4.6 - Power Management
Our Fair City
Audacious Machine Creative
4.7 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As energy dwindles and tempers rise back at HartLife, will Vice President Davenport have the “Managerial Excellence” to prevent the collapse of order?
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- Vice President Davenport— Ben Aldred
- Terence Mallard, Commissioner of Public Safety— Jeffrey Gardner
- Eunice Wilson, Director of Transit — Lise “Kat” Evans
- The Switcher— Jared Latore
- Oblivious Policies— Ryan Schile and Tara Schile
- The Voice of HartLife— Jeffrey Gardner
Written by Mark Soloff. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Clayton Faits and Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Tyne Lowe. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Created by Clayton Faits.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life. |
| 0:10.2 | These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history. |
| 0:15.6 | So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need. |
| 0:30.6 | The design of our benevolent directors is undeniable in its elegance. Each designation system and distribution plan was strategized and set out with the best interests of each policy at its center. |
| 0:40.3 | Even when strained by the failure of an individual system, the processes laid out by the founders protect the city. |
| 0:47.3 | Now, in the midst of an energy crisis, power levels dwindle, public transit is disrupted, |
| 0:53.3 | foodstuffs are scarce, and the dead disposal |
| 0:56.4 | team has been expanded due to an unfortunate increase in policy mortality. The situation is |
| 1:03.6 | inconvenient for the average policy, but it is a nightmare for Vice President Davenport. |
| 1:10.5 | After suffering the indignity of waking up to no coffee, |
| 1:14.4 | he must now endure an interdepartmental meeting. |
| 1:19.5 | Here, the Commissioner of Public Safety |
| 1:21.7 | and the Director of Transit must decide who between them |
| 1:25.8 | will receive a requisitioned allotment of precious electricity. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, director, policies wouldn't be complaining about street safe's response time |
| 1:35.0 | if your people mover actually started moving people again. |
| 1:39.5 | Commissioner, let me lay this out in terms that it enforcer of public safety such as yourself can understand. |
| 1:45.0 | The people mover is a system of machines. When the power fails, the machines stop working. |
| 1:52.0 | Street safe officers, however, are not machines and there is no use. |
| 1:56.0 | I have the talk, tube. I get to talk. |
| 1:59.0 | It's called a microphone. |
| 2:00.0 | Right, and you said that since the meeting Sternacher was in here, the person with the tube gets to talk. |
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