@all | before the event

[industries]

> ts@abraxas-proxy:~$ wall "People's memories of this place"

[ Anyone unfamiliar with computer terminals might be taken aback at the mechanical font that scrolls across their vision, though the jumps and starts in typing speed leave no doubt that a very human brain is behind the text. ]

> Broadcast message from ts@abraxas-proxy (tty/1) :
> People's memories of this place
>
> Don't normally crowdsource, but
> has anyone out there ever heard of someone who got home and actually
> remembered their days here at the renfaire?
>
> Not looking for peer-reviewed analysis.
> I'll take crumbs
> or
> whatever else we've got here on Mind-Reddit.

Comments

[industries]

> Holy Land.
>
> Wouldn't suppose that's out in the desert somewhere?
> Possibly between a Mediterranean sea and a Dead one?

[aquilus]

Precisely that.
I spent some time in Jerusalem recently.

[Stabbin' people.]

[industries]

> So you're from Earth, or at least
> a version of it.
>
> How long in the past?
> Guessing from the name and location that we're talking at least seventh century, unless you
> happen to know a carpenter with twelve overinvested friends.

[aquilus]

[He understood that reference.]

By the Christian calendar it was the year 1191.

[industries]

> Huh. And I thought 50 years was the biggest timeline gap here.
> Must be really luxuriating in the, uh
> indoor plumbing.

[aquilus]

It's a small consolation for being brought here against my will.
Personal comforts are enjoyable but it's not as though I thought them lacking before.
I'm more interested in what I can learn from the other Summoned as well as the local people.
The libraries and museums are very impressive.

[industries]

> I feel like as far as "lacking," flushing toilets is a pretty big one, but
> you do you, buddy.
> Hey, don't normally get the chance to chat with a living time capsule, so
> you want to grab a drink sometime?
> If you think this place is impressive, you should see my imaginary skyscraper.
>
> Like, literal skyscraper, not
>
> anyway.

[aquilus]

[The toilets are nice but not required when one has spent a lifetime without them. Everyone here is a weak baby when it comes to their tolerance for bathroom discomforts.]

If you keep in mind the 'living' aspect and not think of me as an object, certainly.
Name the place and time.

[...okay he can tell this is some manner of slang but he does not have the context to guess what it refers to.]

[industries]

> Don't worry, my objectification days are long behind me.
> Just ask my wife.
> And uh
> just look for the giant tower with the big "A" on it.
> It's covered in one-way glass and steel girders and other things you definitely haven't seen before, it's
> fine – if a red-and-gold man flies around looking for you, that's just me.
> Don't sweat it.

[aquilus]

[Ah, that sounds familiar.]

I've seen it.
It's extremely ostentatious.
But impressively constructed.

[industries]

> Yeah, like me.
> Cool – it's a date.
> See you there, Al.

[aquilus]

[He could kill you in a second, Stark.]

[industries]

[ Why do you think he's meeting you in the Matrix, knife boy? ]