mingle bingle

[psynchroneyes]

WHO: you!!!1
WHERE: everywhere ever
WHEN: Day 80

[ general mingle where I am too lazy to swap accounts everyone go nuts ]

Comments

[psynchroneyes]

True—all the monarchies and stuff were over there. I didn't know that, actually! Buuut it means I did make a good choice.

[manwhofelltoearth]

So you did, miss Spinel.

I’d better at least try to match that. High standards! My boss would be irritated if I didn’t make a respectable showing of myself, in any case.

[psynchroneyes]

Hah, do they care about appearances that much?

[manwhofelltoearth]

Something like that. Very much about the dignity of the department -- and she's right to be, I suppose! Church public relations can be serious business.

[psynchroneyes]

Huh. I don't really know too much about that... I think you'd be the first priest I've personally met.

[manwhofelltoearth]

Catholic church not a big thing where you're from, I take it?

[psynchroneyes]

It's around, but not really—Shintoism is more prevalent.

[manwhofelltoearth]

That's...

[a wry little twist of his mouth]

Y'know, I think that one doesn't exist where I'm from, anymore.

[psynchroneyes]

For real? How do you wipe out a whole religion?

[manwhofelltoearth]

Well.

Most continents got wiped out in the Great Disaster, a long time ago. Europe and the Mediterranean basin remained populated and habitable, but the rest is nuclear wasteland, even to this day. A lot of things from before then were just...lost.

[psynchroneyes]

Oh. Oh, jeez. Okay, that—I get it.

[manwhofelltoearth]

Yeah…

It’s pretty ancient history, but that’s why my world would probably come off pretty differently from a whole Earth.

[psynchroneyes]

I bet. The whole world's still there where I'm from, so I can't even imagine what it's like. Is most of it still uninhabitable?

[manwhofelltoearth]

Yeah. Blasted glass and desert, or mutant detritus, as far as I know. Whatever got used on those places was pretty nasty.

It was lucky anywhere stayed intact, really. Europe still got hit, but it was a hit survivors could bounce back from, eventually.

[psynchroneyes]

Damn... Talk about lucky. That must be rough.

[manwhofelltoearth]

Mm. It’d be nice if it calmed down enough so we could rediscover everything that got buried, but it’s not gonna happen in my lifetime, ha.

Sorry for the sudden downturn.

[psynchroneyes]

Naaah.

[ She waves a hand dismissively. ]

Good or bad, I think it's worth knowing the kind of place a person comes from.