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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.

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[bypartisan]

[So it turns out that you can chuckle in someone's head.]

I don't know how you're going to do it, but count yourself lucky you don't have eleven-hundred years to overcome.

... unless you do?

[No. Probably not. Nobody seems to be from his point in time yet.]

[urbanwhizkid]

[Don't do that it's creepy.]

More like a hundred and fifteen, but that's still a lot.



Wait eleven hundred years? Dude, you live in outer space or something too?

[bypartisan]

Currently yes. Cordonnah Station, which orbits Jackson's Whole. How does that ancient proverb go? 'A more wretched hive of scum and villany, etc." Still it's... not actually home, but it's not a bad place to live if you're in with the station's current rulers, which I am.

But that's only the last year. Prior to that I lived on a planet, just not this one.

[urbanwhizkid]

...Okay. I guess I shouldn't be surprised all things considering. Jackson's Whole? Never heard of it. But I have no idea, I've never been good with proverbs, that was other people's thing. I did the ideas.

[bypartisan]

I'm not surprised you haven't. If you're from the twenty-first century, I doubt they've discovered wormhole travel yet.

The thing about Jackson's Whole is that there are no laws whatsoever. Everything's legal, including things that any sane planet would outlaw. So the planet itself attracts a lot of unsavory people. The people I live with--my girlfriend's family--are about as nice as people get on the Whole and they're still utterly ruthless.

[urbanwhizkid]

Yeah we're still orbiting the planet in 2011.

Um so I'll just uh...I'm not sure what to say I guess to that.

[bypartisan]

It doesn't matter to you, really. It's not going to exist in your lifetime. Well, the planet itself exists. The rest doesn't.

[urbanwhizkid]

Not sure that's reassuring or not.