Inbox [cerealia]
Apr. 30th, 2015 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cardboard_journalism"Sss, sss, sss.
You've reached the desk of Myriam Scuttlebutt.
If you're calling to submit a story to the Cerealia Times, please press 1.
If you're calling to inquire about employment with the Cerealia Times, please press 2.
If you're calling to make a complaint about a story in the Cerealia Times, you are free to hang up. Complaints will only be accepted as submitted letters to the editor, delivered in physical form.
If you're calling for any other reason, please leave a message after the beep."
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[if 1 is pressed]
"You've reached the extension for submitting a story to the Cerealia Times. Please describe your story after the beep. For reference, please include your name and contact information. You may also make your tip anonymously, or ask for anonymity. As a source, your anonymity is protected by law, and will not be revealed without your express permission.
Kahk-kahk... Keep in mind, you cannot be financially compensated for information you provide, for reason of journalistic ethics. ...no, really, journalists aren't supposed to do that."
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[if 2 is pressed]
"The Cerealia Times is in need of correspondents, reporters, photojournalists, and delivery personnel.
Correspondent: you are expected to respond to stories that break out in an assigned section of Cerealia, report the information at the scene, interview witnesses, and supply written stories. Mild literacy is required.
Reporters: you are expected to actively pursue assigned stories and conduct related interviews in a timely manner. Mild interpersonal skills a plus, but not essential. With approval, you will be free to investigate your own stories.
Photojournalists: you are expected to record newsworthy events on film. This may require taking shots under suboptimal conditions.
Delivery personnel: you are expected to transport, unload, and fold bundles of newspaper around Cerealia.
All of these jobs take long hours and are very demanding... but they're worth it. --Except for the delivery job, that's just busywork. Sss, sss!
Leave your contact information, desired post, and brief description of your experience, if any!"
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You've reached the desk of Myriam Scuttlebutt.
If you're calling to submit a story to the Cerealia Times, please press 1.
If you're calling to inquire about employment with the Cerealia Times, please press 2.
If you're calling to make a complaint about a story in the Cerealia Times, you are free to hang up. Complaints will only be accepted as submitted letters to the editor, delivered in physical form.
If you're calling for any other reason, please leave a message after the beep."
[boop]
[if 1 is pressed]
"You've reached the extension for submitting a story to the Cerealia Times. Please describe your story after the beep. For reference, please include your name and contact information. You may also make your tip anonymously, or ask for anonymity. As a source, your anonymity is protected by law, and will not be revealed without your express permission.
Kahk-kahk... Keep in mind, you cannot be financially compensated for information you provide, for reason of journalistic ethics. ...no, really, journalists aren't supposed to do that."
[boop]
[if 2 is pressed]
"The Cerealia Times is in need of correspondents, reporters, photojournalists, and delivery personnel.
Correspondent: you are expected to respond to stories that break out in an assigned section of Cerealia, report the information at the scene, interview witnesses, and supply written stories. Mild literacy is required.
Reporters: you are expected to actively pursue assigned stories and conduct related interviews in a timely manner. Mild interpersonal skills a plus, but not essential. With approval, you will be free to investigate your own stories.
Photojournalists: you are expected to record newsworthy events on film. This may require taking shots under suboptimal conditions.
Delivery personnel: you are expected to transport, unload, and fold bundles of newspaper around Cerealia.
All of these jobs take long hours and are very demanding... but they're worth it. --Except for the delivery job, that's just busywork. Sss, sss!
Leave your contact information, desired post, and brief description of your experience, if any!"
[boop]
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Date: 2015-05-24 05:33 pm (UTC)--Oh, one last thing...
You want to be credited as just 'Inaba'? It's your byline. Sss, sss, sss.
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Date: 2015-05-24 07:21 pm (UTC)"Inaba Himeko". That's my full name, and I don't want to be mistaken by some other person. [ Just in case. ]
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Date: 2015-05-24 09:41 pm (UTC)Are you hungry, too?
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Date: 2015-05-24 09:42 pm (UTC)How are you going to eat or drink anything in that box? [Which is honestly getting them more stares than the whole not ordering thing, tbh.]
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Date: 2015-05-24 11:14 pm (UTC)...I'm not hungry, actually. I'll just have water.
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Date: 2015-05-24 11:23 pm (UTC)... It might get wet when you try to drink it. Or maybe a straw would help?
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Date: 2015-05-25 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-25 08:53 am (UTC)Let's get something to drink and share a toast to our collaboration. Might as well justify our seat here to the staff, right? Sss, sss, sss!
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Date: 2015-05-25 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-25 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-26 01:14 am (UTC)Leia can't help but shake her head, but she'll ask for some water and a fruit smoothie for herself when the next waitress passes by. She'll resist the snacks and desserts... for now.]
Well, at least no one's said anything.
[About her box... I mean, she must get comments a lot, right?]
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Date: 2015-05-26 03:34 am (UTC)[after it arrives, she picks up her water, and holds it up with some fanfare]
A toast to The Cerealia Times, then! May each edition stand as a beacon in the darkness until the newsprint crumbles from age!
[goes to clink her glass with Leia's?]
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Date: 2015-05-26 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-26 07:50 pm (UTC)Seems a bit low. Kahk-kahk-kahk...
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Date: 2015-05-27 11:49 am (UTC)Excuse me, but your paper has a terrible lie in it! It claims that Phoenix Wright and Mystic Maya Fey are burglars and that is the most untrue thing I've ever heard! You can't lie in a newspaper, that's against the law!
[ Or should be, anyway. ]
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Date: 2015-05-27 11:52 am (UTC)--this was too sensitive to handle by text, though.]
[she'd answer with an audio call back]
[ring ring ring (or whatever sound Pearl's phone made)]
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Date: 2015-05-27 11:56 am (UTC)It probably makes a cute ringing, whatever that sounds like. She picks up immediately. ]
Hello?
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Date: 2015-05-27 11:59 am (UTC)This is Myriam Scuttlebutt, editor of the Cerealia Times, getting back to you about your correction. Sss, sss, sss.
We take those very seriously and I'd like to know what you know. Could you describe your relationship to them both?
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Date: 2015-05-27 12:05 pm (UTC)Mystic Maya is my older cousin-- well, we're the same age right now, and Mr Nick is her special-- he's my friend. I know Mr Nick can be a bit suspicious, but I can't imagine them burglarizing a place! Mr Nick is a lawyer, you know, and Mystic Maya is almost the Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique!
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Date: 2015-05-27 12:12 pm (UTC)[She was trying to be professional, but... it just felt so weird to have someone talk so familiarly about Phoenix Wright like that]
...er, anyway! Since you sound very close, I suppose I can tell you I have verified it through what I believe are reasonable sources that they were both witnessed breaking into an apartment. So, here's what I need you to do: get them both to contact me, explain the situation, and I'll issue a statement clarifying things next edition if I think it's necessary.
I can't do more until I hear from them. Kahk-kahk-kahk.
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Date: 2015-05-27 12:16 pm (UTC)Reasonable sources...? Like who? [ Who should Pearl really be angry texting about this. ]
It will definitely be necessary! I'll tell them right away. Thank you, Miss Scuttlebutt and be ready to issue that statement!
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Date: 2015-05-27 04:27 pm (UTC)MYYYYYRRRRIIIAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2015-05-27 07:48 pm (UTC)All right. I'll wait to hear from them both.
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Date: 2015-05-27 07:58 pm (UTC)Yes, Athena? What is it?
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Date: 2015-05-27 08:02 pm (UTC)