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"How large a pocket dimension?
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"A separate dimension within the pocket of space, creating half a dimension."
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"So like this?" (The figure slammed the ground with his open plam, creating an all - white, featureless landscape) "Or more like the dojo?" (The pocket dimension dissapeared, leaving them in exactly the same place)
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"So many questions Steve. Why do you look like a Steve to me?
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"I don't. You just got that name from background telepathy."
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"Interesting. What about Alan? Doe? Smith? John?"
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"I have had a true name, long ago."
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"Interesting."
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"On the subject of names, what's yours?"
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"Call me 1996."
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"Pocket dimension 1996?"
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"Nope. Just 1996."
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"As you wish, 1996"
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"Thank you Steve."
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"Don't call me Steve."
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"If you insist."
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(He hands you a small (half a centimetre by a centimetre) metal rectangle) "Put this behind your ear."
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[b]She does as told. Putting it behind her ear [/b] "Why may I ask?"
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(There's a strange sensation, and you no longer feel the device in your ear) "It's a device which allows communication with all dojo security staff, allows monierting of your vital signs, and, theoretically, escape into a pocket dimension. "
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"Wow. Frightening how much one device contains."
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"Almost all of the functions share sensors with other functions, making it more compact then it would be otherwise."
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"So How'd you get the device?"
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"I made it when I was dormant. It's creation was what led to the drill that awakened me."
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"So you just add on to it?"
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"There was one function that was made, post design."