[text] i guess there's no point in STALIN this intropost

[unpranyaunceable]

[The name attached to the post reads 'Anya B.']

I don't actually know if greeting people is a thing new people do on here, so. Hi, I'm Anya, I'm new, yadda yadda.

Quick question for you guys: do they figure out who to take from each world? Like, putting their little crosshairs over us and then plucking us out to dump us here? Because I think the military is putting a little too much effort into this with me, I'm not really into this army or "hero" stuff.

[Although she suspects that, if they do, it has less to do with her awe-inspiring skills as a high schooler, and more with her family history.]

Follow-up question: it is the year 2015, right? Did somebody forget to mention that the Cold War is over? Seriously. It's been like more than 25 years, what gives?

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Text; name attached is 'Sabriel'

[bindsthedead]

As far as anyone knows, they don't actually control it- we're dragged here at random.

Although since I never heard of Russia or America until my arrival here, I'm afraid I can't answer your last question.

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[corviform]

They don't have any control over who the Porter ports in or out, or when it does.

[unpranyaunceable]

Okay, but is it random, or is it "random"?

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[unpranyaunceable]

Or out? Nobody mentioned the 'or out' part earlier.

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[corviform]

People are ported out of this world all the time. It happens at random, though.

[animalage]

apparently the cold war just never ended here.


which kinda sucks cause it means im way behind on american history as far as schools here are concerned.

and the whole red scare thing. thats pretty bad too

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[unpranyaunceable]

What? Then what's even the point of doing any of this?! They gave me a house and superpowers and a tattoo that I'm pretty sure my mom would kill me for having, and I might randomly get teleported out of here again?

Whose dumb idea even is this?

[unpranyaunceable]

So it's just been going on for nearly seventy years?

[animalage]

i guess so yeah

[unpranyaunceable]

[Anya has trouble grasping that concept. That means there's an entire generation of people, born and now dying of old age, who grew up with this war as a core part of the world. That freaks her out. It freaks her out real bad.]

Are there versions of us and our families who were always here?

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[corviform]

We don't really know. The government attempts to accommodate us for as long as we're here.

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[unpranyaunceable]

You're seriously telling me the government can house and pay all of us, but it can't figure out who invented this teleporter in the first place and make them fix it?

[animalage]

i dont think so

i mean

im pretty sure not cause i was born in a country that doesnt even exist here

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[corviform]

Yes?

[ He feels rather silly, but it's the truth. ]

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[nostalgiabomb]

Yep, it's the year 2015. Two-zero-one-five. And the Cold War is still totally a thing, here.

I'm guessin' you haven't gotten the multiverse talk yet, huh?

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[zodbob]

Hello Anya. I'm Zod.

I don't think the military really considers who they take that much. Which is a bit more distressing than the fact that they take people at all to begin with.

[He has no idea about anything related to the Cold War, because haha alien, so he'll just leave that for people who know what she's talking about.]

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[unpranyaunceable]

I don't know, I think they're both pretty distressing.

Besides, someone else said they don't take people at all, we just randomly show up here and they give us a place to stay. Which is it?

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[unpranyaunceable]

Oh, I've gotten the multiverse talk.

I just wasn't sure whether to believe it or not.

[unpranyaunceable]

Oh.

Well, at least this place has that much going for it.

[At least she doesn't have to worry about her family being trapped in some warped future Soviet Union.

But now she's curious.]

What country were you born in that doesn't exist here?

[nostalgiabomb]

Yeah, it's pretty weird. But it's kinda like, well, I already believe these dudes zapped me from halfway across the galaxy and trapped me here -- accidentally. [ That last bit is said with heavy sarcasm. ]

Why not believe there's a bajillion different realities on top of that? Icing on a crap cake.

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[unpranyaunceable]

Well great.

So what do people do around here once they get trapped forever?

[zodbob]

I'm not sure honestly. They could just be lying to us by saying we get brought here at random. I would hope they take us, just because hearing that they may not be in control at all is worrisome.

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[unpranyaunceable]

I'm having a hard time believing the zapping me through a teleporter part of it too. It sounds more like something out of a scifi novel than anything real.

[animalage]

qurac. in the middle east.

have you heard of it??

[unpranyaunceable]

Wait.

What do you mean, "zapped me from halfway across the galaxy"?