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[homeofthebraviary]

[The video opens on America's legs. He's rolled up his pant legs and is sitting at the edge of the lake on Route 30, dangling his feet in the water. A sleeping hoppip rests on his knees.]

I'm kind of worried about Pinky you guys. [He turns the 'gear around to focus on his face, with Liberty on his shoulder as usual.] She's level 5 already and she still can't do any attacks. D'you think it's cause it's so hot maybe? Like, is she wilting or something? I keep givin' her berries and makin' sure she has enough water an' all. She seems happy and everything, I mean... but she just sorta flops around. Like a magikarp.

...Maybe she'll evolve into something really cool? But man, she's so cute. [He turns the camera to show the hoppip again, reaching down to skritch the base of her leaves.] I kinda don't want her ending up some freaky monster thing.

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[homeofthebraviary]

[He is completely in earnest madam!!]

Yeah, Tony told me there's all different kinds of aliens, only I've never met any others before. And yeah it's the greatest country on earth!

[easy_as_cake]

There are lots and lots of different kinds. Some are nicer than others, and it sounds like your friend is definitely one of the nicer ones.

Harper's from Boston. Was that in America?

[homeofthebraviary]

Yeah I love Boston!

[easy_as_cake]

[She laughs, smiling brightly.]

Then you'd get right along with him. Even if it's not the same kind of city anymore. I bet your Boston is really pretty.

[homeofthebraviary]

Oh, it's gorgeous. 'Specially in the fall when the leaves change? It's a great city for walking, like, an' there's all sorts of parks. Little chilly, but you can get a great cup of coffee. A bunch of rad old buildings, too. It goes way back, y'know?

[easy_as_cake]

It goes way forward, too. It's one of the most important Earth cities after the Fall.

Does everyone really drive Harley Davidson motorcycles, though?

[homeofthebraviary]

Well I mean not everyone-- whaddaya mean Fall though?

[easy_as_cake]

The Fall of the All Systems Commonwealth. There was a big war and a whole bunch of stuff happened, and the Nietzcheans defeated the Commonwealth and then all kinds of more bad stuff happened, but now we're fixing it!

[And there are details in there somewhere, but they're sad. Better to focus on the fixing part!]

[homeofthebraviary]

[... That doesn't sound like fun at all.]

But... you said America's still around... right?

[easy_as_cake]

[Oh, she... she shouldn't have brought this up. Oh dear.]

Well, the... the continent's still there, and some of the cities. And people still live there, at least mostly...

[homeofthebraviary]

Oh... oh...

[easy_as_cake]

Well... [This was so much easier when she still had her powers...]

Things've been bad for everybody since the Fall. But before, Earth was one of the most powerful planets in the entire galaxy, and maybe even the Commonwealth. And humans have spread all over the known worlds, so... it's kind of like America really got bigger, right?

[homeofthebraviary]

So like... what kinda time frame are we talking about here anyhow?

[easy_as_cake]

Um. [She bites her lip, doing the conversion in her head.] In Earth years, it's something like 5,000 AD, I think.

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[homeofthebraviary]

--Oh! That's a long time from now. [Even for him!]

[homeofthebraviary]

[Suddenly he brightens up again] Haha, man, even England isn't that old.

[easy_as_cake]

[Better! So does Trance, then.]

Mmhm. And like I said, Earth was really important up until only about three hundred years ago after the Fall.

Is England here, too?

[homeofthebraviary]

Nah, he's not here. Haha, I don't even how he'd handle the pokemon thing. He still has trouble with computers sometimes. France is here though.

[easy_as_cake]

Like the guy who invented French Fries?

[homeofthebraviary]

He gets so mad when you say that!

[easy_as_cake]

He does? [She blinks, startled.] But why? They're really tasty!

[homeofthebraviary]

[America adopts a very exaggerated French accent.] Amerique mon cher, I 'ave ze very best of cuisine and still you can only speak of ze 'French fries.' Mon dieu! I weep.


Plus they were really invented in Belgium anyhow. Ain't that funny?

[easy_as_cake]

[She giggles, obviously appreciating the impression.]

Does he really sound like that?

[homeofthebraviary]

Yeah, only even Frencher.

[easy_as_cake]

I'll have to meet him sometime, then. He sounds funny.