Trial 001 [Radio, audio only] [Public]

[portal_refugee]

I'll admit, you've got one interesting place here.

[The voice belongs to a young woman, and sounds to be in her early to mid-twenties. A bit tired perhaps, but whatever stress she feels is being carefully restrained as she begins her plea for information - with an introduction naturally.] As practiced as that orientation is at the Welcome Center, I take it everyone is rather used to newcomers. So, hi. Name's Abigail, and I'm from a city called San Fransokyo.

[There's a pause that follows, but the hesitation is shaken off as she proceeds to her point.]

Just walking into the city in the first place showed me a lot. And keeping an open mind, the whole Great Turtle is begging a lot of questions, but I have one thing I would like to confirm.

For lack of a better way to say it, did time really stop back where we came from? Has anyone been able to verify it somehow? I ask because I transitioned here at a really...inopportune moment.

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[androit]

Oh yeah. They're civilized, seem to understand our situation more than I do. Apparently they've caught some broadcasts and things all the way out here if I heard right.

[portal_refugee]

Does that include the radio broadcasts, or only those from the consoles?

[Please tell her she did not just advertise herself to an entire second city as well.]

[androit]

I... think just from the consoles? Sounded like the radios they hand out at the Welcome Center are supposed to be for us interlopers only.

[portal_refugee]

[Thank Guglielmo Marconi!] Hadn't seen an antennae tall enough for such a distant broadcast, not to mention the challenge of broadcasting into a mountain, but I am not in a position to assume anything today. Even if they did mention the radio is for people that weren't from here.

[Then she shares an amusing observation.] Science fiction as I know it rarely pictured aliens like this. Completely lost and confused.

[androit]

See, now you're bringing logic into it and I'm not sure how smart that actually is.

It'd make for a pretty refreshing movie, but it isn't so fun from the inside.