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[noracingstripes]

[The communicator clicks on. Matt sounds much happier than he has in previous messages. He also sounds noticeably drunk. It's not three o'clock yet.]

So do they, like, do they hand out fistfuls of fuckin' money out like that all the time? Because that's - and I finished my games, well, mostly. I could get more. Maybe later.

Comments

[audio]

[sevenofnine]

I do not think you applied the correct quantity of soda to your mixed drinks.

[audio]

[noracingstripes]

You did not tell me you live on a spaceship.

[audio]

[sevenofnine]

[No stunned pause.] You did not ask.

I described my work accurately, you made an assumption which I did not correct.

[audio]

[noracingstripes]

Dude. Dude. Come on - I'm meant to think of spaceships? We don't have - well, yeah, we have spaceships. I guess. But I'm meant to think 'oh, spaceships'?

[forthe_iris]

I think it's once a month.

[Audio]

[noracingstripes]

Seriously? Every month you answer a fuckload of questions and - fuck, I can deal with that.

[Audio]

[forthe_iris]

Oh, I-- I thought you meant the hundred dollars we receive every month. I think the survey was a one time only thing. Sorry.

[Audio]

[noracingstripes]

We get a hundred dollars a month? -- is that even, like, is that enough? I don't know if I can work.

[voice -- screened||unhackable]

[non_veritas]

No, they do not.

[There is a sigh, and a soft sound that might be the cluck of a tongue against the roof of a mouth.]

You are inebriated?

[voice -- screened||unhackable]

[noracingstripes]

Mmm. A bit. Just a bit inebriated. But not a lot.

That's a shame, man. We need to - live within our means. Right?

[voice -- screened||unhackable]

[non_veritas]

We do -- and they are small.

Why are you drunk this early in the day?

[voice -- screened||unhackable]

[noracingstripes]

It's not that early. Is it? I don't have a watch.