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[The Guide switches on and the bustling background is a coffee shop. Asleep, Une has a book open and a sheaf of paper covered in loopy cursive scrawled in green ink. Pen in hand, she's comfortably catching forty winks on her work as the notes serve as a makeshift pillow. It's fair to assume she's writing her plans for Preventer down by hand to keep it from getting hacked but she probably didn't count on dozing off on her work. Best laid plans and all that. From the Guide's vantage point, some of the writing on the top sheet is legible.]
Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life.[1]
For the sake of sustainable growth, Preventer must cater to a wide array of people individuals in terms of their needs defense. This would be with respect to both those in its service and to those it renders its services to. Considering the variety of intelligent life aboard, this is a major challenge. Aside from providing wages to agents, a sustainable plan for their care in case of incapacitation must be put in place. If they have next of kin, arrangements upon potential demise
No agent will die under my watch. Not again after
Should any agent die in the line of duty, I will make it my personal
As leader, I render myself exempt to such care should finances be unable to sustain such a burden. A DNR* document, or its equivalent aboard the S. S. Thor, will be filled out in case of incapacitation leading to a vegetative state, coma or the ilk. Following SOP**, a trusted individual will be selected to facilitate termination. In this way, more of the budget can be alloted for incentives to those who require
[The rest is obscured and covered by her head resting on the stack. A few of the sheets are also scattered on the table. One lies nestled under a saucer covered in crumbs...]
...use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda.[2]
Intel has always been vital to Preventer. However, safeguarding it. in the company of such skilled hackers is proving difficult. Algorithms and subroutines for encryption and decryption require constant alteration for the purposes of
[And another marked with a dark ring from the bottom of a coffee mug rendering the struck-out writing even more illegible...]
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way people would like the world to work-whereas economics represents how it actually does work.[3]
One simply cannot perceive morality as mere idealism. Such an over-simplification would
[It's safe to assume she realized she was arguing with an inanimate source of information and set about erasing the tirade before using her mug as a paperweight on it for good measure. However, the mug must have been shoved away at some point during her drowse because this sheet now lay loose. Nearby, yet another cryptic excerpt is perceptible on a torn piece of paper that momentarily flies toward the guide before sailing off into the unknown. If one were prudent enough to hit freeze frame, the following would have been visible...]
Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle, causes.[4]
So perhaps I'm not misguided. All effort prompts a corresponding effect. Even with the limitations currently set upon us, I'm certain some impact will be made toward
[Not to mention one particularly full page poking out mid-sheaf. Only the top part was visible though.]
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so. If you learn to look at data in the right way, you can explain riddles that otherwise might have seemed impossible. Because there is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction.[5]
Hire a financial analyst and an accountant at one's earliest convenience. The "sheer power of numbers" causes as much "confusion and contradiction" as it allegedly "scrubs away." Best left to professionals. Prospects should be
[The book was much easier to see with the title of the chapter it was open to printed in big bold letters.]
CHAPTER 1: WHAT DO SCHOOLTEACHERS AND SUMO WRESTLERS HAVE IN COMMON?[6]
(tl;dr ooc and footnotes:
[1] Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009) 12.
[2] Ibid. Full sentence is: "Experts"-from criminologists to real estate agents-use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda.
[3] Ibid 11.
[4] Ibid 12.
[5] Ibid 13.
[6] Ibid 15. Yes, that is the actual chapter title. No joke.
*DNR = Do Not Resuscitate document
Feel free to IC-ly not know what DNR means for, I dunno, asking purposes. 8| Most canonmates and anyone with IC medical background would likely know though.
**SOP = Standard Operating Procedure
Well, dozed off at the start of 4th wall. Feel free to confuse her by waking her with the news or something. I am a derp. This date is still in progress but she'll pick up a whole bunch of books there. Info to help her manage Preventer and whatnot. I bought Freakonomics recently and it's good leisure reading. I thought it wouldn't be out of place at all in the H2G2 verse considering the quirkiness is somewhat reminiscent of Douglas Adams. So there you go. =_=; As for writing things down, it's something that still happens in the AC-verse so I assume she wouldn't be averse to it especially considering how "traditional" OZ was.
---To keep this post relevant for the entire week, let's assume she's doing her note taking daily at this cafe for the duration of the 4th wall event. The whole drowse bit is something she succumbs to from time to time. Up to you if you catch her awake or not.)