Case #29: Video

[19centconstable]

[It's an extreme close up of a Victorian constable! George has accidentally turned the camera on himself while picking up his communicator in an attempt to figure out what the strange device is. He looks a little older; a little stockier, because no one escapes the ravages of aging, and 1898 has been kind of a stressful year, what with all of the meth, and Draculas, and outwitting the American government. All of the brass on his uniform is also particularly shiny, and he's wearing a pair of white dress gloves and an expression of general confusion.

And then you can see it slowly dawn on him. And then there's a dizzying shot of the floor flying past as George hurries to make sure that...

Yes. The toilette remains.]

Oh my goodness I'm back.

[There's the sound of someone flopping back onto a bed, and a close up of a quilt. The quilt has the spotlight for a good few minutes, until George remembers the communicator is still running. Normal view!]

Could anybody tell me when it is here?

Comments

[Private]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...It's November 5th.

[Swaying a little? Yep.]

[Private]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Detective Hoffman! It's good to see you again. November 5th you say?

[Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

Last I checked on the calender.

[It switches to video-he looks a little bleary eyed.]

Where'd you go?

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

When it is here is always a difficult question.

November, I do believe.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That's true. Perhaps I ought to have asked how long I had been gone.

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

I wish I could tell you. Unfortunately I've been a little more unaware of both time and comings and goings.

[una_persson]

Welcome back. It's early November, actually.

Are you all right?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I suppose. A bit out of sorts. I'm afraid I've been gone for six months.

[una_persson]

...It's been a week, perhaps, here? Certainly no more than a fortnight, though this last week has felt infinitely longer, so I may be misremembering.

[what_ho_jeeves]

It's...

[Bertie takes out his pocketwatch.]

...quarter til.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Mr. Wooster! ...a quarter til what?

[what_ho_jeeves]

Quarter til one. [Then he frowns, looks at the watch again.]

That's funny, it was quarter til one last time I looked, too. [Someone forgot to wind his watch. But Bertie dismisses this strange phenomenon of unchanging time without much thought.]

I say, you're looking quite sharp, Georgie.

Video:

[vampish_aleera]

HELLO!

Video: Please say she is doing exactly what she's doing in that icon on video

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

[He jumps.]

Miss Aleera?

Video: Aleera does it upside-down! Jumping out at you, that is.

[vampish_aleera]

YESSS...

So pleased you remember!

[toldastory]

Welcome back, George!

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Doctor Jones: thank you. It's certainly good to be back. I hope you've been well?

[toldastory]

Snape-Jones or Martha, please.

I'm alright, thanks.

Video

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

George!

You're back!

Re: Video

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Indeed I am, Miss Brunswick. And very pleased to be so.

Re: Video

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Jane.

Where did you go? Did you want to go?

[Private]
So much was happening...I thought that you might have just...gone.

[Audio] As the other person who watches Murdoch, I feel I now must tag you into oblivion.

[bestlieutenant.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that quilt just look so cosy? [Oh, the sarcasm.]

Let me see if I have this straight. You were given the ability to leave this place, and you decided to return? Of your own free will?

Re: [Audio] The way you feel when you're drunk is correct! Except Dave Mathews Band does not rock.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh? Thank you, miss. It's my landlady's really. [What is sarcasm?]

Yes, that's correct I suppose.

[strangehistorian]

Well, we're outside of the timestream at the moment! What's the last thing you remember?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That awful October business had just been dealt with. I'm told it's not much past that. The ship was certainly repaired quickly.

...are you still a dragon?