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[didorothy]

Right, so. Has anyone else noticed any changes to their homes? Other than the random shop and the sudden appearance of the astral plane, that is.

For example, I have a big chunk of 2006 sitting in the middle of my 1973. Yuyuko and Fumie have both noticed differences in how someone they know behaves. [and Gene Hunt now has sparkly blood, but we're just not going to mention that]

[Incidentally, he is speaking a bit thickly, as he has a broken nose.]

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[didorothy]

How'd she access it?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

Through some...thing, I don't even bloody know. I told her to tell me what the hell she meant and she turned around and there was this bleedin' contraption and typewriter or some other piece of shit and she typed into it and there was all our information.

[didorothy]

Did she pull it out of somewhere? What type of technology was it? Was it like the glasses Fumie uses? Your punch card computers? What was it like?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

I don't bloody well know, Tyler! We were on that Astral thing and she was giving blokes answers so I asked how CID could be whole again. The bloody cunt wouldn't give me a straight answer then just turned around and messed with something and why the hell don't you just ask her, Gladys?

[didorothy]

Because she is a bit harder to get in contact with than my new employers.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

They're not your new employees, Tyler. [glares] They're pretty buddy-buddy with the plod, they wouldn't know?

[didorothy]

Every time they answer a question I ask them, I'm put further in debt.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

You're the ponce who was daft enough to ask 'em for help in the first place, Tyler. You're not getting any sympathy from me. [still, frowns, tucking his hands in his pockets] She said something about a machine. Why don't you just go look around that stupid Astral piece of shit, then? See if you can't sniff it out.

[didorothy]

I'm not a technological bloodhound. This place is pretty.... I don't know, [waves his arms around to indicate] abyss-like. If there was a PC lying around, I think someone would've spotted it.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

Coulda fooled me. [have a pointed look, Sam] Why don't you just use those glasses the little tart gave you? Since it's your precious technology. [aaand a mean smirk] Last I saw, Cartwright wasn't a PC anymore, not that you'd see her lying anywhere, Tyler.

[didorothy]

A personal computer, Guv. They look like -- [shakes his head] I'm not letting you touch my PC. You'd break it. But fine, I will. [puts on his glasses and starts typing on the invisible!imaginary!keyboard - this is so not helping him look sane - doing a search] Network doesn't detect any other computers here. Which means Fumie isn't here, either. [takes them off and puts them away - Gene Hunt will not break Sam's shiny new toy]

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[just...stares] ...the hell did you just do?

[didorothy]

I did a network search for signs of artificial electrical activity.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[still staring] Sure you did. Doesn't tell me what the hell it means, Gladys.

[didorothy]

I just looked for a machine.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

...right, well! [he's so pretending he knows what the hell is going on and lights up a cig, taking a long draw] Like I said, the bird used some computer thing that appeared out of nowhere. And said it's all connected through a machine of some sort. What the bloody hell that means, I don't know. Don't care, either. All I care about is CID being whole.

[didorothy]

And as always, you are blind and single-minded in your approach.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[snappish] Then what would you suggest, Dorothy?

[didorothy]

If she has information on us, on how close CID is to becoming whole, then don't you think it would benefit us to be able to monitor that? We could learn what brings it closer together or breaks it further apart. And if we did that, we could focus on the things that makes CID whole.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

I gathered that much. But how do you suggest we go about getting that information, Tyler? She's not exactly opening her doors and letting us waltz in and get what we want, now is she?

[didorothy]

[raises a finger] I -- ... don't know. But there has to be a way. If she can access it, we can. Wonder how much more in debt I'll be if I ask... Wonder if it even matters, as far in as I am now.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[gives him a Serious Look] You shouldn't be in debt in the first place. No good reason for it. [shakes his head] At any rate, I'll find the bird and get some answers out of her. No sense having you used up and useless cause of those bloody Twins.

[didorothy]

They won't 'use me up.' All it means is adding another year to the infinite number of years I'll be working for them. And Meredith's answers are even less direct than theirs.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

Not if I've got anything to say about it they won't. You've got too much to do for CID to go runnin' around for those blokes. And I know how to read women, Tyler. [cheeky grin] I can handle it.

[didorothy]

I can take naps here without having to worry about losing any time. [snorts; keywords appropriate] Is that better or worse than you can read the newspaper?