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[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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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.

[It does keep him consistent.]

No kidding. And you showed up here twice but it was like only this time counts. [Which is a little unsettling.] Space is weird.

[There are minimum standards that need to be upheld.]

Don't remind me, it freaks me out that there's something out there fthat can just wipe my memory like that. And you know I don't freak out easily.

Yeah, you're cool as a cucumber. Just don't go getting amnesia about who you are, too.

Pfft, if that's ever a thing you have my permission in advance to smack me upside the head until my memory returns.

it's not that i refuse to hit girls but i don't usually like to smack my friends
charlie was an exception because of the strangling

If you're going to be squeamish about it then get Elena to do it. She hits harder than you anyway.

Are you sure you weren't just holding onto hard feelings about the head butting?

Edited (wait why text speak ) 2017-06-06 19:59 (UTC)

Charlie is completely forgiven, but how do you know how hard Elena hits? Pretty sure I'm the only one who's been on the receiving end of her right hook.

[And it was pretty hard.]

Again: what happens on hen night stays on hen night and is between me and your wife.

[And she mimes a lip-zip just to emphasise that fact.]

Sometimes I regret not being the kind of guy who wants to keep his wife and his ex-girlfriends as far apart as possible.

Now I know you don't really mean that. Besides, I would just love to see you try to tell Elena who she can or can't hang out with.

You know me. I like the headstrong ones.

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