Who are the characters in the Conglomerate? - A pitch from bsully.
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Storyline submitted by bsully
Storyline submitted on April 10, 2011
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Who are the characters in the Conglomerate? -
Scene 2 Scene submitted by bsully Scene submitted on April 10, 2011
At the Conglomeratre's Corporate's HQ, the Sentient Resources Department recruits order-minded operatives from across time and space. -
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Daniel Kettering was a likely recruit. Conceived at Woodstock, he'd been raised to be a flower child. But it hadn't taken. He'd learned to hate chaos. -
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As early he could, he got away from his parents. He went to study at England, where he picked up an English accent and an English persona with remarkable speed. Everyone said that he must have been English in a previous life. -
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With his well-ordered mind, he was a natural at software engineering. During the dot.com bubble of the nineties, he almost made millions several times. But someone else always got the profits from his ideas. -
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He was bad at business--and terrible at relationships--because he could't understand people. Why didn't they act rationally? Why didn't they keep order in their lives? He could never predict what people would do. -
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After a particularly nasty breakup and a business catstrophe, he contemplated suicide. But then tehre was a knock on the door. -
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A mysterious stranger had a job offer for him, saying, "There is a place in the world for lovers of order." -
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The stranger opened the door to Daniel's linen closet. But none of Daniel's carefully folded linens were there. Instead, there was a vast honeycomb of the tidiest cubicles Daniel had ever seen, -
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Daniel stepped though the door, and he knew that only then was he truly home. -
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He hoped to work in the conglomerate's IT department, but first he had to wend his way through the job rotation required of new employees in their first few hundred years. -
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He worked in Sentient Resources, managing personnel matters for the Conglomerate's operations in Earth's European Middle Ages and Renaissance. (There, he briefly knew Commander James Anon of Her Majesty's Fleet) -
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Later, he was transferred to Moral Accounting, where he helped keep track of the Con's various karmic debts -
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Now he works in Eschatological Affairs, helping to limit the conglomerate's exposure to possible apocalpyses. All in a day's work. -
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His colleagues regard him as a rising star. So far he has risen to the rank of Clade Special Provisional Assistant Vice President Class 0003.24A. (They say the longer the title, the less important the job. Daniel likes to shorten his to AVP.) -
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He is becoming aware that the Conglomerate is a vaster enterprise than he could ever have imagined.
