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real_genius (real_genius) wrote in gateway_rpg,
@ 2009-03-28 14:24:00

Who: Chris Knight and Open to Anyone
When: March 28
Where: Park between the two apartment buildings
Rating: I'm guessing PG.

Chris sat with a history book in his hands, laying down on a park bench. It's all he had been doing since they left Quarantine. He didn't know anyone. He was taken from the 1980s. Everyone he could have even began to think of to contact would be long since dead by now.

He closed it, frustratingly. So much had happened, so much had changed, that even he couldn't get his head wrapped all the way around it. He was the science genius. He suddenly missed Mitch and wondered if they could figure this out together if he were here. Without anything to test, Chris felt lost.

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	real_genius 2009-03-30 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	"Suppose you could call it that. Been gone well, since 1985. My children, if I'd had any, would probably be close to dead by now. But since that was basically last month for me, I'm Trying to see anything about the world that's changed." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	"Well... February 2005." She raised her hand, "Most recent I can't help you but before that I might be of some use?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-30 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	Chris would honestly rather hear it from her rather than a book, so he nodded. "Sounds great. Any huge events? Did they dedicate a statue in my memory and make my birthday a national holiday?" he smirked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	"What did you say your name was again?" She teased. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-30 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	"Chris Knight,' he laughed. "I was one of the top ten minds in America, but I was cut down before my prime. Sad thing. I'd just gotten out of school, really." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	"I kinda don't follow academic type stuff too much." She admitted, "If it doesn't involve a whole bunch of sand and a nice expanse of water odds are good it passed me by." But after a moment's thought, "They tore down the Berlin Wall?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-30 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	"It's cool. I was gone for 20 years before you disappeared anyway," he smirked. "Berlin, huh? That's great. When did that happen?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Um. I don't know exactly. Some time around 1990? Just before, I think." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-30 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	"Wow, not too long after I left then. Anything else of importance?" He knew she wouldn't be able to tell him everything. It was the strangest feeling knowing abut the 80s, but not the 90s onward. It was like cutting a chunk out of the middle of a history book. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	"Um. The USSR broke up into a bunch of smaller countries? And you had this one president who got impeached for knocking around with an intern and a cigar." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-30 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	Chris was actually grateful to hear the first part. He laughed at the second. "That's hilairous. Did he get thrown out?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 04:15 pm UTC (link)
	"Nope, he got a second term. Then they elected this guy that in Oz, at least, we kinda figured was your village idiot whose Dad had the job before the cigar guy." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-30 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Chris laughed again. She's pretty funny. "Oz?" he asked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	"Back home. Oz. Australia." She grinned. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-30 04:43 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, never heard of it like that," he laughed. "Gotchya. Sorry," he grinned sheepishly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-03-30 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	"No problem." Heather laughed, quiet, "I kinda use a lot of slang, used to people from quarentine calling me on it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-03-31 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	"It's okay, really," Chris smiled. "I mean, we're all from different decades. We'll all be confused as hell for a while. " (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-04-01 07:17 am UTC (link)
	"To say the least." She agreed, giving him a wry smile. "It's a shame, really." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-04-01 11:17 am UTC (link)
	Chris shrugged. "Yeah, but we'll all be okay. We can adapt better than we think we can. Not that I'm not frustrated. I'm not used to being so confused." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-04-01 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm not confused at all." She laughed quietly, "There are people way smarter than me working on this, and good luck to 'em, I say." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-04-01 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	He grinned. "So you said something about sand earlier? What'd you do back in 2005?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-04-01 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	"I was a lifeguard." She grinned back, "Pretty much since I was legally old enough to be." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-04-01 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	Chris' mind went straight into the gutter at that statement and he smiled at her again, only a little bit wider. "Well, I'm sure they have pools in Seattle." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swissarmyaussie 2009-04-01 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	"They have plenty." She agreed, "Only I'm kind of a beach guard, by choice." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	real_genius 2009-04-01 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	"Kind of cold up here, but during the summer it might be good," he smiled. "Like the Sun or something?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)