01 | Darwin | Day 45 (video)

[evolv]

[The display opens on the cemetery. The only interesting thing is a pile of rock and ash in front of a gravestone. How long has that been there? The cemetery isn't a wholly popular place, it could have been days. For a long moment, nothing happens. Birds chirp, wine rustles the trees.

Then-- there, do you see it? A piece of the rubble twitches slightly, then begins to roll up the pile. Another joins it in motion. Pretty soon all the pieces are shaking and rolling over each other, reshaping into the vague form of a body. A line of stones reach out towards the camera, pulling it up and in. Finally, the round shape on top solidifies into a head, complete with a face, the eyes open wide and he gasps, taking in the first breath of life he's had for days.]

Wha-- [He breathes heavily, slowly becoming more human than statue. His clothes are tattered, singed, and dusty.] What the hell?

Comments

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[hung_garian]

I'm Loki. Who're you?

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[evolv]

[Okay, so either foreign or another weird nickname or codename.]

Darwin. Also, confused.

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[hung_garian]

You aren't the only one. People normally do that where you're from?

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[evolv]

That? No, that's all me. Adapt to survive, baby.

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[hung_garian]

Pretty sure that's not how evolution works, Charles.

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[evolv]

It's how I work, and the name's not Charles. Charles is the other guy.

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[hung_garian]

A 'Darwin' talking about evolution, what else was I gonna say? Suppose you haven't got enough beard to be Charles Darwin himself, though.

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[evolv]

Also a little too dark meat, last time I checked.

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[hung_garian]

Also a little too made of stone.

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[evolv]

Only some of the time. Other times it's metal, or bone.

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[hung_garian]

So... what are you, then?

[The concept's not too difficult for him. After all, his abilities don't make much sense either. This, though, happens to be something he hasn't seen before, and when you're older than the earth, that's unusual.]

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[evolv]

Mutant. Apparently. Just got a name for it a few days ago. Like I said, I adapt to survive.

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[hung_garian]

Like the ninja turtles?

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[evolv]

Like the what what now?

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[hung_garian]

Seriously, did no one here have a TV growing up?

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[evolv]

Man, I grew up in the projects, there wasn't a TV in my whole building 'til '58.

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[hung_garian]

Fifty-- hold up. What year are you from?

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[evolv]

'62. [Duh.] Why, did I sleep through the new year?

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[hung_garian]

You could say that. Oooor you could say you've come about half a century into the future.

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[evolv]

No way, for real?

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[hung_garian]

100%, Marty. Welcome to the world of tomorrow.

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[evolv]

Hoo-wee, man, that is incredible.

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[hung_garian]

Yep. It'd be cooler if we were actually in a part of the future where we could do anything but sit on our asses and avoid the mad scientists, but hey, that's life.

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[evolv]

Seems to be. So what do they do besides the cameras everyplace and the monsters in the woods?

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[hung_garian]

Kidnap people a) to and then b) from here. And possibly run some kind of crazy-making experiments. Beyond that, not sure.