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thisavrou2017-02-24 03:07 pm
sketchycharacter) wrote in thisavrou2017-02-24 03:07 pm
video;
['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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Espionage is a way to use intel, yeah, but it's not always that. Intelligence includes the ability to efficiently locate resources, map areas, identify safe and hazardous locations, discern value of items or correctly identify them in general.
It's just how the intel is used that makes the difference between a spy or an archaeologist. I even knew a very talented woman [read: hot] who was an ornithologist who could accurately pinpoint locations in recordings from the birds she heard in the background.
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[Nathan shut up.]
Bet she'd have an interesting time here. There must be plenty of alien birds to learn about.
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She probably went back to Paris.
[A French bird nerd.]
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Yeah, well, maybe she'll get her chance one of these days. Have you ever noticed that once someone comes through an Ingress, it's more likely that someone they know will, too? A friend of mine thinks it has something to do with a weakened dimensional wall being more likely to open up again...or something like that.
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I hope it wouldn't be while I was here. I'd rather her remember me for who I as than meet me like I am now.
I actually knew how to show a girl a good time back then.
[Cécile was super annoyed by him and he existed to be annoying. That was his good time.]
In any case, yeah... don't gotta be a spy to be great at intelligence gathering.
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All right, you're the expert. I'll take your word for it, but I'll stick with what I'm doing now.