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[wholeheaded]

Hey all, especially newish folks, I hope you're all settled in okay. Well. As okay as you can be given the circumstances, which aren't ideal. But that's a little bit of why I'm doing this all-call thingy.

[ also he needs distraction, and figures a decent number of other folks do too so here we are. ]

As you've probably figured out, the Arcana nab people from all kinds of places and times and...different versions of places and times. So I'm thinking we could try connecting the dots a little? Like, let people know who's from where and when and if there's anything notable from your home. Place. Gizmo.

To start things off: I'm Ambrose and I'm from a place called the Outer Zone, or O.Z. It's sort of a fairyland/dimensional neighbor to Earth with sorta-easy access from Kansas or Australia. You might know it as Oz. Far as I understand in Earth years it was around 2010 when I left but that was four and a halfish years ago so...right. How about you?

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[acapriciousthing]

It seems the abundance of deities and superheroes on my Earth isn't necessarily a multiversal constant.

Also around 2010, oddly enough.

[wholeheaded]

Maybe not a constant but also not completely...unheard of in this bunch. The multiverse is full of exceptional folks.

But yeah, with a few exceptions we tend to be from around the early.....twenty-first century? It's curious.

[acapriciousthing]

It is. It seems some things might not be as random as Fortune would like.

Sometimes it's hard to distinguish the Earths. I'm from the universe where there was once a Krypton and still an Oa.

[wholeheaded]

...okay I'm not sure what either of those are. Could you tell me?

[acapriciousthing]

They're both planets. Krypton became unstable and there were only a handful of survivors who found their way to Earth. Oa, on the other hand, has granted powers to people on many worlds.

[truthkills]

I'm absolutely from a land full of motorcycle people. And car people. And plane people.

We're all vehicles, but we're people too. Kind of wild for you guys, I guess.

[Is this truth? Is this fiction? He'll never tell.]

[wholeheaded]

[ cue Ambrose having the worst BS-o-meter in Syn. ]

...wow, that is pretty unique. Are you robots? What do you turn into? Can you drive yourselves or d'you need someone else to do it?

[truthkills]

[He hasn't gotten called out, amazing.]

Well, I'm a motorcycle.

[Just dodging some of those other questions there. He's got to, or he'll start laughing.]

And yeah, sometimes I need a rider but it's gotta be the right Rider, can't be just anyone.

[wholeheaded]

[ look Ambrose is not the savviest of Travelers okay. also his husband is a robot and he himself can turn into one or a weird Harvey Birdman thing so-]

Like someone you're partners with. Someone special. That makes sense. Don't want that sort of ability going to just anybody.

[desperate_times_right]

How are - ? Ah.

I grew up in Australia. Haven't been back in a while, though. Big bugs, weird animals. Strange politics. No portals that I know of. No cat people, either.

We just rang in 2018 a short time ago. It's February now, or March, maybe. It's hard to judge time when you're working.

[breakaleginhalf]

...you are literally the first other Australian I have ever seen here. It was 2017 for me, like- August, I think.

Where the fuck are you from? [He sounds delighted]

[desperate_times_right]

[It's actually almost more strange to be talking to another Australian from around the same time period than it had been to be talking to the witches or the cat-women - makes it feel real somehow in a way it didn't before]

Grew up in the Gold Coast, mostly. What about you?

[breakaleginhalf]

Melb'n. Good to know you're from a good part, I'd hate to have to hate you already.

[wholeheaded]

The portally thing to my world tends to happen out to sea, it's how Dorothy came back the first time. Shipwrecked folks ending up on the coast of Ev is pretty normal.

What kind of work do you do?

[desperate_times_right]

Acquisitions. We specialize in difficult-to-reach areas and items with particular special handling requirements.

[She's a treasure hunter and a thief, but you can't put that on your incorporation papers.]

[wholeheaded]

[ legit. ]

Huh. Nifty! Could you tell me a bit more about Australia? My friend DG grew up in Kansas so I know that bit more. Is it all corn and cows too?

[unapologeticallyaffected]

Wait, you're from a Wizard of Oz AU?

[wholeheaded]

...you could call it that. I've read the books by that Baum fella, he gets a lot of things right but from my perspective they were all historical works.

[unapologeticallyaffected]

O.Z. ... [God, that sounds familiar, where has he heard that? Oh, shit, wait ... ]

Do you know a sheriff? Well, a cop, I guess, has a tin star, wears a trench coat, good looking in a real bohunk sort of way. And [who else was there?] a raggedy lion, looks like he's wearing a bad costume, and a hot older man with a zipper on his head?

[Eliot, after all, has never seen Ambrose up close, just from afar, and he associates him with the husband of the sexy redhead robot.]

[wholeheaded]

[ ...oh boy he has a sneaky feeling he know where this is going. ]

Cop. Tin man. His name is Wyatt Cain and he's my friend. Raw is a Viewer, they're...cat-people, wear furs. And I dunno about hot but if you're looking for a guy with a zipper on his head that's me. What do you know?

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[thornsofmalkav]

Dude, you're being really rude right now. If you have to tell him that he's fictional in your world, can't you do it privately and discreetly, instead of in front of everyone?

[forcechanic]

A long time ago in a galaxy, far far away?

Or for those of you who haven't watched my family history in popular entertainment, in my galaxy humans have been spacefaring for millenia. I was born on Coruscant, the galactic capital, which is a city that covers the entire planet. Right now I'm training at the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, which is a moon that's still mostly jungle and old ruins.

[unapologeticallyaffected]

You're from Star Wars? [Sorry, Jaina, the first movie she appeared in was released after Eliot was taken from Earth, he just picked up the Jedi reference.]

[forcechanic]

The movies stop before I was born, but yeah. My parents are Han Solo and Leia Organa.

So that's a thing.

[unapologeticallyaffected]

[That sounds like fanfic to him. Or maybe from the books? He never read the books.]

That must be weird. Not to have your parents, but to know their history is part of a popular movie franchise somewhere else.

[pauses] Nice that they were main characters, though.