[Audio]

[sincenewyork]

[The first sound is of someone clearing his throat -- and it comes from every smartphone on the island as they all switch on.]

Mass broadcast function, okay, here goes. Good phone design, by the way, very intuitive. Especially the overrides.

[The volume scales up for a moment, until it echoes off building faces.]

If I could have everybody's attention for just a minute -

[Volume back to normal.]

Why is there a big building in the middle of town with my name on it? Usually I sign papers for those. Maybe draw up plans... the point is, I should have heard about it, and I didn't. Where am I now, Hong Kong? This looks like Lantau Island. Lantau Island? Everybody from Lantau Island, hands in the air.

Okay, now put your hands down and let me know where I am. I can't see you, I'm broadcasting.

Comments

[sincenewyork]

Smart kid. You got me.

[razorback]

You're in New Moore. You should've gotten a welcome speech but maybe they finally realized how pointless it is.

[sincenewyork]

Explaining things to me is usually pointless. I just go, do the research myself, find out they were wrong about everything, and wind up sorry I ever listened. Or at least that's how it worked at MIT, I haven't done much listening since then so it's hard to tell.

[razorback]

So, if I said there's people for a bunch of different universes here...?

[sincenewyork]

I'd say you were crazy. But then I'd look around and see people from a bunch of different universes here, and conclude we must be taking hits off the same bong.

Not that I'd do that. Stay off drugs, stay in school.

So, if they're telling the truth, or something that resembles the truth even a little bit, you know me because of my awesome blockbuster autobiography of a movie. Lots of explosions? A focus on my bad-boy days?

[razorback]

Yeah, there were two of them. There was gonna be a third one but then we got invaded by aliens so I'm guessing it got put off.

[sincenewyork]

You too, huh?

[razorback]

Yeah, but we don't have superheroes so the aliens won.

[sincenewyork]

Ouch.

[razorback]

Yeah, shitty situation, whatever. You're Iron Man.