Subject: The uncut versio should be on the normal channel...
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Posted on: 2014-10-13 17:19:00 UTC
Not the children's one!
Subject: The uncut versio should be on the normal channel...
Author:
Posted on: 2014-10-13 17:19:00 UTC
Not the children's one!
Remember Radio Nutmeg? Well, times have moved on since the distant year of, like, 2008 or something, and the station high in the mountains of New Caledonia has moved with them.
Freshly released by Nutmeg Television's Leaks Division ("No-one reads our press releases," Agent Notte Ling is reported as saying, "but agents will give up bleeprin if they think it'll get them access to an unauthorised leak."), the latest broadcasting schedule covers both Nutmeg Television itself and the children's channel, Nutmint TV. Enjoy!
Hopefully the jokes won't need too much explaining... I'll point you in the direction of Jay and Acacia's OFUM vacation (search 'movie night'), note that the 'Happy Funtime Hour' is this show, and point out that Alphablocks is a British children's TV show where animate letters spell out words and what they spell appears... it's a bit weird, but lent itself very well to what I did with it.
And since creative games are more fun than just reading stuff (emphasis on 'just')... what shows do you think are or should be broadcast in HQ? While Undis and Notte are mine, I'm hereby releasing NTV and NMTV as free-to-use... thingies. So you can add as many new (or old) shows as you like. Anyone?
(Also: the NTV logo is an accurate depiction of a nutmeg seed. I know, right?)
hS
Done in narrative form for fun, but rather stream of consciousness, and maybe not much fun to read? Also, I think Doc wanting to watch TV is probably OOC for him, but uh . . . chock it up to curiosity?
"So, do we actually get television, or is this just for researching games?"
"Oh, no, we get all kinds of stuff! HQ has its own channel." Vania held down the PlayStation's start button and the screen flickered, but displayed the same image.
"Is it . . . stuck?" Doc asked.
"Oh, this is a Let's Play. I think the A/V Division sponsors this. It lets agents show off what they're playing from their RC. And then . . ." she pressed a button on the remote control. "There's a separate channel for kids. Nutmint, as opposed to the regular Nutmeg."
"Ugh. Like Nick, Jr. or whatever?"
"Well, this is the PPC, so no. It's much better."
The screen showed a thin-haired man reading from a large book. "'My name's Scrubb, and this is Pole,' said Eustace. 'Would you mind telling us where we are?'"
"Ah, Narnia," said Doc, but then he frowned. "Is that actually Lewis?"
"Yeah," said Vania calmly.
"But." Doc shut his eyes and shook his head. "But Lewis is. Is."
"Dead? Maybe on your Earth."
"But that's it? Two channels, and one aimed at kids?"
"Oh, no, no, no! Those are just the two created here, specifically for HQ. We get reception from all different shows. Here, do some surfing. I gotta pee."
Doc frowned as he took the remote. "Thanks for sharing," he muttered. He tried out an arrow key, and the channel changed again.
It was playing the theme song to a cartoon. "♪On the Transformatronic Vocational Transport! Step inside, it's a wondrous, fantastical ride! Ride on the Transformatronic Vocational Transport!♪"
"God, yes," Doc murmured.
". . . What are you watching out there?"
"Children's cartoons," Doc replied obliviously. "Also, don't talk to me from the toilet, please." He changed the channel again.
A bipedal green lizard was charging at a weird black doll with red eyes in a circle around its head. A pinkish light suddenly appeared in front of the doll, which the lizard tried to slash through. An announcer's voice called out, "Claydol managed to survive that Leaf Blade thanks to Reflect, it was still super effective damage! And now it looks like Steven is switching to another Pokémon."
Doc flipped. A girl with long hair was marching jerkily towards the camera with a well in the background.
"Weird," said Doc, and he flipped.
A dark stairwell showed, lit only by a weird emergency light glued to a wall, which was beginning to sputter and fade. There was just enough light to see an expressionless mask floating in midair. It slowly began to glide towards the screen.
Doc huffed. "Weird." he changed it again.
A stone statue of an angel stood in a mist, hands covering its face. Hearing the sink running, Doc turned to address Vania as she returned to the main room, and so missed the statue pull its hands away from its face.
"Vania, a lot of these channels are just weird."
"Whatcha got?" she asked, coming around the corner of the screen to see a Weeping Angel advancing towards them. She shrieked and grabbed the remote, hitting the "Home" button to go back to Nutmeg TV. "Let's just stay in HQ for now, okay?"
Doc's brow was furrowed. "What was that?"
"Something we wouldn't want in HQ."
"But then, we're stuck with just the two channels."
"Well, sort of. But remember, we're in HQ. Time only counts for a sixth, here. Let's see what was on an hour ago." She pressed another button.
The video game footage was replaced with a classroom setting. A little kid in ratty clothing was talking at the head of the classroom. "And seeing as how you students is all having such difficulties in writing about the lives of Paris's poor, Miss Irene informs me that you'll each be having a turn spending a night in the elephant—" he grinned— "with the rats.
The seated students groaned, some beginning to complain before the gibbering of some book-shaped figures silenced them.
"Oooh! OFU lessons! How about an hour from now?"
The screen now showed a PicPsych nurse, apparently being interviewed. "It is hard sometimes, you know? I mean, I'm trained to improve people's mental health, and with agents, that's what I do. But with some canons . . . Well, let's get back to Captain Ahab; he's a prime example. He was heavily Sued when we got him, and we essentially had to get rid of all his well-adjusted behaviors, and find away to bring back the monomania."
Vania glanced at Doc mischievously. "Wanna cheat?"
"What do you mean?"
"Let's see what was going on back in Jay's time." She held a button down for nearly a full minute. When she stopped, an agent was just setting down a paper. "That concludes our list," she said, folding her fingers together and giving the camera a look somewhere between a smirk and a sneer. "If you have any information on these dangerous rogue agents, do not hesitate to inform the first officer you see. Just look for the sash with the Black Cat." She turned herself to demonstrate the flash patch on her won sleeve.
"Eh. Bad example," Vania said, hitting "Home" again. "Let's try a couple decades in the future?"
It was another news report. A young woman on "on the scene," as they say, of a section of hallway brutalized with scorch marks and slashes in the generic surface. "Several of the agents involved are currently being cared fro in Medical," the reported said into the microphone. "However, one agent present in the confrontation is said to be missing. Internal Affairs is asking for any information regarding the whereabouts of Agent V—"
"Meh. I'd rather not know." Vania flipped back to the present. "So anyway, what do yo feel like—watching."
Doc was back on his bed, reading. He grunted.
So, uh, thoughts? Concrit? gfd
Glad I could provide the inspiration... I definitely approve of the idea of OFU lessons airing on Nutmeg, it's precisely the sort of thing they'd do. And, in general, that was great fun to read. Thanks!
hS
Specific things that made me grin:
- Steampunk Magic School Bus! {= D
- Weeping Angels. (What is the other weird stuff? I don't recognize those things.)
- Les Mis OFU.
- FicPsych interview. I can totally see Nurse Parwill giving those comments. (Also, you typo'd "PicPsych," which makes me think the interview must have been animated or something. *g*)
- The broadcast from the far future. The scorched and slashed walls (nice word choice with "brutalized," btw) made me think of Catastrophe Theory, even though I know that can't be what you're alluding to; the timeline is wrong, and, well, so are other things. I want to know what happens, but at the same time, I hope it doesn't—it sounds bad!
- Doc back on his bed reading at the end. LOL, Doc. ^_^
I don't have any deep, insightful concrit. This was just fun, and I liked it, and that is all. {= )
~Neshomeh
I was trying to come up with some more illustrative lyrics for the steampunk Magic School Bus theme song, but it wasn't quite coming to me, and I had a work shift looming closer as I wrote. I'll have to make a better attempt at some point.
The other weird stuff: The girl is Samara, from Ringu/The Ring, a ghost who kills people who watch a cursed VHS tape (Japan!) by coming out of the television. The other is SCP-087, which may or not be able to leave the TV and attack people— the exploration documents linked at the bottom of that page leave it ambiguous. (That SCP is one of the legitimately creepy ones, especially those bottom links, so don't read if well-made creepypasta bothers you.)
The OFUs. I'd like to see a bit more interaction between our shared universes, but it gets tricky with getting permission from people who stopped writing them years ago. Hopefully, this little scene isn't stepping too far out of line. >.> It would be nice for them to get some cameos on Nutmeg, at least.
Oh dear. "PicPsych" definitely wasn't intentional (looming work shift). It could make a decent title, with "pic" being short for "picture"/film, but that doesn't work with the names of other departments. Maybe it was a shrink-only special event? And I didn't have any particular nurse in mind there, but we can certainly make it Parwill if you like.
Oh. You will find out what happened in that broadcast. But that's a long time coming. (Twenty years was probably conservative, at the rate I write. But Vania wasn't being precise with the remote buttons, and also wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.) :)
Not the children's one!