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.

Comments

[costumechanger]

I see. That would make sense as an exception.

I'm not thrilled with the idea of going along with this place's plans, either, but it's likely that they'll force our hands sooner or later.

[helpdesk_hero]

Force our other things as well.

And I just made that joke. I'm a horrible person.

[costumechanger]

Yes, you are.

Having any luck on the information gathering?

[helpdesk_hero]

So far I'm finding people from maybe two or three other places before this? It's hard to tell. No one else from where I was.

[costumechanger]

Hmmm. It's probably hard to tell much from only a few people. On the other hand, at least there doesn't seem to be that many places like this one.

[helpdesk_hero]

Perhaps there are. Perhaps there aren't. But this is at least the fourth one that I"m aware of. And given the multiverse really is a multitude, they could be countless.

But since you implied so well, I'll try and be positive?

[costumechanger]

I was kinda judging from there being a low percentage of people here who were taken from such places instead straight from home. Even if there's a lot of them, it makes a difference if there's one of these places to fifty normal worlds or one of these places to a thousand normal worlds, right?

[helpdesk_hero]

Given what I've seen of these places having the power to overwhelm literal gods on more than one occassion, I'm not sure even one of these to every thousand worlds is comforting.

[costumechanger]

Yeah, that's a yikes statement if I've ever seen one.

[helpdesk_hero]

Definitely a yikes statement. Plus the last one took powers away.

[costumechanger]

Grife. It's bad enough that this place messed with my powers a bit, I'd hate to be stuck somewhere that got rid of them completely.

[helpdesk_hero]

You... get used to being merely human

[costumechanger]

It's not like I don't know what it's like to not have powers - mine aren't inborn. But I worked hard to get and keep my abilities, so excuse me for not liking the idea of having them stolen from me again!

[Touchy subject is touchy.]

[helpdesk_hero]

I don’t even like the idea of how mine, genetic and completely born to me powers, were taken away. How I can’t get them again. I know the loss. The weight of it. I don’t need to excuse you, I’m too busy understanding you.

[costumechanger]

[Well, now she feels bad about what she'd written.]

Oh, um, I... I'm sorry. You're right, you would understand my feelings better than most. If there's anything I can do...

[helpdesk_hero]

You can resolve not to feel bad about me being powerless, and promise to take things said by our overlords here with a grain of salt.

[costumechanger]

Okay, I agree to both of those things. Not that I was particularly trusting of our captors to start with.

[helpdesk_hero]

Good to hear. Especially given this is a situation where we can't even look at the code of the AI overlord to see if it really is what it says.

[costumechanger]

Not that I'd be able to make heads or tails of the code even if we could look at it. Brainy would, but given how the last time he messed with AI turned out...

[helpdesk_hero]

Yeah. And I don't trust this place to have left me with enough of my coding skill intact to be able to figure it out.