diff --git a/gopher/Cilix/09_sales_pitch.txt b/gopher/Cilix/09_sales_pitch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e38f4b --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Cilix/09_sales_pitch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ + +"Very well", he drawled, and let me in. + +The interior of the house wasn't nearly as impressive as the +exterior. There were boxes everywhere and lots of random pieces of +furniture that didn't seem to match anything. Mr. Walsh Number 2 (I +still don't know what I should call him. I wish people could be +considerate enough to give their clones new names) led me through +several half-empty rooms until we arrived at what looked like an +entrance to a greenhouse. That's what it looked like and that's +what it was. + +"Mr. Walsh is in there, tending to his Aspidistras", the guy told +me, and then wandered off somewhere. He didn't seem to know where +he was going or what he was supposed to do. They used to say that +being a butler was something you had to be bred into. This guy +seemed to prove that theory right. You can't just clone yourself +and expect the clone to be a perfect housekeeper. + +I opened the door and went into the greenhouse. It was hot as hell. +That smell of marigold filled my nostrils again. I guess it wasn't +an illusion after all. + +Took me a while to find the real Mr. Walsh. He was hunched over +some plants and he nearly died when I finally announced my +presence. If only I had been so lucky. He started babbling about +"who was I" and "what was I doing here" and calling the police. I +told him the butler let me in and that the police in Cilix couldn't +do much for him anyway. He was sweating profusely. So was I, come +to think of it. Must have been the atmosphere. An artificial +atmosphere within an artificial atmosphere. Seemed like overkill. + +I asked him if he'd like to go somewhere more comfortable. Told him +I had a proposition for him. He didn't have much choice at that +point, he led me out of the greenhouse and into some kind of lounge +area with a pool table. + +Now that we were out of that jungle, I got a better look at him. +He looked just like the clone alright, only fatter and older +somehow. + +"Wait here a moment, Mr. - I didn't catch you name." + +"I didn't tell you my name. It's Jules". Naturally, I didn't give +him my real name. + +"Wait here Mr. Jules, I'm just going to step out to fetch us some +refreshments." + +Of course, I didn't see him again after that. The other one, Mr. +Walsh The Second, eventually turned up and asked me to leave. I got +my hat and gave him my pitch just before I went out the door. + +I told him I sold life insurance, and that if Mr. Walsh was +interested in updating his policy to the latest, greatest standards +that could be found in the Solar System, he should contact me at +the Sunset Grand, a swanky hotel in the centre of Cilix. I didn't +actually stay there, it was well beyond my budget, but it seemed +like a good place for wooing a client. Mr. Walsh number two assured +me that the message would be delivered and I went out. + +I wasn't sore that the sales pitch had gone so badly, only that she +hadn't shown her face the whole time. + diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index 54fa82d..9444afe 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +0Cilix - 09-Sales Pitch /Cilix/09_sales_pitch.txt 0LibreKrsnah - Day 14 /LibreKrsnah/014.txt 0Cilix - 08-Palace /Cilix/08_palace.txt 0stygian - y /stygian/instinctual_stuff.txt