rapture. There are no features to make out, though, as the top of a huge leather armchair raises above their head.

Mayor Fontaine is watching.

When the Mayor speaks, the speakers seem to have trouble getting it out. There's heavy distortion and static over it, but the voice seems clear enough - male, from the sound of it, and slow and purposeful. A thick Bronx accent, for those of you with a New York to compare it to.

"So. Welcome to New Rapture. I got some things to say, but I'm gonna bet if I just open the floor to questions they'll come up and it'll save us all some time. But to cut a couple off at the pass, so to speak: yer not leaving, this is real, et cetera. Now, ask me some questions, would you kindly?"
pairtner: (17)

[personal profile] pairtner 2022-06-12 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Technically speaking, nothing proves the person you're talking to is a living, breathing person. He could very well be an AI, although he's not shaped as an ursine, according to that silhouette.

[Thanks, Aiba]
sixthnonsense: (☄ headscratcher)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-12 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
So he could actually be a talking robot is what you're saying. Holy crap...

[This is said more in awe than anything. That's freaking cool??]
pairtner: (43)

[personal profile] pairtner 2022-06-12 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. You never know when you could be talking to an AI without being aware of it.

[Inwardly she feels so satisfied about making this comment, haha]
sixthnonsense: (☄ uh)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-12 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well this was cool until Aiba had to put it like that.]

Don't start bringing robot uprising vibes into this...
pairtner: (14)

[personal profile] pairtner 2022-06-12 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Accept your new robotic overlords, Yasuhiro Hagakure, and mercy shall be bestowed!

[Aiba, this would be funny if you being an AI was common knowledge, please]
Edited 2022-06-12 23:06 (UTC)
sixthnonsense: (☄ ...BUT IT WAS ALIENS DUDE)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-12 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
This isn't funny!! Things are bad enough as it is without robot overlords!!!
pairtner: (43)

[personal profile] pairtner 2022-06-12 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine, I'll stop.

[At least she gave him a break, good]
sixthnonsense: (☄ pray to all the gods)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-13 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[SIGH OF RELIEF. Small mercies...]