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[avengingarrow]

[A man appears on the communicator looking a little miffed. It's Clint, though considering he hasn't really been seen without his mask before some might not make that connection. They'll probably recognize his voice...or the Pricklemane bouncing up and down behind him on a bed.]]

So what makes me so special that I get to stick around after everyone else went home? I arrived when all those others did, right? So shouldn't I have been sent home with them too?

[He sighs, rubbing at the bridge of his nose.]

Guess that was too much to hope for anyway. Things are never that easy for me.

[Clint drops his hand and looks at the screen properly now. Behind him the bouncing Pricklemane is joined by a Komory Bat sweeping down from the ceiling occasionally to bump the Pricklemane. They're playing.]

Right so since it looks like I might be here for the foreseeable future I guess some introductions are in order. Names' Clint or Hawkeye, whichever you prefer. I'm an Avenger...if that means anything to anyone here. The bouncing idiot behind me is Pinhead. And I just made the other one...think I'll call him Count. You might have teamed up with us in the whole bee attack...which I have to say you guys weren't half bad at taking down.

Which...reminds me. Anyone know where I might be able to find the supplies to restock my quiver? I'm going to need more arrows if I'm supposed to fight more bee monsters or any of the other neon monstrosities around here. I really don't think relying on Pinhead is gonna be an option.

[He jerks his thumb behind him and, as if on cue, the Pricklemane and the Komory Bat collide in a spectacular crash and then tumble off the bed and out of sight. Clint doesn't even bother looking over his shoulder which might tell you how often his has happened even before he started recording.]

See what I mean?

Comments

[laughingsword]

I am learning a lot here. Where are you from?

[avengingarrow]

Place called New York, it's on planet Earth.

[laughingsword]

Oh! Really? What part of Earth?

I was living in Kyoto, myself!

[avengingarrow]

I just said, New York. It's in the United States.

That's Japan right? I've been there a few times. Tokyo more often though.

[laughingsword]

Yes but I don't know very much about foreign geography, you see.

Er -- do you know how to write Tokyo--?

[he has a couple of guesses about the characters it's written with but he doesn't want to just assume, and he's fairly sure there's no place named that yet.]

[avengingarrow]

I could try drawing a map, but it probably wouldn't look very pretty.

Or accurate.

I can spell it. But I get the feeling you mean write it in Japanese characters, right? Not exactly one of my skills.

[laughingsword]

Oh that's too bad! But I shouldn't complain, I can't understand any English myself. I've never heard of a Tokyo, you see.

[avengingarrow]

Ah, well I think I got it figured out. I've been told you might be from a time way earlier than me. You heard of a place called Edo?

[laughingsword]

Why, yes! Is that the same city?

[Now he really does wish you could write Tokyo for him. Is it 'Eastern capital,' the way it sounds like it could be? And why would they have moved the capital city...?]

Excuse me, but how far are you into the future? It's only Genji 1.

[avengingarrow]

According to Jeeves it is. [You are expecting way too much out of Clint's public school education here.]

Uh...well it's 2010...so I would guess pretty far.