Transcript For Strip 1083

Panel 1
Li and Nicole enter a spartan-looking room. About 5 meters square, plain metal walls, another door at the far end. Near that door stand five people of various configurations wearing sack-cloths and hats with bones stuck through them. The 'Boneheads.' They each have a simple chair behind them, and two more chairs have been arranged in front, facing them. The only other furniture in the room is a table upon which sits a couple of water pitchers and drinking tumblers. There is also a large viewscreen on one wall, currently displaying an external view of L-5 City. One of the Boneheads gestures towards the two chairs.
Bonehead 1: Welcome to the Abode Humble. Please be seated.
Bonehead 1: Would you like some water?
Panel 2
Li and Nicole take their seats.
Li: Er … yes, please.
Li (thoughtsend): They're not exactly what I expected.
Nicole (thoughtsend): I've heard stories, but I know what you mean.
Panel 3
Medium shot of Nicole as an android hands her a glass of water.
Nicole: (thoughtsend): The L-5 City founders wanted to prevent the Muc Ar Foulain Board of Directors from becoming as corrupt as other governing bodies.
Nicole: (thoughtsend): There are a variety of safe-guards – a restrictive charter, double-blind trusts, prohibitions against outside compensation – but I guess enforced humility was considered a key psychological factor.
Panel 4
Looking past Li and Nicole at the directors.
Bonehead 1: As a courtesy we advise you that this conversation is being recorded by an independent agency.
Li (thoughtsend): Also, a degree of transparency, I suppose.
Bonehead 1: Shall we begin?

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