IC Inbox - Entranceway

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Obviously I'm not here right now, but leave a message and I'll--listen to it. Eventually.

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1/???? you brought this on yourself

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hi rip are you feeling better

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because i can bring you food or help tidy up or i have a couple project ideas to run by you

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side note and apropos of completely nothing at all just off the top of my head randomly haha

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did we ever get you to watch star wars on the waverider? my time lines are so mixed you know
haha

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also totally randomly did you happen to talk to any of the newbies that came in this week?

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randomly i mean not in any particular way just

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i just i heard that there was a princess or something here

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or maybe like a general or something maybe not a princess i wasn't really paying attention very much at all sarah kind of told me it's a little too much to learn stuff about someone from not them and then ask them about that stuff they maybe don't feel comfortable having people just know

OKAY DONE

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her name's leia.

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[Dear lord that is a lot of texts one right after the other.]

I'm fine, Raymond. Though I'm wondering if you can say the same. You seem rather excited.

[Even for him. And that's why Rip is holding off on answering the rest of the rambling questions until he's sure Ray isn't like, about to pass out or something.]

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yeah yeah mick came and punched me so
i'm better now

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[. . .]

I think it perhaps better not to ask.


As to your other questions: no, I don't believe we have seen that particular movie and/or tv show, and yes, I've spoken to some of the new arrivals. Both women in fact, although one was named Peggy Carter and didn't mention anything about being a general or a princess, so I'll assume she's not the one you're asking after.

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agent carter? i thought she'd been here awhile...

[ weird. maybe a left-and-returned situation. ]

but no. i think snart's going to talk to her for me.
oh god snart's going to talk to her for me.
this is bad.

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The one I met only just arrived, or rearrived if that's the case. She was rather confused when she stepped out of my closet.

[Because that's a thing that happens sometimes.]

Better or worse than you talking to her for yourself in your current state?

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please tell me you didn't shoot her?

fair point. as much as i want to talk to her she's already got enough on her plate right now, you know?

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Give me some credit, Dr. Palmer. I gave her ample opportunity to explain herself.

[At gunpoint.]

Certainly. I take it she has something to do with that Star Wars thing you were on about?

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i'm just saying you have a better survival instinct than me, that's all!

[ ttly innocent! ]

i just tried to type out exactly who she is and what she means to pop culture and my device started crying

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Fortunately I also know how to exercise some restraint.

And unfortunately for your device and it's tears, we both know that I'm not the most well-versed when it comes to the pop culture of the early twenty-first century.

But I do gather that you're something of a fan.

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some is an understatement, rip.

and in the interest of full transparency i'm also having a hard time telling you without telling you about your own future

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Perhaps, but it also means I can carry on a rational conversation with this Princess or General Leia you're so hyped over.

[So there.]

You're serious, aren't you? [Bloody hell. Unseen, Rip's frowning. It's a shock, I know.] I was led to believe that Star Wars as it exists in our world was entirely fictional. Unless you're trying to avoid confirming that I have seen it by the time you're drawn from. If so, I appreciate the effort, but I think knowing that detail won't put the timeline at risk.

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[ ray can feel those grumpwaves through the walls ok ]

oh yeah totally fictional!

i think we both know how not good i am at moderation. it's safer for me to just not talk about any of it, you know?

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[The dourness is strong with this one.]

On the whole? I have to agree.

[No spoilers then. Just a future that's somehow even stranger than Rip might have already suspected.]