Hello

[farmboyjedi]

Even with the contract I signed, this is a lot to process. Even after all I've seen in my life, time travel is kind of shocking to me. I keep wondering who else could be here. And how my age has been altered.

Anyway, my name is Luke. Luke Skywalker. I look like a boy right now, but I'm really an adult. I'm a little out of sorts right now, but I will help any way I can to make things better while I'm here.

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[VIDEO]

[dust_of_life]

[The multiverse likes to chew Fatima up and spit her out. She's been through hell, seven or eight times over.

But this is definitely a first.]

Uh...okay. Back up the truck a second here.

[Her accent is decidedly American, and she looks like she's wearing about an inch-thick of makeup.]

Explain the part where you're not actually a little boy?

Re: [VIDEO]

[farmboyjedi]

I'm an adult, I swear.

[He isn't surprised that some might find it hard to believe.]

I'm 48 years old...I have a wife and a son. But when I stepped through the...what do you call it? Ingress...I found myself like this. I'm just hoping it isn't permanent.

[VIDEO]

[dust_of_life]

[Fatima is torn between skepticism and stone-cold belief. A sadly routine feeling. But there's no real loss in giving him the benefit of the doubt. For now, anyway.]

I dunno.

When I came through the Ingress, it took half of my stuff. I still haven't gotten any of it back.

Re: [VIDEO]

[farmboyjedi]

I didn't have very much to start with, but I do still have it with me. This is the one thing that's different.

I just hope I don't have to explain it all to my wife. Or my brother-in-law. I love him and my sister dearly, but he likes teasing me at times. He'll never let me hear the end of it...

text.

[ventifact]

[fuckin
no she can't turn on the video or voice function
she has to stick to text otherwise she'll be yelling]

you're luke skywalker

Re: text.

[farmboyjedi]

Yes...yes, I'm him.

I'm sorry, do I know you?

text.

[ventifact]

[FRACKIN HECK MAN]

i'm rey

[if she could, she would punch the force in the face because this is probably it working in "mysterious ways" or whatever the jedi like to say probably]

so unless you recognize that name, no

Re: text.

[farmboyjedi]

No, sorry...I don't seem to recognize it.

Still, it's nice to meet someone else from home.

[He's used to being recognized and getting jaw drops on occasion. He could do without the celebrity at times, but it's a fact of life that he's had to learn to live with. So, her shocked reaction, doesn't faze him too much.]

video;

[jedimindtrick]

Luke... hello.

[ Obi-Wan isn't probably the age he should be either. At thirty-nine, he feels every bit like he's forty-eight. And with the surroundings seeing fit to rob him of the Force, it might even be closer to fifty-seven as he was when Luke first knew him. He's particularly worn thin these days, even if he's fairly good at hiding it.

Strange times, these are.

He smiles at the image of another young Skywalker and can't help but notice the resemblance to Anakin as he was when Obi-Wan first knew him. ]

It's good to see you.

[ Saying as much only makes things all that much stranger, but for some reason, Kenobi doesn't think Luke will be all that bothered. He seems to have taken the rest of this quite well considering. ]

Re: video;

[farmboyjedi]

[This is another shock. The man in the video is much younger than when Luke last saw him, but it's still unmistakable.]

Ben? Ben, is that you? Obi-Wan...

[He tries to recover enough to talk again.]

It's good to see you, too. It's hard to understand all of this, but perhaps the Force brought us together for a reason...Although I can't feel it right now. Not my first experience with it, and I don't like it. It's like I'm blind and deaf in a way...

[jedimindtrick]

I understand how you feel.

[ Oh, does he. And much like Luke, this isn't a first for him, although it has presented itself much more strikingly this time around. Being cut off from the Force is unlike anything Obi-Wan's experienced in his lifetime and when he thinks about it too much, it becomes oddly terrifying. Not that he'd ever admit that. ]

Yes, it's me. I haven't yet been turned into a child — the me you see is as I was when I arrived here. But I understand you know me very differently, don't you?

[farmboyjedi]

I hope it's just temporary. My wife and son have got to be so worried if they can't feel me in the Force....through our Force-bond...Leia, too.

[That Force bond is making it worse for Luke. It's like suddenly losing half of his soul. They can always feel each other, even on different planets. And that's suddenly gone. And of course he has his twin bond with Leia and his link to little Ben.]

And yes. You were much older. [ Tattooine life takes a hsrsh toll, that much is clear now.] But you taught me what you could. I feel I owe so much to you.

[Like his life...his family's very existence...if not for Obi-Wan, he, Han and Leia would have died on the Death Star.]

voice

[swarm_embrace]

Do you have any way of telling if this is the way your body was when you were twelve, or if your adult body was... de-aged. Things like distinguishing scars or tattoos?

[Kerrigan is starting to feel like she got off easy with just being horribly weak and having an awful headache. But she is very curious about how this could happen as much as she's glad it didn't happen to her.]

Re: voice

[farmboyjedi]

I don't....I'm not sure.

I did wander a bit too far from home once and get hurt, but the way our technology is, it's rare to even have a scar afterward. If it's there, it's very hard to see.

voice

[swarm_embrace]

[Kerrigan is silent for a moment as she thinks that over.]

So much for an easy answer... and as much as I hate to say it, being spontaneously turned into a child is not the most pressing matter right now.

Be careful wandering around as a kid.

Re: voice (icon corrected)

[farmboyjedi]

Yeah, I'm seeing that as I look around. It looks like everyone's got a lot on their mind.

I'll do my best. I'd feel better if I could still do what I'm normally able to, but I'll manage. I'm not alone, which is a help, even if it's still a lot for my mind to deal with.

You be careful too.

[democratically]

[There is much that Padmé has witnessed here. She has had the opportunity to meet Leia, even if just shortly. She's found Anakin again- her Anakin. She's even lived a year past the date of her own death, even if it was on a planet where she lost all real sense of time.

Yet there is still wonder in her eyes. She looks weary, and rightfully so with everything that has happened just recently.]

Luke Skywalker... Son of Anakin?

[farmboyjedi]

Yes...yes, that's right.

[He hasn't yet seen the holo-recordings Artoo hid away, has never seen his mother's face at all. But his curiosity is piqued by the mention of his father.

I'm sorry...I don't think I know you. But you have me very curious. Did you know my father?

[Too many people these days know he's Vader's son, but very few know anything about Anakin being his father's real name. That's why it sticks out so much to him.]

[democratically]

I do, yes, quite well.

[Both here and back home. Her eyes linger, scanning over him, and there is so much of Anakin there in him. Leia had favoured her in looks, but Luke certainly takes after his father.]

My name is Padmé. Padmé Amidala, as known to the world, although Padmé Amidala Skywalker in reality. The wife of Anakin Skywalker.

[warandpeace]

[I look like a boy right now, but I'm really an adult. Ingress is still working and bringing in people on hard mode, he's guessing. But he'll jump to the part that's concerning him.]

Contract?

They're still making people sign contracts still? There's not much of a ship to tend to at the moment. Unless there's something I don't know.

[Which has been happening more than he likes. Sounds like there's a hell of scam happened here.]

[farmboyjedi]

Yeah, I wondered about that after I took stock of the situation. I don't know what's going on exactly just yet. It's strange, though.

[warandpeace]

Situations of age alteration have usually proved temporary, by the way. But no one has ever come in as a child.

But I hope we figure it out.

I'm Kazuhira Miller. I've been on the ship [former ship] for almost a year now.

video;

[divagated]

Do you want the good news or the bad news first?

[she's testing the waters here, by leaving out an introduction or the fact that Luke had been here before. Maybe he had been younger (er, older? physically, at least), but it was still him. She just didn't know if he'd remember or not. Padmé hadn't, when she came back. She didn't see a point in confusing him with that until he had a better grasp of what was happening.]

Re: video;

[farmboyjedi]

I've figured out a few things, so that might make it a little easier. I've been talking to Obi-Wan and my father a little. And my mother...plus a few new faces. They told me about the crash, and that we're just trying to survive. And that this is apparently the Ingress's fault. [He looks down at himself.]

[He knows she's a Togruta, but hasn't met or even heard of her in his lifetime.] I don't think I know you, but it's good to meet you.

[He can tell

video;

[divagated]

Well, the good news is whenever things like this happen, it doesn't last too long. So you shouldn't be a kid forever. [This is suggesting that this is happening in the same pattern as usual. But nothing is ever usual around here, if she's completely honest.]

The bad new is this is probably the least shocked you'll be by the time things are said and done. [this place was nothing but plot twists and chaos. Shocked was almost a state of being around here.]

-- I was actually going to ask you that, too. About Obi-Wan and your parents. [so he's spoken to them already, that's a good thing. It makes her life a little easier when it comes to explaining things.]

I'm Ahsoka. Ahsoka Tano. We met once before, but it was here. Not everyone remembers when they come back, though, so if you don't, that's okay. It happens.