[video] Webcast #001

[wallcrawler]

[Okay. Network post. Should be easy enough, right? He's just going to have to keep his alter-ego off the network for a while, at least until he could find a way to create a dummy ID for superheroics. Because he definitely noticed that it was his name showing up as the user ID. So, instead of a web-slinging wall-crawler, everyone gets Peter Parker the Totally Normal Teenager.

Who is all of like 5'6" and looking pretty darn scrawny, thanks in no small part to determined efforts to stick to layered outfits that make him look a bit punier than he is.]

So uh, I'm guessing no one's found a way home yet, right? I mean, if anybody knew how that's probably the sort of thing they'd put in the welcome packet, right? Actually, I guess it'd make it kinda pointless to even have a welcome packet... nevermind.

[He more or less already knew that particular inquiry wasn't going to go anywhere, but he did need something as an icebreaker. And wanting to go home was probably the closest thing to a mutual goal that the other imPorts were likely to have, right?]

As cool as it is to finally have proof of alternate universes, does anyone have any experience having to explain this sort of thing? Because if I ever do get back, I really don't think Aunt May's gonna buy the "it's not my fault, I was kidnapped by a sentient teleporter from another universe" explanation.

I'm not even sure I'd buy that, and I'm the one who just got teleported to Alternate Florida!

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[helpdesk_hero]

So far as we can tell, when you return, it's to the moment you were taken from. I spent a few months home at one point, was right back to when I remembered. That said, time passed here while I was away. It was... strange.

Anyway, hello, I'm David Alleyne. And don't worry, Florida-Man is definitely not as intense here as it is in most worlds. I hope.

[Aunt May, huh? And the user name. Better be quick to keep this kid safe. Fuck.]

[wallcrawler]

Appreciate the heads-up David, but uh- Florida-Man?

[Turns out there's a universe out there where that's not a thing. Or just hasn't become one yet]

[helpdesk_hero]

[Oh yeah, that was interesting.]

Oh wow. Um, so. Florida tends to have looser laws about what can be publicized regarding arrests and police actions. So you get the weirdest reports. 'Florida man arrested after gator eats his pants' or 'Florida man assaults officer with a watermelon'. It happens in all states, those crazy people. But Florida lets it be reported on, often with their mugshots.

Thus, Florida-Man was born.

[wallcrawler]

Is it wrong to feel relieved this isn't some weird Fifty States, Fifty Heroes sorta thing?

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[recommendations]

If it's any consolation, time is effectively "on pause" for us back home while we are here. Your aunt will have no idea you are gone, because when you go back, it will be to the exact moment you left.

[wallcrawler]

[That's...kind of reassuring? But also not???]

Well, it's good to know I won't have to make up for lost time, but when you put it that way it's...mixed, I guess? Like I know I'm gonna be missing everyone, but knowing they won't even notice I'm gone feels...

[Not great. But he also doesn't want to outright say that, since she probably didn't mean it that way. And it's not like it's her fault this place snatched him at one of his more...let's say fragile moments.]

But thanks, uh...

[he is less-than-subtly trying to read that user id. If only because if he said something like "Thanks, You" he'd have to go and throw himself in a hole somewhere for the next ten years]

...Momo?

[Please let that be an actual name or at least end him quickly]

[recommendations]

Yes, it's... not the most comforting thought. [ There's a lot about this world that isn't very comforting. ]

Yes. Momo Yaoyorozu. And you are... [ She checks his ID. ] Peter?

[wallcrawler]

Peter Parker, yeah. But most people just go with Pete.

[Most people under 20, anyway. And definitely not including any of the costumed nicknames.]

Do you know this from personal experience, or from knowing people who've come back?

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[genuinewrestleboy]

Ugh, I can imagine. I have no idea how I'd explain any of this to my Professor! "Sorry I missed classes, I was in a weird other world". Thanks for putting that in my head now.

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[wallcrawler]

Sorry? That definitely wasn't my intention, honest. Though now you've got me thinking about all the classes I'll miss and-

[Hang on Parker it has been like two minutes since you were told that's not how it works.]

Well, I guess neither of us have to worry about that? Because stuff just sort of...stops while we're here, I guess.

[He was informed of this by two very trustworthy looking total strangers and oh man he's going to be on his own and he's trusting total strangers without hesitation, this can only end well]

[genuinewrestleboy]

Oh yeah? Huh, I don't think I ever asked. Or I asked and forgot.

[ He shrugs. ]

Whatever, there's nothing I can do about it either way! I kind of figured the same as you - if someone had found out a way back they would have told us all by now. Only thing to do is make our own way in this world!

[wallcrawler]

How could you forget- nevermind.

How long've you been stuck here, anyway? I get the feeling not everybody showed up at once, especially since there's people who know what it's like to leave and come back.

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[mysterioisthetruth]

[Hmm, that user ID. But they're fairly common names. Could be a coincidence. This certainly didn't look like the Peter he knew. Then he brings up alternate universes and an Aunt May... He doesn't know what reaction to expect but he'll begin cautiously.]

I know a thing or two about the multiverse, even before I arrived here.

[There's nothing visually identifying Mysterio - he's dressed in regular clothing right now and doesn't have a bowl-cut. But his username also pops up, clearly marked as Quentin Beck | Mysterio.]

[wallcrawler]

[He may not recognize the face, but he definitely recognizes the name. Both names. He's definitely going to be on edge, but he hides it well.]

You did? Personal experience, or theoretical physics?

[Or philosophy, or any one of a few more disciplines, but he doesn't really care much about the answer. He just wants to know what he's dealing with.]

[mysterioisthetruth]

Just by being here.

[He shrugs, considering adding that also prior to here but that story has long since been buried. It wouldn't be smart to dredge up his fake Earth-833, just to get called out on it again.]

You get used to the idea after a while. People come and go. They get replaced by other versions of themselves...

I knew a Peter Parker. That wouldn't happen to also be your name, would it?

[To confirm.]

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[kid_flash_found]

[ Bart can't help the grin on his face as he starts the video, because this is cool, even if this Pete isn't the one he'd been friends with. Still, more teenage heroes are always better. ]

Hey, Peter. Don't worry too much about school and all that. As folks have said, there's a bit of time travel going on in that you'll be right when you left without any memories of this place when you leave.

Also, you're kinda the third Peter Parker to show up here, so, um, check the network and stuff if you don't want to be too surprised by things. Yeah, alternate versions, and I only knew the one who left months back, but, well.

Anyhow, you need any help settling in or just a place to hang, drop me a line.

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[wallcrawler]

[Yeah he's gonna have to slam the brakes here, because part of what was said was not comforting.]

Hang on, what kind of things? None of the other Me's were like evil, alternate universe Me right?

[Something which- while he wouldn't rule out entirely, because he definitely loves him some sci-fi- was not actually what he wanted to hear. Please tell him none of the other Parkers blew the secret identity thing wide open.]

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[kid_flash_found]

Grife, no. He was...well, I totally would have had Velcro-Lad on the Titans any day.

[Bart attaches a video clip from one of the streams he'd done with the other Peter where they jokingly assigned that moniker because the one power he'd admit to was being sticky.]

I just, well, there are people Pete told, and while most people will try not to make assumptions...this place just tends to make things complicated.

[pullsheavendown]

You wondered about other worlds before you got ported in?

[Yeah, he can't help with the main question, so he's zeroing in on another point of interest.

[wallcrawler]

[Roxas what have you done]

Well, yeah! I mean, sure, it's been a whole thing for TV and comic books for a while now, but there's some pretty interesting non-entertainment-related theories about the idea of parallel universes, or alternate universes, or...actually there's a lot of different names for the idea and it all depends on which model you're looking at, and most of them are just as old. If not older!

[pullsheavendown]

[Why do so many people ask him that]

Huh! It's just that I've been to a bunch of worlds before I got ported here, and people in them didn't seem to realize other ones even existed. Maybe I just didn't talk to enough people.

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[heliophilic]

If it helps, kid, you go right back to when you left. I can personally attest to that.

[wallcrawler]

[Oh good, further confirmation. And from an adult, too! At least that meant it wasn't just one demographic confirming things.]

So, it is possible to go back. But I'm guessing nobody's figured out how to do it on purpose, and it just sorta "happens" to people?

[Because the thought of willingly traveling back and forth between worlds is something he doesn't see the appeal to. But he also hasn't met anyone who's dead back in their world yet, so that possibility hasn't occurred to him yet.]

[heliophilic]

The common theory is the porter glitches and takes you with it in the process. Completely random.

[As far as he's seen, anyway.]

But no, no one's figured out how to get back on their own, or else the only imPorts here would be the ones that are already dead, and the ones that hate their lives back home.

[bifroster]

Yeah, alternate universes are weird like that. It's more annoying than anything else. But, as others have likely said, you'll be returned the moment you were taken once you go back.

But if you want to discuss more about alternate realities and the multiverse theory as a whole, I'd be up for that. I'm Jane Foster. Astrophysicist.