II, voice;

[malodorous]

[ Kristoff’s still not the most socially apt individual, especially when it comes to addressing the masses. Here goes nothing, though! He sounds a little doubtful when he starts: ]

Right. Hello. Kristoff Bjorgman, here. I want to talk about —or ask about, I guess— doors.

Not, like, literal doors, I mean. I know enough about doors. I mean, um… Well, okay, let me— Where I come from, there are places out in nature that are a little different, like a big tree right in the middle of a clearing, or a strange rock formation, or, say, a valley full of smooth boulders surrounded by craggy mountains. People say, or they used to, that these places are places of magic, where the walls between our world and another are thinner, and the gods and spirits can pass back and forth as they wish. I’m not sure how many people still believe in that kind of thing. Most everybody lives in towns, and all of the roads and houses have been built over whatever nature used to be there. They’ve stopped noticing these things, and they have new beliefs.

I was talking to somebody the other day about the machine that brings us here, and how it used to be different. It was at least named for a goddess, I guess, that measured out people’s fates. I don’t know. I never heard of her, but I guess it reminded me of those old stories.

So now I’m wondering if anybody else has stories like that, about doors to other worlds, because I suppose it’s sort of fitting. We’re in another world, and I guess that machine is the door. Maybe it’s just a matter of where it opens in our own homes. Something like that.

That makes more sense to me than just saying “a machine did it,” at least.

Comments

[ex_question191]

So, uh, if I'm reading this right, what you're saying is, you're more comfortable with a magical explanation you can understand than a scientific one you can't?

[malodorous]

... Yes?

[ That sounds about right, at least. ]

1/2

[ex_question191]

[ hella judgement in his tone: ]

Oh my god.

[ex_question191]

Okay, it's not that I don't believe in magic? But I'm pretty sure scientists don't devote their life to like, working with technology that does this stuff, just to waggle their fingers and have it happen for no reason.

text.

[xpostate]

The kind of doors you're talking about sound naturally occurring, or at least created by an unknown greater power. I've knows doors to other worlds, but in most cases I've encountered them I also had a direct source to trace them back to.

permavoice;

[malodorous]

[ The response takes its sweet time. Guess who's not the most literate dude on the planet. ]

Like who? People?

permatext

[xpostate]

[ the problem with modern teenagers, they really like texting. ]

People or machines created by people. Sometimes confirmed to be magic, sometimes not so easily labeled.

The difference with the Porter is we don't know who made it, which may be why it's giving you this mystical feeling. But as the gods created your doors, someone had to have created the Porter.

voice;

[sticktokicks]

Back home, I found a portal to another world, and we didn't know how it got there or why. It ended up being an angry goddess who put it there.

voice;

[malodorous]

So it's not a completely unrealistic way of thinking, right?

What happened, then?

voice;

[sticktokicks]

I don't think so. It's not any weirder than a machine teleporting us here. Either way, nobody really knows how it's happening.

The other world was full of monsters and people were getting trapped in there and dying, so we had to go in and save them.

[voice]

[falsesmile]

A goddess?

[voice]

[malodorous]

Yeah. [ Hang on. Let him remember the right name. ] Lachesis? I think that's it.

Re: [voice]

[falsesmile]

... This is the first I've heard of it. And it was here before the Porter system?

Video

[willthaw]

[Anna is getting better with her phone and so the video frames her from the shoulders up. She gives a little wave and a smile to match.]

Hi, Kristoff! [Now with hellos out of the way...] I don't know anything about how gates and all that work here but the powers we've gotten certainly feel magical. Oh, and this guy I met used to be an angel? So that seems pretty divine, right?

Video

[malodorous]

... An angel. Really?

voice

[valr]

Lachesis ain't a goddess.

[Oh my god Kara stop being such a fussy jerk.]

But we had shit like that back home, couple of different creatures would use doors to get between our world and theirs. But they ain't like this. Those doors lead into their own realm, not another version of Earth.

voice

[malodorous]

Fair enough. Like I said, I never heard of her.

I don't think had whole other Earths, either, just... yeah. Different realms, places for the gods, the dead, and monsters. Stuff like that. All things considered, though, I guess a whole other world isn't that great a leap.

voice;

[handwringing]

["Smooth boulders surrounded by craggy mountains" is ringing bells for Elsa, and she hopes it's not the same place she's thinking of.]

...That actually makes more sense to me than some of the theories I've heard.

[Of course, she's from the same world as Kristoff, so it's not saying much.]

Have you ever seen anywhere like that? A place of magic?

voice;

[malodorous]

Well, yeah.

[ As if it's obvious. ]

[voice]

[freetobe]

There are doors, portals, veils, and beings that don't need to use them. Humanity has made a lot of progress, but at the price of greater ignorance in those matters. Where human science fails, there's little that can't be explained with the supernatural.

[ No seriously, he's not sure how most of humanity still fails to notice the dark things that walk among them, or how easily they could go elsewhere if they just looked, properly, and employed the right means. Bobby Singer has a library of spells and occult lore - how hard can it be? ]

[voice]

[malodorous]

Maybe they hope it'll go away if they ignore it.

with the correct character...

[transuniversal]

I have scientific data. Does that count?

i believe in you.

[malodorous]

Yes?

... I never said science didn't count at all.

audio;

[pyms]

I had a home that had many doors. There was a door for every location on my world. It's not doors to other worlds but the distance was far enough that it very well could consider that. And if I wanted to go to a place that didn't have doors, I would just make a door for it.

audio;

[malodorous]

So you can just go anywhere you want? In your own world, at least?