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[detectivedwloki]

[It's showing as video but at first the screen is blank and pitch black. Then some scuffling sounds can be heard, along with a string of muttered swearing. Finally, with a thud, the picture shifts as the device is lifted up and Detective Loki's frowning face is staring at the screen. It takes him a few seconds to notice it's recording. More muttered swearing before he addresses the camera.]

So this... apocalyptic world ending ... This is a normal kind of thing for some of you?

Like the Fates being real. Zombies. Superhuman powers. All of that...

I don't come from that sort of world. The only monsters are human ones, with no special powers. Still, they can treat others so inhumanely it would give you nightmares as bad as what we've seen the past month...

[He rubs his face, blinking rapidly a few times then goes on grimly.]

Anyone else finding all of this difficult to adjust to?

Having powers? Dealing with supernatural cataclysms?

[He sighs and tries to look less stressed. It doesn't work and there's more unnatural-looking blinking before he shakes his head and cuts the connection.]

Comments

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[storyseeker]

It takes some getting used to, yeah. I've seen some practically unbelievable stuff where I come from, but this place...it steps it up a level.

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[detectivedwloki]

I thought I had a handle on it after a couple of months but then this... this week. It was something else.

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[storyseeker]

I know what you mean. I think I want to go nap for another week.

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[hellogoodhigh]

me and my siblings all had powers since we were like four

[ The apocalyptic world ending business, however, that's a little closer to home, and not something to discuss with a stranger. ]

[detectivedwloki]

So this isn't such a jarring change.

[hellogoodhigh]

same shit different universe ig

why, having weird superpowers and over the top villains like 'murder magician' and 'dr. terminal' aren't normal?

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[hordinglife]

I never had powers before this place. But it's not like magic and tech so advanced it gave people powers don't exist. That's normal. For me.

[detectivedwloki]

This place gave me powers. They're both a blessing and a curse.

[hordinglife]

...How so? [Since her powers that she got may or may not also be that.]

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[catlady]

Not zombies, exactly, it's a bit more COMPLICATED than that but none of this is all that unfamiliar for me.

[detectivedwloki]

I've researched a lot of this supernatural and mythological sort of stuff in the past but it's never been viably true before. No real proof.

Not like what just happened here.

[catlady]

What an opportunity for a crash course in weird, huh?

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[atypically]

[ Caleb looks whipped. Just the thought of what he went through in the past few weeks makes him tired. ]

I'm used to having my ability, but the rest of it? It's fucking insane and I hate it. I hate it so fucking much and I want to go home. So, you're in good company with not being able to adjust very well. This place is bullshit.

[detectivedwloki]

How long have you been here?

[atypically]

A couple weeks? Two, maybe three.

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[duelo]

For me, it's the same shit on a different day. It might be turned up to 11 here instead of the 8 or 9 I'm used to at home, but it's basically more of the same. That said, in my world, the humans aren't used to it. We fight those battles for them right under their noses so that they don't have to worry about it and they can go on about their lives. I don't blame anybody who isn't used to this sort of thing for being kind of exhausted by it. Hell, I'm exhausted by it and it's kind of par for the course. I imagine it's worse when it's something new to adjust to.

[detectivedwloki]

I guess I'd be one of those humans.

There's always stories of paranormal things and myths, of course. They're all very out in the open here.

[duelo]

It's normal for you to be overwhelmed by all of this, then.

I'm one of those things. You'd be surprised how liberating it is to be able to be out in the open about it here. Although, that said, it's probably pretty overwhelming for you guys who aren't used to it.

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[redcosmedic]

Planetary apocalypses happen all the time, the universe is a big place. Admittedly, it is a little different when you're trapped on the world it's going down on.

Zombies: yes. Supernatural cataclysms: yes.

The gaining unusual powers is new, though.

[detectivedwloki]

I'm only used to Earth and an Earth with no proven paranormal or alien sightings.

And definitely no comic-book superpowers.

[redcosmedic]

That's as much as most humans know about on the variant of Earth I'm familiar with, though you wouldn't guess it from the breadth of science fiction they produce.

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[youarespecial]

We were trying to take over the Earth, not destroy it.

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[detectivedwloki]

For what purpose? Just world domination?

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[bifroster]

Yeah. It's ... a lot to take in. Even if you are used to it, like I am. And others from my world, or world-adjacent.

But are you alright?

[She knows lack of sleep when she sees it.]

[detectivedwloki]

I'll be alright.