Another new muse with some serious voice testing to be had

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

"Dear Mun"?

Well I suppose it will have to do, though I would've preferred speaking to you from an elevated podium. Since we're both extremely new to this relationship, let me lay down a few ground rules.

One, you should know that, considering we barely count as acquaintances--much less friends, I see no reason to engage you in frivolous, time-wasting pleasantries or idle chit-chat. We should both know why we're here, even if I have a master's degree and two doctorates while you don't.

Two, if you want to have a go at my 'voice' then there are certain issues we need to get out of the way. I am therefore devising a binding contract between the two parties involved. A sort of 'Roleplaying agreement' if you will. We'll go over each stipulation together, with me explaining each one in as simple of manner as possible if you need me to, before you sign in the appropriate places.

Three, it's very crowded in here. I don't like that.

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[grapples]

I get the feeling there's a lot you don't like.

Hope you don't mind a little 4th walling. xD

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

[Oh goodness, it's Michael Keaton! Or a terminator posing as Michael Keaton. A quick running through the numbers in his head tells him it's safe though.]

While a that is a very general assumption, you would be correct. Now, would you autograph the cover of my copy of the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie on Blu-Ray? I just need to get it from my apartment first. Oh, that reminds me, I need you to drive me.

it's all good~

[grapples]

[um what EXCUSE YOU, YOU RUDE LITTLE MAN.]

...They made a movie? [he's not so sure how to feel about that.] That's...kind of odd. I guess they'll make movies about pretty much anyone these days.

[a beat]

Wait, how'd you get here in the first place if you don't have a car?

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

Yes.

[Have one of those small facial tics he gets when he's bothered by something.]

You were in it.

Leonard drove me.

[grapples]

That's news to me. Acting seems like it'd be really stressful. I've got enough on my plate with sitting through those all-hands meetings the company mandates every Friday. Well, I mean, that I mandate.

Can't he drive you back?

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

But, you're Michael Keaton.

And I should hope so. If not I'll miss out on Halo night. I believe he has other plans in the meantime though, sadly.

[grapples]

Bruce Wayne, actually.

Sounds dire. If it's the important, I guess I could give you a lift if he doesn't show up.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

It's Halo night. Of course it's dire.

[He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his smartphone. Calmly bringing it up to his mouth, he sets it to record.]

Sheldon's journal, sixteenth of November 2012, addendum.

I've encountered famous silver-screen actor and comedian, Michael Keaton, but it seems he's currently suffering from mental breakdown, identifying himself with the role of Bruce Wayne, or Batman, he played in the famous Tim Burton movie-rendition. One wonders why he chose Bruce Wayne, over, say, Beetlegeuse, though the reasons are already pretty clear. Who wouldn't want to be Batman?

May have to call the police. That being said, I need to remember to get his autograph.

[He puts the phone back in his pocket, having done all of this RIGHT IN FRONT OF BRUCE.

Then he faces him once more, giving him a polite/terrifying smile.]

[theboywiththebook]

Contracts... don't really work with muns.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

[He does that short breathing-in laugh he does when finding something amusing.]

[theboywiththebook]

I'm serious. They usually do what they want without asking us first.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

This one won't if he knows what's good for him. It's one of those issues we'll be going over in our roleplaying agreement.

[undeadpan]

See if you can get your hands on a lawyer. It would help make a contract more official and ensure that your mundane be severely punished should they break it.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

I have an IQ of one hundred and eighty-seven. I believe I am quite able to represent myself. My superior intellect also allows me to fabricate the most fiendish and elaborate of punishments.

[lostshepherd]

Seems to me that most folks tend to keep to themselves, once they get set up in... such close quarters. [ yes

yes, that sounds like the best way to describe the headspace phenomenon. ]

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

Yes, well, it's still close quarters.

[soyed]

You should try being in my mun's headspace. I've had to get real comfortable with some of the others she has stored in here.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

The only person I've ever been 'comfortable' with is Leonard's mother.

[soyed]

Yeah? Well let's hope that situation didn't turn out the way this one for me is.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

Why? What is your situation?

[soyed]

Other than being cramped, it's mostly just a bunch of emotional artists, some drunken assholes, and two serial killers. It's that kind of situation.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

You mean to tell me that, in the whole of their 'headspace', there is not a single productive and/or valuable member of society?

It's things like these that make me weep for humanity.

[soyed]

[Ow... XD]

Some of them are. One of them definitely, at least that's what I'm being told to say, even if I don't really care one way or another.

I'm sure you've seen those horror films where the idiotic teens go off to party, live life, yadda yadda, and then are stalked one by one by some masked maniac. It's kind of like that in here, only the scenario is a little different.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

[You'll have to forgive Sheldon.]

Is the "masked maniac" a pioneer within a reputable and respectable field of science? That would be by my own standards of course.

[soyed]

[The mun did, but the muse probably won't.]

More along the lines of raving psychopath with an ego to compensate for a size problem.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

...

Is it you?

[soyed]

Do you mean the muse, or me, as in Dave me? Because my muse is a girl, so there's no need for her to compete. Although, I have met a few woman who-

-No, it's no one. I made that up.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

Oh. So that's the kind of world we live in today, where we can just make things up. Alright, I'm game.

The standard model of cosmology does not include Einstein's Cosmological Constant.

My work within the field of theoretical physics will not earn me a Nobel Prize.

Spock is not the best character in Star Trek: The Original Series.

[He does that short 'breathing in' laugh of his.]

I am such a wild card.

[arach_nerd]

You do know your mun'll just disregard all the stipulations unless they line up with their own wishes, right? Kinda one of the benefits of being relatively omnipotent.

[Sup Sheldon. Spidey'll be here just crouching on the ceiling]

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

[Spider-Man! Doing what a spider can. Huzzah.]

If he does I'll make his "headspace" a living hell. He knows what I'm capable of.

I have some Spider-Man briefs I'd like you to autograph.

[arach_nerd]

I have kind of a moratorium on autographing anyone's underwear.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

I could get you some latex gloves.

And it doesn't have to be the pair I'm wearing, though that would be preferable unless we can web swing back to my apartment. I also have an impressive comic book collection which includes a large number of Spider-Man comics.

[hi_bestie]

[ About the crowding of the headspace... ]

It seems that these mundanes have very little self control when it comes to - as they say - "picking up new muses".

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

Yes, well, they're obviously not as evolved as some of us. The Homo Sapien to our Homo Novus, or, if going by the X-Men model, the Homo Sapien to our Homo Superior.

[justthedoctor]

[He just...laughs.] Trust me, the Muns don't generally listen to our demands.

But that's alright. They take us to fun new places we've never explored before, and they even let us speak with people who've left or died! I'm quite happy for that, it's lovely to see people we miss again!

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

[The Doctor too? Well this is just Sheldon's lucky day, isn't it?]

While I disagree about most of what you just said, I'd like a sample of your DNA before I begin telling you why you're wrong.

PFFT. Now I just have mental images of Sheldon getting restraining orders from all the Muses in DW.

[justthedoctor]

[The ultimate battle of minds, this!]

What??? No!!! Why do you want-...?! [He leans in and whispers suspiciously.] Who are you working for...?

He would get them all framed.

[knock_knock_knock_penny]

I work at the California Institute of Technology, or "Caltech" in layman's terms, where I specialize in the field of theoretical physics, especially regarding M-theory or 'String theory'. Technically, while I consider myself a to have a rebellious 'trickster' streak at heart, I guess you could say I work for 'The Man'.

Why? What does it have to do with my wish to eventually grow my own Time Lord?