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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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"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.