Year One [Trinity Continuum: Aberrant]

Well, it’s been a year since N-Day and our announcement of Aberrant‘s dev team, and I’m sure you’re all thirsty for some previews. Who better to give us her unique view of the world than America’s sweetheart, Jennifer “Slider” Landers, as part of her popular Opcast, Where2Now, courtesy of Alex Melchor.

…and here we are! No, we’re not in an alien ruin on Mars, we’re at Pinewood Toronto Studios! I know, I know; this is different from other episodes and some of you may be wondering why I’m not at some beautiful natural spot.

Truth is, like many young kids with a streaming channel and too much time on their hands, I used to dream about being “discovered” by the film industry. I dreamed about taking over as the new actor to play a certain raider of tombs. But then major productions moved to India, not to mention that I erupted and joined Team Tomorrow, so I get to save the world for real. Fair trade, no?

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Fortunately for other dreamers, Toronto is picking up where Hollywood left off, and now it’s the mecca of the indie film and OpNet drama industry! Two of my favorite OpNet series are filmed in this very soundstage… guess which ones in the chat, and at the end of the episode, a random lucky winner will get some nerdy loot I picked myself!

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Leave blockbusters and big-name films to Mumbai and Hollywood, Toronto is where you go when your vision is powerful and your ambition is great. Here you can mingle with people who are insanely creative and not afraid to take risks. Play nice and you’ll be able to build something amazing and share it with the entire world!

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Hello, everyone and happy N-Day! I’m in Mexico City now, because Ricardo, you know, from T2M Americas, he said I haven’t really celebrated N-Day until I do it in Mexico City, and he wasn’t kidding! The party’s in full swing now; I’ve come across three different street music bands, and vendors selling all sort of things! I got Pax a balloon with his face on it! He’ll make a face, but I’m sure deep inside he’ll love it, hah!

Restaurants are giving out snacks and drinks for free outside their doors, people are just jumping and laughing, their faces painted in blue and gold, and man! The energy all around me is great! And… wait! Oh, my god! Can you see this? It’s a Divis Mal piñata! And, whoa! Is that me? Haha! I’m a piñata! I’ll take that as being full of sweetness and not that someone would want to beat me up! Oh! Oh! Is that what I think it is? Let’s take a closer look!

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It is! It’s the Galatea! But what is it? Excuse me? Eh… qué es esto? Fuegos artificales? Oh, my god! It’s fireworks! They’re going to actually blow this up! It’s going to be a-ma-zing! Oh! I think somebody recognized me!

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Hey, people! Sorry for the skip; I have so much footage I’m going to have to edit it down to the highlights and upload them later. By the way; this is Doña Paquita; she runs this cute little cafe. Her daughter and her friends kinda adopted me earlier to show me around the best bars downtown and I just got them all home, because hooray nova alcohol metabolism and amazing warping powers, but Doña Paquita wouldn’t let me go without serving me the best damn coffee I’ve ever had and her homemade tamales.

I’m going to get a bit moody and say today has been incredible. I’m used to being around fans and people asking me for my autograph, and I take every selfie with people that I’m able to, but today was… different. The people here didn’t just make me feel welcome and admired, they made me feel like family.