[video] First Experiment.

[teslitricity]

[When the phone clicks on, it is sitting on a table in one of Abax's upscale clothing stores, at about waist high, and tilted slightly upwards to show a wide shot of the rear of the store. Tesla is standing just off of center from the camera, in front of a floor length mirror, turned sideways from the screen. He's dressed in a pair of black dress

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[fortheoptics]

[The irritated, bunged up voice of someone who's too sick to deal with some human who thinks he can accomplish in a night what she hasn't in over a month. She is not usually this grumpy, honest. :c]

I've never heard of you - but I'll be sure to think of you when I'm still here come breakfast.

[teslitricity]

I can't decide what bothers me more, the uneducated masses admitting they don't know someone as famous as me, or the fact that everyone seems so very intent on being as pessimistic as possible.

It's a sad essay on our world today.

[fortheoptics]

It's hard not to be pessimistic when all your best attempts fail. [She coughs suddenly, and cuts the audio for a moment as she recovers from the fit.] And when you're coughing up a lung every time you try to breathe.

What exactly are you famous for?

[teslitricity]

But you can learn a lot from failure. Or so I've heard.

[He grins.]

Inventions, mostly. Little things like...pretty much every interesting leap forward when it comes to electricity. And frankly, I discovered it, regardless of what else you might read.

[text; encrypted]

[notglitching]

[This week? Has been pretty glitched already. So as Rinzler's sorting through the network traffic, the claims of yet another user who thinks their powers or skill make them invulnerable serves as just another annoyance. Frustration. But nothing to confront, nothing to deal with. Scan through the data and move on.

...only. Rinzler scans through all the data. And one phrase? Requires... more information.]

Clarify: 'created the foundation for the entire modern electrical Grid'.

[Oh, hey. Those are your private communications. Word for word, though you probably didn't mean the capitalization Rinzler assumes.]

[teslitricity]

[There's a little pause as Tesla considers the message. So, unsecure system...that made sense, really.]

I designed it. I perfected it. I heralded in a new age of alternating current, in fact.

[notglitching]

[...
...
The words are still nonsensical. But that phrasing? Is eerily familiar.]

Confirm: user?

[teslitricity]

[...He does sound like CLU, doesn't he...]

User of what, exactly?

[chokeaslug]

[So. Not. Impressed.]

Cocky little bastard, aren't you? Boring.

[teslitricity]

I assure you, it's completely deserved.

And if you think I'm boring, than I am certainly doing something wrong at the moment. I do hope you'll let me make it up to you.

[ifishouldreturn]

You are a friend of the Lady Helen?

[teslitricity]

If you're referring to Helen Magnus, then yes.

Though I haven't heard anyone call her lady in years.

[ifishouldreturn]

I am.

My world is different from the others represented here. It is still a title we use whenever it is deserved.

[betrayer]

[VIDEO]

If all you can do now is boast, then spare us your arrogance, human.

[Here, have an unimpressed alien.]

[teslitricity]

Is it really boasting if it's all accurate?