[ this reply comes a couple of hours later, with the response otherwise left on read. (y'know, if the tablets do that.) ]
That would have been your best case scenario.
Look, I believe you when you say you thought you were doing the right thing, that you think with more planning and more transparency, it'd still be the right thing and I guess that's kind of your right. I might even agree with you, but not like this. You're talking about metahumans and magic like they're the only two answers to this. They're not.
I... know how it sounds when someone says "I know a guy and blah blah blah", but humor me for a second. Where I'm from, yeah, we've got metahumans, since ... that's the name we're apparently going with here, who are capable of incredible things. But most people? Aren't like that. Most people are just ordinary humans and you know what? They're still capable of great things. Of coming up with answers to impossible questions.
Anyway, the point is: I've known a few guys in my time. ...Mostly scientists, admittedly, who've ended up in impossible situation — on other worlds, in other times, situations kind of like this and they've all found their way out. The loop that's bringing us here, brought other people here before us, it's going to have a break point. That's probably somewhere away from the shore, given that everyone comes in on the ferry, but I'm not ruling out the lighthouse, if I'm honest.
Regardless, it's probably not going to be a case of sailing back the way we came in. You know how you have those automatic doors with sensors above them? So the exit remains an exit and the entrance remains an entrance, to stop traffic building up, people bumping into each other and just -- causing a mess? If a couple of people try to leave through the entrance, they can't. If they force it, they break it and then what?
But what if you get lucky? What if you manage to sneak in the entrance just when -- one person's coming in, and you don't bump into each other, but it's like those grocery stores that have the entrance at one side of the store and the exit at the other, because they need to make sure when you come in, you pick up those little cherry tomatoes you don't really need but look really, really great at this time of the year. (That first part is what you were going for, right?)
Because that's the thing: if you get some people out but you don't really know how? Why? More people are just going to end up here. More people are going to have to figure out a way to stop the World Eaters, and if they don't? If something goes MORE wrong than this town getting reset? Who's to say they'll stop with this world, whose to say they won't go to yours, won't go to mine, won't go to the world's of EVERYONE here? Is that something you really want to risk?
The first part is math. That's ... not the easy part, but it's the easier part and it'll help us with that second part: the World Eaters. What IF we figure out a way to get people back home, to their RIGHT homes? That's the end-game, right? And it's great and I'm pretty sure it's what we all want, but what if we take the time to understand what brought us here, so we can send the World Eaters to, I don't know, an uninhabited planet or dimension that THEY can't leave so that no one else has to deal with this?
i am. so sorry.
That would have been your best case scenario.
Look, I believe you when you say you thought you were doing the right thing, that you think with more planning and more transparency, it'd still be the right thing and I guess that's kind of your right. I might even agree with you, but not like this. You're talking about metahumans and magic like they're the only two answers to this. They're not.
I... know how it sounds when someone says "I know a guy and blah blah blah", but humor me for a second. Where I'm from, yeah, we've got metahumans, since ... that's the name we're apparently going with here, who are capable of incredible things. But most people? Aren't like that. Most people are just ordinary humans and you know what? They're still capable of great things. Of coming up with answers to impossible questions.
Anyway, the point is: I've known a few guys in my time. ...Mostly scientists, admittedly, who've ended up in impossible situation — on other worlds, in other times, situations kind of like this and they've all found their way out. The loop that's bringing us here, brought other people here before us, it's going to have a break point. That's probably somewhere away from the shore, given that everyone comes in on the ferry, but I'm not ruling out the lighthouse, if I'm honest.
Regardless, it's probably not going to be a case of sailing back the way we came in. You know how you have those automatic doors with sensors above them? So the exit remains an exit and the entrance remains an entrance, to stop traffic building up, people bumping into each other and just -- causing a mess? If a couple of people try to leave through the entrance, they can't. If they force it, they break it and then what?
But what if you get lucky? What if you manage to sneak in the entrance just when -- one person's coming in, and you don't bump into each other, but it's like those grocery stores that have the entrance at one side of the store and the exit at the other, because they need to make sure when you come in, you pick up those little cherry tomatoes you don't really need but look really, really great at this time of the year. (That first part is what you were going for, right?)
Because that's the thing: if you get some people out but you don't really know how? Why? More people are just going to end up here. More people are going to have to figure out a way to stop the World Eaters, and if they don't? If something goes MORE wrong than this town getting reset? Who's to say they'll stop with this world, whose to say they won't go to yours, won't go to mine, won't go to the world's of EVERYONE here? Is that something you really want to risk?
The first part is math. That's ... not the easy part, but it's the easier part and it'll help us with that second part: the World Eaters. What IF we figure out a way to get people back home, to their RIGHT homes? That's the end-game, right? And it's great and I'm pretty sure it's what we all want, but what if we take the time to understand what brought us here, so we can send the World Eaters to, I don't know, an uninhabited planet or dimension that THEY can't leave so that no one else has to deal with this?