Text - UN: Prodigy

[helpdesk_hero]

Just trying to take a quick tally here, because it's relevant. How many people here have had previous encounters with worlds or dimensions that, uh... 'borrow' you for a while. Basically, is this your first ride in the multi-verse of fucked up stuff, or are you experienced. If the latter, what was the last place like?

I'll start. I'm David Alleyne, I spent several months in a city called Dualis. I heard from some people there that they'd previously been in other places. So I have to assume this just... happens.

Anyway, mostly asking because the more we know, maybe the better chance we have of getting home.

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Re: un: heart

[helpdesk_hero]

So a different dimension, like this? Not just different lands bordering your own?

[helpdesk_hero]

Honestly, I'd consider the whole planet your neighborhood, because the neighborhood really is in it.

Wow, please don't mention his name to me. Or Scott. I've had enough of their divisive bullshit.

[helpdesk_hero]

No, because I cam from a world since then. And apparently this place didn't see fit to take me with my computers. Just my glasses, but there isn't any computer systems for them to interface with.

[helpdesk_hero]

Perhaps. But really, the goal is to be successful. To get home.

[reds]

We have that too, but yes.
Everyone in my country came from this other place...

[softheartedshizun]

I suppose learning how we came to be here would be helpful in figuring out how to reverse it.

I wonder if there's a way to find that out.

[biscuity]

That's horrifying on so many different levels. What kind of organization can make something like that?

[helpdesk_hero]

The AI that ruled the world we were brought to, that kidnapped us there. So I really don't trust what AI are going to tell me.

[helpdesk_hero]

There's a saying back home. Where there's a will, there's a way. I don't know if I believe it though.

[helpdesk_hero]

That's... strange. At least from my perspective. Which is foolish to base your experiences on, I know different worlds work differently. Just intirgued.

[helpdesk_hero]

Sounds like there are some people like my experience here. I almost feel like it's easier for those of you who aren't.

You haven't been betrayed by the way these places work.

[biscuity]

[ AI creating bloodthirsty androids that look like citizens, people killing families to get someone to do their bidding... Maybe Clary's world isn't as messed up as she thought. ]

Here's hoping these robots just spit out subpar clothes and food that makes us want to flirt with anyone and everyone in sight, then...
I hope everyone made it out of that okay. Especially you.
I can't even begin to imagine explaining to people that you weren't the one trying to kill them.

[helpdesk_hero]

People went missing. People I cared about. Seems more likely they're dead.
But I can't be sure, given I'm not there.
The only advantage seems to be that the doubles only attacked the original version. To replace us.

[swordsense]

Betrayed how?

[helpdesk_hero]

The place before this actively tried to kill us.

[swordsense]

How so? What should I be preparing for?

All the alien planets I've been on have been pretty hostile, too.

[softheartedshizun]

I suppose if one works hard they can achieve many amazing feats.

But, fate also plays a role in things that are meant to be.

[costumechanger]

Yeah, I think we all want to go home. Are you doing okay otherwise, though?

[helpdesk_hero]

Some people seemed content with worlds like this where I can from last. After all, if they went home, they'd be dead.

I'm... Okay. Trying to avoid what this place wants of us so far.

[Something that would, of course, not last.]

[helpdesk_hero]

I don't believe in fate. ANd I'm saying that as a friend of a guy fated to be a god. So, maybe I'm just crazy.

[automatized]

Even if they did, I doubt you'd be able to use them to their full potential anyway.

[helpdesk_hero]

Well, beyond explosions, rebellions, and an implied disease that we never saw... Killer robots that looked like us.

Hostile planets aren't bad, you're always cautious on them. Places like this? Not sure

[biscuity]

Maybe other original versions of people you knew will show up here. Though I guess it'd be hard to tell if they were originals or androids...

[ Clary doesn't necessarily believe this is some kind of afterlife as she was nowhere near dying back home, but who knows how the Augur picks the people it brings? ]

Was there some kind of test to check which version they were/are?

[helpdesk_hero]

Very true. Where would I plug them in for one thing? No internet for another, just this strange network.

[helpdesk_hero]

Yeah, I'm not magnetokinetic or ferrokinetic, so I don't think I could tell organics from synthetics without hacking into them. And a good android has a heavily encrypted personal network.

No test. They just... One night of trying to kill us.