bright light city

WATSON!

I have made a purchase. Care to guess what it is?

See, Holmes? I've not been murdered.

James behaved perfectly normally and did not once give me cause for alarm.

Are you satisfied that he had no nefarious intentions?

Okay, so being kidnapped is really not cool, but...

Sherlock friggin' Holmes!

Oh, dear. Who has an explanation for this?

Holmes? I would worry that you've put a truly alarming amount of effort into ensuring that I don't move out, but I fear this is beyond even your not inconsiderable talents.

But it does beg the question of what precisely is going on. I rather hope that you are here to explain.

Mary really is going to be cross.

Well, this is certainly unusual. I can't seem to connect to Ida or the H.E.Y.D.A.R. and there's no answer from Dubby's middlewatch. From the local newspaper, I can guess that I have experienced an involuntary one year leap forward in time. The technology seems to have stayed relatively un-revolutionized in the past year.

Confusion aside, Las Vegas is indeed very beautiful, despite its nickname of Sin City. There are plenty of fully wholesome ways to entertain oneself without gambling away money or ogling a scantily clad exotic dancer's breasts and backside.

I would deem this an impossibility were I not here. Too elaborate to be a hoax, technology far beyond its time, my mind is boggled.