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[thiwp]

[ so Gwen doesn't love the idea of posting to this kind of social media platform to get answers about this place, but it's not like she's going to just come out and ask for the dirty details of what the crime rate is like here. she has to play it smart, and this seems like the best way. even if she needs to make semi-smalltalk to get to that point. ehh. not smalltalk. this won't be just regular smalltalk. ]

new kid on the block here, hey. my name's gwen. i just have a few questions that weren't answered in their little welcome spiel.

1) what's the best music shop in town? if i'm gonna be stuck here, i need to invest in a drum kit or i'll go nuts. unless someone wants to just give me a kit, that'd be great too. i'm not above taking a generous musical instrument donation.

2) despite how insane this all is, the Porter decided to hook me up with the superpower that gives me the ability to find the nearest corndog. that's it, that's all it does. which is kind of amazing, don't get me wrong, but only if i know which places are actually worth visiting to get said corndogs. weigh in, street food lovers. which cart makes the best corndogs in town? in any of the towns, actually. ( yes this is vitally important to how enjoyable my time here will be )

3) what's the live music scene like here? if i'm going to be working at a radio station, i guess i need to get with the times. plus, i wouldn't hate finding people to jam with.

anyway, that's it. this is some hard-hitting stuff, i know, but i'm hoping some of you can help me out. thanks. c:

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[notyourfathersosborn]

[Normie's grateful this is text, because he's kind of staring at the ID name.]

...So you have Corndog radar?

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[thiwp]

basically yes
it'll be tough getting used to it, but i think i can handle it
i'll try my best anyway
doing my part to save the world and all that
somehow
via corndog finding

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[notyourfathersosborn]

Hey, if there's one way to world peace, it's through an amazing corndog.

You'd be doing a great service to the place that technically abducted all of us.

[thiwp]

yeah that's the tricky part of all this, isn't it?
trying to figure out if we should be breakfast clubbing this whole situation
go with it
i guess
usually i at least get a warning before i'm warped to another dimension


kidding

[ wow gwen ]

[notyourfathersosborn]

If we tried that, a fight would break out over who gets to be Judd Nelson.

[Normie's kind of grateful for the reference, because now he knows for sure this isn't the same Gwen as the one he wondered it might be. The one from his dimension.]

Man, if only we got some kind of warning system. "Attention please, we're about to send you to another dimension. Try not to freak out too badly."

[thiwp]

that's a very good point
luckily i've always connected more with allison than anyone else so i wouldn't have to worry about that

i imagine some people are probably totally cool and calm about this kind of thing
i'm not really one of them
well i mean
i didn't have a total meltdown
but c'mon
i just started a new job and then i get warped here
great timing, porter.

[notyourfathersosborn]

Lol.
If I'm being honest with myself, I'm probably more like Emilio Estevez.
Andrew.
Or was.

You don't have to worry about your job, at least. When you get sent back you go back to exactly when you left. As someone who recently went home for about 4 seconds, I can vouch for that.

[thiwp]

hah!
"and I was like - Emilioooooooo!"
"( the mighty duck man, I swear to god! )"

name that movie!

oh! huh. i guess that's.. cool?

[ why couldn't it work like that back home? whatever, she'll brood about it later ]

i might regret asking this, but what could have happened in four seconds that the porter decided to send you back home to experience it?

[notyourfathersosborn]

Easy. Night at the Roxbury.

"You can take away our phones and you can take away our keys, but you can NOT take away our dreams!"

I've got NO idea. Still trying to figure it out. I basically did some work at the Osborn Corporation, had dinner with my wife, met up with a friend, and next thing I knew I was back here and a month had passed.

[thiwp]

nailed it.

"YEAH cause we're like SLEEPING when we HAVE THEM!"

hn
yeah i was going to ask about your name but in text that could come off 100 different ways so i didn't
are you an Osborn of Oscorp fame?

[notyourfathersosborn]

I've got one for you now: "One plus two plus two plus one."

Fame's one way of putting it.

But yes.

Harry Osborn was my father.

[thiwp]

CLUE! i used to watch that all the time with my dad. he's a cop. quirky cop/mystery movies is kind of our thing.

uhh

oh

well jeeze

harry's a friend of mine.

[ IS YOUR MIND BLOWN that blows minds sometimes in some universes but hey maybe harry osborn was a cool weirdo in other worlds besides her own ]

[notyourfathersosborn]

Clue's one of my favorites.

Oh that's cool, watching movies with your dad.

[Normie's not jealous or anything, nope.]

I thought your name sounded familiar. You went to college with him, right?

[Playing it smooth. Like a boss.]

[thiwp]

high school.

but i've been told that things are a little weird where i'm from, compared to most timelines.

[notyourfathersosborn]

[Well, that jives with what he knows about his dad's past.]

You've gotten the multiverse talk then, huh?