Subject: Class Q Plants and You [BlockCorp Roleplay Halloween Edition!]

in blockcorp •  8 years ago  (edited)


I went to see Ken Kenderson in his cubicle after my 17-hour reorientation about productivity. (I was standing at the printer considering the environment when the automatic system flagged me as non-productive.)

He's wasn't at his desk, in fact his desk wasn't there at all. It had been hurled across the room. The whole damn floor was empty. Where is everyone? A bloody message was scrawled on the beige cubicle wall fabric (I mean come on guys, don't you know we rent these things and have to keep them nice!) which said "Consider the Environment". It was real mess in there. Lead Janitors @ned and @dan will have to work all day to get the blood stains out of everything.

Meanwhile, I followed a trail of potting soil (I thought they were Oreo crumbs!) from his cubicle to the elevators. The trail stopped at the broken elevator shaft that leads to sub-sub-sub-sub basement ✂. I was late for lunch so I didn't have time to investigate, but I did eventually get some Oreos to eat!

Hugh Jordon, Security Officer and certainly not my boyfriend, was over at my apartment last night for [insert generic excuse] and brought along security camera footage from sub-sub-sub-sub basement ✂ that seems to show Ken staggering around the hallway in his underpants. There was no audio but he seemed to be moaning or wailing.

Please consider Ken non-productive, highly soiled and in possession of some dangerous plant material. If any employee should come into contact with Ken, or any of the staff from Floor ♛ please alert me at once by thinking really hard about it. As a reminder, Class Q plants are restricted to Research Staff and Management only according to the wise and all knowing F:Drive.

Thank you for your attention in this very serious matter.

Renee Nouveau
Public Relations for the
Secret Society Division


To: Upper Management Distro
From: @quantumanomaly
Subject: re: considering the environment

Dear management,

In our best efforts to consider the environment, and as chief of the IT department (the Interdimensional technologies dept, not the "other" IT), we've been importing various plant species from across the multiverse to be "considered". However, Ken Kenderson caused quite the ruckus about our "invasive screening procedures" and made off with several Class Q plants. These plants are very dangerous and should not be allowed outside of their specified containment vessels. Please have the plants returned and have Ken review the policies in the "preventing interdimensional harassment" guide.

Thanks,
~QA


From the Email Archives of the BlockCorp Industries Servers:

"Eagles soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." - Steven Wright

Special Halloween Plot: Ken Kenderson is in possesion of some killer alien plant life from god only knows where! Scrawled in blood on the inside of his cubical wall are the immortal words "Please Consider the Environment". He's last been seen wandering the hallway of sub-sub-sub-sub basement ✂!

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This was an amazing read! I was hooked until the end!

(It isn't finished! You've got to participate!)

To: Ms Ann. C. Athreedrandom
From: Renee Nouveau
Subject: Hooked?

Ann,
I'm sorry to hear about you getting hooked! You say it's some kind of vine that has you by the ankle?
Would you say it's an angiosperm or a gymnosperm?

You say coming out of the AC vent above your desk? Stay where you are (well,I guess you have no choice) and I'll send someone from Plant Operations to assist, I guess you can work through lunch since you can't leave your desk.

Also I'm sorry to hear about your promotion to the desk under the AC vent. It's on all year, even in winter, so please dress warmly. No fires for warmth or entertainment are allowed in the cubicles per the Employee Handbook Section 8.16: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.

Sincerely,
Renee Nouveau
Public Relations for the
Secret Society Division

To: Renee Nouveau
From: Ms Ann. C. Athreedrandom
Subject: Hooked?

Mr. Renee Nouveau

It's much worse than that. I'm afraid Ivy from Poison Control, from the floor above, had her eyes on my position ever since I got promoted. Out of nowhere her office mutant plant has reached my cubicle. It's an awful thing.

Ever time I saw Ivy, she seemed to be itching for an excuse to say something rude.
I'm starting to get suspicious about this promotion. This plant issue seams like a two person operation.

Sincerely,
Ms Ann. C. Athreedrandom

Secret Society Division

(That's the spirit!)

To: Ms Ann. C. Athreedrandom
From: Renee Nouveau
Subject: Re: Re: Hooked?

When we questioned Ivy about her office plants she answered with:



which leads me to believe that 1) this isn't her fault, and 2) that she may be drunk at work. Rather it may be the fault of the Alien Class Q Plants cross-breeding with her several office plants (which she seems overly attached to including this one that tried to bite me!)

.

We fired her anyway, and are going to restructure the Poison Control Department under the Department of Poison Control (why did we have two of the same departments?!)

I hope you get untangled with the help of @ned and @dan! Your entire floor will need to be quarentined until we can get to the root of this mystery!

Sincerely,
Renee Nouveau
Public Relations for the
Secret Society Division


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To: Ms Ann. C. Athreedrandom
From: Renee Nouveau
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Hooked?

Sorry for the late response. It seems that the Alien Class Q Plants have accessed the main server and I was unable to access my computer. Shortly after @ned and @dan untangled the whole mystery.
Thank you for your support in this itchy matter.

Sincerely,
Ms Ann. C. Athreedrandom

Secret Society Division

What kind of game is this...???
_finds a hole to crawl inside a wall possibly unnoticed to grow some plant experimentation studies...

To: Theodore Game (Block Production Management Level β)
From: Renee Nouveau
Subject: Re: game?

Does this look like a game to you Ted? I know that as the office prankster you like a little chaos, but this is well beyond the Δ .δ % chaos improvements we need to make up in Q4. In fact it's interfering with Block Production. No one has heard from the miners on your team. Can you go into the mines and make sure they are not having similar problems?

Thanks,
Renee Nouveau
Public Relations for the
Secret Society Division

Begin forwarded email: https://steemit.com/blockcorp/@reneenouveau/subject-budgeting-for-chaos