➤ one;

[flyawaysage]

[Waking up was not something Harpuia expected to do.

He could not be a Cyber-Elf; his body was corporeal. That meant he was alive, somehow. He could not have survived the explosion intact; he had been at the epicenter of the blast. Possibility: his control chip had been miraculously undamaged, and somebody had recovered it and transplanted it into a

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[tsundorapettan]

Theme park? Never heard that one before.

[flyawaysage]

It was the most reasonable explanation I could think of. From a practical standpoint, it makes no sense to create a place so dependent on inferior technology. This place must therefore exist for some other reason -- profit or entertainment, presumably.

[tsundorapettan]

They are 'bout twenty years behind on technology, if this is supposed to be a fifties town... heh, it even makes less sense to trap a bunch of people in it and force 'em into family roles! Buuuut, really, at this point I've given up on tryin' to make any sense of this place.

[flyawaysage]

Twenty... then you're still from the twentieth century?

[tsundorapettan]

...Huh?- [ oh wait there are people from the viking times here. there are probably people from the future here too :| ] Oh, yeah. It's 1986 in my world. [ feels so weird saying that ] Take it you're from the future?

[flyawaysage]

You could say that. I come from the twenty-fourth century.

My original theory was that I had awakened far into the future, in truth. I never believed that time-travel was possible.

[tsundorapettan]

Yeah, well, you're gonna haveta start believin' in a lot of things ya probably never did before! That includes stuff like magic and time-travel.

[flyawaysage]

Magic.

[There's disbelief written all over his voice. Okay, robots turning human he can accept. Time travel, there's probably some sort of reasonable explanation. Dungeons and Dragons? Fat chance.]

[tsundorapettan]

Yep! Magic.

[flyawaysage]

I find that hard to believe.

[tsundorapettan]

Hey, I hear ya. I didn't believe in it at all 'till I came here either.

That typo never existed.

[flyawaysage]

"Magic" is simply a word for a phenomenon science has yet to explain. There are things in my time that may have seemed utterly miraculous in yours, but are grounded entirely in reality.

typo? what typo?

[tsundorapettan]

U-huuuh. Let's see if you still think that when you witness magic first-hand~

No typos here nope nuh-uh no way

[flyawaysage]

From a twentieth-century perspective, I already have. Dolls that think for themselves, beings that control the very elements, creatures comprised purely of energy... one would think those would be magical in nature, don't you think?

[tsundorapettan]

...And you still don't believe? Pretty stubborn, arentcha.

[flyawaysage]

Of course not. Every last one of those things has mundane, rational roots. We reploids are no more magical than the telephone you're speaking into.