Cohost writing prompt: @Making-Up-A-Villain — Villain who only uses .beats to measure time
"Hey. Guess you're busy, since this hit your answering machine. Call me back, right? Got a — well, I think this one might suit you. It's either a hoax, or — well, it sounds fucking weird to me, okay? Bomb threat from some clown calling himself le chercheur du temps perdu — no priors. No hits online, even. Says he's a time traveller. Says the bomb — or possibly our response to the threat, he talks funny, that's one reason I think this might be — anyway. Claims he's provoking peturbations at randomly-chosen points in history. Chaos theory, yeah? Butterfly wingbeats.
"Anyway, get this, the address he says he's going to blow up is an exhibition hall that was planned but never built, some kind of millennial celebratory project that ultimately got canned — just a vestigial metro line extension and some empty concrete lots there. And he's gonna do it, I quote, on 13 Germinal CCXXXII, dot-beat 500—"