001 [ VIDEO ]

[tomate]

[ The feed turns on and you see a man that appears to topless with a pair of bull horns on his head. Upon closer inspection, the horns are clearly fake and are just a part of a headband. He doesn't seem to mind it much, but clearly prefers to at least have some proper clothes. ]

Ah, I seem to be somewhere I don't know!

I wanna help but now's not the best time plus you didn't really ask me and I would like to know ahead of time !! I don't mind coming back later though... But can anyone tell me where I am?

Also I'll need more clothes than what I woke up with. . .

Comments

[paysdelamour]

Espagne, chéri, I have been trapped here for more than a month! Angleterre et Prussie, they are here too... they are from the past... so is Portugal... Amérique, myself, we are from your time. You may not have realized I was gone, mais, the beings that run this place, they must have found a way to stop the flow of time. That is the only explanation I can come up with.

You were here, before. You were living with me, in the Navy district... you... are certain you do not remember this?

[tomate]

No, I don't remember any of it!

[paysdelamour]

Don't remember? How is this possible?

[He pauses, thinking about it, before suddenly it hits him.]

... ah! Does this mean... you actually found a way home...?!

[tomate]

Um, maybe? Like I said I don't really remember being here at all.

[paysdelamour]

... so what do you remember, chéri?

[tomate]

I remember being home!

I was taking a nap.

[paysdelamour]

And before that, what do you remember?

[Naps are not important, Spain, GOSH]

[tomate]

I guess the usual! Working with you and everyone else, spending time with Roma, playing with Toro...

[ NAPS ARE IMPORTANT OKOK ]

[paysdelamour]

... what date was it?

[Spain, you are not being specific at all, you silly goose.]

[tomate]

A little after my birthday, 2012.

[paysdelamour]

February-?!

[France, he. He has no words.]

... so you do not remember being here because... you went back in time? Je- ah la la, this is too confusing. Chéri... it is the middle of September, here.

[tomate]

... Eh?

[paysdelamour]

It is as I said! It is September 14th!

[tomate]

[ Okay something is wrong here if France is also getting things wrong. Spain quickly headpats his friend ]

That can't be right.

[paysdelamour]

[Francis pulls out his compact, and manages to switch it to date and time view.] Look, Espagne! [And he nudges it toward him.]

[tomate]

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The date on this is wrong, France.

[paysdelamour]

I am telling you it is correct, Espagne!

[tomate]

But it can't be right!

[paysdelamour]

Why can't it be right? You have woken up on a strange island in God knows which part of the world. How could a change in time be any less believable, Espagne?

[tomate]

[ blink. blink ]

[paysdelamour]

Well? I am waiting for your answer, mon ami.

[tomate]

I don't know.

[paysdelamour]

... that is your answer? Mon Dieu, it is a wonder we ever get anything done, Espagne!

[He clucks his tongue as he tries to think of another way to explain it.]

Angleterre et Prussie, they are from the past. It is reasonable to say that you could be from the past as well, even if you are from only slightly in the past.

[tomate]

It was 2012 for me...?

[paysdelamour]

That is not what I mean. You are from the same year as I am, true - but you say it was February, when here, it is mid-September.