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You simply look at them and find no interest in them at the moment so you simply walk away and once they have turned their backs, you made your way inside the building quickly and efficiently, well almost. As you made it into the chamber you notice that the time machine was strangely unguarded and you took your time walking around before getting close to it, you looked at the controls for it and just started pushing random buttons until the lights of the room turned red and the portal opens up and many armed guards run into the room and aim at you, you quickly jump through as you hear bullets firing and as you look around you are at the foot of a barricade in what seems to be a very Victorian city, you look up and see a man, an actual other man on top of the barricade waving a flag that was just red, he looks down at you and smiles “have you come to join our revolution brother?!”