#dgcakes

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mb chatfic:

>Amena(PresAux) created channel #general-chatting

>Amena(PresAux) created channel #media-night

>Amena(PresAux) created anonymous channel #gossip

Everybody’s Here > #general-chatting

SecUnit(PresAux): what the hell is an anonymous channel

Perihelion: Messages sent to that channel do not have feed-accessible identifying information attached.

SecUnit(PresAux): will you know who sent the messages? 

Perihelion: Of course. 

SecUnit(PresAux): what’s the point then? 

Perihelion: Unless there is an imminent threat to the safety and security of my crew, I do not view or reveal identifying information attached to messages sent in anonymous channels. 

#gossip

Anonymous: So you don’t know who sent this message?

#general-chatting

Reply-to: >#gossip > Anonymous: So you don’t know who sent this message?

Perihelion: I know @SecUnit(PresAux) asked somebody verbally to send that message on its behalf. I do not know if that person actually sent the message or if someone else did.

SecUnit(PresAux): i still don’t get the point of sending anonymous messages. sounds like trouble waiting to happen.

Iris(Crew): Ostensibly it’s for anonymous complaints or feedback from the crew or the students, but we mostly use it for silly reasons.

Leonide(BE): Pardon me, why have I been added to this chat? 

Amena(PresAux): oops, that was an accident. you can stay if you want though, i don’t think anybody will be spilling any proprietary information or anything right? 

>Amena(PresAux) has changed her display name to Amena

Seth(Crew): I suspect our automated monitoring system will filter any such information before it reaches this feed space.

Perihelion: That is correct.

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p&p The Rake of Pemberley ('rake' for short) snippet:

Given the source of this information, rumours of “the rake of Pemberley” had already spread far and wide throughout Meryton and its surrounding villages by the time Elizabeth next met with her friend Charlotte Lucas.

As Hertfordshire had not had any recent scandals of this magnitude to occupy the conversations of the local gossips, it seemed one from a neighbouring county would have to do.

“It is as if they all think the rake of Pemberley shall impose himself upon us next,” Charlotte said when the topic came up between her and Elizabeth. “I rather think the man has likely already removed to the north and will not trifle with people of such little consequence as we are.”

“Indeed,” laughed Elizabeth. “Though if he does, at least the merchants will have been forewarned and shall know to guard their daughters and the list of men to whom they will grant a line of credit.”

“They shall have to be exceedingly vigilant,” Charlotte replied solemnly, “for I have most recently heard that he somehow managed all of this perfidy in a single night. I shan’t be surprised if I hear next that he also importuned the daughters of the local gentry.”

“Well, if he comes here, at least you and I shall not be thus afflicted. We both are excellent judges of character and shall immediately see through whatever pretty words he uses in an attempt at seduction.”

“Dear Eliza, I think that perhaps you have been reading too many novels.”