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"Don't eat other citizens," - someone really thinks it's necessary to give that direction? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's definitely good to not eat other people, I would just think that it wouldn't be the best idea to bring people that might eat the other citizens. It wouldn't really be cannibalism though, right? Because if you brought someone from another planet that wasn't a human, but ate humans, then....

[Billy kind of trails off as he contemplates this - and then the fact that wow the first thing he's posting to the notwork is discussing the technical terminology of cannibalism when it comes to alien races. Awkward.]

Anyway, hi. I'm Billy. I was kind of in the middle of something back home but I'm guessing that's not really going to do anything for me in terms of getting back there, so it's probably better just to get into this whole network....thing.

Oh, yeah, one last question - so "Stark Technologies" communicator, right? That wouldn't happen to be Stark as in Tony Stark, would it?

[I mean, hey, there are other Starks in other worlds. GRRM is particularly fond of killing them.]

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Not going to brag about them?

And tip my hand?

One of those 15 projects going to get us home?

There's always the possibility.

Then I hope it works out.

We can all hope.

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I'm sorry you've been here for so long.

Oh, it hasn't been that bad. I've made my peace with it.

It's still not home.

Of course not, but time stops back there.

I'm sure once we've done what we needed, she'll let us go.

Do we know what that is?

If I did, we wouldn't be here anymore.

Right.

Again, leave it to us. We'll figure out a way to fix it.

We - all of us. Not just you.

Oh yes, of course.

[ Says the lone wolf. ]

Is there anything I actually need to know about being here?

That depends. What do you already know? No need to repeat anything.

The stuff from the brochure-welcome-guide-whatever.

That's pretty much the basics. Watch out for a group called Vulcanus, and there are certain countries that you can't enter, unless you're asking for trouble.

I kind of figured I'd just say in the City.

I guess if I end up here as long as you have, I might think about going to school or something.

[thinking out loud here since you're clearly never going to hang up]

Hell, why not?

I started a business after a month or so. You get bored pretty quick if you just stay in the City.

[ It almost sounds like advice. Almost. ]

Is there a good university in the city, or should I run away somewhere else cool?

They're essentially the same as any that you're going to get back home.

Personally, though, I scooted north to MIT.

I couldn't get into MIT back home if I tried, not to mention I can't prove my SAT score or anything like that here.

[we are not all Tony Stark.]

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