[17: video]

[paper_knight]

Mark stands facing the camera, deliberately filming himself. It isn't something he's terribly comfortable with, but he's guessed that he's more approachable this way than as a disembodied voice on the radio. There's a world map tacked to his wall, a box of pins and a ball of yarn at the ready on his desk. He clears his throat and begins, a little

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[calculatedfire]

The Lost Ground; formally the Kanagawa prefecture.

[paper_knight]

"That's...Japan. All right."

He runs to the closet to fetch a more specific map, and, consulting it, sticks a pin in the proper area.

"What year?"

[calculatedfire]

2013.

[paper_knight]

"Thank you. What happened to make it the Lost Ground?"

[alwaysaboom]

I'm originally from St.Petersburg, but I was taken from my ship near Io.

[paper_knight]

"Near Io? How far in the...how far in my future is that?"

[alwaysaboom]

I don't know what year you are from, but it was 2261.

[paper_knight]

"Incredible. I'm from 1969. There's been talk about going to the moon, but..."

He shakes his head.

"If my friend Phil could meet you..."

[shocknshootout]

Born in London, but have lived in LA for about ten years now.

[paper_knight]

Pins on the map for LA and London.

"And when did the Mansion take you from? What year?"

[shocknshootout]

2009.

[paper_knight]

"Noted! Thank you--I have a hunch that's an important decade."

He's heard 2009 and 2010 casually tossed around quite a bit--he just hadn't officially noted it yet.

[notursalvation]

May I ask why you're asking?

[paper_knight]

"I'm searching for patterns--who the Mansion takes, from where and when. After this I'll look into how long everyone's been here. Try to pin down how long this place has existed, if I can."

[notursalvation]

I see. Well, then, I came from Tokyo, Japan, from a place called Deadman Wonderland. Ah...in the year 2014.

[paper_knight]

"Thank you."

Busily pinning and noting the date.

"Have we spoken before?"

[playingbadcop]

[Sigh.]

California, San Francisco, '69. 'Round the same time as you, I guess.

I can't pinpoint the street name or nothin', I was drunk.

[paper_knight]

"Thank you. That's plenty thorough."

And two pins go on the map for Benny, as well as a length of yarn connecting San Francisco and Rapture.

[playingbadcop]

"What's it goin' out into the ocean for? I never went there."

[paper_knight]

"People who are connected."

And up goes another length of yarn back from Rapture to New York City.

"Even without the whole business of Rapture, we were taken from the same year. The same month, even."