| Contents |
| Scene Summary • Script Summary • Trivia |
| Flashback: Genius | |
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| Chronicle | DC Chronicle |
| Game Date | September 5th, 1915 |
| Real Date | November 2, 2018 |
| Characters | Ian Kross James Murphy |
| Locations | Stratford-upon-Avon |
| Previous Scene | Flashback: Meeting the Family (Ian, James) |
| Next Scene | Flashback: Comforts (Ian) What Happens in Vegas (James) |
| Content Warnings | Racism |
| Original Scene | Flashback: Genius |
Flashback: Genius is a scene from the DC Chronicle featuring Ian Kross and James Murphy. It depicts Ian suspecting James of targeting him for crime due to his standing as a member of the nobility.
Scene Summary
Ian reads
Script Summary
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Ian follows James and the other Irish Travellers into their camp, where several people peek out at him but do not emerge.
 IAN: So that was your mother? |
 JAMES: Oh! Aye, that's my Ma. She smiles more once she knows you. |
IAN: My father's the same. Judging by the gallery at the abbey, I come from a long and distinguished line of scowlers. |
JAMES: Oh? Wouldn't've guessed it. |
IAN: That's where I'm headed, actually. To Lamberhurst. Usually we're in London by now, though there's not much of a Season this year for obvious reasons. We only go to Andover for the hunt season. |
There is a long pause.
JAMES: I bet Hampshire's gorgeous during the holidays. |
IAN: It is! It is. How did you know we had a place there? |
JAMES: Your name. Obviously. There's just the one Viscount Bayham, and it's the courtesy title of the Earl of Camden. And the seat of the Earldom is in Hampshire. |
IAN: Ah! Yes. Obviously. Though actually it's Marquess Camden now. I imagine that hasn't made it to Burke's yet. |
JAMES: Is that so? And here I am with the exclusive. |
They arrive at a hand pump in the center of the camp.
JAMES: Good on him. See to that lever, would you? |
Ian works the pump.
IAN: I never took you for one to keep up with such things. |
JAMES: Oh, no, I read Burke's every year, soon as it comes out. It's a great work of fiction. |
He laughs. They continue to work at the pump until they fill a bucket. There is a long silence as they begin to walk back.
JAMES: You don't believe me. |
Ian stops.
Translations
Trivia
- The mention of Great Tom refers to the clock in Tom Tower, a seventeenth-century clocktower located in Christ Church College inside Oxford University.
- James' mention of Humphrey's refers to Duke Humfrey's Library, a reading room at the Bodlein Library that houses theses written by Oxford students and faculty.
- Stratford-upon-Avon, where James' family is camped, is also famously the home of William Shakespeare.
- The sister James mentions is Rebecca Crosswell.