[handset | video] one love, one life (backdated to 3/5 or so)

[edgeoftheknife]

[The video flips on to show Erskine, gorgeous as always, and actually not looking dog-tired for once! In fact, he's smiling. This is possibly the happiest Erskine has looked on the network while sober.

...which probably has to do with the attractive redhead hovering in the background. Those who've seen Erskine's echo stone will recognize Hopeless. Those who haven't might recognize the man Erskine's been attached at the hip to for the last couple of weeks.]

Right, hello everyone. So, Hopeless had a question--

[The redhead in the background scoffs gently.]

Alright, we had a question. How old are all you Foreigners out there? We're interested in age demographics. You can be vague if you like, and you don't have to answer of course.

And in the spirit of sharing, I... missed my last birthday. It was in February. Which I suppose makes me 409 now.

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[lasergrenades]

You already know I'm nineteen, but happy belated birthday! This calls for cake. Unless you like pie better, and then it calls for pie. Both come with ice cream.

[Pepper may be talking very, very fast, mostly because she's noticed whose baaaaack.]

Hopeless, since you're back and we haven't properly met, I'm Pepper, and I need to give you a hug, like, yesterday.

[purered]

I'm terribly sorry about missing your last birthday. Perhaps we can have a belated celebration?

Ah- in regards to your question. I'm thirty now.

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[denyamenti]

Twenty-four.

[ pause ]

More or less.

[ Not counting, you know, the three and a half millennia in the middle there. ]

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[isochrone]

Happy belated, Mr Ravel!

In regards to your question, I'm nineteen. Why are you interested in demographics?

[justno]

That's one hell of a lifespan. You a Magician?

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[ten_zero]

[ Okay, open video, where she's sharing personal info. She doesn't do this very often but... she has to open up some time, right? Age isn't a big deal... for most people? The fact that Erskine is starting off with being centuries old helps. ]

I don't actually... know. There was a great period of chaos after the Orokin Empire fell, and even something as simple as basic timelines are difficult to come by.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that I'm close to your age, chronologically. Although most of it was spent in cryostasis.

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[commandandcontrol]

Happy belated birthday, Erskine. And hello... your name is Hopeless? [ Look, it's a weird name. ]

I'm 19 myself.

[ Having read his response to Pepper about life expectancy... ] I imagine I'll live to about 90, if medical technology continues it's expected advances and I don't roll any particularly bad dice in the meantime.

409... I can't imagine what that's like, living so long.

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[schrodingersghost]

I think I'm still sixteen? I don't know, I kind of lost track of the calendar.

By the way, who are you?

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[spoilsfun]

Seven. I think I might be the youngest foreigner here still.

[backwordscompatible]

Nineteen. For another couple months, at least.

[Time really flies on the back of a giant turtle, doesn't it?]

Happy Belated. If you're looking for a good cake, I can probably recommend a place in town.

[unetrustworthy]

Why are you interested in our ages?

[There wasn't anything TOO suspicious about that. Not really. Not coming from a fellow foreigner, and one who had already given out his own age first. But curiosity came first.]

[looksfine]

Might I ask what range of intervals you utilize to determine age?

[Because that might affect her numerical answer.]

[dancermoves]

409? Wow.

[ Okay, so that wasn't any weirder than the rest of her life had gotten in the past few years. But most of the people claiming stuff like that hadn't turned out to be good guys, so she's a little wary. ]

So is that... normal, where you're from?

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[purrns]

Sixteen. I was fifteen when I came here, though.

[A pause. ]

Happy belated birthday, Monsieur.

[bostonhowler]

I'm 24. Soon to be 25.

[celticromanstone]

22, darling. Is there a reason for this?

[ 409? Pfft. Whippersnapper. ]

[shroudofgray]

I have had my first birthday.
[Even though she wasn't technically 'born'.]

I decided it would be the day I came here. I think I am about seventeen.