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[a_good]

With everything that's happening, we need pool our information better. There may be details or patterns we can use to handle this and predict what might come next.


1. Have any of the phenomenon in the past year resembled something from your universe?

2. If so, was it exactly the same, or was there something different about it?

3. How is it dealt with in your universe?

4. How many people from your universe are here?

5. How long have you been here?

6. Have you ever Ported out? If so, how many times? Did you return to your world, or come back with no memory of having left? Did your powers change?

7. Have you had any contact with the OTO or people affiliated with them?

8. Which part of the recent code did you receive?

9. What involvement do yo have with the government?

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[a_good]

I'll start.


1. Only those caused by malfunctioning powers.

2. Inapplicable.

3. Inapplicable.

4. One.

5. Nearly a year and a half.

6. I Ported out once for a day, and came back able to use magic like that in another imPort's world. I didn't remember being gone.

7. Nothing direct. I was able to have the fairies, when they were around, steal some documents, but I'm afraid there wasn't anything useful.

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9. I have to go through them to use the Porters, of course, and I attend the swear-ins.

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[dragony]

1. Jeopardy has the trappings of a place I used to know, but it's not the same place. Other things are familiar, but not in the way you mean it.

2. See above.

3. Bind it to the soil, and bury the rest.

5. I lost a couple years between then and now, but I'm one of the first arrivals for our modern lot.

6A: On this side, twice. Before, once.
6B: I did not return to my original world. Usually feels like teleporting into a hangover.
6C: Only recently.

7: No more than the usual sort.

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9: I don't bother them, they don't bother me.

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[a_good]

Thank you for replying.

3. What sort of thing? Supernatural powers?

6A. You were in the last world imPorts were in?
6C. How did your powers change?

7. Through their general messages and incidents, then?

[dragony]

3. I suppose you could put it that way, but it was more like a fulfilled request for divine intervention.

6A. Yes
6C. Some were lost in exchange for something else, one changed in scope of perception. All still in the same sorts of powers as before.

7. Yes. To my knowledge.

[a_good]

3. What kind of divinity?

6A. Have you noticed any evidence of that world bleeding into this one, other than imPorts an the Fates?
6C. The same sorts?

[dragony]

3. The godly kind. I suppose that's the easiest way to explain it.

6A. There are parallels, in the way things happen and the way people act, but I wouldn't say that world is bleeding into this one. None of its monuments have arrived here. Nothing of its unique geography. None of its original people.
6C. Categorically speaking. Like how people can have different types of healing powers, or manipulation of the elements, or spontaneous weapon generation. The things that have changed remain within the same category of power, even if they're different skills.

[a_good]

3. Different from Lachesis and Atropos?

6A. Thank you. That's worth knowing too.

[dragony]

3. Different. The gods of my world don't speak in human tongues. They aren't 'just like us,' like they are everywhere else. They aren't people. Most humans can't even retain the memory of the divine, if they ever experience it directly.

It's a very different kind of thing.

[a_good]

I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

[dragony]

It's easier, at least.

I would rather a deity as constant as a star than one that goes through moods and tantrums like a next-door neighbor.

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[choosetruth]

1. The zombies.

2. It's hard to say how closely they resemble ours without an epidemiologist and a lot more close and personal time with them than I'm interested in spending.

3. Romero was pretty dead on. Destroy the brain. Don't get bitten or scratched or get their fluids in your blood stream in any other way. Save the last bullet for yourself because it's better than the other ways you can go. Wash yourself and everything else potentially contaminated with bleach.

4. Three, including myself.

5. A year.

6. Never.

7. Yes. They don't understand journalistic integrity.

8. //

9. I write about them.

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[a_good]

Thank you, this is helpful.

Regarding the OTO, did you try to interview them?

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[choosetruth]

Of course. They wanted me to first use my blog to lie for them and fuck that. My integrity is not a bargaining chip.

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[a_good]

What lies?

[detectivedwloki]

1. No.

2. n/a

3. n/a

4. None that I'm aware of but I am from an Earth.

5. About six weeks.

6. No.

7. No.

8.

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9. I'm Registered, if that counts?

[a_good]

Thank you.

4. Are there any particular ways your Earth is different from this one?

9. That counts. Have you done any work with the government, or just registered?

[detectivedwloki]

Nobody has any of these comic book type super powers in my world.

I've never worked directly for the government. I work with the police back home. I'm a detective.

[a_good]

It's common in fiction, though?

Are you looking to do the same work here?

[detectivedwloki]

Well, yes. But that's only fiction.

Yes, I'm looking to be reinstated. They made me a locksmith here, which only makes sense as a joke.

[monster_san]

1 - 3: Not applicable.

4. I am the only one, as of September.

5. I was here from 2016 - 2017. I have been here now since last November.

6. I was absent for a year and returned with my memories of this world intact.

7. Not to my knowledge, aside from having to deal with their mischief at Swear-Ins.

8. The segment headed by <.

9. I'm Registered, but little beyond that. To be honest, I've never found them trustworthy.

[a_good]

Thank you.

Did you experience anything in your world while you were gone?

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[bifroster]

1. So far, no. Some of the instances have reflected things that are *in* my world, but only in a fictional sense. The musicals, for example, are a type of movie or stage production, not something that happens in real life like this.

2. N/A

3. N/A

4. Without considering the possibility that some of them are from an alternate version of my world, as opposed to the exact same one, four to five people.

5. Since August.

6. No.

7. No.

8. I received the fourth piece.

9. I am currently registered, but other than that, nothing. Back home, I had little to do with the government as well. They once tried to take my research and then give me hush money, but I refused that.

[a_good]

4. For this I think it's most useful to think of worlds as discrete, though alternate versions are definitely worth keeping in mind in general.

9. What research was it?

[bifroster]

4. Yes. Marco and I were thinking of creating some kind of directory to keep track of these, but then we came across privacy issues.

9. The same research I did back home: theoretical astrophysics, with an emphasis on faster-than-light transportation technologies. In addition to teaching college level physics.

[by_candlelight]

1. Have any of the phenomenon in the past year resembled something from your universe? Not really.

2. If so, was it exactly the same, or was there something different about it? Non-applicable.

3. How is it dealt with in your universe? Non-applicable.

4. How many people from your universe are here? None to my knowledge.

5. How long have you been here? Six months or so.

6. Have you ever Ported out? If so, how many times? Did you return to your world, or come back with no memory of having left? Did your powers change? Not yet.

7. Have you had any contact with the OTO or people affiliated with them? Not knowingly.

8. Which part of the recent code did you receive? Sorry, not telling unless my sorta-boss comes in and tells me it's a good idea.

9. What involvement do you have with the government? I'm registered, and I live in government housing. They also got me my job at a restaurant. Back in my world my relation to the government was 'they are awful at taking care of wards and I am prone to abduction and/or escape'.

[a_good]

Thank you for answering. If your boss would like to share the code, I'd appreciate it. It would be helpful to know if they're targeting any groups in specific ways.

I think a lot of us come from worlds where the ruling powers act differently from the government here. It makes things a bit complicated.

[by_candlelight]

He's Blue Beetle, in case you need help there. He's one of the leaders of the Justice League.

Yeah. The government here is still inept, just in different ways. I'm also from Japan, not America, so I can't really compare this world's Japanese government without doing a whole lot of research I really don't have the heart to do right now.

[lesterzeppelin]

1. Only the bursting-into-song.

2 and 3. Exactly the same, because I caused it.

4. Three, including myself.

5. A year and eight months, give or take a few days.

6. Once, last December. I returned to my world; no change in power.

7. Indirectly. I work with Aegis.

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9. I use the Porters on a daily basis, attend some swear-ins, and I work for Aegis. Nothing beyond that.

[a_good]

Thank you.

1-3. How did you cause people bursting into song?

7 & 9. What have you seen of how the OTO and the government work?

[lesterzeppelin]

1-3. I just wanted them to??? idk, I’ve got total control over music and sound so it happened. Never thought to question it.

7-9. Government is slow. They’re more bogged down by paperwork than anything.
OTO COULD be behind the reality bending, but idk why. They live in this world too, and it falling apart would mean they die with us.

[a_good]

Do you have that here too?

I think if the OTO is behind this, it's a side-effect of their work, not the intended outcome. But we can't be certain.

[lesterzeppelin]

Yeah. Wasn’t responsible for everyone else singing earlier, but I can make a few people sing or not sing.

A dangerous side effect. I didn’t want to fight zombies now or ever

[a_good]

There's no chance it was something amplifying your power, like when everyone was telling each other the truth?

I hope zombies are the worst of it.

[lesterzeppelin]

I doubt it. From what I saw, people were singing in cities I’ve never been– and I generally steer clear of Jeopardy.