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Stash: You are Guillaume Dullman, correct?
Guy: Uh...my friends call me "Guy"...
Stash: And this is Quadrant B4121, right?
Guy: uh......yuh?
SFX: IP IP IP
Stash: Hold on.
Stash: YES?
H.Base: Hey Stash! Guess what?
Stash: I'm busy INTERROGATING here...
H.Base: Well the techs just got done with decoding the message intercept, right?
Stash:...and?
H.Base: Well, when we sent you out on your assignment, we could oly give you a partial intercept...
Stash: So?
H.Base: Well, it turns out you're in the right quadrant...
Stash: But?!
H.Base: --But there's no date.
Stash: --huh?!
H.Base: We don't know when the target is supposed to receive the key.
H.Base: Heh! Those guys up in Intel, right, Stash?
SFX: *BEEP*
Guy: Uh...my friends call me "Guy"...
Stash: And this is Quadrant B4121, right?
Guy: uh......yuh?
SFX: IP IP IP
Stash: Hold on.
Stash: YES?
H.Base: Hey Stash! Guess what?
Stash: I'm busy INTERROGATING here...
H.Base: Well the techs just got done with decoding the message intercept, right?
Stash:...and?
H.Base: Well, when we sent you out on your assignment, we could oly give you a partial intercept...
Stash: So?
H.Base: Well, it turns out you're in the right quadrant...
Stash: But?!
H.Base: --But there's no date.
Stash: --huh?!
H.Base: We don't know when the target is supposed to receive the key.
H.Base: Heh! Those guys up in Intel, right, Stash?
SFX: *BEEP*
You fell for one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” – but only slightly less well-known is “never use a time machine without double-checking the date”.
Ah-ha! But there’s no time machine involved…intruigue builds!
Huh, interesting. So they intercepted some data saying Guy was supposed to get the key and just sent her out without knowing whether he’d have it yet or not? And now she’s stuck lurking around him until he does get the key or she fails her mission. I’m sensing she’s going to be very angry for a good while…
Time travel and predicting the future are equivalent as far as information theory is concerned. It’s the same violation of causality, and violating one law of physics is like eating just one chocolate covered coffee bean.
You know, something else is nagging me a little. What is that reflected on the hull of the ship?
@Argent Stonecutter: Our protagonist was briefly abducted by a unicycle cargo robot inside of a suitcase. Take your fancy science-y words elsewhere!
… and stay away from my chocolates.
Well, that explains some things. Poor Guy, looks like he’s not getting out of this craziness for a while yet. Of course, if he did, where would the story be?
You think you can keep me out of your chocolates?
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second, only slightly less well known, is this: never go up against a ferret when larceny is on the line!