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001 Shot Fired [text; action for Rocket Base]

I'm going to list a series of words.

If they are at all familiar to you please respond otherwise dismiss this.

Cold War
Spetsnaz
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nikita Khrushchev
Tselinoyarsk

[About an hour later on the Rocket frequency:]

My name is Adamska. Code name Ocelot. Call me either. I'm a GRU Major if that means anything to any of you.

I would like to speak with whomever is in charge here.

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font face=courier>Fortunately, it's nothing of the sort.

I'm looking for people I would know. If they're here at all.

You think only your friends have heard of the Cold War?

If someone knows what I mean by Tselinoyarsk it means they were stationed with me.

Stationed? You some kind of military man?

If you're worried about Khrushchev and the Reds, I've got some good news.

In a manner of speaking.

Oh? What would that news be?

[Blake scowls at the text on his screen. He hates slippery bullshit.] What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

You can come on back home to Illinois or wherever the hell. The Cold War's been over for 20 years. Mr. Gorbachev tore down that wall.

That's all well and good but I wasn't born in America and I'm not American anyway.

I was born in France, though I'm not French either.

Going by the current date here, I'd be very close to turning 70 if I hadn't been pulled here from the 60s anyway.

[Most of the shit on that list was Russian, so it's not hard to jump to a conclusion.]

What are you, a time-traveling Russky?

For someone who is in a world full of magical animals I'm not sure why this is such a surprise.

I didn't time-travel intentionally at any rate.

One piece of crazy bullshit being really doesn't mean everything is. If you found out there was such thing as aliens today, would you go around believing in ghosts and superpowers tomorrow?

For somebody from the 60s, you figured out text messaging real fast. I know old guys back home who still haven't gotten the hang of it.

It's not so different from a typewriter.

I'm also not an old man, despite what I said. I'm twenty.

Sure it isn't. You just have to change the ribbon every now and then.

Twenty, from the 60s. Does that make you a Russky hippy?

A hippy that asked about Spetsnaz, sure.

[Oh right. Sarcasm doesn't translate well through text, does it?]

It's already been established I'm part of the Russian military. I'm not against war.

Oh, yeah, I'm sure you got plenty of friends in the Commie special forces.

[What was that about sarcasm]

That's what you kids are supposed to be around then, right? Flower children and all that shit.

Life's full of surprises.

I was raised in a militarized environment. I'm not sure what you expect me to say. That I wear a crown of daisies in my spare time?

[Ocelot.]

What, the Commie armed forces had nursery schools back then?

[Well actually...] Hey, you said you were from the 60s.

That's right.

I still don't have anything to do with American social movements.

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