I always love it when Eyrie Productions can come up with interesting new twists on existing characters (fictional or non); the witch version of the renowned M. Cousteau was a nice treat to find this morning.

A question: back in New Tricks, Mio spent a month or so I think with UF-Gryphon on Ishiyama, but it was only the NEXT DAY when she returned to her own universe/timeline... if that's the case will UF-Gryphon been gone a long time or a short time in the UF-verse? NORMAL time conversions stump me as it is, never mind those brought on by dimensional travel.

When he talked to his Not-Really-Love-Slave-Vampire a few chapters back, he mentioned he couldn't go back to before she left the main UF universe, so I suspect there's some control over it. Or at the very least, he can sort of aim and there will be a Goddess or a TARDIS on the other side to intercept him.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

-Droken

My guess: Mio was using Minna's tie as a guide, so it was drawing Mio back to a time as close as possible to when she took it. The fight against the Neuroi required Minna to make heavy use of magical energy, which made her an easier target to locate, thus the dramatic arrival time.

Peter Eng
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It was actually more like four or five months - she arrived in summer and left the day after the first snowfall of the year - but it wasn't a straight crosstime jump; she traveled forward (and then back) in time as well. Therefore, the relative speeds of both timelines aren't necessarily important. To use an inaccurate but serviceable metaphor, she didn't just cross the road, she went several houses down as well.

What this means is that Gryphon doesn't need to keep track of how long he's spent in 1946 to calculate his return trip when the time comes - he just has to know how long his absence from 2411 has been Established Fact, in order to avoid causing awkward adjustments (or indavertently spawning a new parallel timeline through paradox resolution) when he goes back. Hence his query to Marceline about when she'd left from. Technically speaking, he could go back to before she left - or indeed before he left, if he was careful not to meet himself - but it's safer and less fiddly to aim for a day or two later, just to give himself a margin to work with.

In practice, since he has no idea how to make a time jump from 1946 (it's not as if the technology yet exists to build even a primitive flux capacitor, let alone anything more sophisticated, and he's not too sanguine about his chances of pulling off the metasorcerous technique Mio used), inasmuch as he's thought about it at all, he probably assumes that someone will have to come and get him, in which case it's technically their problem. :)

(Plan B is to just wait around until the mid-1980s, when he expects he will be able to build a flux capacitor. Assuming the Neuroi don't destroy humanity, that wouldn't be a particularly problematic outcome.)

--G.
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No, the Lens network doesn't span across time. (That's why Skuld had to build a relay for Dìqiú; it's not the same kind of parallel universe, but for purposes of ætheric communication, the principles are the same.) At present, the only Lensman G can make contact with is Wolfgang.

--G.
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(Whups, took too long remembering how to type "Dìqiú"...)

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*spittake* Very well done, G. *applause*

It's all about the context! There'll be more about this in the annotations.

Besides, he's just as surprised as you are. :)

--G.
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I don't think "surprised" is a strong enough word to use in the context of this particular wonder of modern technology. Took me a few minutes to remember where I'd heard the name before... and a few more to stop laughing.

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"I've been thinking about that for most of the day, in the back of my head, while
I've been doing other stuff," he said. "I wondered myself about everything you've
just said... but I think I have a plan. I don't know if it'll work, any more than
I knew what you and I did would work when we started out... but I think it's
worth a shot."

so my first thought? Gun Kata...and wondering if Geoff (or one of the tetragrammaton) will make an appearance.

I have no idea the actual likelihood of this being the answer -- I've long since learned that my brain doesn't work like other people's :)

... but it's the thought that crossed my mind.

* edit: missed a close paren...what is this, Scheme?

Well, it's certainly not COBOL!

A single, sharp crack.

"What do your feelings tell you?"

"There are none."

"... What, exactly, are you feeling right now."

"Recoil."

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