Talk like a pirate day - this isn't how it was at all (open)

[immutablysam]

Sam actually lived during parts of the golden age of piracy. These people's teeth are far too well tended, they smell better, the rum is a lot less... dirty, and who in all the hells ever talked like /that?/

But ok. So the pirate outfit is actually better than the stupid indian ones. And there's rum. Rum makes so many things better. Sam is wandering down the halls here and there, quite steadily, despite the bottle of rum being two-thirds gone, with three parrots having adopted 'him', and a couple more perching on the ornithopter that rolls behind Sam.

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[immutablysam]

Sam grins. "Countries change, kings change, and when they do, the same country can be a lot different when you go back. Go to a place like Australia or Africa, and the lines England drew on the map got nothing to do with the local reality."

[reincarnshaman]

Trever gives her a bit of a blank look and then there's a mental snap of recognition. "Oh! That's right. England got around a bit more than it did in our world."

[immutablysam]

"Yeah, and from the records here, it looks like the England I know got around even more than the one in this history did."

[reincarnshaman]

"Did it really?" That's interesting.

[immutablysam]

"Yeah, says in the history documents on board this ship that America won their revolution, and the English church and Irish Catholics never reconciled."

[reincarnshaman]

There's someconfusion as Sam speaks about things he's not readily familiar with. "Catholics are...?" he asked.

Because whatever they are, they don't exist in his world. He'd know that one for sure.

[immutablysam]

"Christian religion, goes back a long ways. I ain't a follower, so the computer might have better files on that. An' one of the major fighting topics between England and Eire, where I come from. Not that they always need excuses."

[reincarnshaman]

He shook his head. "I don't know what that one is either."

However on the topic of England and Eire fighting. "We don't really have that problem. My mum's family convinced potential invaders that trying to take over Eire was a bad idea ages ago."

[immutablysam]

"Then it'd make sense you wouldn't have some of the issues other versions of your homeland've had, yeah."

[reincarnshaman]

"Also it's harder for other countries to invade farther away lands because the gods in those other lands are going to be stronger than the gods that are further away from their home."

[immutablysam]

"Huh, interesting take. Back home, whatever gods there are quit fighting for their lands a long time ago, if they ever did. Now they just let their followers fight amongst each other in their names. Granted, they do plenty of that."

[reincarnshaman]

"Admittedly some of the older gods have faded away. But those with worshipers are still strong. And then there are a few others that are just..." Trever blinked a bit at the memory of a god. "Strange."

[immutablysam]

"Got to say, it's an interesting thought. Where I'm from, most of the old magic is pretty well gone. Just a few traces left. Definitely nothing like any gods actually showing up, except maybe in the very oldest stories."

[reincarnshaman]

"The gods don't actually show up, they're already there. One of them owns the largest multinational companies in the world and possibly other things..."

Another one is trying to court Trever. It's weird.

[immutablysam]

"Yep, definitely doesn't happen where I'm from. Interesting."

[reincarnshaman]

"Yeah, that's what I've gathered from a lot of people I've talked to."

Speaking of talking to... "Oh... heh. I'm Trever."

[immutablysam]

"Pleasure's mine. Sam."

[reincarnshaman]

Tilting his head towards the cat, he added, "Her name is Veena. She says you don't smell completely human."

[immutablysam]

Sam gestures to the ornithopter. "This is Bub." Sam crouches to offer a hand to the cat again, in proper greeting and acknowledgement species-wise.

"Seeing as you come from a place where the gods still walk around, suppose it wouldn't be that odd to hear someone whose dad found the Fountain of Youth. Nothing else all that inhuman. I've just been about longer than most folk."

[reincarnshaman]

"The fount of youth. Huh. I've heard stories about it, but never actually the fact that anyone's found it. It's supposed to be in Fairy or the shadow lands."

There are still some things that are stories in Trever's world.

[immutablysam]

"It was in America. Gone now."

[reincarnshaman]

"What happened to it?"

[immutablysam]

"Most folk never knew it was there. Folk drained the swamps, cut back the trees, and laid down trails in hopes the railroad would follow."

[reincarnshaman]

"Huh. That's not something that would happen in my world - it sounds like a sacred space to me. And we don't bother sacred spaces if we know what's good for us. The closest equivalent I can think of is that a large chunk of Germany is a hole in the ground."

[immutablysam]

"We made a point of never telling anyone where it was at. The last thing anyone wanted was a longer-lived Napoleon or George. So, how'd Germany get a big hole in it?"