IC CONTACT.

[mallarkey]

❨room № 150❩

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[voice]

[legal_eagle]

[Ring ring ring goes your tablet]

[voice]

[mallarkey]

[ How exciting. After a tiny bit of fumbling: ]

This is Doug. Hello?

[voice]

[legal_eagle]

[And at once:]

Hi. Sofiya Karimov. We haven't spoken. You're a lawyer?

[voice]

[mallarkey]

[ She gets to the point so fast he's caught a little off-guard. ]

Uh -- yeah. Yeah, I'm... one of the newer ones. Are you a lawyer or do you need a lawyer?

[voice]

[legal_eagle]

Can't the answer be both?

What kind of law did you practice?

[voice]

[mallarkey]

Sure, it can be. I just don't get that one a lot.

... I'm a securities lawyer. It isn't as exciting as it sounds.

[voice]

[legal_eagle]

[Yeah no that shit is barfworthy]

I'm sure it's quite lucrative. Which is good! You have a lot to live up to with your name.

Anyway. You ever studied criminal law?

[voice]

[mallarkey]

Can't complain. Except I'm not getting paid up here.

... Yeah. Well, I'm familiar.

[ In a "from the opposite side of the fence" kind of way, but details. ]

Why?

[voice]

[legal_eagle]

So, you've probably heard there's been a little bit of a kerfluffle lately...

text. backdated? before the transport trip to NYC.

[unmasking]

There's going to be an actual trip home to New York City! The real deal! No simulations! You should check it out. It's "the best time of the year" and I could quote Sinatra, but I don't wanna mess it up.

text; ahh sorry for the delay

[mallarkey]

Wait seriously? Thats great, Ive never been there before. When is this happening?

text; it's cool! holidays and all

[unmasking]

The twentieth, I guess.

text; :)

[mallarkey]

Wow. Id better make sure to make it. Oppertunities like that dont come up often huh?

text;

[unmasking]

Yeah, they don't. It'll be great!

text;

[mallarkey]

Sounds great. I could use a little civilization after being stuck in all this snow.

text;

[unmasking]

Yeah, snow I can take, the lack of a cityscape is just ... sad ...

text;

[mallarkey]

I dont mind that part for a little while. But you do get restless.

text;

[alittlesweptup]

You said you were working on this whole code of contact thing

Any progress?

text;

[mallarkey]

What, no hello?

Yes. Yes and no. I have the thing written up. Just need to figure out where its going.

[alittlesweptup]

What have you got so far?

[So that would be a no re: the hello.]

[mallarkey]

[ Rude. ]

6 item list so far. I was trying for 10 but not all the commandments apply. Do you think that policewoman would be the person to take it to? Leadership around here aint exactly the clearest.

[alittlesweptup]

You could take it to her for input, but you'll want to put the whole thing on the network for everyone to weigh in on. No one's in charge of anything except in name so if you want to get anything done its got to be by consensus

I wouldn't leave it opened ended though or they'll talk it to death. Post it with a proposed time frame for implementation or something

Those these are all just suggestions of course

[Diplomacy at its finest.]

[mallarkey]

Of course.

Youre right though. I already did the talking part so I wont waste time with that again. I was thinking of handing it over to someone with more athority- I'm still a nobody so I dont expect people to wanna listen.

How about I run it by you? Since you got an investment.

[alittlesweptup]

Everyone's a nobody

But sure, I'll take a look

[mallarkey]

I dont know about that. Some nobodys are louder.

Now I didnt make these up. Just put them together:

1. Be respectful
2. Don't be reckless/understand what youre doing
3. Work together

[ ... The next one he has written down is "no mutinies" maybe he should rewrite that. ]

4. No murder
5. Do unto others as you want done unto you
6. Fair justice for infractions- trials + nothing cruel/unusual

Maybe still needs some work.