//------------------------------// // Clip One: Intro // Story: TCB - Ponify // by vadram //------------------------------// The Conversion Bureau Ponify - Intro ”...” “What are the worst things one gets to experience in ones life?” “The loss of a love one?” “Poverty?” “Disease?” “Well I guess out of the eight or so billion of us out there someone had to get the combo. But why the fuck did it have to be me?” “Okay, I may be getting a little ahead of myself, let me start from the beginning.” “Hello there, my name is Joe, and I am your average earth human male. Twenty-ish something years old, a college dropout, who just had a hell of a year.” “Where do I start?” “A few months ago my entire life went to hell.” “First my phone died during the night, and I woke up late. Normally that would be a good thing, except that I had a job, and a history of getting late to work. So I grabbed my dead phone and it’s charger and rushed over to work, where I was going to charge it. When I got there I was two hours late, but I got right to work trying to catch up on the lost time. It was a stormy day but work was close enough so I just ran over. No sooner that the phone starts charging that the boss want to talk to me. Ten minutes of yelling and generally making me feel like a little piece of crap, and he gives me the boot. I go pack my stuff and I get a text. It was my sister telling me that dad died.” “So there I was, jobless, saddened, and worst still I managed to catch a cold.” “Needless to say it was just not my day.” “...”