1818 - voice - A typhoon blows back into town

[plantpacifist]

This place AGAIN? I swear I hadn't been back home for more than ten minutes! Oh, Rem, why are the gods of misfortune and poverty always just a step behind me?!! [Whine, whine, whine.] Always I just try to do the right thing but every time it turns into a disaster! And then I get spirited away by some kind of demon computer to this bizarro Earth where total ecological collapse is a matter of decades and not centuries! I musta been real evil in a past life to deserve this!!

So ANYWAY. [Suddenly serious.] Ten minutes ago it was fall, now I look around and it's springtime. I know the Porter doesn't handle time in a sane, logical way. [Sigh.] How long have I been gone this time?

Comments

[conflagrations]

Why'd it get bugged? Who ws listening in?

[plantpacifist]

I don't know. I think we all assumed it was the Iron Suit. You know, the guy who claimed to be Tony Stark but turned out to just be a robot?

That might have been before your time.

I feel so old saying that.

[conflagrations]

That was definitely before I showed up.

[ WEIRD ]

Dude, you've been gone a while.

[plantpacifist]

Yeah, in the beginning, we thought it was a version of Tony Stark in the suit. Then we found out there was no one inside. Then we found out it was the computer pulling the strings all along. I didn't know her name was Lachesis, though.

[conflagrations]

Yeah, just wait. She'll pop up to do something lame if you give her enough time.