That's an understatement. [ a soft blip of amusement. ] I...sort of thought things would change and we weren't going to just be delivering boxes for eight weeks, but I don't think any of us suspected this either.
Way too early, yeah. We still don't even know if Friday's effects were because of what we did on Wednesday or if they were because of Dahut. And that's, like, the minimum I want to understand. Not to mention we don't know how much of this is the nanites in us and how much is...I don't know. Something else.
anyway she's nodding... but her mind is like, running the days he just mentioned in her head, and she brings up the calendar on her IRIS to check something. ]
Oh. [ duh. yes. that makes sense. he's just leaning around to look at her calendar. ] I can teach you Earth's system if you if you want. Might make it easier to keep track of since...a lot of us are from some form of Earth.
What is--okay, no, I'll come back to that in a second. [ if he asks questions they're going to get nowhere. ] So today's Sunday. Yesterday, trial day, was Saturday, and the day we learned about Dahut and Luke was Friday. The lockdown was on Thursday. The day we had to fix the ship and had that party was Wednesday. The day before that is Tuesday, and Monday comes before that. Pretty easy to track when you have events to tie them to.
Writing it down helps. But no it wasn't a big deal, I just...have no idea what Remday is or how other calendars work. I'm still getting used to people being from other planets. [ although... ] You and Guy are from the same one, right? Were you together before this?
Yep! We're both from Auldrant, and we were traveling together when all this weirdness happened!
[ there's some tangible fondness there. ]
I don't know much about Earth, either... but there sure are a lot of people here who came from there.
[ she's trying to figure out if she should call them "Earthians" or something else... are she and Guy "Auldrantian"? these just aren't words that have had any need to exist until now. ]
It's even weirder here, because even if everybody came from Earth not all of them are the same one? They're physically similar, but the history and everything about them isn't. It can make it pretty confusing if you're talking to someone from an Earth where one major world event happened, but somebody else from a different version of Earth never even heard of it.
Hm...nothing like a global effect that can read it, no. But there are people out there, psychics, who can see into the future supposedly and read into it. But for the most part people have to live without knowing what to expect.
Auldrant has something like that then? [ and because he's thinking about what she said: ] Does it have something to do with why you and Guy were traveling together?
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[ she's pretty miserable about the weekend's events, actually, even though she's acting fairly casual now. ]
I guess it's probably too soon to see any patterns?
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Way too early, yeah. We still don't even know if Friday's effects were because of what we did on Wednesday or if they were because of Dahut. And that's, like, the minimum I want to understand. Not to mention we don't know how much of this is the nanites in us and how much is...I don't know. Something else.
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anyway she's nodding... but her mind is like, running the days he just mentioned in her head, and she brings up the calendar on her IRIS to check something. ]
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anyway he's about to comment on something else, but she's suddenly moving and he turns his head to actually look at her. ]
Think of something?
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... Everyone uses different names for the days of the week here... It's kind of hard to follow sometimes.
[ she's not used to this Earth shit. ]
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So if today's "Sunday"... okay, that's practically the same as Remday.
[ she'll start there and work her way backwards, marking the calendar with the events of the past week. ]
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Got it! Okay, I'll try to remember.
Did you want to ask something, too?
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Writing it down helps. But no it wasn't a big deal, I just...have no idea what Remday is or how other calendars work. I'm still getting used to people being from other planets. [ although... ] You and Guy are from the same one, right? Were you together before this?
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[ there's some tangible fondness there. ]
I don't know much about Earth, either... but there sure are a lot of people here who came from there.
[ she's trying to figure out if she should call them "Earthians" or something else... are she and Guy "Auldrantian"? these just aren't words that have had any need to exist until now. ]
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[ it's been wild for him to observe. ]
Where were you and Guy going?
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[ whoa. how? that's huge! what if there were other auldrants, too... ]
... Our separate ways, pretty soon. We come from different places, and we pretty much finished what we set out to do, so...
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[ but oh. he sees. give him a moment to go back to his own notes. ]
So I guess that means you were successful in whatever it was you set out for? [ finished does not always mean good, actually. ]
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[ but instead they're here, and... she doesn't have to say goodbye so soon. at least to guy. and that's... kind of nice? despite everything.
but this thing about alternate timelines really is something... ]
... Shoma, does Earth have a Score?
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Don't think so. What's a Score? Maybe we have something similar.
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Auldrant has something like that then? [ and because he's thinking about what she said: ] Does it have something to do with why you and Guy were traveling together?
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There's only one future written in the Score, so the idea of a world having more than one future is kind of shocking...
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When it's written in the Score...is there really no changing it?
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That's like, the debate of the century right now!
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