02 || Voice, Backdate to the morning of Jan 12th

[melavasomniar]

Hello everyone. I have a quick question, if you all don't mind.

You see, I’m a little disoriented. Last time I checked it was the 4th of… whatever it is this month is called [elgar’nan why can’t they just use the Thedosian calendar like normal people], and now it’s the 12th. Where did the week go?

Really, I mean that quite literately, where did it go because I can't recall it.

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voice

[stealwithit]

You don't recall any of it?

Also... welcome back, I guess!

voice

[melavasomniar]

Thank you, I guess!

Honestly, I don't even remember a minute of it. ...should I?

voice

[stealwithit]

I mean, I feel like it should be a cause for concern whenever you don't remember whole chunks of your time.

voice

[melavasomniar]

[a noise that's pretty much equivalent to a verbal shrug.] Not a new occurrence, I'm used to it.

[wasnever]

Nowhere good. That's where it went.

Glad to see you again, though.

[melavasomniar]

And you too, Sera.

You've given me the feeling I missed something while I was gone. Should I ask?

[wasnever]

Dunno if I'm the one you should be asking.

But...some of our friends didn't have a good time.

[melavasomniar]

Which friends in particular? ["Who do I have to check on?"]

Voice;

[exceptfebruary]

January. The month is called January.

Voice;

[melavasomniar]

Ah, right! Thank you. I haven't quite got the hang of the months yet. Right now I'm just considering it a victory I've got the days of the week down. More or less.

[exceptfebruary]

Getting a physical calendar may help. [ He sounds almost amused when he says that. ]

You're unfamiliar with this world's calendar. How do you measure the days in your own world?

[melavasomniar]

Similarly. Days, weeks, months and all that, we just have very different names for most of them. January maps onto what we would call Wintermarch, I believe.

The only thing truly not comparable is one of the systems we have for numbering the years.

voice

[justimom]

I have heard of that happening to individuals who were returned to their homes of origin. Perhaps that was it?

voice

[melavasomniar]

That certainly would explain why I've suddenly found myself in Cape Canaveral again, though I don't recall going back to Thedas.

voice

[justimom]

That is indeed a strange occurrence. From what I have heard of others most have significant changes occur in their homeworld.

voice

[melavasomniar]

Darn, I guess I must have missed it then. What a shame. [The sarcasm is strong with this one.]

voice;

[grimreaping]

There's precedent for the Porter causing such things; sometimes it's much longer than a week. I was gone for almost a month in the same manner, last year.

voice;

[melavasomniar]

Creators, really? That long? [And he thought seven days had put him out of joint.]

This isn't exactly an uncommon occurrence then?

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[grimreaping]

[ Kid's used to a number of creative epithets, but that one's new. ]

Yes, it actually happens quite regularly, although no one seems to be able to explain why, or if there's a common thread. It's been something I've been looking into for the better part of a year now. I believe if a link can be found there, it would go a long way to helping decipher the Porter's methods of bringing us all here in the first place.

Action! I hope this works?

[lightandglory]

[Nonah #003 might look a little different than Lavellan left it. There is a very great variety of food accumulated in the kitchen--not large amounts of any one thing, but a sampling of almost everything imaginable, from fruits and vegetables to frozen dinners to candy, as though someone wanted to try a little bit of everything they saw. There are fabric samples--very pretty, elaborate, expensive-looking fabric samples--stacked in piles in the living room.

And there is a young woman with bright yellow-green hair currently going through said fabric samples with a critical eye, pausing every so often to hold one up to the window, only to frown pensively, shake her head, and return to her search for... whatever she's searching for.]

action; yup, is good!

[melavasomniar]

[Okay, so Lavellan isn’t surprised to find a new person or new things in the house when he arrives back, he had after all disappeared at the beginning of the month, when new people tended to arrive. The surprise was all the… everything. The everything in the living room, and especially the everything in the kitchen.

Wow. How did she accumulate all of this so fast?

He takes a quick look around, bewildered though amused, before addressing the woman busy in the living room. Might as well introduce himself.]

I see you’ve made yourself at home. [A gesture to the piles of fabrics as he takes a seat on the couch.] –I’m Talyn Lavellan, I live here. And I’m assume you do now, as well?

action;

[lightandglory]

[L'Arachel looks up with a smile at the sound of an unfamiliar voice, seemingly unconcerned that there is a stranger in her house. Her magic tomes are right there on the side table, after all, so she has nothing to fear.]

Hello! --Oh! [Her eyes widen as she takes in her housemate's appearance. She's never seen such... elaborate facial markings before. But this is not the first non-human she's encountered here, so she recovers her manners quickly.]

A pleasure! I was wondering who that bedroom must belong to! I am L'Arachel, princess of the sacred theocracy of Rausten, and you assume correctly. You have such a pleasant little home--oh dear, now is it Talyn, or Lavellan? You must forgive me, I'm never quite sure what to call people with more than one name.

audio;

[rideme]

Boss...

[He doesn't say it, but the tone of voice is damn close to "thank god you're here".]

You sure know how to miss a shit show.

audio;

[melavasomniar]

It's a new talent I'm developing, but I'm thinking of giving it up.

I hear things were pretty rough.

audio;

[rideme]

Hey, your call to make. Most people would probably rather get the hell out of dangerous crap though.

... Yeah. It was.