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[Finally, after all this time! Mulder has found that much-desired basketball. He's in luck too, as it's well-inflated, not a sign of wear or tear on it. Too many times, he's come across half-deflated or otherwise messed up ones. But this one is perfect. It's as if there's finally some compensation for all the usual rounds of disappearances and so on. He's really needed this. He starts dribbling the ball right as he leaves the shop and continues bouncing the thing everywhere he goes throughout the day. It can also be heard in the background of his voice transmission.]

Does anyone have any unique birthday traditions they care to share? I wonder how similar these traditions might be between the worlds... Let's just say I'm curious, for purely theoretical reasons.

...By the way, is there anyone out there who'd be up for shooting some hoops or even getting together a pick-up game of basketball? Of course, we'd actually need to throw together a hoop somehow first, but minor details! If you've never played before, I promise I'll go easy on you.

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Nope, can't say it rings a bell. It doesn't even faintly jingle any. Maybe our worlds aren't as similar as I'd assumed...

[Uh. What was the old name for it... uh. It was-] New York?

Now we're talking about something I'm familiar with. Why the different names before that? [Are they talking an alternate universe, or...] Are we looking at some kind of timeline difference?

New York's the Old 'Merican name for part of Noram.

Ah, ok, so we are talking timeline... What year is it, where you're from?

2232. [Always the same question]

What do you know... than that means you're from the future, from my perspective. I came here from 1998. They really changed all the names of places over that time? Were there any other major alterations to the world?

I'm not that buff on history. Two cen back, magic went away, but I had to eb told that. Less than that ago, Old 'Merica went poof.

Do you know anything about the cause of the- uh- that 'poofing', as you put it?

Not a lot. [Lightly. She wonders about it herself.]

So we have a mysterious cause on hand...

What's the future- uh, your time period, like, in general?

Why don't we talk this when we got a court? Where should I go?

Oh, I'm out near Community Building 7... I'm setting something up right as we speak.

Be right there. I'm the one with the ra[i]d hair.

[And she will. After all, she hangs out there enough. Shouldn't take her too long. Now where would a hoop be?]

Right, I'll keep an eye out.

[He'll be bounding his ball around his makeshift court, it's overall not a bad setup for something he only just threw together.]

[Aaaaand there it is.]

Yo!

[With a wave even]

Hey! You made it out here, great!

[He bounces the ball a few times.]

In one piece, even.

[And she nods. She'll talk more about the "future" if he wants. but mostly she's just here to play]

Around here that can be a pretty big deal.

[One never does know when they'll be taken. It could happen at any time, for any reason. But enough tinfoil-helmety paranoia for now. Mulder bounces the ball a few times and then takes an experimental shot at the hoop, watching it go through.]

I just finished setting up. I think we're good to go.

Alright, spled - name you game.

[As she briskly gets over to the ball to get the "rebound" after it passes through the net. Probably abnormally quick, but when you're the Slayer you get so used to being super you fail to notice minor displays of it]

[Mulder notices the quickness- which definitely catches his interest right away, as a paranormal investigator. He really needs to turn that off better when he's supposed to be not-working.]

I'm guessing the rules are pretty much unchanged in your time? We could go with, say, first one to twenty one?

[Okay, beginning to dribble-]

Baskets or points?

[Good to know some things don't seem to change in the future.]

Points. Using the standard scoring rules.

Deal.

[and she toss the ball back to him with a standard pass. One she tries to hold back on but probably feels like a professional just threw it]

[Mulder definitely notices the ease with which she tosses it. He'll have to stay on top of his game as he takes and starts dribbling the ball.]

So recreational sports are still around in your time. I take it the world hasn't suffered any apocalypses then?

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