003 | Dirk Gently | Day 113

[zen_navigator]

[Dirk flickers into view with what looks like plaster in his hair. He doesn't look especially happy.]

I have been here for over a month. I'm aware that many of you have been here for longer stretches of time. This does not change the fact that things don't exactly seem to be improving. Since I arrived, I've had a piece of mysterious technology strapped to my wrist, been surveilled, starved, had my mind invaded on who knows how many levels, and predicted something I could not stop like some sort of botched Greek allegory for human inefficiency.

[He growls, and the scenery behind him shifts, as if he's pacing back and forth in his bedroom. He's gesticulating wildly with his free hand, and barely containing the other from doing the same.]

There is nothing to do here except talk about how there is nothing to do here. I have made a map of locations of surveillance cameras which is completely useless, my cheese is entirely gone, and there's an entirely unnatural skylight growing in the ceiling of my bedroom!

[He ruffles a hand through his hair, dislodging a small cloud of plaster, and sighs.]

If anyone can help with the increasingly unsound state of my roof, please do let me know.

[video out]

Comments

[any1youwant]

Hey stranger. [Why she's even using the video instead of just walking down the hall to see him is a mystery.]

I don't mind sharing my room. I'll even help you move your bed. It's the least I can do. Some of the house seems completely stable and untouched.

[She offers him a small, but genuine smile.]

[hung_garian]

There might be some cheese in the store - not the real kind, of course. The kind that comes in a spray can and tastes like pre-chewed gum.

[He grins, fully aware of just how helpful he's (not) being.]

You could use it to patch up your roof, if nothing else. Might be a decent substitute for Polyfilla.

Video

[servingmichael]

How much structure is effected, or don't you know?

[bluesrat]

There's... probably some lumber still left from the work we did on the diner, but it depends how bad the damage is. You probably should keep out of the room until somebody comes and looks it over.

[ video ]

[monticora]

[ Alec is a transgenic. With the enhanced senses, speed, strength and everything comes enhanced intelligence. Alec learned to play concert piano in days. Learning to a fix a roof? Probably won't take him that long though. He could do it faster than most of these schmucks. He's tempted to try too. Tempted because Anita has been telling him to stop being an asshole. ] I could give it a shot. I need a little compensation.