First Lecture -- Audio

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

This is Zelretch's fault, I'm certain of it.

My name is Lord El-Melloi II, and I would appreciate it if someone would inform me of where the hell I am right now.  And don't tell me 'in America', because I already gathered that.  I'm looking for information that's a little more specific.

[The voice that comes over the phone was calm and coolly confident; the voice of a man who has grown used to being listen to and obeyed, with undertones of 'it's been a very long day and it's only going to get longer' and 'this is shit only I would have to deal with'.  It is the tone of a patient man, but of one who it patient not because he has some kind of predisposition towards being long-suffering, but simply because it is the only manner of preserving his sanity.  It also doesn't sound like this is the first time he'd shown up in a strange new place before.]

[Shit always happens to him.  He has long since accepted this fact, but that didn't mean that he had to like it.]

I am a very busy man, and I can already tell that I'm going to be wasting more time that I can afford to getting back to where I need to be.  I swear to God, if my research gets set back because of this...

[Priorities, clearly he has them.]

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[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

I see. Thank you for the information, regardless.

[pause]

It's unusual that you gave me the year as well. Is there some reason that you would think that I wouldn't know what year it was?

[want-a-vacation.livejournal.com]

Ah, people come here from different universes, which might not all be at the same point in time. I'm from the 48th century TC, for example.

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

[That

sounds like a headache, actually.]

TC? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that abbreviation.

[want-a-vacation.livejournal.com]

*That about sums it up from Allen's perspective, too.*

Transcend Christ. It started around the mid-21st century AD.

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Something very significant must have happened in your world to justify such a change to the calendar.

[want-a-vacation.livejournal.com]

Does developing interplanetary travel and colonizing the rest of the galaxy count?

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

...Yes, I should think so.

[want-a-vacation.livejournal.com]

Well, that's what happened. Actually, the planet we're on now is supposed to be lost. Where I'm from, some people aren't even sure it still exists.

Ah, but I'm guessing you're from about the same year we're supposedly in right now?

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

I would think that it would be quite difficult to lose an entire planet.

Yes, approximately. Give or take a few years. Nothing seems to be vastly different from what I'm used to.