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thisavrou2017-03-05 11:49 pm
imoustacheyou) wrote in thisavrou2017-03-05 11:49 pm
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[When the video clicks on, it's not to the confused face of a newcomer, to the concern of someone who has just been plucked out of their universe and thrown to another. It's not of anger, fear, annoyance, none of that. When the video focuses, it's on a man wearing a strange dark coat, twirling one end of a ginger mustache between his fingers. He has light blue markings on his face, pointed ears, wild hair, a patch over his right eye, and looks entirely nonplussed by this entire situation.
In fact, this particular newcomer seems settled enough that he's able to hold the TAB in a steady hand at the perfect MySpace angle. No, seriously, he has this selfie stuff on lock.]
You know, this reminds me of that time I was on the coast of Melharoo, on the planet Yaluk of the Fifth Nebula. There was an entertainment city -- Va Harn, I believe the name was -- with a resort that operated kind of like this. Woke up there without a clue of what I'd been doing the past week! Turns out I'd had a particularly nasty run in with a few Wabbernocks! [Here, he laughs. As if everything he's saying makes complete and total sense.] Last time I went there during a waning metra.
[He lets go of the edge of his mustache, letting it bounce back into place as he regards the lens of the TAB.]
It's been a good while since I've had the time to learn about a new culture, so go ahead fellow visitors and Thisavrounians! Give me your best stories. Tell me about your culture, your technology, your holidays-- anything you could possibly think of!
[And, almost as if it's an afterthought, rather than the whole point of this broadcast Coran come on]
Oh! And if anyone's heard some rumors about flying robotic lions -- particularly a colored set -- I'd appreciate the information.
In fact, this particular newcomer seems settled enough that he's able to hold the TAB in a steady hand at the perfect MySpace angle. No, seriously, he has this selfie stuff on lock.]
You know, this reminds me of that time I was on the coast of Melharoo, on the planet Yaluk of the Fifth Nebula. There was an entertainment city -- Va Harn, I believe the name was -- with a resort that operated kind of like this. Woke up there without a clue of what I'd been doing the past week! Turns out I'd had a particularly nasty run in with a few Wabbernocks! [Here, he laughs. As if everything he's saying makes complete and total sense.] Last time I went there during a waning metra.
[He lets go of the edge of his mustache, letting it bounce back into place as he regards the lens of the TAB.]
It's been a good while since I've had the time to learn about a new culture, so go ahead fellow visitors and Thisavrounians! Give me your best stories. Tell me about your culture, your technology, your holidays-- anything you could possibly think of!
[And, almost as if it's an afterthought, rather than the whole point of this broadcast Coran come on]
Oh! And if anyone's heard some rumors about flying robotic lions -- particularly a colored set -- I'd appreciate the information.
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[Still though, how this person is talking is... troubling.]
I don't know, existential musings from anyone are at the most informative and at the least therapeutic.
Though unless you're the cause of some sort of temporal and universal divergence, I don't think you could consider yourself an anomaly!
Coran
[If only he knew]
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He shoots, he scores.
Congratulations, Mr. Coran. You've officially met your first anomaly.
It seems we'll have to be redefining "corpse" for the purposes of conversation. How long must one be dead for be considered a cadaver, exactly? A few decades? Or are we looking at something more in the centuries-wide scale?
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That's... troubling. From a scientific standpoint.]
Hmm, I find it hard to believe you're a true anomaly. Unless you're traveling around with a field generator to counteract any temporal imbalance!
I suppose different societies do have different definitions of death. I once met a species who would hibernate for years in a form of stasis that would have presented as death for most others of their general biological make-up.
It would also depend on if you considered death of the mind to outlast death of the body!
Coran
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But they digress.]
No stasis. Just the long process of turning into fertilizer as I rotted over the course of many, many years.