[BBS / Action]

[cigardog]

[A) Hey look everyone, it's Crime Dog McGruff. If he was a bulldog and wore an eyepatch. And smoked cigars. Okay maybe not such a good role model for the kids. Still, he's undeniably a police dog. And gruff. Welcome back your new Criminal Justice, and International Law Instructor. Feel free to be perturbed by how he's a human-sized dog doing normal people things.

B) Alternately see him in the hallways catching a smoke between classes and yelling at you to get to your god damn classes already. Or you could snark back at him about smoking cigars on campus. Maybe his bark is worse than his bite. Maybe.

C) And then there's the third option which is just his BBS post.]

It's nice to see more diversity around here even if it means the Time Compression continues merrily on. Where are all you lot from anyway? What was the police force like there?

My name is Furor and I'll be one of your Instructors. Congratulations to the new SeeDs. And all that junk.

-- Instructor Lt. Furor

Comments

[cigardog]

No, I just got back.

When did you get here, Espio?

[espio]

Nearly two years ago. Didn't we already go through this?

[cigardog]

And then you were gone.

[espio]

[...waitamoment, did Time Compression screw him over again? Is he going to have to check and see if everyone else is in the same timeframe?Please, don't make the words "what year is this" necessary.

No, really, please don't. The very idea that Time Compression may have just screwed with him without his noticing makes him feel pretty nervous.]

You're kidding, right? I've been here the whole time!

[cigardog]

[Rubs the back of his neck and shrugs.] Last time I saw you was ages ago. I just got back from a very long series of missions after graduating.

[espio]

And the last time I saw you was last week, and you had no idea what any of this was.

[Espio's just so, so confused, and they've barely even spoken yet!

Logically, Furor could have ended up in the past or something, and just worked his way up from there, but... Espio would have known if New Tek's police chief was hanging around somewhere, surely!

This isn't the future. Nope, can't be. He can not have suddenly timehopped into the future. Right?]

[cigardog]

That was years ago.

Whatever, I suppose it's hardly important at this point. Have any others from your group shown up here?

[espio]

[But... but it wasn't years ago at all!

Sorry, but with an authority figure here telling him that last week was years ago, he really has to go and check other sources now.]

No. Still just me. Probably gonna stay just me!

[cigardog]

[Frowns.] You can't know that. Especially with all this nonsense.

[espio]

I gave up on them showing their faces ages ago. Even Charmy hasn't found his way here to annoy me yet.

[Except for that little kid version. The one who definitely wasn't his Charmy - he was crying at being lost in a strange place. The Special Zone's Charmy wouldn't have even noticed he was lost in a strange place.]

[cigardog]

I see. [FROWNS. What can he even say to make it better?] Stranger things have happened, as I'm sure you realize.

You're gradated, right?

[espio]

[A nod.]

February.

[cigardog]

Fine. At lunch break we can share a coffee and you can catch me up on what the hell's been going on in the Garden while I was gone.

[Poor Espio, to the chameleon... he just explained everything a week ago. To the police chief here, that was like 3 years.]

[espio]

Fine. I'll see if I can make the time.

...you all right, Lieutenant?

[cigardog]

Yeah, of course. I haven't been back so long that any runts are getting on my nerves. Why?

[espio]

Figured I'd ask, if it's been so long - better check you've not burst a blood vessel or something.

[cigardog]

Quiet down punk. I've held my own without you lot around before.

[Though he's clearly amused.]

[espio]

Yeah, barely.

[cigardog]

Hah, so that's how I made it to police lieutenant and now an instructor in this place?

Oh, of course.

[espio]

Well, if we put you side-by-side with other instructors and the rest of your police force... can't be that hard!

[cigardog]

Hah! Don't make me challenge you one on one, you wouldn't stand a chance.

[I don't even know what he'd challenge him in...]

[espio]

In what? Paperwork? Coffee drinking contest?

[cigardog]

If you'd like.