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Who: Apollo and Whoever
Broadcast: Yes and Yes
Action: Yes for part b!
When: 22nd afternoon??

[A: QUESTIONS FOR ALL: Voice/Video/Whatevs convenient]
[This lawyer has been near comatose for about almost a month, so he looks even more tired and irritable than usual when he pops up on the broadcast.]

Er--this seems like an odd thing to ask the general public but it's been on my mind for a while.

Do any of you ever wonder what's going on while we're here? Are our bodies back home in some sort of vegetative state, or in some cases, completely non existent? . . .or, uh, dead, if I have to put some things more bluntly.

I'm fairly sure I'm not, but it's difficult not to think about it.

. . .

In other news, does anyone know any good recipes for a 3 week old giant turkey you forget was stuffed in the freezer, feathers and all?

[B: WORKING OUT action and video]

[For a less pessimistic option, Apollo is attempting to work out his unused muscles on the sad treadmill in the Bloodsport's cargo bay, video going because why not. He does not look unlike a very determined hamster. . .at least until he trips and nearly falls, repeatedly yelling OBJECTION as he stumbles back to finding his pace.]

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I don't mind being overloaded with questions - I'm always happy to explain what I am and how it works. It's when there's - less positive reactions that I prefer to hide.

[he faintly shakes his head] No, it's easier here, but - old habits, you know? I spend my mornings and nights the other way, though.

Ah. . .so it's basically routine for you now, huh? That makes sense. Though, I don't think you'd stick out too much in somewhere like LA--[mostly due to normal people being the weirdest of them all]--but understood, no one would want to attract that kind of negative attention.

I'm not much for attention anyway, so it works out. I've never been to LA, though - you don't think I'd stick out there?

Not much, anyway. There's so much going on, most people would probably just think you're making a fashion statement. My former assistant runs around in a bright blue magician's outfit and at most, she gets a raised eyebrow.

A . . . fashion statement as a giant, furred beast?

You never know what people might be into. I certainly don't.

I can't picture anyone being into that.

[little does he know that furries will exist one day in the future]

[Disney's Robin Hood comes out 1973, they are closer to him than he could imagine]

LA is a weird place like that. But in general everyone's got their own problems going on, so why bother fixating on how someone else looks?

If only everyone thought that way elsewhere. It'd make my life and some of my students' lives a lot easier.

I'm sure. Well, if nothing else, maybe the longer you're here the more comfortable you'll become.

. . .

Not to wish an extended stay on you.

[he quirks a smile]

I know what you mean, and it's getting there. I'm a lot better than I was ten years ago.

That's one perk of going through a coma induced mental update. . .which is something I never expected to say. But yeah, hopefully it's only uphill from here!

It's not something I ever expected to hear, but . . . as odd as it sounds, it isn't the first time I've gone through something like that. But there was no coma involved last time.

It's been . . . somewhat uphill so far.

[JUST STARES...........]

Would it be an invasion of privacy to ask how and what.

Uh - not really, no. This isn't my first multidimensional kidnapping.

. . .how. . .I'm pretty sure this should not be a common thing??

It shouldn't be, but it is.

[RUBS AT HIS HEAD]

What a great argument.

So what was it? Aliens? Demons? Just a weird parallel universe via a lightning bolt?

Er. We were told our worlds were destroyed.

[ha ha] How true that is is still up for debate.

..............oh wow.

So how--did you come here before you found out, or??? If you somehow passed 10 years that should mean it's still in one piece!

I actually went home after the first place, so I know it's in one piece. We were there for about a month or so before we were brought here.

The, uh - ten years of memories was here, though. It felt like we went home, but we were in a coma here.