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[Two people appear on the plane together, standing perfectly side by side. One, a woman, with blonde hair and perfectly blue clothes, the other a man in a deep gray suit. Both survey their surroundings.]

Another twist they forgot to mention.

Perhaps they simply didn't have that information.

Perhaps. Or perhaps it wasn't pertinent enough to share with us.

[her eyes go 70's sci-fi Glowing Blue] I would think this sort of place would be very pertinent. {Steel?}

It wouldn't be the first time they withheld information. {Sapphire?}

{Steel, I can't sense what year it is here.}

{Try harder, Sapphire. There must be something.}

{There isn't. There's no year, no day, no season. There's nothing, no sort of calendar, just...} Just time. There is time here.

But has it broken through?

No. It's strange, but it's not dangerous. Not yet. [a pause] Steel, there are... different times here, somehow. Localised points of dates.

Can you get information on those points?

There is... [points in one direction] 1973, that way. And.... [points another way] 2006. And... and I can't... I don't know what year that one is. [points again]

No definite time on that one?

No... There is a definite point. I can't name it. There's something else, here...

Can you sense it at all, Sapphire? [moves closer to her, speaking near her ear now] It might be important.

It's... it's something... I don't know, Steel.

But the points in time are existing independently? So they aren't directly endangering time.

No, there's no direct danger. I can't... They're not independent. They interact.

Time travellers again?

Some of them, yes. Some of them, no.

Is there anything else you can sense?

The points are changing. The... people appear to be moving from this place to another, and others arrive on it. They seem to be able to move back and forth freely. [glowy eyes: off]

I haven't heard of a place like this before. But if there's nothing wrong with it, then it's none of our concern for the time being.

Steel, aren't you curious?

Do you think there's something else here?

Yes.

Then I suppose we may as well have a look around. Maybe we'll run into one of those points you sensed.

[The pair finally give up for the moment, Sapphire smiling and Steel looking grumpier than usual, as they take seats at the bar to relax for now]

((ooc: Double intro post after forever! Beware of thread-hopping, since these two are rather joined together. The {} brackets are telepathy, by the way, which any telepaths in the area can pick up on for now. And Sapphire gets this while Steel gets this colour, mkay? Have at it, kids!))

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[look, it's her pleasant smile! She does that a lot]

Can you? Oh, but that's rude of me; I don't think we've been introduced.

My name is Sapphire.

[Polite person!] Ah! No, it was rude of me to ask before I introduced myself. My name is Hei. It's nice to meet you, Sapphire.

And no, I can't sense time.

It's a pleasure as well, Hei.

[she offers her hand to him]

[Accepts it and shakes her hand.] You're both newcomers, I take it?

Very much so, yes. Though we have, I believe, already recieved the basic explaination of the place.

{Steel, Hei has died. But he's not a ghost. There's also something... curious about his biology. I can't quite pin it down. And there's something strange in his relationship with time.}

[Oblivious! \o/]

Ah, well that's good. You know about the different realities and about time stopping?

And the method of moving between the Astral Plane and home. Also that we're experiments of some sort. Though it's not clear what sort, exactly.

No, no one really knows what the experiment is about.

You get used to everything eventually.

I should hope not.

Hm...well...we don't really have a choice, to tell the truth.

What do you mean?

We can't leave this place, not permanently. Everyone always ends up coming back here, eventually. Like we're all drawn here.

Do you mean something like an external pull?

I guess you could say that, yeah.

Why do you return here?

...At first I didn't know. Now...well. I kind of like some of the people here.

{What sort of relationship with time?}

{I can't be certain. He has not... travelled with it, but he has been out of sync with it.}