[Video: Week 19, day 2 | Shortly before noon] A proper introduction is probably in order
[The screen flares to life to the sight of a certain brown-haired young man some might remember from the other day, the one that made quite the noticeable intro. Only a moment later it's covered by a hand that awkwardly adjusts the angle; it's a little tough to figure out how far it reaches and all that, so he can mostly just hope it's working out
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[Have a Matt, smoking, looking thoughtful. He's taking this greeting the newbies thing seriously, though he guesses Elliot doesn't count as a total newbie anymore. Looking for patterns, he can understand that, even if it's doomed to lead to disappointment.]
I'm Matt, I've been here, like... three months? It gets hard to tell. Time's kinda fucked up.
And it seems like it's totally random how long people stay, but most of us are in it for the long haul, far as I can tell.
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Okay. Uh. Whatever that means. Seems to be some sort of address. It kind of sounds rather impolite, which he doesn't like but he doesn't say anything. The disapproval is probably very visible on his face, though.
Time is... "fucked up"? Well, he has noticed...]
The days seem longer.
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[He hasn't sat down and worked out the numbers or anything, though he is curious what the length of everything would mean about the size of the world. Really, he just chalks it up to magic and lets it go at that.
He notices the guy seems offended, but Matt's not sure why. The swearing?]
What's it like where you come from?
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Well, he hasn't been here long enough to tell about the seasons so he'll take the guy's word for it. He might see it soon enough, though he does wish he gets to go back eventually. ...he thinks?]
In what way?
[That's a very broad question.
...actually, a better way to put it would be:]
I mean, about what?
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People come from all kinds of crazy times and places. Like, it was 2010 for me, and I was in Japan.
[Some places don't even have Japan, and some have alternate versions, and Matt has a vague memory of Goku being from a world like his, only not. And of course, J is from basically his world, only with vampires and no Kira, and then there's people like Tree-Hugging Guy, whose worlds are totally weird. Sometimes, he wants to make a chart to keep it all straight.]
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[And he gives the time and place that the manga hasn't actually told so just putting it like this dealwithitTM yaddayadda. Shaking fist at mangaka, dude.]
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[It's interesting: how do you figure out where the divergence is, if your worlds don't have enough in common for context? Could Matt ask 'does magic work in your world?' and be sure Elliot knew enough about his definition of magic to answer sensically?]
D'you have anything like the Hitomi back home?
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He shakes his head.]
No. [Not even close.] I take it you do.
[The question must have come from some place.]
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Something that can make calls and send text and video, sure. Broadcasting dreams? Not so much.
[It's only fair to warn people about that. Not like there's anything they can do about it, but at least it won't be a surprise, right?]
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Tch. Would that exist anywhere else?
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[Matt would have been the first in line to link his brain to his computer, if that had been invented in his world.]
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Depends on the dream.
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[Well, he sure knows what will show up for him then. Looking forward to that, yep.]
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