[voice]

[sentbytheseer]

[The voice is that of a young man, a little East Coast in accent.]

Late getting here, but look, ok. It took me a minute to cope with whole...thing. Kind of crashed my bike on that first memory, so, you know, wasn't exactly up to hanging out and making friends on the "Different Social Media Channel."

Anyway, I was gonna come on here and be like "Nice to meet you all," but then there's some guy talking about having memories of dying and instead I want to know where we un-sign up for this. Because it was kind of fun-and-games when it was like ...fighting monsters and voice-in-your-head prophecies, but--yeah. Not cool.

...Sorry. Not to make light of his--memory, but it sounds like I got off easy.

I don't really have a question, since I take it we can't really unsign-up. Just thought I should check-in on this thing.

[A pause]

No, actually I do have a question. The Martin guy said he was the, uh. [He fishes out the business card.] The, uh, Head of the Department of Containment at the Bureau of Inter-dimensional Activities.

Are we all supposed to be from different dimensions, or like...the same one?

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[darkforcerising]

My memories have primarly taken place on a desert planet called Tatooine. So I'm going to say it's possible it's a different dimension.

[sentbytheseer]

A different planet? Shit. So are we all aliens?

[darkforcerising]

Huh. Can humans be aliens?

[sentbytheseer]

I'm pretty sure the definition of alien is something like "not from around here." But, heh, hell if I know. Not an Earthling, so technically an alien? I guess?

Seems like it'd be pretty rude to only call the little green men with antennae "aliens" if you're from out of this world, too.

[darkforcerising]

I guess if we're using Earth as the center from which we say life forms.

What if Earth humans are the aliens?

voice;

[bearshermark]

Yggdrasil is the defining feature of our world. It doesn't seem to be common, so I'd guess they're different planets at least? Not sure about dimensions.

voice;

[sentbytheseer]

What the heck's a Yig-Dra-Sil?

[bearshermark]

Um, like the Norse myth kinda- a World Tree. In our world, Yggdrasil floats on its own island in the sky.

[Or it used to]

It's said all life in our world comes from it.

[sentbytheseer]

What the fuck.

So are we Norse?
That's like the guy with the hammer, or whatever, right?

Voice

[serpentinthegarden]

It's gotta be different ones! I don't see how it could be anything else. What I don't know is how we all came to be here... New York might be the center of America but it's not more than a mote in terms of the universe. Something must have happened here to change that.

Voice

[sentbytheseer]

Even in this dimension, I'm not from New York, and from the sound of it, neither are you. What IS it about this place that pulls people to it, then?

You think there's some kind of THING going on that's drawing weirdness to this place? Somebody a few posts back mentioned portals. What has been going ON in New York? I mean, I thought I had a pretty good handle on this place, but...portals? Since when? This is a thing?? Is this place just gonna break away and float off into some vortex thing, like everybody keeps saying California's just gonna snap off and float out to Hawaii?

[serpentinthegarden]

It is New York, center of American culture. You come here on a trip, you fall in love with the city lights, Broadway, the street food, and decide to stay. That bit isn't so strange.

What is strange and what I've never seen anywhere else is the Bureau. For all we know the portals have been opening up for years and they have been hushing it up. Wouldn't be a bit surprised to find out it was some failed government experiment. If you want answers... you would have to break into their offices and get them. Its not going to be volunteered.

[sentbytheseer]

I mean, fair.

'Course it's not. Makes you wonder how many people have tried to break in before or gone for answers and have been disappeared for their trouble. Since they seemed a bit pissed about the memory thing, I'm guessing they can't just throw our asses back to the dimensions we came from or wipe our brains, but kind of wonder then what they do with the more unruly members of our tribe.

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[hardtoignore]

Sorry to hear about your bike, dude. I usually have my memories come back to me in my sleep, so I guess I've lucked out.

I think a lot of us are from different dimensions if these memories are real at all. Like, I've seen quite a few things from my past life or whatever, but there's never been monsters involved for me, thank heavens.

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[sentbytheseer]

yeah really hoping it's not gonna be a trend or anything. bike made it this time, might not be so lucky next

idk i feel like I was maybe gonna be ok, even w the monsters. like there was this sort of heroic feeling to the whole figting monsters thing? I'm not really that big of an optimist, but it was kind of cool

[hardtoignore]

It sounds dangerous. Hopefully you'll mostly get them in your sleep from now on.

Lucky you. Not everyone gets to be a hero, so that's kinda neat. I mean, as long as you're not being traumatized...

[sentbytheseer]

I'm guessing we don't get a choice, but hopefully

I'm sure we're getting htere. whats a hero without a tragic backstory?

[consortofalderaan]

I hadn't thought about different dimensions. But that would explain a lot.

Or some. It creates more questions. Like how did we get here from there?

[sentbytheseer]

Well. I mean, it's on the card: Inter-dimensional Activities. And the things I'm remembering definitely aren't anything from around here.

I don't know. You'd think we'd know if we crossed through something, right? And you'd think my parents would've noticed a long time ago if they just suddenly acquired a kid that isn't theirs?

[consortofalderaan]

I do have very clear memories of growing up here in New York.

But also very clear memories of growing up on a different planet.

But I'm not sure the one contradicts the other.

[sentbytheseer]

I'm not sure how it doesn't though. How do you get two whole childhoods? Two whole LIVES?

[smilingarmor]

[The young man's voice sounds a bit familiar, though Emberto can't quite place from where. Ah well, he's sure it will come to him later.]

Given some of what I've seen in my own memories, I suspect different ones. Unless our own dimension ever played host to strangely adorable but aggressive blob creatures that look like blue Hershey kisses with faces; one of my more recent memories included fending a group of the little things off with a sword.

[sentbytheseer]

Geez, I'd definitely remember Hershey kiss monsters. I saw a lot of dragon-like beasts and some skeleton dragon things. And some big blue guy with ridiculous gladiator armor. He seemed like the head-asshole because I wiped the floor with the rest of them and then went after him.

[Because by that point, Healijah isn't visible. How DARE]

[smilingarmor]

Hmm... I've remembered a few dragons too, but they were all very clearly flesh and blood, not skeletons. Though I've only recovered a portion of my old memories, so who knows what I might find out about my former self as time goes on?

[sentbytheseer]

I mean, I'm not sure if it's weirder to have the dragons with or without flesh, really. But yeah, who knows what's in store. Maybe I'll have little blue poop emojis in my future--uh, past too.