originally posted in:The New Dojo
Mechanist poked his head over the outer wall, waving his metal-feathered arm down at the man."
"Hello there! What brings you here, O' traveler of ages past!"
Crawling over the wall, he falls to the ground. After cursing for a moment, the automaton stands brushing itself off. On his back was a futuristic looking shotgun and rifle, the rifle having a crank on one side. Several metal irises shifted at him.
English
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"You are a... talking machine?" [i]The German said, eying him as he spoke. In all of his lifetime, he'd never seen anything like such a being.[/i]
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"Not just a talking machine. A thinking one too. And I would pay mind to your elders, I'm almost forty-thousand this month. Sonny." Mechanists clockwork beak contorted into something mildly resembling a smile.
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"Impossible. Mankind has not been around zat long. Are you a product of zhe Americans? Perhaps zhe Soviets?" [i]He retorted.[/i]
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Mechanist made a noise similar to a scoff. "Please. Like Age of warfare humanity had the engineering skill to make me. You see, I am not made of man. And I still have no clue what you are here for."
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"You'd be amazed." [i]The German said under his breath.[/i] "Honestly, I have no idea how I have ended up here. I do not remember beyond finding zhis artifact, and zhen blackness, and now I am here." [i]He said, a sincerity to his words.[/i] "Vhat exactly is zhis place?"
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"Okay okay. First off, my hearing is several times more sensitive than yours, so I can indeed clarify: The Soviet Union and congruent America, are over three-thousand years from independently designing something of my caliber." The clockwork droid was clearly annoyed that the German though he could be built by 20th century humans. "As for this place, It's pretty fuzzy on what it is exactly. It's a training center, by design, but it also sits on a weak point in reality. People, such as ourselves, have a tendency to uh, bleed in. I think. So it tends to be a target for inter-dimensional empires, omni-potent beings, and various other nasty things. Lot of people also live here."
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"Vhere zhe hell is this place?" [i]He asked, looking around, taking his cap off and running his hand through his hair.[/i]
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"Well, it's not on your star charts. But it's called Takati, or something along the lines of that. Not Earth."
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"Hmm." [i]He seemed to be deep in thought.[/i] "So zhis place is full of people from all over zhe place, other... dimensions?"
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"Yeah. Sometimes other spots in the same timelines, too. I met a guy, I'd seen him before on the news in my dimension. Pretty cool stuff."
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"Intriguing. Zhe architecture, it is Japanese?" [i]He asked.[/i]