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[homomachinis]

You know what people are supposed to say when they wake up in some ass-backwards location with no fucking clue where they are? I’m sure it has something to do with asking if this is a kidnapping, but it doesn’t seem like I’m the only one here, does it? At least according to, [ he stops for a moment, as if he's listening to something ] the

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[kingofrooks]

I have a pretty good idea you don't mean the NV.

voice;

[homomachinis]

No, I definitely don't mean that.

voice;

[kingofrooks]

I figured, mainly because you don't sound like you come from a couple of centuries past.

You know, it's a damn good question. Where the Core came from.

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[homomachinis]

One that's been asked before, I take it? A lot?

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[kingofrooks]

No.

I think you're the first one who asked it publicly. As far as I know.

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[homomachinis]

Oh. Well, it doesn't seem like that line of questioning goes very far, does it?

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[kingofrooks]

It doesn't go at all. [ Dryly. ]

I've got a better line of questioning. How did you find out about it so fast?

voice;

[homomachinis]

[ UH CRAP. ]

Beginners luck, I suppose. It's always some kind of machine, or gateway, or something in the sci-fi shit.

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[kingofrooks]

Uh huh. Right.

What's your name anyway?

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[homomachinis]

Mitchell Hundred. Who're you?

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[kingofrooks]

Bruce Wayne.

I work for the police department, so you don't have to sound that sharp.

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[homomachinis]

[ a moment. A soft chuff of a laugh. Heh, first a Harry Osborn, and now a Bruce Wayne? What's next? ]

That's ironic. I bet you had a rough time in high school, huh?

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[kingofrooks]

Comic books, movies, or TV series?

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[homomachinis]

[ WHAT... Oh he has that dreadful feeling building up in his stomach. ]

The fuck kind of a question is that? [ a slight pause. ] Shit this better not be an excuse to pick the nerd out. All of them?

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[kingofrooks]

Check back the news posts for the last couple of weeks. I'll give you time.

[ BATMAN EXISTS. ]

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[homomachinis]

[ This comes in like thirty minutes later. He's managed to level his voice, because this is psychotic break levels of weird here, but it's on the verge of breaking. ]

Ah.

Well that--

You're fucking serious!?