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Rapture was a Paradise Ch.6

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Alyssa Violetta
Present:
God I hope that worked.  The splicers are too mentally damaged to work out the message I stuck into that program.  Odds are they just were amazed that the televisions started working and sat down to watch the pretty shows like a bunch of insane children, and if any of them did notice it they're too splice up to decipher it.  I just wonder if there's even anybody out there to see it.
I know that there's a few.  I've seen them on the cameras.  I bet old Andrew didn't think that anybody but him would be watching through those lenses, but then again he was dumb enough to channel the signals through the station.  Once those cameras were once used to tape my show and that silly Olympians program.  Now they sick a bunch of security bots on any unfortunate soul to cross their gaze.
They did allow me to watch in horror as that man in the ugly sweater made his way across the city.  He's hardcore.  I saw him make his way into the Kashmir Restaurant and kill Brenda (never did like her, wore too much makeup).  I witnessed his slaying of Dr. Steinman in medical and his decimating the last of Fontaine's smugglers the fisheries.  He and I both saw Julie Langford's last breath.  Damn Ryan….I saw him get aquatinted with a golf club.
It was the man in the ugly sweater that allowed me to broadcast that message.  The signal blocker was genetically encoded, so when Ryan bit the dust they cleared up.  I don't know who that man was that killed him or why he did it, but I'm glad he did.  Ryan's war has kept me trapped alone in this television studio for months.  All I've had to eat is what I could get out of that vending machine with that creepy clown on it!
If I had known that Rapture was going to become the freaking ninth circle of hell I would have tried to dispatch that mustached monster myself when I interviewed him!  Can't believe that I idolized him once.  It feels like so long ago that my morning show was on…I think I'll watch some of those old tapes again.  I think I'll start at the beginning.

Past:

"Lights!  Camera!  Action!"  The director pointed to the woman in the posh purple dress sitting on the couch, the camera man focused on her, and Ms. Violetta's face lit up with a million dollar smile.  
"Good morning Rapture!  I'm Alyssa Violetta, and this is Utopia Today.  Ladies and Gentlemen in honor of out show's maiden airing my special guest is none other than Andrew Ryan himself.  Good morning Mr. Ryan."  The woman in purple rose and shook hands with Rapture's founder.
"Good morning Alyssa."
"It's a pleasure to have you here, and it was so kind to take time out of your busy schedule to talk to me.  I can't even imagine what a day in Andrew Ryan's shoes must be like."
"Not at all Ms. Violetta.  It is an honor to address the citizens of Rapture.  We built this city together, my time is a valuable as yours or anyone's."
"Well there aren't that many citizens yet.  The doors of the lighthouse have only been open for a month."  
Ryan folded his legs and put his hands together.  Alyssa put her elbow on her knee and leaned into hear his response.  
"Indeed, our new city's population is small now yes.  But every day more and more people are choosing to leave the oppression of the surface behind them and began anew."
"But Mr. Ryan, given the limited space of our city how many people can join us?  I was over at the welcome center yesterday and many people hadn't been moved into their new homes yet."
"Humm…That is an interesting question.  It is true that our physical recourses are limited.  But not our drive nor our will.  As long as the great chain pulls them, Rapture will be open to those who chose to leave the world of the parasites.  I will not be the man to close the gates of paradise.  As for waiting to move into their homes, Ryan Industries is working around the clock to move these people in.  We must be patient.  Good things come to those who wait, and I can't think of anything better than Rapture."
"Inspirational words.  I wouldn't expect anything less from such a visionary.  And now," She turned away from the man in the yellow suite to the camera, "for a word from our sponsors." Smile and fade to black.
"CUT!"
Alyssa took off her microphone and looked up to see her guest had already left.  He didn't even say goodbye or thank her for her time.  He just walked out of the studio like he owned the place (he does, but it was still rude).

Present:
That man's a monster, but he sure could talk.  Humm…I really liked that dress.  Too bad it got stained with blood.  I think I'll go rummage through the dressing rooms to see if I can find something relatively hole free and without blood stains.  I doubt I will, but hey gal can dream.
Alyssa Violetta was a TV personality before the fall of Rapture. Her show, Utopia Today, was owned by Ryan Industries. She was a star on the small screen before the city fell; now she just wants to escape and live to see the sun again.
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