Military Log - 002

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

[Maes is out of his military uniform, now wearing a simple black shirt and some pants. Although you can probably see the military jacket hanging up in the background. He's leaning back in a chair at his desk, looking thoughtful. Of course, he has the Cambot on so does he have a reason for posting. Finally he sits forward, letting the chair legs hit the floor again. He waves.]

Greetings everyone! Just wanted to check in and see how you all were doing. Now that I'm settled in I've had the chance to think a little more about our situation. I can't say that I know anything about it, but I figure we need to start looking for answers at some point. The best way to start that is by collecting data. Any information you can give me will be helpful. After all, I get the feeling that a lot of you have been here for awhile before I got here.

[Scratches his chin] Actually, that might not be a bad place to start. So how long have you been here? When did all of this start happening? And what were you doing before you got here? [pauses to consider] Hmm, when you're from might be a good question too. Since apparently I'm the only one from 1914.

[Looks up] And don't worry! If you don't want to broadcast this information I've already sent Cambot around with a paper version of the survey you can fill out anonymously! You should find it under your door.

[[ooc: Make sure to note whether or not the person if filling out the paper version or not so I know if Maes needs to respond. Paper Version looks like this:
Length Of Time Here:
What You Were Doing Prior to Arrival:
What Time Period are you From: ]]

Comments

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

If you don't understand it and you are FROM this time period, I'm really not sure I have much of a chance. But, no point in NOT trying.

[muttering] I thought the bot was making that up

It must get pretty dull sometimes then. But, hey, more people up here now, right? There has to be better ways to spend your time NOW.

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

I'm no astronaut or rocket scientist. I'm mostly just a temp.

I do have to say, it's nice to see some more people around here. Even if some of them aren't human-people, you know what I mean. It's already been a lot more interesting.

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

I'd say we're about even then seeing as I'm from 1914 and just a humble man of the military. I wasn't exactly a scientist or even an alchemist.

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

[Mike looks impressed. It's got to be pretty tough to be in the military in 1914.]

That's still pretty impressive. ...Wait, alchemist?

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

[You have no idea]

Thanks...and, yeah, I mean I guess they're basically scientists too but they have some pretty freaky abilities so....

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

It...sounds like it. I was under the impression that alchemy didn't really work.

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Interesting.

Well, it works where I'm from. Not that I know how to do it, but I've seen it in action enough to confirm its existence.

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

[Mike's still a tad skeptical, but after the talking pink pony, he figures it'd probably not that unlikely.]

Guess I'll take your word on that. ...Doesn't that kinda skew with the economy, though?

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, there's a talking pink pony and blue birds, any argument you come up with is invalid]

You mean like making gold? That practice is outlawed, anyone caught doing it would be severely punished. It's one of their rules or something.

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yeah, that was what I was wondering about.

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

Well, unless one of my weirdo alchemist friends show up I don't know how much I can tell you about the practice. I only know that much because I work investigations within the military and have had to bring in a few people because of that practice.

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

Never know, with how things have been going now...

Huuh. So it's like...a secret operations thing?

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

Alchemy itself is public and practiced by all sorts of people. If there's a counterfeit gold operation going on, yeah, that's usually kept a secret.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're implying is a secret operation.

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

Oh huh, I meant more the investigations within the military bit.

[mustbemaes.livejournal.com]

Well, they're investigations, so yeah some of the stuff is more classified than others.