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[epimethean]

1. I'm starting to think it might be a good idea to see what is or isn't going on in Las Vegas, if anyone wants to come. I'm not flying, so probably we'll drive, or go by train, or something. It's going to be terrible but I don't want to kick up a fuss at the airport. If you want to come, eighteen years old or with parental permission, please, let's all have some common sense.

2. Is there anyone at all good at...I don't know. Electrical rigging. Wiring. Plugs and adapters and things. Making plugs and adapters and things fit into sockets they wouldn't ordinarily fit into, I suppose.

3. Vaguely related to #2. What happens when you're starting to think you weren't exactly human? I mean. At least, not entirely. Jury's still out on that one.

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[moarnomsplz]

< Pretty sure by now that I'm not human. >

[His eyes crinkle with an ironic smile, because he deliberately morphed into all his blue-centaur-ness before replying.]

< Nah, kidding aside, it freaked me out when I first realized. I guess I've had time to get used to it? I mean, I'm still me, and I can still change back to human. >

[epimethean]

Yeah, that's, uh. Pretty not-human, I'd say. And that's good that you can--you can change back. If you want.

I was sort of thinking on the--on the more inorganic side of nonhuman, actually.

[moarnomsplz]

< Like a robot? 'cause you wouldn't be the only one. >

[epimethean]

Robot, cyborg, android, it's--it's still up in the air.

[moarnomsplz]

< I got clued in pretty quick with some of my first pulses. I think the more time you have to get used to the idea, the better off you are. >

[epimethean]

Yeah, see, I'm still--I mean, I'm sort of getting a better idea, now, but there's still an awful lot I'm not sure of.

[moarnomsplz]

< That's pretty standard for pulses. I've been getting mine for, like, almost a year, and I still just have bits and pieces about the guy this body really belongs to. It's pretty annoying. >

[epimethean]

Since September, for me. I've got a lot about the people and robots and things that--that other me knew, but not a whole lot about him.

[moarnomsplz]

< Yeah, I've mostly gotten, like, pieces of his body, but not his personality. I didn't even know his name for a while, and I still don't know what his kind of alien is called. >

< Was your guy with humans, or other... androids or whatever he is? >

[epimethean]

Oh, uh. Just one human. I'm not sure--for some reason I don't think there were any others? And there was a robot, too, so I guess it could go either way.

[moarnomsplz]

< I mostly remember other-me being with these human friends of his, is why I asked. Wait, do you think there weren't any other humans at all? >

[epimethean]

Yeah, I mean, it sort of--everything always looks a little post-apocalyptic, in my echoes.

[moarnomsplz]

< Oh, that sucks. I mean, I really know it sucks, I got a pulse like that, too. Yours didn't have mind-controlling slugs in it, did it? >

[epimethean]

Uh, no, not that--not that I've noticed, anyway.

[moarnomsplz]

< See, it could be worse. Or it could be bad differently, I guess. >

< Oh, right, I always forget. I'm Alex, hi. >

[epimethean]

Ah, sorry. It's, um. It's Wheatley.