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Caspar Leyton (brannenford) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-03-01 10:34:00

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eggsy, tom sully jr, wanda maximoff, ~caspar leyton

Good morning.

Let me thank the gentlemen who assisted me on the day of my arrival for your kindness. I wish I could say that my mind is less troubled on this day than it was on that that one, but unfortunately, I cannot. I have spent my time since then with your history books.

They are wrong. Wrong in many particulars, from the great to the small. Pretannica is 'Britain' and Gaul is 'France' and the wars are protracted or shifted or simply not as they should be. The dates are wrong, all across the past millennium. Places are wrongly named, and many august personages either are not mentioned or are said to hold the wrong offices. On a more personal note, the great city of Calleva, near which my family has its estate, in your books appears to have disappeared when the Romans did.

Further, I cannot find a single mention of telekinetics.

The similarities, however, are numerous and uncanny enough that I cannot simply say that I must be reading about some other planet, even as I learn the nature of this place.

What would you make of this?

- C. Leyton

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	nothing_to_lose 2022-03-01 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	Where's that, then? That Calleva place. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-01 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	In Hanteshire, which by these records you may know by the name of Hampshire. Do you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nothing_to_lose 2022-03-01 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	I know Hampshire, yeah. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-01 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	Have you visited the place? Where is it that you are from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nothing_to_lose 2022-03-01 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	I'm from London. And I've been there. Did some training out near a village called Silchester. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-01 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	Londinium! I am very fond of it. So many entertainments. I do not know a village called Silchester, but there is a district of Calleva known as Silcastel. Perhaps it was a village before the city swallowed it? I do not know. For what were you training? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nothing_to_lose 2022-03-01 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	Military training. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-01 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	Ah. A soldier, then. Very good! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tom_jr 2022-03-01 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	The differences are because of alternate timelines. Someone in your history made a choice, and in your timeline, they made a different choice than they did in mine, for example. So your timeline branches off at that point. Is telekinesis common where you're from? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-02 07:49 am UTC (link)
	If that were so, would I not find absolute convergence at some point in the past? I have not yet done so. That depends on how you define 'common'. Perhaps one in five hundred people has a rudimentary talent for it, and one in ten thousand a truly exceptional one. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	commander_shep 2022-03-02 04:39 am UTC (link)
	So, this has nothing to do with your er, post. I offered to look strange, and tell you how to get to the map that I just sent you, unsolicited. Maybe you noticed your phone alerted you to a file sent by Shepard? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-02 07:41 am UTC (link)
	Dear lady, there are very many strange things here, but you are not among them. Pray tell me your name? You have the advantage here, I fear. I saw that message on the phone, but I did not know its meaning. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2022-03-02 08:48 am UTC (link)
	Well, I would be Shepard. Or Shep if that's a mouthful. And as nice as the sentiment is, anyone that knows me will tell you I'm probably as far from a lady, without being a man, as you can get. Anyway, to the point, have you swiped away the alert? Or is it still hanging out where notifications hang out? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-02 08:56 am UTC (link)
	Shepard. I see. Very novel! You must call me Leyton then. I do not rightly understand what you mean by that. There was a tiny klaxon, and then I saw your name, and then the device went black again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2022-03-02 10:19 am UTC (link)
	Alright, Leyton. Okay, do you know how to light it up? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brannenford 2022-03-02 10:23 am UTC (link)
	Yes, of course. I know that, and how to look at the messages such as the one you just sent, and to turn on the radio. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

commander_shep
2022-03-02 10:37 am UTC (link)

Okay, well make it light up, and draw your finger from the top to the bottom, you should see any alerts you've been sent in the drop down that.. I'm going to be perfectly honest, I'm shit at explaining this. I'm from about a hundred and sixty years into the future. I don't really use the phones, because they're heavy bricks of added weight. So you have to bear with me, because I'm explaining as I do the stuff on one, and just explaining what I just did.

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	brannenford 2022-03-02 10:49 am UTC (link)
	We are all out of time here. These phones are from as far into the future as you are. I follow you well enough. Then I see your name, and the message about the file. If I touch it will that take me to the filing cabinet? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)