[Video + Action] | Sunday morning

[professorwolf]

[Lyall's showing his face again, this morning, before he heads off back to the Old City for the work-week. The background is the common room of the Flop, just inside. He clears his throat, almost as if he isn't entirely sure how to begin, but he manages well enough.]

I was thinking that some of us have lost track of our numbers. We keep appearing and disappearing, returning to pods or vanishing off on adventures. I was hoping that perhaps we could get a headcount.

[He holds up a clipboard.]

Or rather, I could, and I'd share it with the network as a whole, since I'm doing the work as it is. In a more electronic form, I assure you, this--

[He taps the clipboard, then sets it down again.]

--is just for myself. I am a bit old-fashioned still, I fear. If everyone still about could check in, I would appreciate it. I'm in the lobby of the Flop, if anyone would prefer to come calling rather than speak here. I'll be here until sundown, though I may be back after a day or two, as well.

Thank you, everyone.

[And he signs off, waiting for, he hopes, people to give him a buzz. He hopes. He's not too sure about all this, but he's giving it a shot.]

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[unofficial_ambassador]

Inara Serra, citizen of the Union of Allied Planets, twenty-five seventeen. It's a pleasure.

Do you remember what happened?

[professorwolf]

When I took my weeklong nap? I'm afraid not. I don't even remember leaving my apartment for the ship, though I must have, given I was not in wolf form nor at work when I did so.

[unofficial_ambassador]

In wolf form.

[Another of those things where it's probably best not to ask]

These disappearances are happening increasingly frequently, yet no one's witnessed one. It's interesting.

[professorwolf]

[Oops, she isn't aware of what he is. He'll fix that in a minute.]

Indeed. I'm not entirely certain I was missed at all, except at the office. And yet we all seem to notice when we come back out.

I suppose I ought to explain, my lady. I am a werewolf. I have complete control over myself at all times when in wolf form, of course, aside from the night of the full moon.

[unofficial_ambassador]

It seems that Earth is not much like I'd imagined.

[Honestly after the blue gentleman at the market and that strange blanket man, why not a person who can turn into a wolf at will? What even is Earth.]

[professorwolf]

My version of Earth seems to be quite different from those of others I have spoken with. So your Earth may not have had werewolves at all.

[Said with some sympathy. It's hard dealing with multiple universes, but it's something he's had to confront several times now.]

[unofficial_ambassador]

I suppose not.

Is the lunar cycle here identical to Earth's, then?

[professorwolf]

It is fairly close, actually, though there is an addition planet in close orbit which also affects me. It does not make me lose myself and try to hunt, but it does force me into wolf form.

[Which was really rather fascinating, to be honest.]

[unofficial_ambassador]

That's interesting. I wouldn't have expected gravitational pull to affect that sort of thing.

[professorwolf]

Technically, on Earth, it is theorized to be connected to the moon affecting the aether and the werewolf's limited bond to that. As I have no means of measuring aether, here, I cannot even make an educated guess. It must be here, or I would not be able to change at all, but its consistency and effects I cannot say with certainty. Apparently the planet does have some pull, as well.

[Hope you don't mind a minilecture, Inara.]

[unofficial_ambassador]

[It's a little bit much but she nods as if it makes sense anyway]

I see. I hope it's not too inconvenient for you here in the city.

[professorwolf]

I do better here than I did in London, in some ways. They actually have the means to confine a werewolf without silver, and though I do still miss my pack, I am not left without work to keep me busy.

[And new friends, but that's not quite the same as "pack".]

[unofficial_ambassador]

Yes, there's never a dull day around here.