[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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[bearshermark]

That's a mystery to all of us. I wish I knew more, too.

[sentbytheseer]

Ugh. Come on, kid, you're killing me. I thought the point of showing up late with Starbucks is that everyone already did all the hard work for you.

[bearshermark]

We're trying, but you arrived a little too early still for that. The Bureau isn't giving us a lot to work with.

[sentbytheseer]

Early? How long have you been in this muck, anyway?

[bearshermark]

Since like February, I think.

[sentbytheseer]

[Loud exhale.] Is that how long this has been going? Are there people who have been here longer?

[bearshermark]

Yes. About a year and a half now, according to the Bureau.