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[domainless]

Martin is away from the phone right now. Pleas leave a message and he'll get back to you.

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[chrisisofaith]

Sing? That's a new one I think.


That makes sense. I suppose you'd have little else to think about. Did you read statements too while you were down there? They don't do anything for you, right?

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Wait what's a roller coaster?

[domainless]

I don't think he meant it literally. But... call people, try to transmit their desires to people.

He said something like... it's like trying to recreate a piece of music you heard in a dream, when you have never heard music before.

I read a few statements. Got the same weird feelings as Jon, but I never read as much as him, so no, I don't need them to live or anything. If I was going to feed on trauma I'm pretty sure it would be making people feel really lonely.

Oh! It's a kind of... You know the trains here? Like those, but smaller, open-topped, going really fast, on a track that has steep drops and sometimes goes upside down.

[chrisisofaith]

I know that feeling intimately. An impression of will by something too big for the mortal mind to handle.

Hard to imagine you making people feel lonely. Your presence is rather enjoyable to me.

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That sounds like a fucking nightmare. What is it, a torture device for enemy forces or something?

[domainless]

Yes! Something like that. You can only grasp a tiny portion of the whole.

Flatterer.

...uh... no? It's a ride at fairgrounds and theme parks. You pay money to ride them. For fun.

[chrisisofaith]

Hold on, this is the only thing I can think about right now.

These are on fairgrounds? You pay money to hurtle quickly through the air in a metal box with nothing but gravity and faith to keep you from dying?

[domainless]

They're pretty safe actually! I mean, very few people die on them.

You know, they're carefully designed to be safe.

[chrisisofaith]

Very few. Not none.

For record, I'm not worried about dying, I'm worried about turning green from being so ill.

The trains here are not kind and we don't get on.

[domainless]

I mean, people still drive cars and lots more people die in those. Or aeroplanes.

You don't use the trains? Really?

You would not survive London.

[chrisisofaith]

I have a motorcycle, wings, and the ability to teleport to specific places, I don't need terrible trains.

Does London exist solely on train transport?

And I dread to ask but what are aeroplanes?

[domainless]

No. I mean, you can take a car or there are buses, but the trains and the tube are really convenient and if you drive in the middle of the city you're an idiot.

Oh... planes are flying machines? They transport people through the air.

[chrisisofaith]

Because of traffic? If I go to London, I'll be sure to fly.

See? Now that sounds useful and like a wonderful idea. It would open up so many places to people who can't or won't take months to travel.

[domainless]

You might draw a bit of attention doing that since no-one else can.

And yeah. I guess. But trains do the same thing! You can get to another country in like... an hour.

[chrisisofaith]

No one looks up.
Half the people here don't know I fly and there's only one other guy with wings in Duplicity.

Look I'm not arguing their usefulness, when I saw one first off, I thought it was clever!
But all my insides aim to be outsides when I'm on one, which is not a good time for anybody.

[domainless]

The tourists probably do. They're there to see the fancy buildings and the palace and stuff.

Alright. I suppose they must be strange if you're really not used to them. Never much thought about it. They're just a fact of life at home.

[chrisisofaith]

You get tourists to your city?
From all I'd heard, London's dingy and smoggy and sees fog a lot.

[His perception might be more colored by a Victorian-era man, but still.]

It's normal, there's a hundred little things you don't think to explain or consider cause they're common to you and not so to another. I'm sure there's plenty I can think of for myself and plenty more I can't cause they're just ingrained.

[domainless]

Yeah! Loads. Millions of people every year.

Smoggy? I don't think we've had smog for decades. I mean, the air quality is not always great, but it's not awful. And we don't get that much smog. There's loads of old buildings and monuments, and parks too.

Yeah, probably. If there ever is a funfair though...

[chrisisofaith]

I don't think there's even a million people living in my region of Faerun, certainly not in the Moonsea and it's neighboring provinces. That sounds hectic. I think my source might be outdated and my more 'modern' people of London rarely talk about the city itself.

Funfair? Is that where roller coasters are? Cause you'll need more than pretty smile to get me on one of those things you described.

[domainless]

It's a big city. Eight million people if you take in the whole area?

Yeah, I think that sounds more Victorian maybe? I don't know. It's a very modern city. Bloody expensive though.

Yeah! There's all sorts of ride! Some slow ones, some fast. And food! Candyfloss, and popcorn and game arcades!

[chrisisofaith]

That's so many people. I think I'd get lost.

Everything here is expensive to my eyes. Food should cost coppers, not a week of a man's pay.

[That's a rabbit hole he should....probably spare Martin...]

Alright well I'm familiar with some of those.
If a 'funfair' comes through Duplicity, we'll go together and you can show me your favorites.

[domainless]

It's easy to get lost in.

Oh my god, yeah, you would die of shock in London. Renting a flat is expensive enough before you even get to buying things you need to live.

Sounds good. I'll hold you to it!