Office of Creative Incubation Terminal Entries

A transcription of **terminal entries** in the Office of Creative Incubation.

## Reception Desk Terminal

**Location:** On the reception desk in the first floor lobby.

Office of Creative Incubation

Gorgon - A Spacer's Choice Property

# "The best ideas since Pre-Sliced Bred!"

Reception Desk

Terminal Access

Welcome, W. MACKAY

# "It's not the best choice, it's the only choice!"

Thank you for using GIMSI, your employer-sanctioned messaging system!

Friendly reminder: Your messages are company property! Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or deletion of GIMSI content may result in early termination of your employment contract.

Please select from the following options:

#### FROM: Goodfellow, L., SUBJECT: Reception Procedure and Protocol

FROM: Goodfellow, L.
TO: Mackay, W.
SUBJECT: Reception Procedure and Protocol

Mackay,

After some deliberation, I've decided to update your standard procedure and protocol while you operate the front desk. Commit the following to memory:

1. Do greet visitors and workers with a smile.
2. Do mention Spacer's Choice brand products and services in your daily greetings.
3. Do monitor and report extended lavatory breaks.
4. Don't mention our surveillance and security system to arriving visitors.
5. Don't talk about "the incident."
6. Don't let any auditors into the upper floor, under any circumstances.

Failure to adhere to protocol #6 will result in a demerit on your permanent record. I don't mean to be harsh with you, Mackay. You're part of our family, too.

Regards,

Lawrence Goodfellow, Management

### Door Lock Controls

Reception Desk

[Personal Memo]: No auditors on the upper floors. Orders from Mr. Goodfellow.

#### Unlock Lavatory Door

**Note:** This unlocks the doors to the lavatory on the east side of the floor floor.

Lavatory Doors Unlocked

[Personal Memo]: Monitor and report extended lavatory breaks. Management's orders.

#### Unlock Showcase

**Note:** This entry requires Hack 40 to access. It unlocks the doors to the showcases on the west side of the floor.

Showcase Doors Unlocked

# Gorgon - A Spacer's Choice Property

Main menu
Welcome, Goodfellow, L.
Please select from the following options:

[Admin Functions]
[Messages]
[Unlock Elevator]

### Messages

[Incoming Messages]
[Outgoing Messages]
[Archived Messages]
[Hack 100][Deleted Messages]

#### Incoming Messages

Displaying incoming messages:

[FROM: Ambrose O., SUBJECT: SEIZE ALL RECORDINGS(HIGH PRIORITY)]
[FROM: Ambrose O., SUBJECT: RE: RE: RE: RE: Production schedule]
[FROM: Ambrose O., SUBJECT: Toxifree re-branding]

##### SEIZE ALL RECORDINGS(HIGH PRIORITY)

FROM: Ambrose, O.
TO: Gorgon managers
SUBJECT: SEIZE ALL RECORDINGS (HIGH PRIORITY)
Bring them to me immediately. And for fuck's sake, don't let the journalists off the fucking asteroid.

Dr. Olivia Ambrose
Project Directior
Spacer's Choice Pharmaceuticals Research & Development

##### RE: RE: RE: RE: Production schedule

FROM: Ambrose, O.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
You think you can hide from me, you little twerp? I know a serum that will make you feel as if you've lived a thousand years in just eight hours.

How would you like to spend the night in Waste Processing?

Cheers,
Ollie

##### Toxifree re-branding

FROM: Ambrose, O.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT:Toxifree re-branding

Change the fucking name, Lawrence.
I don't care if the inbred simpletons at headquarters were "just having a laugh." Customers don't know what it means.

You may choose from this list of acceptable alternatives:
Absorbatol
Chelatamax
Bindatron
Emeticin

Cheers,
Ollie

#### Outgoing Messages

Displaying outgoing messages:

[TO: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: RE: RE: Production schedule]
[TO: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: Production schedule]
[TO: Gorgon Managers, SUBJECT: Radio documentary participation]

##### TO: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: RE: RE: Production schedule

FROM: Goodfellow, L.
TO: Ambrose, O.
SUBJECT: RE: RE: RE: Production schedule

If you are receiving this message, I am currently unavailable; in my absence, I have instructed my secretary Herbert Harrell to reply to any incoming messages with this pre-approved response.

Vicariously,

Lawrence

##### TO: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: Production schedule

FROM: Goodfellow, L.
TO: Ambrose, O.
SUBJECT: RE: Production schedule

Dr. Ambrose,

Great timing. I was just sending Herbie over to your department with a preliminary production schedule. As with so much of the work we do at the OCI, the design of a production schedule is more of an art than a science. The timetables and milestones are less "contractual obligation" and more "aspirational cartography."

Respectfully,

Lawrence

##### TO: Gorgon Managers, SUBJECT: Radio documentary participation

FROM: Goodfellow, L.
FWD TO: Gorgon Managers
SUBJECT: Radio documentary participation

Approved. Next time, allow me to make this kind of announcement myself, Mr. Mostly. Hierarchy exists for a reason.

FROM: Mostly, C.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: Radio documentary participation

Mr. Lawrence Goodfellow,

Many of you may be familiar with Odeon Pictures, Byzantium's premier purveyor of aetherwave drama and drama-adjacent entertainment. Several of my personal associates at Odeon Pictures have launched a satellite studio called Pictureless Pictures, which emphasizes radio programmes and serials intended to excite the senses and palpitate the glands.

I have received a request to approve a radio documentary programme examining the lives and contributions of Spacer's Choice scientists operating on Gorgon. The name of this documentary is "Moments With Genius!" I do not approve of the superfluous exclamation point, but I approve of the general idea.

Please inform the other managers.

Lawfully,

Mr. Clarence Mostly

#### Archived Messages

Displaying archived messages:

[FROM: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: Radio documentary participation]

##### FROM: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: Radio documentary participation

FROM: Ambrose, O.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: RE: Radio documentary participation

Lawrence,

This is a waste of my time. The last thing my team needs is a fleet of gadflies descending on the labs and asking stupid questions. We're months behind as it is.

However, because Lucien demanded it, I will consider the program's request if the following conditions are met:

- Lucien guarantees me the right to review and approve the recordings.

- The journalists are confined to Gorgon for the duration of the project. It could be years - make sure they understand that. If they leak the details of our work to the press, I will put a hit out on them myself. I know people, Lawrence.

- The journalists bunk in Shipping & Receiving. We can't have them fraternizing with the project staff outside of their scheduled interviews. These people are our enemies, not our friends. No one will be coming down with an acute case of friendship on my watch.

- My team will not be held responsible for the inevitable delays this tomfoolery will cause. The only individual who will be working overtime on this is you.

Understood?

Cheers,
Ollie

#### Deleted Messages

**Note**: Requires Hack 100 to access.

Displaying deleted messages:

[FROM: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: RE: Production schedule]
[FROM: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: Production schedule]

##### FROM: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: RE: RE: Production schedule

FROM: Ambrose, O.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: RE: RE: Production schedule

The schedule you sent me must be a template or the work of an intern, because it's patently insane. We're nowhere near to hitting Lucien's proposed milestones. Branding's "hopes" and "wishes" won't magically change that, no matter what the corporate office says.

My compound is months from viable, Lawrence. It kills people. If you'd like proof, you're welcome to try it yourself. I'll even show you where to stick it.

I expect to see a revised schedule before the week is out.

Cheers,
Ollie

##### FROM: Ambrose, O., SUBJECT: Production schedule

FROM: Ambrose, O.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: Production schedule

I've seen the brand managers sniffing about, Lawrence. I know your department is gearing up for a big announcement, and mine is the only project on this fucking asteroid.

Send me your intended production and release schedule immediately.

Cheers,
Ollie

## Clarence Mostly's Terminal

**Location:** In the offices on the second floor.

Office of Creative Incubation

A Spacer's Choice Property

# "The best ideas since Pre-Sliced Bread!"
Terminal Access

Welcome, C. Mostly

Messages

### Messages

G.I.M.S.I. - Gorgon Internal Messaging System Interface
# "It's not the best choice, it's the only choice!"

#### To: Goodfellow, L., SUBJECT: On the latest(...)

FROM: Mostly, C.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: On the latest test results from Human Inquiry, with some additional commentary

Mr. Lawrence Goodfellow,
Fortuitously, I have had the opportunity to review the latest test results from Human Inquiry. I agree with your (and the Committee's) general assessment that these test results are unacceptable. The latest experimental sample of Adrena-Time demonstrated a fifteen out of seventeen possible symptoms in my rubric of Dangerous, Lethal, or Otherwise High-Risk Side Effects.

I have sent a full report to your desk, the abstract of which is as follows: Adrena-Time in its current state falls to meet this project's standards. By my calculations, Adrena-Time users trade short-term improvements in productivity for long-term losses in productivity. Specifically, dead workers are unproductive workers.

Whenever a calculation produces an unforeseen result, it is prudent to take a look at one's numbers. Incorrect numbers lead to flawed calculations. If the HIA's calculations are sound, then their numbers - that is to say, the drugs provided by CHEM Labs - must be flawed.

Your esteemed colleague,
Mr. Clarence Mostly.

#### TO: Goodfellow, L., SUBJECT: Further analysis on (...)

FROM: Mostly, C.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: Further analysis on the fundamental problem undermining our operations, with additional suggestions

Mr. Lawrence Goodfellow,

I have not yet received your correspondence regarding my previous letter. I can only assume you are still (to deploy a parochial colloquialism) "chewing over" my commentary. I have several additional insights, which I have collated into an itemized list and sent to your secretary. Here is my summary.

I believe the root of the problem lies in the CHEM Lab. As I mentioned in my previous letter, incorrect numbers lead to flawed calculations. The problem must therefore be found in Dr. Jasper Low and his stewardship of the CHEM Lab. Dr. Low is a notoriously lackadaiscal and careless manager, and (pardon my language) a poor scientist.

CHEM Lab must provide HIA with a safe, high-quality, carefully refined drug with which to conduct tests. This slapdash, artless, high-risk formula CHEM Lab has been delivering to HIA can only result in unacceptable test results.

I understand that safety and high-quality development are often antithetical to the corporate strategy of Spacer's Choice, but in my life I have found that the perspective of an outsider can be helpful.

Awaiting your response,

Mr. Clarence Mostly

#### TO: Goodfellow, L., SUBJECT: Encouraging words on (...)

FROM: Mostly, C.
TO: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: Encouraging words on the nature and practice of leadership, with additional insights

Mr. Lawrence Goodfellow,

Your response to my previous two letters are conspicuous by their absence. Based on my analysis of your personality type, dietary habits, patterns of speech, and mode of dress, I must conclude with reasonable certainty that your silence stems from trepidation and anxiety.

If i might presume to offer you some advice cultivated after years of living in Byzantium, may I suggest that your anxiety stems merely from ignorance? Ignorance is the easiest of vices to rectify, and requires only learning and heeding the advice of one's betters.

The success and failure of any project depends on the readiness of its constituent staff to perform their mandated duties. Scientists perform experiments. Researchers research. Managers manage. When one of these roles acts outside of its limitations, chaos is introduced into the system.

Take heart. You need not fear the burden of management. The secret of good leadership is strong oversight combined with careful, fastidious, numerically-driven and scientifically-supported management. The turbulence experienced by this project is emphatically not the fault of the OCI. However, it is the role and duty of the OCI to fix these problems. Ours is the only department capable of righting the ship of innovation in the waters of chaos.

With paternal affection,

Mr. Clarence Mostly

## Maryam Kumara's Terminal

**Location:** In the offices on the second floor.

Office of Creative Incubation

A Spacer's Choice Property

# "The best ideas since Pre-Sliced Bread!"

Department of Strategic Branding

Terminal Access

Welcome, M. Kumara

### Messages

G.I.M.S.I. - Gorgon Internal Messaging system Interface
# "It's not the best choice, it's the only choice!"
Thank you for using GIMSI, your employer-sanctioned messaging system!

Friendly reminder: Your messages are company property! Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or deletion of GIMSI content may result in early termination of your employment contract.

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#### FROM: OCI Cerebral Committee, SUBJECT: Unacceptable Results

FROM: OCI Cerebral Committee
TO: OCI Department of Strategic Branding
SUBJECT: Unacceptable Results

The OCI Cerebral Committee has hereby decided by unanimous vote that the recent test results from Human Inquiry & Auditing (HIA) are unacceptable, untenable, and unsatisfactory. This message is an informal expression of our dissatisfaction, which will be formally declared by memorandum in the near future.

While the Committee recognizes the marketing potential of insomnia and chemical dependency, the remaining side-effects described in HIA's latest report are incompatible with the OCI's vision of the Adrena-Time product. Corporate auditors will expect to see a product that dramatically improves the long-term productivity of Spacer's Choice workers by reducing the need for rest and mitigating the effects of long-term melancholia. The product delivered to HIA induces psychosis, violent behavior, paranoia and (alarmingly) disobedience.

The OCI cannot accept a product that transforms long-term users into dissidents. The damage to our corporate image will inevitably benefit our rivals at Auntie Cleo.

Unanimously,

OCI Cerebral Committee

### FROM: Goodfellow, L., SUBJECT: Relax

FROM: Goodfellow, L.
TO: OCI Cerebral Committee
SUBJECT: Relax

To my colleagues in the OCI Cerebral Committee,

I share your concerns, but not your alarm. In times like these, I encourage you to recall a passage from our Spacer's Choice User Manual: "The failures of subordinates must never become the failures of leadership." (SCUM Ch. 21 Article xiv)

The meaning is simplicity itself. HIA has failed to deliver acceptable results because they have failed to perform their professional obligations. My esteemed colleagues, you and I possess a number of Law-given qualifications, but we have not been relegated to labcoat work.

Let me reiterate. We are not test-tube jockeys. We are leaders. HIA's purpose is to deliver test results. Our purpose is to deliver a quarterly report.

I'd like you to reach out to Miryam[*sic*] Kumara at Strategic Branding. Have her team clean up HIA's report. Trim the fat and tuck in its guts. Make it look presentable for our auditors.

### TO: OCI Cerebral Committee, SUBJECT: Data Presentability(...)

FROM: Kumara, M.
TO: OCI Cerebral Committee
CC: Goodfellow, L.
SUBJECT: Data Presentability and Empirical Hygiene

Cerebral Committee

My team and I have finished reviewing HIA's latest experimental report. We believe the failure of this report is manifest in its flagrant disregard for company-approved language. To that end, we have drafted a revised report, editing with language consistent with the Spacer's Choice company vision.

The HIA's original report mentions clear evidence of dangerous side-effects associated with using the Adrena-Time product, including but not limited to: paranoia, violent confusion, chemical dependence, and dissident-adjacent behavior.

We propose the following connotative revisions:

1. Dangerous Side-Effects - "Exciting Collateral Benefits"
2. Paranoia - "Dramatically Heightened Attention"
3. Violent Confusion - "Physically Assertive Behavior"
4. Chemical Dependence - "Metabolic Compatability"
5. Dissident-Adjacent Behavior - Any mention of dissident behavior in this report may encourage dissidence. Recommend cutting this phrase entirely, out of respect for our readers.

## Personalized Security Terminal

**Location:** In the office area on the second floor.

Office of Creative Incubation

A Spacer's Choice Property

# "The best ideas since Pre-Sliced Bread!"

Personzlied Security Terminal

Welcome, C. MOSTLY

### Status

Turret Status: [ACTIVE]
Hallway Status: [SECURE]
Dissident Threat: [MINIMAL]

#### Reverse Intruder Definitions

**Note:** Requires Hack 40 to access. Accessing this entry will cause the turrets in future areas to not attack you.

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[Intruder database successfully redefined]

## Office of Creative Inebriation Terminal

Departament of Creative Inebriation
Terminal Access

[Instructions]
[Personnel files]

### Instructions

Inebriation Procedure and Protocol
Mandated by OCI Cerebral Committee:

Feeling lethargic after a long day of creative incubation? Having trouble shooting down the bird of inspiration? Let Spacer's Choice help you steady your aim. A selection of company-approved libations are are available for purchase.\* Medicate your creative paralysis with Spacer's Choice Zero Gee Brew!\*\*

Addendum:
\* All purchases will be deducted from your pay.
\*\* Spacer's Choice Zero Gee Brew - Official slogan TBD.

### Personnel Files

Visitor Logs

1. [Campos, Lavinia]: Trouble deciding on a font for new department letterhead. Ordered [1] zero Gee Brew.
2. [Wyatt. Lewis]: Wrote twelve good words today, but can't figure out what order they should be in. Ordered [3] Zero Gee Brew.
3. [North, Deacon]: Brainstorming ideas for a new flavor of Saltuna. Ordered [1] Zero Gee Brew.
4. [Campos, Lavinia]: Still having trouble deciding on a font. Ordered [3] Zero Gee Brew.