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Who: Arthur Kirland and Open
Broadcast: Network - Unfiltered
Action: SS Marsiva
When: Thursday evening

[The badly angled view of Marsiva's viewing bay should be familiar to most before Arthur gets his camera angled right to actually show his face. It figured he'd be dragged away on his day off. Meeting new people when he actually looked respectable and not dressed like a punk (Union Jack shirt, earrings, and temporary green streaks in his hair included) would just be too much to ask for, wouldn't it?]

Really, kidnapped to a reality show in space. If I didn't know better I'd think someone had given me a good sound whack on the head. This would make more sense as a hallucination.

[Grumbles, flicking a few green strands from his face and trying to straighten his clothes to look somewhat respectable. The proper English accent helps, he's sure.]

Well, since it sounds like I'm not the only one in this situation, I might as well say hello. I'm Arthur Kirkland, of Great Britain. It's a pleasure to meet you. Circumstances aside of course. I'm sorry for my appearance, but this caught me a little off-guard.

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Well I certainly do. There are plenty of folk who don't, even when it's right in front of them.

I suppose it really has become a catch-all concept.

Folk will see what they want to see, I suppose. That has always been true, even in my time.

They certainly will.

And what time would that be, if you don't mind the questioning?

Well, I do not know what it would be by your count, but in mine, it is ... or, I suppose, was, September 29th, in the 3021st year of the Third Age of the Sun.

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No, I can't say I'm familiar with that calendar. At least not in terms of the year. It's only 2015 for us.

If I am understanding correctly, I think my world is one of the... "earliest" or perhaps "youngest", worlds represented here, so you are likely quite far ahead of me, even though it is only 2015!

A difference in calendars then. That's something I've encountered plenty often enough.

[Smiles.]

I wonder if you've encountered any of my ancestors, in that case.

I must assume so, yes. And perhaps! I would not know. But I remember the fathers of Men, when we first met them, although you might do better asking Finrod, for he found them first and loved them dearly.