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[nightlord_3045]

[Imperial]
Well, this is rather pointless, isn't it? Strange, when, from what I can gather, this place has shown itself able to do far worse in the past. Unless perhaps they're planning something for those who don't speak English? The drones do seem rather suspicious of the non-English speakers... and this is supposed to be the decade right after

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[skokie_quartet]

...you didn't speak English before?

[nightlord_3045]

Not as my first language, no.

[skokie_quartet]

But...I understood you just fine. You...

[He cuts himself abruptly short, pinching the bridge of his nose and closing his eyes.]

God, this fucking place. You think they're fucking with us?

[nightlord_3045]

[A slow blink on this end, then he sighs and rubs his forehead with the butt of his hand.]

Yeah, seems likely. Since apparently this has hit everyone not a drone.

[skokie_quartet]

Divide and conquer. Get us arguing with each other so much we don't notice what they don't want us to notice. Misdirection. Like a good game of three-card monte.

[He presses his lips together, his eyes suddenly cold and calculating.]

So the question is...what don't they want us to see?

sorry for the delay, RL ate me.

[nightlord_3045]

[Ion thinks on this, nibbling on his thumbnail unconsciously. After a moment, he brings his hand away from his mouth.]

The preparations for their next little surprise, whatever it is.

No worries! ^^

[skokie_quartet]

[Verbal takes his turn to ponder this, and after a moment shakes his head. His voice is still that same quiet near-monotone, but there's tension in his jaw and rage behind his eyes. How dare they do this. to me.]

I dunno. I think maybe it's bigger than that. Like...the surprises are the distraction, right? Maybe it's just keeping us off balance so we can't figure out how to get back.

^_^

[nightlord_3045]

Maybe.

[There's a pause as Ion tries to figure out how to articulate his thoughts in English.]

But... they might also be "culling" us somehow. Trying to get rid, somehow, of the ones who don't speak English? This is supposed to be America in the decade after the second great war, and they didn't much like foreigners then, did they?

[skokie_quartet]

...Maybe. [And it's clear that this is not an idea Verbal is happy with at all.] I don't know if it's a language thing though. I heard there was some kinda plague right before I got here. Didn't seem to care what language people spoke.

[nightlord_3045]

[It's pretty clear Ion doesn't like it, either.]

No, but that may have been a test of some kind, and this is another. We have no real way of knowing. [brief pause] I hope I'm wrong, though.