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Date: 05 May
Location: Sitting room
Status: Public (Atlan, Jan)
Summary: Atlan is trying to kill time


Fool, his extra sense told him. You're never going to find your way home like this.

That was true. But then again, he wasn't trying to find his way home right now. Right now he was just trying to keep his mind off of the mess he was in. This place had been supposed to be his ticket home. Well, it didn't seem to be.

Maybe he could at least escape into the distraction of a good movie for a while.

Comments

[kristallprinz]

"The Egyptians were quite civilised, as compared to some modern societies, you know," Atlan said. "They would hardly have been able to achieve what they did otherwise - even though they did have help."

[jan_skovasja]

"Maybe so, but the rest of them hardly would have been I expect." Of course Jan wasn't old enough to know for sure.

[kristallprinz]

"There were a few ancient cultures that would have been quite worthy of advance," he insisted.

"However, as so often, it appears that brawns won out over brains eventually."

[jan_skovasja]

"I never meant to say they might not have been worthy, I merely meant to say it might have been unwise." Jan said. "Or at least seen from the perspective of what was good for them. I could not tell what might have been good for you."

[kristallprinz]

"Getting back home would have been good for me," Atlan claimed.

"Well. Seems like it's not going to happen for another while. I was hoping to find someone here who could help me out with that."

[jan_skovasja]

"I'm afraid I know nothing of space travel," Jan apologised. "You might want to try over in America or Russia. They're exploring Mars there, I believe."

Not that that sounded all too helpful either. Jan was sure that the poor man's home was quite a bit further away than Mars, despite all those imaginary tales about Martians people liked to write these days.

[kristallprinz]

Atlan laughed. "I will do no such thing as give either of those access to the vastly superior technology of my people. Do you have any idea what those barbarians would be doing with it? Actually, I thought maybe some of mine had landed around here and set up a base because of hte region's anomalies."

[jan_skovasja]

"Ah, so you have learned something from past experience? What would such a base, or your people look like, in case I see any? You look perfectly human to me."

Jan wasn't quite sure whether he wanted to run into aliens, but this one didn't seem to want to kill everybody on sight and it probably wouldn't hurt to just keep his eyes open when he went outside.

[kristallprinz]

"My people look like me. Tall, white hair, red or light blue eyes. We have little or no pigmentation."

He considered how much he wanted to tell.

"A base may be dome-shaped, or concealed under something looking perfectly local. People might also be dying their hair and wearing coloured contact lenses..."

[jan_skovasja]

"Ah, they'd be difficult to tell from other natives then," Jan commented. "Let's hope they aren't disguised, if there are any here."

He supposed he could tell the man whenever he saw someone unusually pale, though.

[kristallprinz]

"They most likely will be," Atlan admitted. "They will have no interest in having their presence known."

He should go back to his base at least briefly to get some tools, really. Something to locate a ship or Arkonid technology...

Usually he would have preferred to err on the side of caution, but with all these strange people around here. would anyone really notice him lugging around tools that shouldn't exist?

[jan_skovasja]

Jan nodded. That was what he'd expected.

"Well, I'll try anyway, but I'm not exactly an expert at recognising people in disguise."

[kristallprinz]

"Thank you," Atlan said. "I do not expect any of you bar... well, any of the locals to be able to recognise them at sight, but there always is a chance that one of them gets careless."

In contrast to him. He never got careless.

[jan_skovasja]

"Let's hope so. I suppose it would be likely if they had a large crew."

How many people would one need to fly a space ship?

[kristallprinz]

"That is quite true, I fear," Atlan said. "Do you have a experience with crews then?"

[silverfox]

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