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Dryunya wrote:Guys. I think you are talking about irrelevant stuff.
There is a freaking guy in a suit of armor walking around with a freaking stolen iPhone (that wasn't charged for a week, lol). I can't believe he's still talking to us. The first thing we need to do is to keep him in touch and out of trouble.
I kind of missed the point that the phone charge was conveniently ignored until now... And mentioned it to him. Kind of a Genre Blind move on my part, but oh well. I'm not sure whether or not the police will trace the stolen iPhone and catch him, but considering that he is walking around for that time, I believe he may be safe (though that scratches my Suspension Of Disbelief quite deeply).
What do we need to do next? Teach him where to get food? Shelter? Goddamn money?
Are we goddamn babysitters for a Fish Out Of Temporal Water now?

This scratches your suspension of disbelief, but a cat using the internet is ok?

Dryunya wrote:Guys. I think you are talking about irrelevant stuff.
There is a freaking guy in a suit of armor walking around with a freaking stolen iPhone (that wasn't charged for a month, lol). I can't believe he's still talking to us. The first thing we need to do is to keep him in touch and out of trouble.
I kind of missed the point that the phone charge was conveniently ignored until now... And mentioned it to him. Kind of a Genre Blind move on my part, but oh well. I'm not sure whether or not the police will trace the stolen iPhone and catch him, but considering that he is walking around for a month, I believe he may be safe (though that scratches my Suspension Of Disbelief quite deeply).
What do we need to do next? Teach him where to get food? Shelter? Goddamn money?
Are we goddamn babysitters for a Fish Out Of Temporal Water now?

Fuck.
Suspension of Disbelief aside... What are we supposed to learn from him? He's not linked to any other event so far... And it looks like mentioning the charger made his iPhone magically run dry. For a guy tweeting non-stop he surely stopped out of nowhere now...

Also, the Spanish remark gives us some insight on the nature of the characters here... Not sure if I should take that to the General Discussion or keep it here, though...

What do we need to do next? Teach him where to get food? Shelter? Goddamn money?
Are we goddamn babysitters for a Fish Out Of Temporal Water now?

Well, better babysitters than dreaded enemies,I guess... Heck, we can't just leave the poor guy, at least not until we're certain he's not going to think a ten wheeler is a dragon and try to fight it on the motorway or something.

What if we send him his book?

Well he's Don Quixote. His grasp on reality was tenuous originally at best... (or not so much tenous as completely inaccurate but entirely believed in.)

The possibility I thought of is that all these characters are leaking out of English translations of their books, so they don't know they're speaking a different language.

Either that, or there's some kind of universal translation thing going on. Which is convenient, if confusing.

Pixelmage wrote:Also, the Spanish remark gives us some insight on the nature of the characters here... Not sure if I should take that to the General Discussion or keep it here, though...

Here's my thought: if what you're saying applies to potentially more than one character, put it in general. If it applies only to Quixote, put it here.

Scarab wrote:

What do we need to do next? Teach him where to get food? Shelter? Goddamn money?
Are we goddamn babysitters for a Fish Out Of Temporal Water now?

Well, better babysitters than dreaded enemies,I guess... Heck, we can't just leave the poor guy, at least not until we're certain he's not going to think a ten wheeler is a dragon and try to fight it on the motorway or something.

What if we send him his book?

Well he's Don Quixote. His grasp on reality was tenuous originally at best... (or not so much tenous as completely inaccurate but entirely believed in.)

The possibility I thought of is that all these characters are leaking out of English translations of their books, so they don't know they're speaking a different language.

Either that, or there's some kind of universal translation thing going on. Which is convenient, if confusing.

Maybe they've all come from the TARDIS. It did recently crack time...

NeverSlender wrote:Maybe they've all come from the TARDIS. It did recently crack time...

It also rebooted the universe.

Wait... Butchered English...
Everybody speaks Spanish.
Dafaq?

Victin wrote:It isn't stolen. Someone taught him how to use it. I pointed it out .

He found it on the side of the road. Ok, it's not exactly stolen, but the point is that somebody may be looking for it, and finding a lost phone that wasn't even turned off (and I doubt our sir bothered to change the SIM ) is absolutely not a problem. Even if that doesn't lead to problems with the police, he may still lose his only point of communication.

NeverSlender wrote:This scratches your suspension of disbelief, but a cat using the internet is ok?

Well, the cat is magical. I doubt someone has charmed the police, which is quite real.

Aaaand he has found a charger. I guess the point is moot now. At least he won't just disappear when it runs out.

Goldude wrote:

NeverSlender wrote:Maybe they've all come from the TARDIS. It did recently crack time...

It also rebooted the universe.

Awww... I forgot , I was hoping to run into the Doctor!

Dryunya wrote:Wait... Butchered English...
Everybody speaks Spanish.
Dafaq?

The internet. Lol and WTF and tlkng lik ths.

It also rebooted the universe.

And the unvierse fell apart slowly, piece by piece, falling through literal cracks in reality - exactly the same kind of thing we're dealing with really, when you think about it (and a possible explanation for what the threat of all these fictionals coming through actually IS: too much break down between the real and fiction, and the universe has had it. Honestly, I've been considering that pretty much the same thing is quite likely to happen here: it was the only solution Mister A. could think of to THEIR problem...

If Doctor Who and time related shenanigans do NOT show up in this whole thing in some way, shape or form, I shall be both highly dissapointed and highly relieved.

...And somewhat back on topic: what happens if you actually go speak spanish to him?

Well, he is certainly one confused guy! But he does seem certain of one thing: he wants to find his armor.

I'm thinking something like that has to be pretty conspicuous. Maybe someone's seen it? We do have the whole Internet at our disposal - maybe it can't hurt to ask around.

Scarab wrote:

It also rebooted the universe.

And the unvierse fell apart slowly, piece by piece, falling through literal cracks in reality - exactly the same kind of thing we're dealing with really, when you think about it (and a possible explanation for what the threat of all these fictionals coming through actually IS: too much break down between the real and fiction, and the universe has had it. Honestly, I've been considering that pretty much the same thing is quite likely to happen here: it was the only solution Mister A. could think of to THEIR problem...

If Doctor Who and time related shenanigans do NOT show up in this whole thing in some way, shape or form, I shall be both highly dissapointed and highly relieved.

...And somewhat back on topic: what happens if you actually go speak spanish to him?

Seconded.

And I neither speak spanish nor am I anywhere near him.

If you want to try to speak in spanish to him, you can try to tell him:
"Hemos construido estatuas sobre tus hazañas en tu ciudad natal"

Holditholditholditholdit.

https://twitter.com/TheTrueQuixote/status/252864389118578689

He's in Seattle.

I'm near Seattle.

I wonder if it would be possible to schedule a meeting?

I mean, I wouldn't be able to record it (I don't have a phone capable of video), and I'm not sure how convenient he would be to get to, but...

drain111 wrote:If you want to try to speak in spanish to him, you can try to tell him:
"Hemos construido estatuas sobre tus hazañas en tu ciudad natal"

Whazzat mean?

IslaKariese wrote:

Dryunya wrote:Wait... Butchered English...
Everybody speaks Spanish.
Dafaq?

The internet. Lol and WTF and tlkng lik ths.

No, no, I meant that there is a clear inconsistency. One day he recognizes the language as English, and the other - it's Spanish!
A plot hole?

I wonder if it would be possible to schedule a meeting?

What do you hope to gain from that? I mean, it'll be cool to meet him, but what is there to gain?

IslaKariese wrote:

drain111 wrote:If you want to try to speak in spanish to him, you can try to tell him:
"Hemos construido estatuas sobre tus hazañas en tu ciudad natal"

Whazzat mean?

we've built statues about your adventures in your city

drain111 wrote:If you want to try to speak in spanish to him, you can try to tell him:
"Hemos construido estatuas sobre tus hazañas en tu ciudad natal"

I don't speak Spanish but I am pretty sure that it means "We built statues about your adventures in your birth city."
EDIT: Damn, ninja'd

Dryunya wrote:

IslaKariese wrote:

Dryunya wrote:Wait... Butchered English...
Everybody speaks Spanish.
Dafaq?

The internet. Lol and WTF and tlkng lik ths.

No, no, I meant that there is a clear inconsistency. One day he recognizes the language as English, and the other - it's Spanish!
A plot hole?

A translator glamour failure? As in, it uses the name of the language we see when "language" or the language he speaks is meant.

JackAlsworth wrote:I wonder if it would be possible to schedule a meeting?

It's tempting, but I wouldn't recommend it meta-wise. They may not have a puppetmaster in Seattle. Don't make them break character.

WackyMeetsPractical wrote:What do you hope to gain from that? I mean, it'll be cool to meet him, but what is there to gain?

I don't know; again, I'm not even sure if it's feasible. But if it is, it could help us make sure he's all right.

Dryunya wrote:It's tempting, but I wouldn't recommend it meta-wise. They may not have a puppetmaster in Seattle. Don't make them break character.

Yeah, I thought that too.

WackyMeetsPractical wrote:

I wonder if it would be possible to schedule a meeting?

What do you hope to gain from that? I mean, it'll be cool to meet him, but what is there to gain?

You could take him home. You'd be a real babysitter. And we'd have a permanent and easy acess to one fictional... For SCIENCE and such...

Aww, he doesn't like dubstep.

Pixelmage wrote:You could take him home. You'd be a real babysitter. And we'd have a permanent and easy acess to one fictional... For SCIENCE and such...

I don't think I have space for him... although I do have an electrical outlet that he can use.

And I would probably have to get him on a bus. That'd go over well.