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[sketchycharacter]

[Nate's face looks unusually serious when it appears via TAB today. Not sad or upset or grim, just like he's feeling unusually contemplative. Shut up, he's allowed to have a moment once in a while.]

You know, when I first came through the Ingress, I actually thought I was dead? I'd been flying in my best friend's plane and suddenly I was in bizarro land, so I figured we went down and I'd just blocked out the fiery death. And then they gave me a job and I knew I was in Hell.

[He's mostly kidding, but only because the teaching gig had turned out to be surprisingly fun.]

Space isn't the worst place I've had a rude awakening in, and I figured okay, we're on a ship, we're going somewhere with a way to get home, it's just a matter of time. And then the ship crashed but we found that place anyway but actually getting home depends on a bunch of science bullshit I don't understand.

And then I took a closer look at the local calendar and, near as I can figure out, it's been almost a year. [He holds up a hand.] Yes, okay, we also spent a year back on party planet, but I try not to think about that so it doesn't count. Makes me wonder how long it'll be—how much time will people spend passing time before deciding to actually live their lives?

Honestly...I'm not sure it makes a big difference with me. There's stuff I want to get back to, sure, but passing the time with some of you guys hasn't been too awful. [He grins.] Hey, to mark the anniversary, I'll do free sketch portraits for anyone who comes by to find me on the front steps of the big museum in Region 1.

[action option: he's a dude sketching in a journal on the front steps of the museum. Whoa, didn't see that coming.]

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[cockade]

I'd have to say that you're one of the few who don't mind staying here- at least that I know of. [He huffs, but it's out of amusement rather than frustration] There were several others who were of the same mindset back in the Drabwurld as well.

Do you think your world would notice if you were gone, if you chose to stay here?

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[sketchycharacter]

I don't want to become an old man here, I can just think of much worse places to get stuck. Like prison.

[For example, not because he's spent time there, ahem ahem.]

The world? No. People who know me? I sure hope so, but a lot of the important ones are here.

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[cockade]

Honestly, prison is worse, but at least it's not La Bastille. Especially with what happened a few years ago.

[His time, of course. Not that he knows what it was like to actually be in the Bastille when it was destroyed, nope. Not at all.]

I understand. For me, I still have to return home. I know that the revolution ends well, but I want to be able to see it for myself.

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[brochtuarach]

[ Jamie isn't the greatest at this device - which is why he doesn't usually use it, but he browses it once in a while. Nate's post gives him momentary pause. ]

I might be tempted, if I did not have obligations to return to. I, too, have been in far worse places.

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[sketchycharacter]

Oh yeah? Like what? Tell me a story.

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[brochtuarach]

There is little to tell, for I can assure ye, prison holds little excitement.

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[flynnitomite]

Only thought you were dead, eh?

[Flynn takes a seat next to Drake with a sigh.]

I guess I can always cross my fingers and hope.

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[sketchycharacter]

[Oh hey, Flynn. Nate starts sketching because hey, he offered, but he doesn't really need Harry as a model.]

You never know. One of those days you might get lucky.

[flynnitomite]

And maybe I'll get that pony I always wanted, too.

[He lifts his chin up and squares his jaw in an attempt to pose.]

Oi, make sure you get my good side.

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[greyate]

No, that year totally counts.

[ Because that's still a year of their life gone. Though she doesn't like to think about it much, either. For as beautiful as that place was, it was damn creepy. ]

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[sketchycharacter]

it felt like a week so it totally doesn't. there's nothing to reminisce over.

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[greyate]

I'm a year older because of it. It counts.

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[chaoticlootral]

Nick, my man, you do know this is depressing as shit? You have severely bummed me out.

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[sketchycharacter]

Nate. [He shrugs.] I don't know what you have to be depressed about, you didn't live through the crash. Es.

[chaoticlootral]

It's Taako, actually. [Maybe one day he will get it, Nate. Maybe one day.] Not that, homie, all the dour shit about living here for years and accepting your fate.

Also the job thing.

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[otiosity]

Once you're done contemplating your slightly hairy navel, I need more tissues and gummy bears.

[SHE'S A PATHETIC INVALID etc and also this subject is something she tries not to think about. NATE S T O P.]

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[sketchycharacter]

That's real sad for you.

[otiosity]

It is.

Being an invalid is very difficult. I regret all my past arrogance.

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[nicearsenal]

A whole year and you haven't blown up, burnt down or sunk a city or pissed off an ancient civilisation or anything? Are you sure you're not a space clone?

[She jests with love, Nate.]

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[sketchycharacter]

The ship did crash twice. I didn't do anything to it, but I was on it both times.

[Sometimes maybe correlation is causation after all. Somehow.]

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[nicearsenal]

Oh okay, I guess we can count that. Consider my mind at ease.

[She nibbles on her thumb for a moment.]

It's still weird to me how you could have been out here for all this time but it just felt like yesterday that I'd seen you when I got here. Never thought we'd all wind up in a sci-fi movie. Action slash horror? Sure. But not Lost in Space.

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[tearsinajar]

What are you talking about, passing the time has been the worst. Absolutely the worst.

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[sketchycharacter]

No, it hasn't.

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[grandpaladin]

Ah, in that case, happy anniversary, my friend.

It is nice to hear someone so optimistic about this place, for a change.

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[sketchycharacter]

Is that what it sounds like? Huh. I don't really think of myself as that optimistic. Just...calling it like I see it, I guess.