2nd dream layer | text | double-post orz

[angry_salad]

[ Arthur is testing things. It's why there's a few mass texts over the log, though they've all been sent quite late at night (or early in the morning, depending on your point of view. ]

1. Does anyone remember how they got here?
2. Totem
3. The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false.





[Locked to Ashley Magnus, Gwen Raiden, Madelyne Pryor, Mick St. John]
Let me know if you can see this message. Testing encryption.

Comments

[angry_salad]

Stage?

[aintnoconvict]

...well, I mean, after a while you start noticing a pattern to how folks deal with getting kidnapped by aliens to...well, this place. The whole I'm dreaming/it can't be real thing usually comes first, then some folks get angry and try to blow stuff up or whatever, then there's depression with a side of drinking, then...you kind of accept it.

[ and then there's him. ] And if you stick around a really long time the whole it's-not-real thingy comes up again and you stop caring. I don't recommend that.

[angry_salad]

Right, but there are multiple people who enter this world that think they're dreaming at first.

[aintnoconvict]

Sometimes folks wake up here so dreaming's a logical thingy, but that's just one iteration. Some step through a door, some...die. Were you asleep when you came?

[ Glitch stop that. ]

DURRRRR I TOTALLY READ THAT TAG PROPERLY

[angry_salad]

[ Arthur doesn't answer--not at first. Instead he lets out a bit of a laugh, brows raised, shaking his head. ]

Something like that.

TO BE FAIR I WAS SLOSHED WHEN I WROTE IT SO /NO SENSE-MAKING

[aintnoconvict]

Okay. [ hrm. ] It's...disorienting, the first couple months. If you're around longer than that it gets a little better.

[angry_salad]

I intend on figuring this out before that length of time sets in, but I doubt I'm the first one to say that to you.

[aintnoconvict]

Not by a long shot. [ siiiigh. ] And...really, what's to figure out? We've been yanked from our worlds by beings bigger and more powerful than us, they watch our every move for their entertainment, and the only way home is for them to decide they're done with us. Or whatever their reason is, they've not been straightforward about why people vanish.

[angry_salad]

Right, but there's still a bit of specificity needed. [ He's thinking out loud, now--doesn't realize the word doesn't even exist. ]

There's still a small percentage that people from a different world will have different theories--different ways of debunking them--which means there's a slim chance, however improbable, someone will figure it out.

lalala ancient tag

[aintnoconvict]

[ and that...gets a smile. Arthur, you wide-eyed optimist you! ]

You know, that's...we need reminding of that sometimes. After a while you just get in your head that there's no way of winning but that maybe's still out there.

[angry_salad]

There's a way to beat everything. We just have to figure out the rules.

[aintnoconvict]

And hope they don't change them on us. [ whiiich is known to happen. ] Got any other questions?

[angry_salad]

Nah. Not right now.

But if you don't mind, if I do have them--I can text?

[aintnoconvict]

That's fine, I tend to keep an eye on the tablet. You learn stuff that way.