@all | before the event

[industries]

> ts@abraxas-proxy:~$ wall "People's memories of this place"

[ Anyone unfamiliar with computer terminals might be taken aback at the mechanical font that scrolls across their vision, though the jumps and starts in typing speed leave no doubt that a very human brain is behind the text. ]

> Broadcast message from ts@abraxas-proxy (tty/1) :
> People's memories of this place
>
> Don't normally crowdsource, but
> has anyone out there ever heard of someone who got home and actually
> remembered their days here at the renfaire?
>
> Not looking for peer-reviewed analysis.
> I'll take crumbs
> or
> whatever else we've got here on Mind-Reddit.

Comments

[industries]

> You could say "world" is kinda erroneous since it could also be referring to a planet within a given universe, but
> the interesting thing here is you could make the jump at all.
> Huh.
>
> What kind of two "worlds" we talking? Alternate realities that diverged at a particular point in history, or
> one where everyone's evil and wears goatees?

[industries]

> I've done a lot more working with a lot less, so
> you know what, I'll take it.
> Thanks, Honest Abe.
> Would say I owe you a favor but
> have a feeling you'll make sure I remember when you cash it in.

[itookashot]

If we get to go to Nocwich again, might be worth snooping around, asking some questions about the Fey. They're closer, they might know more. And around here, maybe your business partners can get you into their fancy academy library.

That's two you owe me. I never forget.

[industries]

>
> That's a lot to unpack about your appliance hygiene. Just
> a lot to analyze.
> Anyway,
> sorry, cool flashy lights is kind of already my brand.
> You can have
> sequins.
> Potentially one or more glowsticks.

[industries]

> Love the assumption that I don't just nab their books once they've passed out on top of them.
> Oh, see, you're keeping track. Good – now I don't have to.
> 'Till next time.

[ushiri]

The Gates connected another world or universe with Earth. An Earth. The version I jumped to was consistent, as was my own world until the last attempt.

How much do you understand about the Singularity?

[thearchangel]

[ ... Please hold. We are processing. And coming to a conclusion... ]






I'm going to assume "you follow" isn't a serious question.

[Because no. No, he does not follow. Forget Joker. Now he's more reminded of Mordin.]

[industries]

> About as much as anyone else here, on account of not having the scientific instruments to analyze it.
> Though
> probably have a few more theories than the average Joe.
> E.g. a loop gravity nexus could be sustaining a quantum bridge to other universes,
> a mini Schwarzchild black hole could have somehow been preserved within a man-made structure to control access to its event horizon,
> or if you subscribe to the cosmic censorship hypothesis, then any perception of said anomaly proves that we're observing a naked singularity
> (a.k.a. a perpetual, self-sustaining Big Bang that folds in and out of a veritable googolplex of discrete timelines and/or dimensions, thus able to access any given instant within simultaneous, cosmic infinity).
>
> Or it could just be a magical portal made out of a very specific blue space stone, illusioned into a tower by a Viking god wizard, just
> spitballing here.

[ushiri]

[ He's not sure if having this explanation in writing is making it easier to understand or harder compared to listening to it. ]

Do you have a god that you put your faith in?

[industries]

> Could be. If you were an astrophysicist born circa 1975.
> But seeing as you're a weird
> space lizard
>
> yeah, no.
>
> Anyway
> you don't have hyperdrives or warp speed or
> some other form of FTL in your corner of the alien multiverse?

[ Consider, Garrus: An unholy combination. ]

[industries]

[ On some level, Tony knows Strange doesn't relish this. Actually – he knows it on every level, at every frequency. He's now seen the circumstances firsthand – the loss, the stakes, the impossible choices made and the measurements thereof.

At the end of the day, they had to solve the same equation – few versus many. And they came to the same objective result.

But Strange had to give five years, like billions of others – not his whole life. His everything. ]

> Top three contenders, huh.
> Guess you used your chosen field of expertise to excise the concept of "grieving" from your brain–
> smart.
> Practical.

[industries]

> Unless he's cutting curfew, don't think so.

[ It's a joke. Sort of. Try as he might to protect him – armor him – the kid's always had a heart of his own, always thrown himself into the midst of danger whether or not Tony shoved him away from it.

But that's exactly why he's good at it, right? The hero gig. ]

> How about
> how to put this delicately
>
> how did you have kids with a dead man?
> A dead
> synthezoid, even?

[ It's blunt. But fair. ]

[industries]

> No.
>
> If you wanted a nuanced answer, I'm gonna disappoint.

[industries]

> Don't worry, my objectification days are long behind me.
> Just ask my wife.
> And uh
> just look for the giant tower with the big "A" on it.
> It's covered in one-way glass and steel girders and other things you definitely haven't seen before, it's
> fine – if a red-and-gold man flies around looking for you, that's just me.
> Don't sweat it.

[ushiri]

It's fine, I was just curious.

I hope you find better answers to your questions here.

[industries]

> Want to at least give me a name, Quantum Leap?

[aquilus]

[Ah, that sounds familiar.]

I've seen it.
It's extremely ostentatious.
But impressively constructed.

[industries]

> Yeah, like me.
> Cool – it's a date.
> See you there, Al.

[aquilus]

[He could kill you in a second, Stark.]

[industries]

[ Why do you think he's meeting you in the Matrix, knife boy? ]

[industries]

ts@abraxas-proxy:~$ open reply -private peter.msg
> I know.
> We all would try to change things, but
>
> that's not going to happen.
> You know that, I know that, the guy in the red cape knows that.
>
>
> wait
>
> you mean you woke up overnight after going back home for a while, or
> something else?

[ushiri]

Sorry, maybe next time.

[industries]

> Fine, not the first time someone's been an unreasonable tease.
> Good luck with your
> shattered memories or what have you.

[thearchangel]

Turian. It's turian.

And yeah, we do. FTL drives and mass relays. But you're better off asking someone else how they all work.

[... that is a combination worse than Reapers could come up with.]

[carmesi]

[expect the science man to ask the science question. somehow, wanda thinks that just saying 'magic' would not quite suffice, and raise more questions instead.]

I created a world of my own with my magic. Anchored his soul in it. With it came the soul of two boys who chose to be born as my sons.

[a dream and a wish, with all the vagueness of magic dripping from wanda's words into this explanation that severely lacks context. the grief, the pain, the unconscious mind control, the compartmentalizing, the realization of a prophecy with her smack dab in the middle of it.]

But I couldn't keep them. It was a broken spell to begin with.

[and she dreams of them still, every single night. she dreams of a life with her family, with her white-picket fence ending, but it all feels as torturous as a nightmare—dangling in front of her something she could never have. it never takes long for them to scream at her, to turn scared eyes towards her, begging her to not hurt them.]

Do you dream of your daughter?