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Who: anyone
When: day 38, after noon
Where: in and around the train

[A gentle breeze keeps the afternoon cool. It seems peaceful around now, with the malice pushed back so far, unless you're heading to the island of concentrated malice of course.

It's a good day to relax and daydream.

Distantly you might sometimes hear the tick ticking of clockwork? Or it might be your imagination.

Speaking of imagination, if you think about things too hard you may find your thoughts and feelings shared with those nearby. Or even if you don't think hard at all.

At the mildest this might simply be like your thoughts and emotions being understood by others next to you, either in a vague or explicitly detailed way, but at the most extreme you might project shared delusions. Something like others getting to watch your own memories. Or fantasy sequences. Or inner monologues. Or maybe even blending you delusions with another's.

Whether it goes that far or remains a more telepathic/empathic thing is very random.]

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And with advancement of technology, it's far easier to preserve things. Not to mention intercepting those old signals.

And less humans conquering humans and burning and destroying old cultures.

I guess. Language at least has obviously been preserved if you're even able to watch reruns that old. Like we can understand Shakespeare, but Chaucer is hard.

Well, information got lost because sources were limited. As soon as you have global technology, something that used to only exist in one book in a handful of libraries is now able to exist in several thousand different places at once, if not more.

Which would also help language. More people talked to each other, more people had to agree on one.

I think we have the communication thing going on, but it's more like the more people talk to each other, the more people start learning multiple languages? Except for magician's Latin, but that's different.

Little bit of both. More people can speak more languages, but you do get one more centralized. At least when you start doing space operations.

Less room for miscommunication errors that way, right?

Yeah. A lot of international cooperation needed for space travel, and you don't want to be wrong on what someone is saying for an experimental flight.