21st Century 101, Tuesday Second Period

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The class had been asked to meet in the Danger Shop today, which looked like an ordinary classroom when they arrived.

"Good morning, everyone," Steve said, "and welcome to 21st Century 101. I'm Mr. Rogers, your teacher, and as far as my qualifications go, I was frozen in 1945 and woke up in handwavey year, Marvel timeline is sliding. It was a big adjustment. While my experience is more toward coming from the past and learning to deal with more advanced technology and different social standards, I'm hopeful those of you from more futuristic timelines will benefit from this class, as well. Learning to deal with less advanced technology than you're used to can be stressful, as well. This week we're going to have introductions, and then we'll move on to a series of activity stations where you can learn about some of the basics of getting along in the twenty-first century. You may already know all of this, in which case it might seem a bit silly, but please try to remember that some of your classmates might not and it's not silly to them. Tony Stark," he said, gesturing to Tony if he was there, "is from this time period and will be my TA for this class, so if you have any questions you don't feel comfortable asking me, that's what he's here for."

"So, we'll start with the introductions. I'd like your name, where you're from, and a brief description of the technology in your time period. We'll start with...you," he said, picking a student at random.

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Re: Introductions

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"Uhhh," Sholeh floundered there for a moment. "I think you're in the wrong neighborhood," she said, trying to match the few words she knew--like dimension, thanks Simon!--to the concept of landscape.

"It's hard to explain, if you don't know about Ephemera and the Eater of Worlds," she said slowly. "To protect the world from the Eater, Ephemera shattered and each of those pieces became landscapes. They can be as small as a village or as large and what I think you mean when you say country. Or maybe even bigger! But the size doesn't matter, only the resonances."

She looked up at Professor Rogers, hoping that had made sense. "When you say landscape, what do you mean?"

Re: Introductions

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"Okay, we don't use the word 'landscape' like that at all, no," Steve told her. "To the best of my knowledge this universe isn't shattered in any way. Here," and weren't you lucky you'd gotten an artist who could go into detail on this, Sholeh?, "a landscape is the visual features of an area of land. So you can see, say, the landscape of the forest out your dorm room window, assuming, of course," he said with a wry smile, "you're not facing the ocean side. Or it can refer to a piece of art that depicts those visual features of the land. What you're referring to...hm. 'Dimension,' might come closest, or be most recognizable to other people, but it doesn't have the same meaning as far as broken pieces of one previous whole goes. We refer to the multiverse sometimes, but that's multiple universes that are complete unto themselves."

Re: Introductions

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Sholeh had roughly a million questions to go with that explanation, but at the prodding of her sisters, she bit them back. "We also have that definition of landscape," she said. "But it's not used very much. I'll try to remember that, though, and find a better word for my, uhh, home?"

And then she was physically biting her lip to stop talking.