Fall Guy 1942 reporting for duty.
Up until recently serving in the Military in what they're now calling World War 2, we'd just arrived in Great Britain ahead of further deployments in Europe.
Anyway, all of a sudden I'm here falling off of sky bridges and reappearing just to fall in a thousand different happy accidents.
But best of all, and I have no way to explain this, I'm now meeting characters from all across time:
Fall Guy 1011: This guy reckons his people are lucky to have survived the millenium. They honestly thought the world was going to end. Some kind of plague? A bug of some sort. He doesn't quite have the vocabulary to express it in detail.
Fall Guy 2020: ..and this guy reckons he may actually living through the end of the world. Something about a supervirus. Except the world didn't end because...
Fall Guy 4338: ...this guy has actually lived through the apocalypse. We lost more than 97% of the population, including virtually all of the exo-Earth outposts. Apparently it all stemmed from an argument about sandwich fillings that got out of hand. Long story short, the Peanut Butter faction won but at huge cost.
Fall Guy 5797: Mankind has surpassed its previous technological levels. The solar system is now gate-linked to seven other systems containing habitable worlds, as well as many exploratory and terraformable systems. Much of the population is now virtual to enable faster travel and inter-operation between systems, and the reality of rebirthing has brought about whole new perspectives on the meaning of life and death.
Fall Guy 6019: Won't talk to us. Occasionally jibbers near meaningly at length about something called the Console Wars.
Fall Guy 6023: Speaks entirely through the medium of dance. Or possibly just really likes dancing.
Fall Guy 6277: Just wanted a shout out! Hope you're doing well buddy. Stay epic! :)
Fall Guy 8812: Rick Astley inexplicably popular again. Overwhelmingly so. It is suspected that a shadowy faction working across the humanish worlds has planted an endless number of self-replicating, all consuming messengers of The Great Lord Astley. The apocalypse is coming again.
Fall 8813: It turns out the events of 8812 were just a fad. Loom bands are back in. Scientists have perfected the flavour of prawn cocktail crisps. Bitcoin is still growing in value despite being owned by one person who refuses to leave his basement.
Fall Guy 9524: Mankind/Human is now a historic concept. There are unknown variations of life throughout the multiverse. Paradise can be assured. Life and death are no more than status conditions in an endless spectrum of existates.
Fall Guy 9999: Y10K bug is causing considerable concern. Early simulations have suggested that the ultimultiverse will reset in some manner and set everyone back to the year 1000. Which has been deemed impossible, so will probably break things.
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