[Walkabout] Check in

[notadisappointment]

... so I guess some of us didn't go to the Grid after all. Instead we're stuck in how many meters of snow? Well, I'm not complaining too much.

Apparently, we're in a country called Finland and it's the year 2006. They've just won... the Eurovision? Whatever that is? And we're at a pretty famous ski resort! I wonder if we were just awarded a vacation or if there's something else going on... well, I'm at least gonna do a lot of winter sports while here.

If anyone needs help with how to snowboard, I'm your man!

So who all do we have here? I'm Yosuke if someone doesn't know.

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[breakaleginhalf]

It's almost exactly the opposite side of the planet from us. But seriously, have you not looked at a world map before?

[awondrousplace]

Oh! Wait. I think I remember this Doctor. He is a time traveller, is he not? I am more than pleased to wear symbols of my successors in the field.

[She sounds so very proud.]

[awondrousplace]

Well, if we were truly being honest, the fashion I am used to is extremely different than what is worn now.

However, if there is any way I can assist anyone here, please let me know.

[utsusemimaru]

There is more than one kind of iced confection?!

[dino_zarf]

It happened when we were bunnies too but I didn't know until after. And I wasn't me to know I couldn't find her underneath.

[She misses her mom.]

They're the other me's Daddy and Mama, so I'm safe.

[youandyoualone]

As am I. [All his Infiltrations are fools.]

[youandyoualone]

Ah, chocolate! It is a wonderful substance. Did you know they also sell it in solid blocks?

[youandyoualone]

I do actually know how to fall. [Spy training.] I have found a pamphlet describing the house of Santa Claus? This picture of the man looks very like the Ghost of Christmas Present, only more human.

[breakaleginhalf]

Yeah! That's the TARDIS - 'Time and Relative Dimensions in Space' ship. It's like, the most famous icon, right back to like- the thirties or something when the show first came out.

[utsusemimaru]

No, I did not! How wonderful! Have you found any in the town or the lodgings?

[youandyoualone]

Yes! They sell it at the shop, in many varieties.

[utsusemimaru]

There is more than one variety of chocolate as well?!

[youandyoualone]

Yes. There is the kind that has milk added to it and there is also something called 'white chocolate' that I confess not to understand.

[utsusemimaru]

It must be a mysterious substance indeed if it can change from brown to white. Perhaps the milk is involved? If only Sento-dono were here, I am sure he would be able to puzzle it out.

[youandyoualone]

Sento-dono?

[flatteries]

Well, I'm already fairly cool, but I suppose a little bit more couldn't hurt!

[ Not a single part of you is cool, Inigo. Not even a pinky. ]

It can't be that difficult, right?

[inthebone]

Finland? I've never heard of anywhere called Finland.

[Are you sure that Finland really exists, strange person talking inside her head?]

[ninjayeehaw]

He was Prometheus there, he was the one what set up the entire plan t'overthrow the old gods an' reinstall the Titans. I did a fair bit a' workin' alongside him. I'd say he seemed reasonable but given that he was tryin' to - an' succeeded, I might add - in changin' up an entire pantheon, I ain't trustin' him next time I see him.

[That being said, he'd happily work alongside the guy again, if only to keep tabs on him.]

[likescats]

I SEE.

WE DID NOT HAVE THAT SORT OF MUSIC WHERE I AM FROM.

[awondrousplace]

Oh, fantastic. I should perhaps find some of this Doctor's adventures. If they have been going for that long, they must be quite good.

[Please, show her some of the episodes with HG Wells.]

[awondrousplace]

Have you ever seen or experienced snow sports, my darling? If not, I should show you some of the things people do on snowy mountains.

And then perhaps what people do on snowy evenings after the mountains.

[utsusemimaru]

He is another traveler! I made his acquaintance the last time we found ourselves in a new world... ah!

[Speaking of new acquaintances]

I am forgetting my manners. May I ask your name?

[youandyoualone]

I would like to learn what people do on snowy mountains in the future--and what comes after. I assume there is much huddling for warmth.

[capital_asset]

Ironically, he was coming off a lengthy incarceration himself there - he'd been imprisoned and tortured by the then-ruling pantheon for stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity.

[amadine]

I expect whether that's irony or poetic justice depends strongly on whether he's a strangely similar figure repeated across multiple worlds, or functions similar to Infiltrators.