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[khajidont]

[ Good evening, Mask or Menace! Jaime's back, and while he doesn't look any older, he certainly looks tired and a little sour to boot, like someone just fed him a nintendo switch cartridge real bitter pill. It was a long month. ]

So, um... hey! I'm back. That was definitely the longest I've been ported out for, but I gotta ask: what happened while I was gone? Because I got back, and all of a sudden, like, half of the people I know are gone. Dick's gone, Tadashi's gone again, Fuu's gone, Sarissa's gone, so's my Mom...

Was this just the Porter, or what?

[ It probably is - people tend to leave in waves - but it's left him feeling a little shellshocked, and it's worth searching for answers at the very least. He raises a hand to rub at the back of his neck, playing a little with the hair at the nape. ]

Um, anyway. Good to see you guys who are still here. And for all the newbies, I'm Jaime. Nice to meet you.

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[darkpants_warmfeeling]

[Jacob chuckles again.]

That's a good point. A lot's happened for you the last few years, hasn't it? I hadn't thought about that.

[For Jacob, being an imPort has meant going from his late twenties to his early thirties. Which isn't half as big of a change as going from a teenager in high school to a working young adult.]

You've accomplished a lot, Jaime. I'm impressed.

[And that's all without him knowing he's a superhero on the side.]

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[khajidont]

Heh, thanks! It's all stuff I wanted to do back home, though. I mean, learning to drive? Graduating high school? That was always the plan. I'm not about to let a little universe jump stop me from doing that.

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[darkpants_warmfeeling]

Yeah, but back home you probably didn't have Russians and terrorists coming after you as often as here.

I mean, I hope you didn't.

[Jacob recalls hearing that Jaime's superhero-packed universe can be kind of wild. But being a regular civilian like him must not be the same as being a frequently-targeted imPort 'hero' here, right?]

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[khajidont]

Oh god, no. [ Alien attacks? Attacks by the pets of old, senile supervillains? More aliens? Robots? Check, check, check, and check. But terrorists that aren't extraterrestrial in nature don't make much of an appearance. ]

We got a few gangs, I guess? But that's about it. El Paso's pretty peaceful, compared to here. Compared to a lot of places where I'm from.

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[darkpants_warmfeeling]

Sounds like a good place to grow up. Peace can be hard to come by- in any universe.

But we have places like that here too, I suppose. Nonah doesn't get attacked that often, from what I know.

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[khajidont]

We could just go live in a non-imPort city, and everything would be fine, right? But it's not worth giving up the community for. I can't imagine not living around any other imPorts.

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[darkpants_warmfeeling]

Exactly. I'd miss the company too.

Besides, these are the only cities we get free houses in. That's a lot to give up, unless you've really made it big here.

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[khajidont]

After you've been around as long as us, it'd be easy. Go South, to where housing's cheap, make sure you got a job waiting for you... if you got skills, I bet you could even get someone to provide some temp lodging for you. But I think there's a bigger reason than finances that we all stick around here.

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[darkpants_warmfeeling]

You mean the free food at the Swear-Ins, right?

[Jacob smiles at his little joke for a moment.]

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[khajidont]

Ya caught me. Without those I'd starve, probably.