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[espigeonage]

Guys, the teleporter decided to surprise me.

[Julien's holding his phone out so that he can be seen, white-winged and clearly disoriented. In the background there's a picturesque waterfall, cliff and rocks, a path and some interested tourists.]

This is not the States. The stars are the same but there's a time difference, the air's different, and I can hear... okay, um, the mountains-and-coast noise is totally different, and more tellingly, lots of people are speaking German. Unrelated, I uh... I have a picnic lunch. [He hefts a small wicker basket in the claws of his other wing. It's got tiny loaves and dainty apples showing under a cloth.] Or a breakfast. Pretty sure that's a pulse. -oh, suil.

[he gets distracted by someone talking to him offscreen, their voice raised anxiously, and folds the wing he's holding the phone in, then crouches to talk to her. You get a good view of his shirt, white feathers, and neatly-hemmed massive sleeve hole, and can indistinctly hear him speak reassuringly - sprechen sie English? Francois? no it's okay. I'm here by accident, it was a surprise. I don't know. Yes, probably. We don't want to hurt anything. - and etc. It apparently ends well. Julien brings his phone out again, looking more focused.]

Sorry about that. So... Bavaria, huh? I guess there's a castle uphill. You know, I think I'll go see. Cross your fingers I don't get jumped! -Uh, if you come here, you show up in a little cave and it's a climb to get here, but not bad.

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[espigeonage]

Yep. There really is a castle!

You've heard about the teleporter? Stolen from Thunderco in a daring escapade?

[boxingbuff]

You mean that weird machine you guys made off with? Yeah, there were a lot of complaints at the department after that.

So the thing was an actual teleporter?! That's some science fiction shit right there.

[espigeonage]

Oh? You're with Thunderco?

Sure was. Is. It was all buggy at first but it seemed like things had streamlined up. Now this!

[boxingbuff]

As if! The police, actually.

So, you sure that thing isn't going to give you weird cancers or something? If it can take you straight to the old country, who knows what else it can do.

[espigeonage]

Ah, good! Sorry about all the trouble last year.

I'm not sure at all! But cancer's likely gonna take time, just like x-rays. [Julien's not sure he'll live long enough for it to have an effect.] For now - well, it's not practical for anyone who's not private-jet-rich to travel so much.

[boxingbuff]

Yeah, and there's not many people of that kind around here.

[....Although, there seemed to be a lot of that type around here that were numbered. Weird.]

Eh, it's no skin off my nose. Sherman was an asshole. I'm glad he was taken away.

[espigeonage]

I'm sure not! Alas!

Haha, no kidding. Sometimes I do wish we could question him, see if he had any idea what was going on, but he probably wouldn't cooperate, anyway.

[boxingbuff]

And it's not like we'd be able to see him in the first place. I don't know where the hell they took him, but it's probably airtight.

[espigeonage]

I wonder who would know. FBI, maybe. Too bad the one guy I knew who was involved in that went off-network. Aaah, it's probably not worth figuring out.

[boxingbuff]

Hmph. Got a lot of numbers down around here, don't you?

[espigeonage]

Oh, I see what you did there. A few! I've been here since the start, after all.