001 ► [ video ]

[lutefisk]

[When the Guide first comes on there's a brief close up of a large yellow bird before the view eventually flips around to show the owner.

Norway looks about as calm and disinterested as one can possibly get about their circumstances, paying no mind to the excited, yipping puppy he's tucked under his other arm while speaking.]This Guide's more

Comments

[video. If you even notice him <3]

[maple_syrup_can]

[Norway? ... But you don't seem to remember the Thor. So... here we go again?]

Hello, Norway. It's Canada...

[maple_syrup_can]

It was 2010 when I was... brought here.

[lutefisk]

It's a popular time from what I'm gatherin'.

[maple_syrup_can]

It is. I think most of us are from 2010 or 2011.

S-sorry, may I ask what year you are from? [But he hasn't called him 'Vinland' so it can't be too early...?]

[lutefisk]

Anythin' even significant then? [Getting gold in hockey in the winter olympics doesn't count.]

1945. [And more, but he's learning fast there's no point in mentioning it.]

[maple_syrup_can]

[YES IT DOES! o.o]

Ah- since then...

...

I- I'm not sure what would be of interest to you... B-but seeing as we don't know what happened to the world, there's not much use knowing...

[lutefisk]

[WOW getting gold in Curling after beating him doesn't count either.]

They didn't bother makin' excuses with losin' it?

[maple_syrup_can]

[>.< Yes it does. And it's not like he'd rub it in or anything.]

Well, they have something they say, but I don't believe it. Besides, if all of us are here, the earth has got to be okay too, right? And that's all that matters.

[lutefisk]

I see. 'nd what've ya been doin' to get it back?

[maple_syrup_can]

I'm afraid that there isn't too much we can do to get it back. There ...is a myth about a place that builds planets, and we might come to this place eventually, but... even if we did get there, the cost would be exorbitant, I'm sure... Probably more than all our GNPs together.

[lutefisk]

So it'll take a while, regardless. [At some point, maybe months down the road, the reality of it will sink in and he'll react appropriately. But for now he seems at ease about this fact.]

If anythin' we'll likely find it before it comes to that.

[maple_syrup_can]

I think so. I'm sure Earth is out there.

[lutefisk]

Ours anyway. There's more than one t'go around, apparently.

[maple_syrup_can]

That's true...

I wonder if it would feel different to be on an Earth that's not ours...

[lutefisk]

Doubt each one would have identical territories. Ya might end up an empire in some.

[maple_syrup_can]

Ah--

[Canada just kind of gazes off for a moment, thinking about that. An empire. Or even somehow where it's different enough that he isn't mistaken for America all the time...]

That would be... really interesting.