Δ [1st Cipher] SVOOL WZIPMVHH NB LOW UIRVMW

[improvident]

[Static crackles and pops over the feed.

It is a combination of a radio tuner whining listlessly between stations with decent service, the familiar whirring grumble of the dial-up tone ad infinitum, the hoarse screech of a car trying to start on a lonely highway in the middle of the night, where it has broken down for seemingly no reason at all.

Images flicker: an illustration of Lincoln's assassination, a room draped with red curtains, the Teletubbies, President Nixon, video footage of a piglet slowly decaying into loam. And then- A V O I C E.]

I GӨƬƬΛ ƧΛY. ƬΉΣƧΣ DIGƧ ΛЯΣП'Ƭ ΉΛᄂF-BΛD. I MΣΛП, IƬ'Ƨ ПӨ IПƬΣЯGΛᄂΛᄃƬIᄃ ƬIMΣ PΛLΛᄃΣ ΛПD IƬ'Ƨ ПӨƬ ƬЯЦMP ƬӨЩΣЯ, BЦƬ I GΣƬ ƬΉΣ ΛPPΣΛL.

[On occasion, between the odd frequencies scrambling the frame with black and white noise, a single eye will appear.]

VΛMPIЯΣƧ. ΛПGΣᄂƧ. ᄃΛППIBΛᄂƧ. GӨDƧ. ΛΉΛΉΛΉΛΉΛ ӨΉ BӨY, IƧ ƬΉIƧ GӨППΛ BΣ FЦП. I'ᄂᄂ BΣ ЩΛƬᄃΉIПG YӨЦ, ЩӨПDΣЯᄂΛПD.

I ' ᄂᄂ B Σ Щ Λ Ƭ ᄃ Ή I П G Y Ө Ц.

[The transmission cuts, leaving a fuzzy screen and a garbled message:]

Comments

voice;

[undealt]

And yet, the satisfaction isn't worth the inevitable boredom.

[He could have killed entire kingdoms for funsies back at the height of his power, but he had actual goals and it never interested him, and besides then what would he do.]

voice;

[improvident]

YӨЦ ЩIП ƧӨMΣ, YӨЦ ᄂӨƧΣ ƧӨMΣ, YӨЦ ƧᄂӨЩᄂY ЯΣPᄂΛᄃΣ ƬΉΣ ӨXYGΣП ЩIƬΉ ᄃΛЯBӨП DIӨXIDΣ ЩIƬΉ ƧӨMΣ.

[Bill shrugs nonchalantly, as nonchalant triangles are wont to shrug, but it's sad that Gold won't be able to see it.]

ΛΛΛПYЩΛY. IƬ'Ƨ BΣΣП FЦП, BЦƬ I ПΣΣD ƬӨ ᄃΉΛПGΣ ΛП ΛIЯ FIᄂƬΣЯ.