( text | un: sweetie )

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Has anyone found a pod containing someone that was supposed to be dead? That they knew to be dead.

( river asks more out of curiosity than anything, out of trying to understand and gain more knowledge on the pods, on who and how they were brought here. she also can't deny that small piece of hope that comes with the question, of wanting to see someone that she couldn't (shouldn't) be able to see again )

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text; un: rtozier

[summertimeblues]

Oh most definitely. Some would even be better off dead.

What gets me is the fact that planet Earth supposedly succumbed to the apocalypse in World War One, in 1985, in 2016, and in 2150-something. The list goes on, ask around. A census would be a fascinating read.

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Either there was no storm and they've simply plucked us from our relative timestreams or we're dealing with many similar universes.

[summertimeblues]

I'd say it's a little of column A and B. A lot of people talk about fantastic things on Earth that I'd call a crock of horseshit if they didn't go twiddling their magic wands in front of me.

Then there's the folks that sleep for three days and wake up remembering more than apocalypse should let them. Whole lifetimes after the Storm hit.

Mighty suspicious if you ask me.

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There might have never been a storm. Has anyone seen the result of it?

god i went mad trying to find the event this happened in

[summertimeblues]

They had some show put up in the Observation Deck ages ago. You got to wander in and live out the Storm hitting some alien planet first hand, but that's easy to do when you've got mind-bending virtual reality at your disposal. It was essentially like getting blown up bit by bit as some massive black-hole looking thing got a hold of the land. Nasty stuff.

bless you

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It would be but like you it would be incredibly easy to fake with their technology available. A simulated show isnt the real thing which makes it no proof at all.

Re: bless you

[summertimeblues]

that's exactly what I said! Verbatim! Are you a mindreader, miss sweetie?

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Just well versed in temporospatial phenomena.

[summertimeblues]

I'm hearing astrophysicist but I just know the real answer is space witch.

[there are no normal refugees, you can quote him on that]

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Archaeologist.

[summertimeblues]

do you come with a whip and fedora or are you the spectacles and bowtie kind

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I come with a trowel.

( and a gun )

[summertimeblues]

oh thank christ, this town needs a few of those after all the dragon decimation

all i've got is a turntable

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Well, that's good for you.

[summertimeblues]

thanks mom.

What's your year?

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( god that's even weirder when someone that's not tangentially related to you says it )

52nd century.

[summertimeblues]

[nts always refer to river as mummy]

jesus you must be joking.

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( fuck )

I'm really not.

[summertimeblues]

and what is that like? My imagination is failing me

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I couldn't say. I dont know when you're from as a point of reference.

[summertimeblues]

I'm the wunderkind from 1985. Speaking frankly it's a miracle that i can work a phone with no buttons on it, praise be

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That's not the most miraculous thing.

[summertimeblues]

And so the real miracle must be...?

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How well you're taking aliens in your stride.

[summertimeblues]

[Meaning she's an alien?

Ugh. Figures.]

I've been here a year. You learn to expect the most ridiculous explanation as the most probable one.

The scotch helps.