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[Things have settled down. Between experiments, amusement parks, abductions and drafts, this is the first nice calm stretch of time he's had in a while. So Mulder's hanging out in the Battle Dome. He's been coming there a lot more lately. The new features interest him, and there are places from home he can't help revisiting. Not always to fight, since it's no longer required, though he throws those scenarios in sometimes too. But mostly he's in there obsessively going back through particular scenes.]

[At the moment, Mulder can be seen sitting in the living room where Samantha disappeared from. The board game Stratego is still set up in place near him, the game left unfinished. It's exactly as the room looked all those years ago. A blinding bright light flashes somewhere in the background.]

I wonder what determines the point in time we're taken from? It appears entirely random from all that I've encountered so far. Almost like someone's throwing darts at a timeline or choosing those times out of a hat. A really ugly hat. I also wonder... why some people are brought here after death. [Jonathan. Gem. ...Sigh.] It doesn't seem fair, to grant someone a new life only to throw them back eventually anyway.

...speaking of that, I've been curious about something for a while. [And needing to expand his files, he's already delved into kidnappings, revival has always been somewhere on his list too.] If anyone who's died before, either here or at home, wouldn't mind indulging me for a couple of questions? I won't ask how it happened or anything, just... some related details on the topic. Thanks in advance.

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[all7seas]

Oh, SO many. [SMILE.] Have you heard, sir, of the Fountain of Youth?

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, Ponce de Leon is famous for trying to locate it somewhere in the vicinity of Florida. I have this theory that it was responsible for some... things I ran across once.

So are you saying- did you really find it?

[all7seas]

"Aye, really did find it. And--sad to tell you this, sir, but the place was destroyed. The fountain was no more in my time, and that would be the year seventeen twenty-three."

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

[Hm... Ponce was earlier...]

Did you encounter any... uh, things in the area? Any supernatural entities?

[all7seas]

"You mean the mermaids? And the zombies? And the dead body of Ponce de Leon in his very dessicated flesh? Aye, son; we did. In the end it became a quest to get out alive, and get my first mate away with me."

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

[Ok, next time he goes home clearly he has to explore more of the area.]

There weren't any mysterious red-eyed forest people picking off the strong members of the party?

[all7seas]

I.....no. No mysterious red-eyed forest people. That's absurd, Monday.

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

Is it really any more absurd than anything else?

[all7seas]

No. I mean, there's more absurder things, but---red eyes? Even the Pelegostos had regular-colored eyes like you and I. They just painted the rest of themselves.

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are red-eyed beasts out there. The tree creatures I encountered. Mothmen, in all reports I've encountered of them. I'd be willing to theorize the same of some extraterrestrial life, too.

[all7seas]

Extraterrestrial life? You mean like Leonard McCoy?

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

I'm talking more those with inhuman physiology that's alien to ours... but I'd say that McCoy, being a space-traveler, can be an honorary one.

[all7seas]

Heh. Understood, sir. Seem to be a lot of those inhumanly physiological ones about in this place.

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

There are. It's my hope to understand them more, to learn more about them and their worlds. Even the red-eyed ones.

[all7seas]

............Right. Interesting man, you, Muldy. I suppose that's rather admirable as long as they're not cannibals.

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

I had a bad run in with a whiole town of those, so no thanks. I still can't look at fried chicken the same way...

[all7seas]

I used to be king of a tribe of cannibals. They nearly spitted me over a fire.

[Ugh. So highly unpleasant.]

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

[Yeah. He's right there with you on that.]

If that's how they treat their king, I'd hate to see what they do with their enemies.

[all7seas]

It was complicated. My poor, benighted children...Still. Better gigs out there than cannibal king, eh?

[ufo-fanboy.livejournal.com]

I can think of more than a few of those, offhand.