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[ Recent events are enough of a push to get him to do what he was waffling about, but that doesn't mean he likes having to be the bearer of any news, let alone the kind where he gives mildly hypocritical advice. ]

i know it hasn't even been a week but apparently people are already biting the dust again, so

hi, i'm nate, and enough people have asked me about this crap that i should probably have made this sooner. i've been to another world like this before, the whole "kidnapped population of different people, different places" thing, got the t-shirt, so i might be able to answer some questions people have

death probably isn't gonna stick here, but that doesn't mean you should be testing your luck since there's always some kind of price with these things.

seriously, don't be stupid.

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yeah, in my experience mysterious trapdoors are bad news

[ Lucky for her, he isn't exactly the opposite of forthcoming, and wordvomiting tends to be his default. ]

no. we couldn't go anywhere without being moved there by the entities that called themselves "gods"

[kungfuey]

Word is it has a keypad to open it from the other side.

[ See. People tell her things. ]

You think these creatures could be involved in this?

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oh good, a mechanism to solve

[ Jury's out on whether that's excitement in his texting, or- no, it's definitely excitement. He loves this shit. ]

the ones from that other world? no, no way. they don't have the juice for this kind of thing, and we weren't dead when we showed up there, so that's a new development

i DO think there's some kind of entity that's going to use the people here, though. whether it's like a battery or for something else, i don't know yet.

[kungfuey]

[ She totally read that as sarcasm because... that's her default state. ]

Assuming you buy the fact that we're all dead. Not saying I don't but memories can't always be trusted and what we were told by a couple of people who were waiting for us? Even less.

[ She subscribes to 'believe half of what you see and none of what you hear' ideology. ]

You think that's why the so-called resets? Couldn't draw enough power from one batch so they started again?

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well, i've nearly died a LOT, but i've never showed up in another world afterward - last time i showed up in another world like this i was still very much alive

and possibly? we don't know enough about the mysterious lady in the lighthouse to really draw any good conclusions on that yet, but we're here for a reason and i doubt it's friendly

[kungfuey]

By those odds, it's still 50/50.

The two who met us? They're holding back. I just can't figure out what's motivating them yet. If anyone knows what's in store for us though, it's gonna be them.

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what's hard for me to believe is why they're still here. why THEM? winters said he'd been here about a year - if that's information that can even be trusted - but there's no way something big isn't going on

the best we can do is be careful about exploration [ Ironic, coming from him. ] because we don't know how many times we can die again. what if there's a limit?

[kungfuey]

Winters has died at least once. Apparently, that's how he got those scales of his.

It's the lanterns that are the problem. Can't see without em and can't say I trust anyone here enough to take care of mine for me yet. Not if the you break it you bite it rule is legit.

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yikes

yeah, haven't met anyone yet i feel comfortable entrusting with my apparent lifeline yet, either. on top of the fact that we don't know what happens if we're away from it for too long, or if distance factors into it

[kungfuey]

I thought about testing but I figured somebody else would eventually do that for me.

[ I mean... ]

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fair enough. they probably will.

[kungfuey]

Took one person all of two days to bite it.
Figure it can't be long at the current rate of stupid.