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[spah]

[What's up, Lunatia. It's your Texan scientist boy back at it again. He's in his engineering workshop, drinking a Lunatian beer. He's also got a new prosthetic hand. In fact - there's several robotic hands of all kinds of shapes and sizes hanging off the wall behind him. Neat.]

Y'think... hypothetically, birthdays still count 'round here? In a time-space alternate dimension sorta way.

Like if I had a birthday here - again, hypothetically - would that still count as gettin' a year older back home, too?

[He takes another pull from his beer... then shrugs.]

Reckon I'd have to run the numbers.

[ftr this is post is mostly an excuse to not-so-subtly hint that my made-up birthday for Engie is this month]

Comments

[baitless]

...ah, I see. That is... somewhat heartening, I suppose, at least on some levels. Even if it leaves us in a strange sort of limbo, it's good to know nothing will happen to those we left back home while we're here.

[spah]

Yeah. It's more like a cliffhanger than anything else. Not that cliffhangers are MUCH better, but still an improvement.

Damn interestin' to think about. How... say I stayed here twenty years or somethin', then got sent back. It'd sure as hell be interestin' to go back twenty years.

Not that I wanna stay here that long, mind ya. You get the picture, though.

[baitless]

That would be interesting, actually. I suppose it would not be too bad to stay here that long if things worked out so that everyone you personally cared about ended up here as well, though that is simply my opinion on things.

That, and I'd imagine one's original circumstances would determine how they'd feel about it.

[spah]

Oh, sure. Different circumstances for just about everybody here. I wouldn't blame nobody for stayin', 'specially if they're... well, not around. Back home, I mean.

[like dead]

[baitless]

Ah, yes, of course. That's... certainly a regrettable circumstance, and I'm sure anyone dealing with it would certainly rather stay here.