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APOLLO ([personal profile] solarcharged) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2019-09-22 05:40 pm

a finer world, part 3 ( video )

[ Today he’s addressing the network from the cloud mottled skies above Nonah once again. It's a sunny day and the big guy is catching some rays, as he is wont to do, from beyond the clouds. ]

For those who don't know me, hi. My name's Apollo.

[ He raises a hand in a brief hello, sunlight haloed around him as he holds the camera aloft with the other. Apollo stares thoughtfully past it, squinting out at the sky beyond. ]

With all the incursions from other universes that have been happening lately I thought it about time to share what I know about things spilling out into different universes. I'm not sure how helpful all this will be, but if it inspires anyone else to talk about their experiences of interdimensional rifts, or if some quantum something-or-other scientist out there can use this info, then... I guess this will be worth it.

[ 'Quantum something-or-other scientist'. Because Apollo clearly isn't scientifically minded. Like, at all. ]

So given where we are, I guess we're all familiar with alternate universes, right? In my world we called the space between dimensions the Bleed. It's the barrier around this universe and every other universe that we've all come from. The artery wall between parallel dimensions. And yes, it's red, so I guess that's why they called it that. No points for creativity there.

Sometimes rifts can be made in the Bleed - doors, holes, fractures, whatever you want to call it. People, monsters, entire armies can travel through these rifts. Once, an alternate England sent an invading fleet of airships through a shiftdoor to attack our Earth. Another time, the Atlantic ocean from Alternate 995 came through a fracture, right into Johannesberg. [ Apollo's usually sunny expression darkens at the memory. ] You can imagine what that was like.

But none of these rifts were ever natural or accidental, all of them were due to something or someone opening up Doors in the Bleed itself. Normally by madmen, or bastards, or sometimes by mad bastards. Creating these rifts involved either advanced interdimensional shiftship technology or vast amounts of post-human power - I'm talking reality warping on a quantum level. Our shiftship was powered by a caged baby universe - that's the kind of power you need to travel through the Bleed.

[ And if anyone expects him to explain that last bit then good fucking luck, because Apollo doesn't understand it himself. ]

I'm not saying this is what's happening here, but this is my experience of 'crazy shit falling out of other dimensions'. As someone who's been through a hell of a lot of alternate universes, I know that there will be more variations on this theme than you can shake a very long stick at. So if anyone else has got any other insights on monsters-falling-through-rifts-in-time-and-space, then here's your chance to speak up. Maybe we can all compare notes or something.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Math Doesn't Add Up (Unsure))

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[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-09-22 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting that you mention reality warping powers as related. Because I know a reality warper, and even he has a bit of problems moving between dimensions. That being said, the young woman who helped me and my team have a nice jaunt through our part of the multiverse, it was just something she could do. She drew on, I don't know, cosmic energy or something, and could punch star shaped holes, even in the air, through to the next reality. She could also use it to travel within a dimension itself in the same method.

This place definitely isn't using her as a power source. But tech doesn't seem to tear through the walls between worlds as much where I'm from.
girlybruiser: (jinkies)

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[personal profile] girlybruiser 2019-09-22 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh gosh, he's flying isn't he? But as amazing as that is, Haru tries to not get distracted and focuses on the disconcerting topic at hand. ]

Some suspect the OTO, but there's been no news about them for a while it seems outside the raid Aegis conducted.
queenofseers: (105)

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[personal profile] queenofseers 2019-09-23 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I'd tell you that this information would have been useful months ago, but who knows if it actually would have been.

[ Cassandra seriously doesn't know anymore, which says a lot. That said, this is more than enough to get the gears in her mind turning. ]

Thing is, are there any signs that..."the Bleed" exists here? Or that we can access it like you could?
Edited 2019-09-23 02:17 (UTC)
crassidy: do not take (234)

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[personal profile] crassidy 2019-09-23 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Have a heavily squinting vampire.]

Hooooly shite, a bit of sunlight content warnin' would be nice next time!

[He's kidding. Mostly.]
a_good: (stretched out on a tarmac)

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[personal profile] a_good 2019-09-23 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[That man certainly appears to be flying. Well then.]

You said someone or something?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Deep Breaths (Panic))

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-09-23 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I really hope the tech never exists in my world, because I guarantee it would be abused. Because that's just how people are.
girlybruiser: i never asked (the answer to a question)

[personal profile] girlybruiser 2019-09-23 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I like this quiet...

[ From them, at least. ]

If something was wrong with the Porter itself, with it porting in these other things, the government would have said something by now, yes?
crassidy: (061)

[personal profile] crassidy 2019-09-23 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! I'm on feckin' fire now!

[He is... very obviously not.]
queenofseers: (80)

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[personal profile] queenofseers 2019-09-23 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes, I'll just go ahead and do that. Slot it in next to curing cancer and finding the meaning of life.

[ That's her attempt at a joke. She's changed enough in recent months that her tone is actually somewhat fitting of it being one, though. ]

But seriously, if the Bleed doesn't exist here, then we have to consider how deep this whole "alternate universe" thing goes.
crassidy: do not take (206)

[personal profile] crassidy 2019-09-24 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, it-it's really bloody bright. Hurt my eyes a lil'.

[He says, as he slooowly slides on his sunglasses.]
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Math Doesn't Add Up (Unsure))

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-09-24 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Florida was what? That's insane!

[And he's definitely horrified. So many people would have died.]
girlybruiser: (like self-esteem camp.)

[personal profile] girlybruiser 2019-09-25 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Then maybe it is the OTO. I'm worried then there's going to be something bigger on its way by the way things are going.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Fuck You! (Exorcism))

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-09-25 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That son of a bitch. I hope he suffered for what he did.

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