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Breq aka Justice of Toren was a (troopcarrier) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2018-07-08 14:28:00

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!network post, fray, gideon, justice of toren, katniss everdeen (au), kell maresh, matt holt, michael, ororo munroe / storm (616), rhy maresh, tony stark / iron man (mcu)

Greetings everyone. It would be a pleasure to make your acquaintance. Most recently in my life, most people call me Breq, but I am also Justice of Toren. Please forgive the immediate discussion of business; however, I have some issues that need to be addressed.

Athoek Station, part of it, has arrived with me, and Station - its AI - is in need of more assistance than I can provide. The Botanical Gardens, recently repaired, will need regular work to maintain it. Given enough time, I can take care of the rest of Station. The Undergarden was mostly repaired, and I can fix what remains. However, living things cannot be ignored for so long. Unfortunately, having just arrived, I do not have local currency on a scale to pay anyone yet. I do have more than enough food, we grow our own, as well as tea and other options, pursuant to conversation and your needs.

While I could spend all my hours maintaining Station, and I will spend a good number of them doing just that, I am also interested in gaining paid employment. I have roughly two thousand years experience in the military, five years experience as civilian security, as well as experience in a multitude of jobs from janitorial to sewing to sports. I am fluent in more than sixty languages and learn new ones easily. If you have means and need for any of my skills or ones I could learn, I am interested in speaking with you.

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burningwings
2018-07-10 03:52 am UTC (link)

Like [...] people grow older or younger, or change genders, or change species even, or swap bodies or powers or abilities with someone else. It's usually temporary, but it can last up to a week. I don't know why it happens. There's just a lot of magic or energy floating around that does it, I guess. Or sometimes it's the portal. And sometimes other things happen, like we get presents from home or random things appear out of portals, which can be useful or dangerous. There's a lot of possibilities and usually it's not the same thing twice.

It depends. When we went to space, or on the cruise ship, the buildings didn't come with us. But when we changed Tumbleweeds -- this is a different one from the first one I was in -- the buildings did come with us. We always seem to come back to some version of Tumbleweed after we go somewhere else.

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	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 04:00 am UTC (link)
	Those are not changes which usually happen, in my experience. And not temporarily. This place is more unusual than it looks. Do we know what happened to the buildings while people were elsewhere? Does anyone's buildings have a way to determine that? I would like Station to be ready for what happens. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 04:05 am UTC (link)
	I know. It's weird. I don't think anyone knows that. But I don't know if any of our buildings can [...] tell us what happened to them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 04:13 am UTC (link)
	While I do not look forward to parting with Station, it will tell us if it can, afterward. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 04:14 am UTC (link)
	The people in the town don't always seem to notice we're gone. But there are a lot of things they seem to not notice, that affect us. So I don't know whether Station would notice or not, but if you're here long enough you'll most likely find out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 04:29 am UTC (link)
	The people in town don't always seem to notice a lot. I would prefer not to. But that counts for little. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 04:36 am UTC (link)
	Did you notice that already? Yeah. Preferences really don't count for much. [...] I'm not good at sugarcoating things. Sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 04:39 am UTC (link)
	My über driver did not notice the arrival of a five acre garden. Just for a start. I do not like things to be sugarcoated. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 04:46 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. When new buildings just show up, everyone besides us seems to think it's already always been there. Okay. I won't worry about that, then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 04:55 am UTC (link)
	I wonder if their minds are actually being affected by something or whether they simply are adapting. I appreciate it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 04:57 am UTC (link)
	I really don't know. It seems like they'd have to be really oblivious not to even notice at all. It seems like something weirder than that, to me. I think it's better to have a realistic idea of the situation you're in. Even if it's bad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 05:13 am UTC (link)
	I suppose it depends. If new buildings showing up is strongly associated with something they would rather believe does not exist, I believe humans capable of adapting to avoid the difficulty. But it could readily be something different, to have affected so many people to such a degree. It's only then you can do something about it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 05:27 am UTC (link)
	Well, they're currently starting to celebrate Crash Day. So clearly they have some beliefs about things that show up here. Exactly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 05:31 am UTC (link)
	What does Crash Day refer to? Immediate searches reference a video game about automobiles. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 05:34 am UTC (link)
	I think it has to do with what happened when we were in the past -- or rather, from their perspective, when we first showed up here. There are figurines being sold that look like some of us. It's weird. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 05:50 am UTC (link)
	[...] How long ago, in linear time, was that? Curious what they remember and what they don't. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-10 05:58 am UTC (link)
	To them, it was a little over fifty years ago. For us it was [...] I'm not sure. A year? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	troopcarrier 2018-07-10 06:04 am UTC (link)
	I can see why time would be more difficult to track for you. With current life expectancies, that is a long period of time, the fifty years. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

burningwings
2018-07-10 06:22 am UTC (link)

I've jumped around to different places and times a lot. It's been at least three years of that. Maybe closer to four. It was easier at first because I was only in one place for the first year and a half. But it's changed so much since then that I don't really know for sure anymore.

But we didn't actually live the entire fifty years. We went back in time in an instant and then came back like a week later.

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troopcarrier
2018-07-11 01:37 am UTC (link)

I am used to jumping between places taking some time but a shorter time with gate travel than regular travel. Something that would take a day could take a moment, or years weeks. It's possible this jumping around works similarly if more effectively and between places located more differently than I am used to.

You certainly do not look like you have lived the fifty years. To be clear, you were in a Tumbleweed in a time close to this one first, then traveled back fifty years, then a week later returned to a Tumbleweed close to your original time?

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burningwings
2018-07-11 04:47 am UTC (link)

It's definitely more on the momentary scale of things most of the time.

I haven't. And [...] kind of, yes, but to be more specific, I was in Mt. Weather, which was a bunker in the wilderness, then I was on an island, then I was in the first Tumbleweed, then we went to space, then back to Tumbleweed, then back in time to Tumbleweed in 1953, then back to Tumbleweed in 2017, then the cruise ship, then THIS Tumbleweed, which is different from the other one.

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	troopcarrier 2018-07-11 06:13 am UTC (link)
	Momentary or we are not remembering the travel time. First second and fourth Tumbleweeds all being the same? That is a lot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	burningwings 2018-07-12 06:45 pm UTC (link)
	I guess that's also possible. Yes, we were in the one Tumbleweed multiple times. Or if they were different, they were close enough for us not to notice. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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