Video; Important questions okay

[tevinteraltus]

[While most everyone seems to be suffering from the heatwave, Dorian seems less than annoyed by it all when the feed initializes. Now, he's not wearing his robes, and his dark shoulders prove he's wearing an outfit without sleeves, but he seems perfectly comfortable, more so than usual, one could say.

He looks rather pleased with himself, also, and while most of his surroundings aren't in view, it's plain the device is nestled on a desk surrounded by very untidy notes in a flowing hand and that said desk is surrounded by bookshelves that are equally in a state of disarray. No one every accused Dorian of being an orderly worker.]

Hello, Genessia! You know, all this talk of a heatwave, and all the lamentation thereof, have gotten me thinking about weather. I know, I know. It's the topic of bores and the unenlightened, something to fill the void at an awkward social gathering, what have you. But, the reason I bring it up is simple: this weather is much more similar to my homeland, which, coincidentally, is in the north of the land from which I hail.

[He folds his hands in front of him on the desk, leaning forward slightly in interest.]

What I would like to know is this: is warmer weather where you come from associated with the north...or the south? Call it a research project.

Comments

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Several? You mean like alternate realities?

I wonder if that would explain the weird things people from my world are saying. They're talking about things that I should know about but I don't.

If another version of me shows up, it's gonna be too weird...or my wife for that matter.

[tevinteraltus]

Yes, that's precisely what I mean.

[He chuckles. What an interesting prospect.]

Not keen on meeting yourself, are you?

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Weird. But, like I said...it makes the most sense as to why I'm lost about half the things from back home that people have told me about.

Nah, not really. I think it would just feel too weird.

[tevinteraltus]

Oh? But what if they are from some other universe, deviated perhaps in your youth. You were faced with a choice and have lived with it, and this other lived with the opposite choice. Wouldn't it be fascinating to learn what might have been?

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

I suppose. Long as I don't get dragged into their world somehow. Some things about it don't sound too great.

[tevinteraltus]

Don't? [He pauses for a moment.] Ah! It's these others you mean. [He chuckles.] Forgive me. I thought for a moment you meant there was another self here.

[And his smile falters somewhat.]

I know what you mean. Do they come from your future then?

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

No, no, not that I've seen.

[He shakes his head.]

I'm not sure. It's hard to tell much of anything. THe ones who are here aren't exactly on the best talking terms...one just seems to hate me, but I don't know why. The other two were on the other side of what was going on back home...we're doing our best not to bring the war here, but I'm not thrilled at the thought of talking to them more.

[tevinteraltus]

Ah, I see. Perhaps that best to be avoided.

[Dorian knows something of being guilty by association, though, and, frankly, it royally sucks.]

Small world, and all that. You'd think, though, seeing as we're all trapped here, they'd at least try to be civil. It doesn't seem very advantagious otherwise.

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Yeah...yeah, probably. It looks that way to me at the moment, anyway.

And yeah. They say they're going to try not to bring our fight here, but I just never know. I won't go after 'em if they stay peaceful, but I'm keeping my guard up.

[tevinteraltus]

Reasonable, Captain. It's a small wonder you've lived so long.

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

I definitely agree there.

[tevinteraltus]

[He smiles.]

But fortunate. It sounds as though people may be relying on your survival.

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Yup. It wasn't always like that. My last name used to be pretty descriptive of me when I was young...had a friend, but that was all I needed. Now, I've got a family. And somehow, I end up getting mixed up way too often in the entire galaxy's fate...The family I ended up getting is pretty important, it seems.

[tevinteraltus]

Yes, well, in my experience, big and important happenings have a way of finding us, even if we weren't precisely looking for them.

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

It sure feels like it to me.

I suppose it's good that at least some good came of it. Sometimes goin' through a little personal change isn't such a bad thing.

[tevinteraltus]

Precisely, and how are we to grow if we don't try new things?

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Yeah, that's true.