When: Friday night, August 26
Where: Coming into town along Main Street
Who: Carrot Ironfoundersson & OPEN
What: Someone's about to be very, very, very confused
Rating: Depends on who finds him! For Carrot's part, probably no higher than G
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If you could kindly direct me to the Hubwards Gate... )
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Nearly as surprising was that Carrot didn't recognize the person. He knew nearly everyone in the City on sight, and he surely wouldn't have forgotten this... man? Based on the voice, he guessed male, although he didn't want to inadvertently cause offense. Female dwarfs were indistinguishable from male dwarfs most of the time.
The other thing he noticed about the voice was that the accent wasn't Morporkian. He wasn't entirely sure where that accent was from ( ... )
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"The Century of the Anchovy," the young man replied, politely refraining from adding 'of course'. Perhaps Abraham, being foreign, used a different calendar, but the centuries were marked the same Disc-wide. "This is the standard Watch uniform." His brow furrowed. "What situation is this, that you're saying I've found myself in? Is this not Ankh-Morpork ( ... )
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"I shall try to answer them all to the best of my ability. I'm afraid even those who have been here quite a while still do not possess all of the answers to the secrets the town has," Abe said.
"I'm afraid that might not be advisable, no. But I have no qualms against your trying. Though I do insist that you sit down and eat, first. I am very interested in where you came from," Abe said coming next to him and putting a hand softly on his shoulder as a guide. "I suppose a name to this town would help? You're now on Aternaville. I don't suppose you've heard of a place called Canada?" He subtly led the increasingly intriguing man toward the diner.
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A very, very different leg, if years weren't even reckoned the same. "B.C...." he repeated, slowly, letting all this sink in. "As in... Borogravian Calendar? Only I think they share their calendar with Überwald. All part of the former Dark Empire, you know." He was just sort of letting his mouth go at this point. Reciting interesting (to him, anyway) trivia about various cities and cultures came easily to Carrot, even while his brain was busy puzzling over his current situation, which almost undoubtedly had nothing to do with Borogravia ( ... )
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"A full astronomical year is the time it takes for the Disc to complete one full rotation," Carrot said slowly. Maybe Abraham had misspoken again. Carrot wanted to make sure they were clear. "A half-year is the length of a single orbit of the sun around the Disc. That's the reason most people prefer it. Only four seasons, only four hundred days." For some reason, the throwaway world revolving around the sun comment was more upsetting than anything Abe had said so far. Because... well, it was the world. Religions were one thing, but you couldn't just go around changing how the world worked.
After that, the explanation about the light seemed like nothing. It sounded sort of alchemical, without (he hoped) the explosions. "Harnessing lightning in small glass enclosures, and you say it isn't magic?" he murmured, not really expecting an answer, as he shifted his sword awkwardly to allow him to slide into the booth.
The material of the bench was strange. The material of the table was strange. The material of the floor was ( ... )
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Even more disconcerting was Captain Ironfoundersson's disgruntled reply to electricity. Abe felt Carrot's discontentment from across the table. He was treading on very unsteady floors here. He suddenly found himself in a position where he could likely shake Carrot's concept of reality as he'd known it.
"Sure thing," the waitress replied with a smirk ( ... )
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He listened carefully to Abe's explanation, sensing that Abe, too, was trying to make sure they were clear. And there were other worlds. Carrot knew there were other worlds. He'd just never expected to find himself on one.
"A round world." His voice was quiet and thoughtful. "A... round world. The wizards at the University sometimes mention a world like that. I had the impression it was something they'd created in the High Energy Magic Building. A project they used to drain off some of the extra magic buildup. A fully operational Roundworld, they said. I never knew much more about it." Was that where he was? Transported into the wizards' experiment ( ... )
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He took a breath and clenched and unclenched his fists, embarrassed at implying that Carrot's view of his world could be anything but true. Now was not to time to shake foundations of his own reality of where he originated ( ... )
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The numbers Abe was offering clanged awkwardly in his head. The trouble was, not one of those numbers was a multiple of eight. How could one have an ordered world if it wasn't begun on a common base? Where did one get all these numbers? They seemed so arbitrary ( ... )
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