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[horrifictie]

greetings citizens.

behold: the city speaks! it is a raven that appears in my mind's eye, without a voice and yet with speech all the same. cool cryptid shit. im a superstar prophet now.

do you have any questions you want to ask the city? i'll ask them for you. no lame questions and only one a person! cant waste my new friends time with TRIVIAL mortal concerns.

[ ooc: this is related to harry's new power and questions will be relegated to the mods for answers. there might be a response delay while I wait for the mods to respond so just keep that in mind! ]

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[retroductions]

But I am British. And great, and consulting.

[horrifictie]

yeah but you need to prioritize!
let go of british or consulting.

[retroductions]

[But... no.]

How am I supposed to choose which to discard, like it were little more than trash? That is like a parent deciding which of their children should be sent away because there are not enough rooms in a house.

No, for now, I impress it upon others to infer the rest. "Dete" is enough to go on.

[horrifictie]

sometimes short and sweet is more of a punch!
anyway who needs to know you're british?
sounds made up.

[retroductions]

Other British individuals! Those who hail from my Earth. I must establish connections where I can, and it is much easier to do so when I can bolster that connection with familiarity to start.

Moreover, it is part of the established introduction. "I am a great British consulting detective, the only one in the world!" It is contesting for a spot as my proper catchphrase.

[horrifictie]

im going to take a very wild assumption here and say this:
i think anyone could tell you are british if they know what british is by looking at you.

[retroductions]

Now that is quite the assumption! And based on what? Do you think I walk about with the flag draped across my shoulders?

[horrifictie]

you are dective sholmes, right?
when we met i noticed you had an accent.
it sounded similar to the vespertines of my world.
surely people will be able to surmise your nationality based on that.

[retroductions]

I admit you have me at a disadvantage. Have we met before? When was this?

[horrifictie]

ahaha!
see
a mystery for you to solve

[retroductions]

[Hm.

Scrolls up to the first message.]

Harry.

[horrifictie]

no.

[retroductions]

No, I think I am right! Mystery solved! And in a matter of seconds, as expected of a great British consulting detective.

[horrifictie]

dont you mean greatbritishconsultingdete

[retroductions]

[Hngh.]

And another problem with your logic! Did you not say my accent is similar to a Vesper? Vespertine?

[horrifictie]

correct!
as a detective myself i will deduce that you have never heard of vesper because it does not exist in your world.

[retroductions]

And that would be a correct deduction, though it does not completely nullify my original point. All the more reason to keep "British" in my name, otherwise I may be mistaken as a Vespertine, instead.

[horrifictie]

[ !!! ]

shit
well played.
ok then keep british and remove consulting?
greatbritishdetective
rolls off the tongue

[retroductions]

[Hmm. HMMM.]

I suppose the “consulting” part could be described within the conversation itself…

[horrifictie]

there you go!
we worked it out

[retroductions]

Quite so! One more cased closed.

[They should be proud of themselves.]