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[bypartisan]

[Is it possibly for a mental voice to sound giddy? Because there's a distinct giddy tinge to By's thoughts, for all that his words come out with his normal, lazy, lightly Russian-accented drawl.]

Byerly Vorrutyer here. We're on Earth, pre-spaceflight, although someone who isn't me will need to get a better read on the actual date and location. Linguistically, it's a hodgepodge. I can hear archaic Russian, a whole host of Asiatic and Romance languages, and something else I can't quite place.

If you can "hear" this, check in. We need to know who we've got to work with.

Comments

[oftoomuchfaith]

"Who we've got to work with" sort of implies that everyone has the same goals, doesn't it?

[bypartisan]

My dear mademoiselle, we've been here less than an hour. If anyone has a goal yet, I'd be very surprised.

[leftbehindagain]

Naoki Konishi checking in. Let's see if I can avoid a side career in bomb disposal this time.

[bypartisan]

We should all hope for that.

[loyalrebel]

Malik here, for once.

[Yeah, he's... used to being not-himself.]

Arabic is used mostly, and it is... 1896 by the christian calendar. Which you lot seem to use more. If anyone needs help with... cultural differences dealing with the Caliphate I am familiar with their beliefs and values, if a bit old fashioned.

I will have more information about the political climate and who's who in a day or so at most.

[bypartisan]

Ah. That must be the one I couldn't place. Thank you, Malik.

[At least somebody else knows what he's doing.]

[timelessinventor]

Helena Wells checking in, darling.

It seems to be approximately my original era, with some very different political and social climate.

If I can get to a bookstore, I might be able to be more precise.

[bypartisan]

Thank you, Madame--Mademoiselle?--Wells. That's very helpful. Can you tell the location yet or will you need to reach the bookstore? Also, any differences you've noted in political and social climate would be even more useful.

[laceandcarnage]

I hear you?

[If Istas sounds like anything, she sounds faintly puzzled. She'd ignored the odd mental voices she'd heard before, but now there was a voice she knew appearing in her head]

[bypartisan]

Ah, Madmoiselle Wolf-Bear. I thought I heard your roar earlier.

[callyourname]

Mikasa Ackerman checking in. [+1 girl with poor social skills not really sure what else to say here? Check!]

[bypartisan]

Thank you, Mademoiselle Ackerman.

[wantedittobeagame]

Tohru Adachi, checking in.

[Can you sound completely and utterly 500% done in your mental voice? Because this is Adachi right now.]

Seems like there's some big old Japanese convention going down. I had the pleasure of running into a princess from it.

None of you are going to believe who it is.

[leftbehindagain]

That was her? I'd been wondering.

[He can't think of anyone else with hair that blue, for a start.]

[thezerothlaw]

Daniil -- Daneel here. I am experiencing a rather unusual situation. I seem to have an identity as though I were an infiltrator. Obviously, I am not.

[bypartisan]

Really?

[Color By intrigued.]

Excellent. We'll need as much information about this world as possible, so if you don't mind sharing...

[...]

I mean, obviously it's disconcerting that you seem to be both at once, but if it comes with the same knowledge, you might come in very handy, Daneel.

[seventhbullet]

Present aaaand accounted for. Anyone seen Xaldin? [Keeping his eye on his coworkers has become a matter of habit.]

[bypartisan]

Would that be the fellow that shares your rather, ah, individual dress sense?

[neverfeltthatway]

Armin Arlert, checking in.

[bypartisan]

Thank you, Arlert. And I'm much obliged for what you said to Yaga earlier.

[protect_and_serve]

Joscelin Verreuil.

Something is not right here.

[bypartisan]

[Well, he sounds very sure about that. The fellow who fainted?]

What's wrong, Verreuil?

[notinthecards]

Still here, mon ami. A vacation like this, you think I'd let everyone go without a grown-up?

[bypartisan]

At thirty-eight, mon ami, I should hope I qualify as a grown-up.

[stopinthenameofawe]

Melissa Lyre. Present and accounted for. Not that I have a lot else to offer, at this point.

[bypartisan]

Give it time, Mademoiselle--Miss?--Lyre.

[unagreeable]

Urgh! Get out!

[bypartisan]

I'll assume that means you're also Investigating.

[whydoyoushine]

If I check in like this, that means you'll leave me alone and I can go looking at all the shiny stuff here, right?

[bypartisan]

Exactly, Monsieur Shiny.

[upcard]

Um... I'm here. Mai, I mean. Near-san and Levi-san must be Infiltrating, because I can't contact them at all...

[Which honestly makes her a little sad, but alas, the life of a Traveler.]

But...are we really on Earth? I've never seen anything like all of this.

[bypartisan]

It appears so, if in an alternate timeline. I haven't seen anything like this either, if it helps.

[permastubble]

Ryoutarou Doujima here. Good thinking, Vorrutyer--how do you even pronounce that out loud?

[Immediately sidetracked to a minor issue, but then he snaps back on task.]

No, nevermind that. Okay! So we're working on a list of who of us knows who we really are, and I hope somebody is writing this down because I'm pretty sure I won't be able to keep track in my head. Adachi brought up somebody we know thinks they're somebody else, and that's a good thing to keep track of too. Everybody can hear me, right? Anybody got other confirmed--what's the word--infiltrators?

Uh. Any advice on how the hell we're supposed to fit in here would be good. I think I avoided some suspicion by pretending to be afraid of heights and a tourist but I stick out like a sore thumb.

[leftbehindagain]

I haven't seen Kanji, Yua or Hanamura yet. Souji-san, from the sound of things, is filling in as Naoto's fiance. And... now that I think of it, has anyone heard from Minako-san yet? She's usually been on this side of things, so far, but there's a first time for everything.

[And then there's the other people he's looking out for - Levi, Lupa, Lyall (how is it they all start with L?) - but Dojima-san probably hasn't met them yet. Better, in that case, to give him the short list of faces he might recognise. he can keep his own counsel from there.]

I don't know if anyone does usually keep a written list - last time I was myself for one of these things I was a little busy helping Naoto run a revolution to bother. Whoever checks in this way is who we've got.

As for blending in... the Grid was also different when it came to that. Daneel-san at least had a good rundown of the main powers in play here, so we have that to work with. Otherwise I'm just trying to keep an ear out and see what I can find out that way. [Not... that it's much other than a lack of proper alchemy so far.]

[hakodate]

...got a weird feeling about this one.

[And all he has for now is just that - a feeling.]

Hijikata Toshizou. The one without the metal arm.

[bypartisan]

You aren't the only one, it seems. I hope you didn't faint like Verreuil, Toshizou.

[urbanwhizkid]

I can hear you. Yosuke Hanamura.

[bypartisan]

Thank you, Hanamura. Any luck yet finding what we're here about?

[brokers]

We are rarely on Earth post spaceflight, unfortunately.

My name is Liara T'Soni. I do not believe we've met face to face.

[bypartisan]

I don't think so either. From your words, I take it you're also from the relative future of most of our fellow Travelers?

[son_ofpain]

I can 'hear' you. [There's a pause.] Dargor.

[bypartisan]

Thank you, Dargor. Let us know if you find anything out about this place.

[itsananimalthing]

Richard B. Riddick. Nice to see we ain't been split off again.

But hey. Anybody else seen that blue balloon thing? I could swear I've seen that thing before.

[bypartisan]

Thank you, Riddick. I'm not especially familiar with it or this place--but some of the others do seem to find things here that are familiar.

[shantiprayer]

I'm here! I'm me this time!

[She uses her new skill to project her actual voice. How'd she ever get along without this, really? Also yes, she is extremely excited about being her, okay.]

I mean uhm. This is Sera! I think this is one of those other versions of Earth where everything goes weird.

[bypartisan]

I think so too, Sera. How have you been handling things?