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[The post opens on the video setting, with a curious-looking rather pointy-nosed sandy-haired man in Victorian garb looking at the console. He adjusts his cravat slightly.]
I believe this is the 'video' setting? And you all can see me? This really is marvelous, you know—or perhaps you don't, if you're used to it-
[He then abruptly switches to the audio setting, his voice gaining a shading of amusement.]
And I can certainly see the advantages of being heard, but not seen. How thoughtful of our hosts.
[Then the audio cuts off too, his fascination with this new technology overwhelming his usual good manners.]
And this, of course, is text. Most similar to what I'm used to, though this letter arrangement does not seem to be the most efficient. Are we capable of changing this? I'm sure there's a better arrangement for these.
qwertyuiop
That makes very little sense.
I believe this is the 'video' setting? And you all can see me? This really is marvelous, you know—or perhaps you don't, if you're used to it-
[He then abruptly switches to the audio setting, his voice gaining a shading of amusement.]
And I can certainly see the advantages of being heard, but not seen. How thoughtful of our hosts.
[Then the audio cuts off too, his fascination with this new technology overwhelming his usual good manners.]
And this, of course, is text. Most similar to what I'm used to, though this letter arrangement does not seem to be the most efficient. Are we capable of changing this? I'm sure there's a better arrangement for these.
qwertyuiop
That makes very little sense.
[video]
These communication devices are quite wonderful, are they not? It is like the speaker's corner at Hyde Park, but without the risk of rain. And with a rather better class of people, I believe.
How do you do? Lord Henry Wotton, at your service.
[video]
I should hope so. I don't generally find much of value in the speeches made in speaker's corner. People here, however, have been quite fascinating.
[He bows correctly.] A pleasure, my lord. I am Professor Randolph Lyall.
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I'm glad to see other gentlemen of my time here, my lord. Am I right in guessing that you hail from the 19th century as well?
[video]
I am sure you have no shortage of subjects in England. And yes, before I arrived here it was the year eighteen-eighty-[something].
[video]
Yes, I have my own flock to experiment on. The wolf herding the sheep, you might say.
[Ah!] Some years before me, then. I hail from 1873.
[video]
I confess I detect nothing particularly vulpine about your demeanour, Professor.
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But in any case, I am a wolf, and thus many see my sheep as ironic or humourous in some way. [It's not. He's very serious about sheep.]
[video]
You refer to your—ah—wolfishness quite literally, sir.
[It's spoken as a statement but meant as a question.
and that should have been "lupine"; dammit; pretend it was][video]
[He bows again, as if introducing himself for a second time.
and no worries, he really is both][video]
I should have expected something like that to be a greater secret.
[video]
[He says this as though he has no idea why anyone would think it was strange. He might be trolling, just a bit.]
[video]
Forgive my astonishment. This is quite the first I've heard of werewolves in the 1870s.
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I must conclude that your nineteenth-century England and mine are rather different, Professor. I cannot claim to fully understand it, but it seems that a world may exist in different variations—sharing many characteristics in common, but in other respects very different.
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