[ John doesn't really pay attention at first, because he's too busy being angry at technology. Luckily for Richie, he turns the corner not to balloons or clowns but to a familiar figure at the other end of it. He's standing glowering at screen, a thin zip up jacket over a t-shirt and some black trousers making him look awkwardly casual despite his displeasure.

The t-shirt has a panda face on it. ]

This is not helping! Can you not give me visual cue, of some kind? Please, because this is creeping me out just as much as I'm sure --

[ A speaker clicks on and an odd, indecipherable wave of noise that may have once been a voice floods into the hallway.

John, who has already heard variations on this a few times, doesn't actually looked bothered by it. Just more frustrated. ]

Listen I don't speak computer noise! Just point me at something to fix!

[ This conversation is very one-sided. ]