savetheearth | voice; computer

According to a post titled FAQ three-point-oh, anything can be a pulse, or echo. Apparently concepts can also be echoes, like, say, a way to end the world. A world, anyway, because I believe the agenda here is to save the one we're on right now? Or at least keep unwanted conquerors off the metaphorical lawn.

[Yeah, someone's read through the FAQ and a bunch of other posts before making his own. But for someone who's just had his world turned around and has stumbled on something really strange, and apparently has just gotten info on how one can end the world, he sounds pretty casual about the whole mess.

Spoilers: he's just pretending to be casual. Good thing he hasn't turned on his webcam because he's frowning.]

Which obviously means something I had gained back then was likely a piece of knowledge from a previous life, and it's not my imagination running away from me. [And that's news to him. Consider his interest piqued, despite all his questions of what kind of person he was back then to know such things.]

Ah, where are my manners. Cam, at your service. Actual service... hmm, I suppose you can say some medical knowledge but without proper training is something.

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You believe in past lives? [he has to ask since he tends to call his other his past self despite the trappings of later technology]

Part of my upbringing. I have Buddhist relatives.

Same here. I follow a more Bushido lifestyle but still... the teachings stick.

Bushido, huh? That's noble. You have samurai ancestors?

There is one... He became a monk later in life, but most of my family is from the Ryukyu Islands.

[and as everyone knows, the Ryukyu islands were home to ghosts and cannibals and criminals traditionally.]

Nansei-shoto, really? [Cam's definitely heard of some of those stories, how could he not? But he's never been a ghost hunter, so they don't interest him too much.]

So you're Okinawan?

I am. [he's also got a little bit of money and his family are a little bit known among some circles.]

I'm from here, myself. But the rest of the clan is in Kyoto.

Really? My mother comes from this area, but she decided to stay with father instead of traveling between the two countries. Her clan is all over around here. [he has a few cousins that stayed here but the rest is scattered around America and he really hasn't talked to a lot of them since he always been the wild child of the family.]

I've stayed in Kyoto for a while before I took off for Australia. I had fun there. What part are they in? Mebbe I ran into some of them.

[the more excited he gets, the less cultured his accent gets, the street starting to appear.]

They're all over the place, but the parents themselves are from Kamigyo-ku. Mother would sometimes talk about her siblings going to the tea ceremony schools there, but she personally didn't want to.

I knew a couple people that were going to the schools, but I wasn't involved with any of that. I hung around live clubs and stuff like that.

I don't blame you. Every time I was brought back there I preferred going off to the clubs as well, or at least hanging out with people my age.

Yeah, those schools were a bit stuffy, although there were a lot of pretty women going to them.