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searchingfordistraction) wrote2012-03-13 08:59 pm
searchingfordistraction) wrote2012-03-13 08:59 pm
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Rich Brook enjoys filming for The Storyteller. He honestly does. It may not be the role of a lifetime, but he could do worse than to spend the day reading fairy tales to kids.
He's always liked fairy tales.
Still, when Milliways pops up during a break in filming, he doesn't turn it down. He glances back over his shoulder first; then, when no one else seems to see anything amiss, he goes in.
At the Bar, he asks for a club soda with lime. He could have something stronger if he liked - with time stopped at home, no one would be the wiser - but it seems wrong for the Storyteller to drink while he's technically on duty.
[OOC: For clarity, Jim is in character as Rich, and will be making a much stronger effort to remain in character than he usually does in Milliways. And yes, he really is coming in from filming. DVDs don't make themselves.]
He's always liked fairy tales.
Still, when Milliways pops up during a break in filming, he doesn't turn it down. He glances back over his shoulder first; then, when no one else seems to see anything amiss, he goes in.
At the Bar, he asks for a club soda with lime. He could have something stronger if he liked - with time stopped at home, no one would be the wiser - but it seems wrong for the Storyteller to drink while he's technically on duty.
[OOC: For clarity, Jim is in character as Rich, and will be making a much stronger effort to remain in character than he usually does in Milliways. And yes, he really is coming in from filming. DVDs don't make themselves.]
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"... You are?"
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In case any of that information is helpful.
Yes, yes, he knows, but honestly - if he weren't in it for the attention at least a little bit, he'd have kept it to a hobby instead of trying to make a go of it professionally.
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It's akin to how you might look when you realize you should've answered question 36 with b instead of d. Or when you're told they've run out of the bubblegum flavor, and you'll have to get your teeth cleaned with that odious banana.
Or when you meet a guy named Rich Brook, who is an actor, when previously the only dudes you knew with his face were named Jim. (And actually one of them you don't really know, except by some transitive, psychic property of the Biblical sense.)
"Nice to meet you," Matt decides with a nod.
He finagles a potato half, laden with sour cream and cheese and lightly sprinkled with chives. Bar helpfully provides a plate and a fork.
"Here, um-- go for it. Don't spare my feelings. I'm Matt."
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He takes a bite and chews it slowly, eyes narrowed slightly in concentration.
"I see what you mean about the spices," he says after he swallows. "I mean it's good, but there's sort of something missing." He shakes his head. "I'm not a cook, I don't know what it is. At least you've not overdone with something, that's a lot harder to fix."
How's that for constructive criticism.
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"Something missing."
Matt's lips quirk.
"My appetizers have existential problems. Um-- I get what you're saying, though."
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"Yeah," he says. "I usually just add salt when that happens. Maybe a bit of pepper. I'm not exactly a gourmet."
The subtleties of spices are kind of beyond him.
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He eyes the potatoes.
"Maybe if I leave instructions suggesting that people salt them …"
A shrug.
"I don't know. What's the best way to hand out free samples around here? If it were somebody else offering them to me, I'd assume … almost anything but that it was normal food."
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Milliways veterans won't, unless they're really bored, but new people might.
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(... Why did he phrase it like that?? He wonders this as Bar produces a pen and posterboard.
Okay, he's overanalyzing. But seriously!)
Matt considers a moment, then writes.
(contains sour cream, potato, cheese, chives)
Any feedback can be submitted to Matt Jamison c/o the Bar.
He holds up the sign for approval.
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He looks the sign over, then nods.
"I'd go for that."
Maybe. After he asked Bar about it first.
He's heard about the sex-change mints and things like that, all right, he'd rather not blunder into that sort of thing. It's not his . . . thing.
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Matt nods. "Good enough for me. Bar, can I have some foil?"
She produces a modest amount of aluminum foil, and he wraps up a pair of potato halves to take home.
"I was mostly planning to bake and dash, tonight," he says, peering at the glass dish and the sign. "But I feel good about this. Go crowdsourcing."
There's a slightly ironic lilt to his tone: by Matt's time, crowdsourcing has been critiqued to kingdom come, and hasn't yet come back around into the realm of acceptable practices.
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"Just don't get focus grouped to death," he advises, his own tone similarly ironic. The focus group can be an actor's worst enemy.
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The comment itself isn't pointed-- see previous tangents, in re: overthinking things-- but all the same, he's kind of remembering that ironic conversation he had with Xelloss about never forgetting who he's dealing with.
Matt adjusts the sign and dish a little, then picks up his snack food and oven mitts and steps back from the bar.
"Well. It's been nice meeting you."
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It's just what he needs to get through the rest of the day's shooting.
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He smiles back, faint, and waves.
"Later."
As he turns to go, Matt considers that-- okay, of course he could be wrong. But even if he's not wrong, supervillains can have secret identities if they want! It has nothing to do with him. And as long as things stay that way (he flashes unpleasantly to Rache, who's met a Sherlock and a Watson, and remembers the villain of the piece) then it's totally fine, right? It's a free universe.
Right.