nathan "a dick is not worth it" drake (
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thisavrou2017-02-24 03:07 pm
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['sup everyone. It's your friendly historianerd here today, speaking into his TAB from...somewhere kinda high, judging by the background.]
I've been doing some exploring in Region Five lately, and I think I figured something out—everyone who came from the Moira, we're not the first humans to get here. [He laughs.] Well, obviously—there are other people who look like us. But it's not some sci-fi TV show thing where they're just aliens who happened to look the same. Check it out.
[He angles the TAB camera around, and it becomes clear that high is high—not skyscraper-level, but Nate has scaled some centrally-located building with a good view of various streets.]
Over there—Victorian houses right next to Edwardian ones, like the block is showing the passage of time. Couple streets over [the camera swings around] and you've got the late Italian. That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to architecture.
And on some of the nicer streets and in parks there's Colombian statuary from mid-1700s, some Greek stuff—I did some sketches if anyone wants to see. [No one does. Probably.] it's the real thing, too, the actual style and not some fake imitation bullshit.
It's not that surprising, right? Ingresses existed before we ever showed up on the Moira, so they probably grabbed people from Earth before we ended up here, too. The point is, this planet isn't just a crossroads of culture, it's a crossroads of history, too. If people brought their architecture and their art, they brought all kinds of other knowledge too, things that might not have made it into the historical record, at least not in detail. We should take advantage of that. I've already seen one library that's as big as the Moira's, if not bigger—I'm gonna go exploring there once I get down from here.
[So this is basically an overly excited PSA for the local Kauto library, apparently.]
I've been doing some exploring in Region Five lately, and I think I figured something out—everyone who came from the Moira, we're not the first humans to get here. [He laughs.] Well, obviously—there are other people who look like us. But it's not some sci-fi TV show thing where they're just aliens who happened to look the same. Check it out.
[He angles the TAB camera around, and it becomes clear that high is high—not skyscraper-level, but Nate has scaled some centrally-located building with a good view of various streets.]
Over there—Victorian houses right next to Edwardian ones, like the block is showing the passage of time. Couple streets over [the camera swings around] and you've got the late Italian. That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to architecture.
And on some of the nicer streets and in parks there's Colombian statuary from mid-1700s, some Greek stuff—I did some sketches if anyone wants to see. [No one does. Probably.] it's the real thing, too, the actual style and not some fake imitation bullshit.
It's not that surprising, right? Ingresses existed before we ever showed up on the Moira, so they probably grabbed people from Earth before we ended up here, too. The point is, this planet isn't just a crossroads of culture, it's a crossroads of history, too. If people brought their architecture and their art, they brought all kinds of other knowledge too, things that might not have made it into the historical record, at least not in detail. We should take advantage of that. I've already seen one library that's as big as the Moira's, if not bigger—I'm gonna go exploring there once I get down from here.
[So this is basically an overly excited PSA for the local Kauto library, apparently.]

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Where is this library located?!
[This is as excited as Venom gets. You might never see it again, Nate.]
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Oh yes very impressive, Drake. You have eyes.
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Hey, I didn't even mention all the stuff I found that's the real thing—not just a pastiche or inspired by. There's stuff here I'd have killed to explore back home.
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Is there any Chinese architecture there? You sound like you can recognize the differences in styles.
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[Or take a fucking picture, Nate, Jesus.]
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Which history though? [ Came the doctor's voice from somewhere off to the right. ]
The Ingress moves not only across dimension but across time as well. The buildings may be from a period that in your linear time is past for you but could easily be present, even now, for the builder.
Fold time in on itself and all points become possible until quantified by the reality of the a moment.
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[Nate just grins.]
We already know that some of the Moira crew came from entirely different versions of Earth with different timelines, so I figure that's the same here. But plenty of us did come from the same world, different eras, so that's likely the same as well. And in a way, people bring pieces of their home with them.
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If ye needed proof that the Ingress brings from all time periods...
[ You've spoken to him, dude. ]
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Yeah, fair enough. But all this shows it's been happening for a long time—some of these buildings are old. Hey, think about it, some famous missing persons cases could be because they ended up here.
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Is that all you've been doing? Looking at houses and stuff, man?
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People from Earth or Earth similar places are usually the targets of the Ingress. But often it chooses people with something exceptional about them.
[He doesn't want to think about the idea of not going home, though, or that some of these people trapped here had kids. What if their parents were returned and never knew afterwards? Sort of a scalding thought.]
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Do you think any of them ever learned something about those who brought us here? Something that might be useful?
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[He assumes??? He hasn't tried himself.]
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So you're saying this has been going on for a long time. Think they lied to us about letting us go back to our worlds?
[The thought has crossed his own mind more than once, this past month. They made it to the place the ship was going...and instead of letting them go it's just turning into another cage. Bigger, at least, but a cage is a cage no matter how invisible the bars.]
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... Did you spend your afternoon climbing up the side of some random building to admire the architecture?
[ Fuckin nerd. ]
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And that's it. She's just giving him the look without saying anything.]
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