011 Resolutions

[kinships]

[A: Action; Locked to Housemates]

[Cain is in the front room, carefully taking down the Christmas decorations. He's got a wide smile on his face, even if there's a slightly wistful look in his eyes as he winds up tinsel and packs away baubles.]

[B: Around Town (Open)]

[On the way to the store this morning, Cain was enjoying the crisp weather now

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[answerer_sword]

[Bazett had gone inside her house to get a drink when the window was smashed from behind her. She throws open the door, ready to punch whoever did it. She is greeted with the sight of a little boy looking horrified.]

Did you do this?

[kinships]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.

[So many cultures here he knows nothing about, it's quite unnerving for someone as used to being culturally savvy as Cain.]

[answerer_sword]

N-no, it is no offense at all. After all, it can be quite tricky trying to understand a foreign culture.

[She herself has a few problems with trying to understand the boy's attitude toward silverware and such.]

[kinships]

Which country are you from back home, may I ask?

[answerer_sword]

[A simple question, but when applied to a person like Bazett, it soon became very complicated. In terms of ancestry, she was Irish, though there might have been one or two Ulster Scots caught up in the family tree. In terms of nationality, or what was written on her passport, she was British. In the end, it was a matter of seeing the United Kingdom as several segregated countries, or one united country.]

...North Ireland, a component state of the United Kingdom.

[kinships]

My brother is British!

...though I've never heard anything about silverware traditions.

[answerer_sword]

Well, perhaps it is a difference in time period then...

[This is not much of a surprise, as Mayfield could pull in beings from several different times.]

And there are regional differences in Britain as well. A person from Scotland would have different cultural habits than one from England.

[kinships]

Oh yes, I'm aware of that. And even England itself has vastly different traditions throughout its various counties.

May I ask what time you're from, then?

[answerer_sword]

I am from the year 2000AD.

[kinships]

At least you're not from too far from this time then, right?

[answerer_sword]

Yes, but even so, some things are very confusing.

[Such as all the technology that she cannot use.]

Are you very far removed from this time?

[kinships]

Over a hundred years, it's quite a long time in the past.

[answerer_sword]

How has human technology progressed since your time?

[She wants to ask about magecraft too, but she doubts the boy would know anything about that if it existed in his universe.]

[kinships]

[They've landed on Mars and started a full-blown colonization project...]

I guess it's advanced like any other field has, it's always changing.

[answerer_sword]

Does your world rely purely on technology, or are there other forces at work as well? Magic, for example?

[kinships]

Ah... no, it's just technology, though I have heard of worlds with magic here before.