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[Video] Tuesday: Week 71

[Hi network, remember this guy? Well he’s back. Again. He’s a combination of embarrassed and nervous about the whole situation, but what else is new? He has some lingering bruises from being trapped by rubble, but is otherwise all right.]

Well this is a little bit awkward. Third time’s a charm, I guess? Though this time wasn't exactly like the others...I haven’t been in a pod. [He pauses for a minute, fiddling with his hands out of habit.]

I don’t know how many of you I know are still here, but I hope I can be of some use to you all, regardless. Particularly if you haven’t gotten the ship up and running yet; I remember that being an issue. And if there’s any chance I can still help out at the hospital, I wouldn’t mind multitasking.

...Thanks, by the way, to those of you who helped me get out of the ship. I appreciate it.

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[That's a pleasant surprise, then! Lyall is perfectly happy to be remembered. Perhaps not much happened in the interim.]

Well enough. Life has been rather up and down since you vanished last. Where were you, precisely, anyhow? If you weren't in a pod, as you say.

It's...hard to explain. I was...lost, you might say. I'm not sure if I was in an alternate reality, or maybe between realities, as Kaylee suggested. There was a large, blasted wasteland, that extended from up near the quarantine line to down near the port, maybe 10 miles wide. The sky was full of lightning storms, dust and ash.

I was never sure how much time had passed, while I was there. And I was alone. I could catch glimpses of people, but... [That was the most unnerving part, as much as he tried to push people away in the past.]

Well, that sounds unpleasant. Also a bit familiar. Wasn't that what the far future was supposed to look like, when we all split up and landed in different time periods?

[He's heard descriptions by now of pretty much every time period. And he's really not sure if Bruce got to experience that fun event... a number of people vanished around that time, Bruce among them.]

I don't know...I was only around for the aftermath of that. But it seemed to me that something very large had impacted the planet.

It may be related. I missed that part, I'm afraid-- or I suppose I ought to say I missed that part thankfully, from all accounts it was terrible. But all I know if it is second and, mostly, third-hand. If you can find someone to compare it with who had actually been there, it might be useful to see if it really was the same timeframe.

That's a good idea...though I wonder if time has anything to do with it at all. We might be looking at this entirely the wrong way.

The other option would be alternate reality. We've had to deal with aberrations in both, since you've been gone, so either is admittedly likely. I tend to think it more associated with a time distortion than an alternate reality distortion, in this case, considering what others have experienced, but I'm happy to entertain evidence to the contrary.

There is also the possibility that it could be both, I think. Time and reality distorting in the same instance. But it's impossible to know for sure, unless we can come up with some way to test it.

Why not ask Salvation? She may have more idea of what exactly went on with you than any of us. She keeps track of various timelines, I've gathered, not just this one, and her own engines are apparently temporal in nature.

Kaylee was just telling me about Salvation's AI; there are a lot of things I want to ask her. I wonder what the spaceship version of having tea is?

Her versions of edible substances are rather disgusting. But as she doesn't eat, I imagine that doesn't bother her any. She's happy to answer questions in general, though, if you can catch her somewhere on board.

I can imagine. I'll definitely be on the lookout for her.

She's easy to find, though perhaps less easy with the ship in tatters at the moment... look for a tall woman who looks a bit like a birch tree.

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