exsilium | 001 | [audio]

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001 | [audio]

[The audio feed turns on. After a few moments of silence, the voice that comes through is soft and hesitant but clear.]

...I think I'm supposed to use this. But I...

[one hefty pause later]

I don't know why I'm here. Is that strange?

[one much shorter pause later]

And... what are "marques"?

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[The most helpful.] Oh, you know how it is. Some guys in the future can't beat jerks on their own so they start kidnapping people from other worlds and times and trying to make them fight 'cause they're also jerks. [NO BIGGIE]

... Huh? What's the matter?

Edited 2012-08-26 05:15 (UTC)

[DOES NOT COMPUTE] This is... the future?

It's just... I've never used money before.

Yep! We've got fancy and tech and future tea and everything.

[Wait, what]

How is that possible?!

...And we've been brought here to fight. [He was able to gather that much from the introduction, at least.

oops looks like not using money is Not Normal]

...

Yeah! But um, we don't have to. They're not making us. [Yet]

[WHAT'S WITH THE SILENCE]

[MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT'S WITH THE NEVER HAVING USED MONEY BEFORE...]

Edited 2012-08-26 06:58 (UTC)

[Is he too poor to have used money? Does he come from some crazy world where people trade rocks and things instead? Did someone else just handle his finances?

.... Is he a robot?

... An alien?!]