exsilium | o1 ✍ sharpe's introduction ✍ voice + video

voice;

Money in cards and saying me rifle’s been changed.

[ Except that’s not actually how he says it, it’s more like: munneh in cards and sayin’ me rifle’s been changed. Sheffield, Yorkshire haunts the streets of Exsilium now, thanks to one Richard Sharpe. ]

The only cards I know of are those given by weasely merchants looking ta fleece more money out of you. But you ain’t asking for money, are you? Yer asking me to fight with me blood and sweat, and you ain’t even decent enough to give me a half-ration of rum, or even a proper King’s shilling.

[ Thud. The sound of rifle on stone ground. There’s a soft shuffling sound and tapping of fingers on the screen of the tablet. The video switches on. ]

video;

Me name’s Richard Sharpe. [ Blond hair, green eyes, a scar on his upper left cheek. His lips are twisted into a scowl, and at the edge of the screen, you can see the edge of his Rifleman’s jacket. Have a picture.

If you met him during the masquerade, he's a lot cleaner now. Face-wise anyway. You can actually see what he looks like underneath the layers of dirt, and his hair isn't just a layer of dust anymore. ]

If yer name's Patrick Harper, I suggest you get yer arse over here before I shoot it off you.

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If you do not like the card, then you can take it to their money changers and they will exchange it for coins you can carry. Mind, the English shilling has long gone out of use and we have a different system in place here.

As for drink, that is easily fixable as well.

No more old King George's face starin' up at us. [ A soft chuckle. ] What do they have, eh?

They call them marques. I don't use them much myself but only because it is easier to carry the cards than it is the coins.

You know ta trust numbers on a screen?

In my time, such things were common.

Aye, that is?

The year 2008 and I come from Tokyo, Japan.

[ Slooooow blinks. ]

Where's that?

[ Look it's not near India he doesn't know Asia very well okay. ]

Japan is in the Pacific Ocean on the other side of China. A small island nation with a very diverse population.

That'd help if I know where China is. [ Beat, then a little defensively: ] I ain't a sailor, or a merchant.

Let me see... China is on the other side of India, below the mass of the Russian states, and we are past China. [ a slight laugh. ] I forget that at one time the world was considered too large for traveling save for merchants or sailors.

[ Other side of India. Now he gets it. But something Takagami said make him even more curious: ]

Yeah? How do you travel, in yer time?

Airplanes, ships that can cross the oceans in a few weeks, cars, trains, and we communicate through telephones and the internet.

More words I don't know. [ He chuckles at that. ]

Must be frustrating, aye? Ta be trapped in this place without such things.

It does not bother me that much. The car I do miss, but not so much the other things.