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[shifting]

[there's a frazzled shapeshifter on your screens today, imPorts. He rubs a hand against his mouth and the scruff of his chin awkwardly, like he's going to make an effort to collect his thoughts - then promptly throws that plan out the window.]

Hey, uh. Sorta a specific question, but has anyone ever... lost track of a day and shown up at the Porter? With somethin' changed? Is that just - somethin' that happens on top of all the other weird shit this place does to a person?

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[helpline]

[ grins! ]

I've heard it happening, but it's personally never happened to me—happened to my bestie, though! Gain a power or lose a power?

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[shifting]

Gained a power, looks like. It's really that common? The hell is the reason for that?

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My personal theory is that the Porter's bored out of her mind. She's got to be bored just bringing people in and letting people out.

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Wish they'd set her up with a TV then. Let her veg out to every season of "Friends" or somethin'.

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[helpline]

Nah, forget about Friends. Let's put on a soap! Eastenders has been on for decades, put that on instead!

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[shifting]

Then when she runs out we can just put on the Spanish version.

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[helpline]

Telemundos for all!

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'Cept probably that's all we are to her in the end anyway.

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I'd beg to differ! There's not enough surprise pregnancies or long lost twins for us to be a proper telemundo.

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I don't know about that. There's a woman here who looks exactly like my girlfriend back home.

[helpline]

Oh, that's explainable. I look like an ancient Roman citizen and I've met a woman in the 2000s who looks exactly like a woman in the 1800s. Sharing faces is really nothing to worry about.

[shifting]

It's somethin' of a big deal to people who don't live that long.

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I don't live that long. [ this is a damn lie ] I time travel.

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Even weirder.

[helpline]

Scuze you! It's hardly weird.

[shifting]

It's literally a sci-first movie. Not really one of the good ones, either.

[helpline]

Back to the Future.

[ good sci-fi movie that uses time travel so THERE. ]

[shifting]

...All right, one.

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Back to the Future Two.

[shifting]

I know a lot of people liked it, but I can't rightly count that one on the list, sorry.

[helpline]

What?! The hoverboards were wonderful!

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It all felt too cheesy.

[helpline]

You take that back.

[ says the person from a show that's literally used weaponized belief to defeat the bad guy a couple of times. ]

[shifting]

Sorry.

[helpline]

Don't know if we'd be able to keep having this conversation if you've got such bad opinions like this.