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[neverendingbeat]

[Video opens on...little boy, maybe around eleven or twelve, sitting in the Master's flat if anyone's inclined to recognise it. He's dressed in a black sort of suit thing and he's not very amused at all. When he speaks, it's in extremely proper English, Received Pronunciation. He's trying to seem very important and cross but it's coming across more

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[sword_boy]

...Master Saxon?

Having fun with the curses I see~?

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"Master Saxon"? Who's that meant to be?

Curse, though...you must be from a primitive species. Or perhaps you mean it figuratively. Tell me where I am.

[sword_boy]

It's a couple of names you've used while you were in the City.

No, not primitive. The Worm are fairly advanced... The City has curses which basically alter reality and/or time-space. You've... de-aged I presume. You appeared to be an middle-aged man... maybe in his 30's or 40's prior to today.

Oh... right. This is the City~!

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That's only one name, with an honorific.

You're referring to whatever it is as a curse and I'm meant to believe you're from an advanced species? Hardly. I suppose you could just be mad. That accounts for your confusion. You don't know me. You've mistaken me for someone else. I'm Koschei. Or Master Koschei if you must. 30's or 40's isn't middle-aged unless you're really very primitive.

Some form of codename, I expect?

[sword_boy]

I'm Japanese, I know my honorifics. I would have referred to you as Master Saxon-san... or -chan in this case. I just don't think it's proper to refer to a child as "The Master" so I referred to you in combination with another name you used as well, Harold Saxon.

I'm not confused... I said curses can warp reality and space-time. Although I never heard you refer to yourself as "Koschei". I'll keep that in mind for later. Oh, and I'm not mad... I'm dead. Big difference~!

Nope, that's the name. All the residents agree that it's not the most inventive, but that's what it has been established as.

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"The Master"... 'Master' is an honorific. I haven't bothered to learn all that much about...it's Earth, isn't it? But that would be Mister Master Saxon all translated into the same Earth language, or else Master Master Saxon. Quite silly. And only further proof that you're from an awfully primitive planet.

Then "curse" is the colloquial name for it. It's not literally a curse. You're mistaken. And one can be both mad and dead, you know. You've never heard me refer to myself as Koschei because you've never met me. Really, I had no idea primitive planets had natives with such low intelligence.