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I have a couple of questions for y'all, and I'd be much obliged if you could answer them.

1.) How many realities have you visited, and what were they like?
2.) What is the last thing you remember before coming here?

It probably goes without saying that I'm new around here. There's not much to say about myself, really. Name's the same as the username, this place is a step up from home; the usual, I'm sure.

[He makes it sound like he's been world hopping before but really he's just read a lot of science fiction.]

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Did you want the realities we’ve experienced here? Or are you okay with ones we’ve visited before coming to this particular universe?

The last thing I remember before coming here was a train. Not the one that stops in Haven. A different one that travels through a place called The Void.

1: ??? What?

2: Being on a bus.

Why?

1. I've never been to one other than this place. Some people from one came to mine to help us though. From what I saw their world was kinda an apocalyptic nightmare.

2. Space. I was trying to find something.

What about you?

1. Presumably, this is not any of our original worlds, and I've seen talk to indicate that this isn't the only new reality some have been to. If this is only the second you can say as much.
2. Thanks, it's appreciated.

I'm curious that's all. Not often you get to experience something only found in novels.

Either is find.

A train, huh. I take it you have plenty of experience with this? What sort of places did the train visit?

It's definitely not my home world. I don't recognize the animals outside the city limits.

And we definitely don't have two suns or lack a moon at night.

So...first time out of my own universe, I guess.

1. Doesn't sound pleasant for them. I'm from that sort of world, too, though. I guess they're more common than you'd want to admit.

2. You mean like outer space? I've never seen the stars before, I've gotta admit I envy that.

Me, though, the last thing I remember is being on a great, big, endless Beach.

[The capitalization probably says a lot, but he doesn't clarify what he means by it.]

I wouldn't say I have plenty of experience. Let's go with 'more than I'd prefer'.

The various places we visited always seemed to be worlds that needed help. We were dropped off for missions and always found ourselves back on the train when the missions were over.

There was one world with goblins attacking and stealing children, another that was dying. We had to convince the people there to leave. It was difficult. A lot of them didn't believe their world was coming to an end.

This place seems similar, t least. Though I guess "needs help" doesn't quite fit the mold. It definitely looks like it's a world in decline, though.

I have experience with that, people not believing that their worlds were dying. Folks don't want to hear it, and I can't exactly blame them. It's a nasty prospect to know there's nothing that can be done.

It's a weird looking place, isn't it? I wonder what the oceans are like. On Earth, the moon controls the tides. Though, since the sky's been blotted out by permanent clouds, I suppose it could have been destroyed at some point. No one would really know if it had been.

It's a first for both of us; this is more in line with stuff from old books and movies than real life for me.

1. I'm sorry to hear that, is not a good situation. They came to ours to try to try to prevent our world from turning into something like theirs. I hope there's some chance in yours to fix things.

2. Yeah, outer space. It's really beautiful, I can't imagine not seeing stars. Why can't you see them where you're from?

At least a beach sounds kinda nice.

[He knows that style of writing. It can't be any other Higgs. So he's here, too.

Interesting. Sam will have to keep his head on a swivel, just in case.]

It's a bit of a story.

The summed up version is that the land of the dead and the world of the living merged in an accident called the Death Stranding. These particles from the Beach, the land of the dead, became trapped in the atmosphere and blotted out the sky in permanent clouds. It cut off communication with the rest of the world in an instant; the chiralium in the atmosphere means satellite communication is impossible.

There's a network that uses chiralium as a means of communication, but it really only works across the continent, so other countries are still completely cut off, if they even still exist.

[There's probably several questions in there, one of the biggest ones being the implication that the internet is now powered by purgatory.]

At least this place is letting me see that my life wasn't nearly as weird as I thought it was. I want to ask how the chiralium somehow makes it's own network that you can use to communicate, but I'm not sure I'd get it.

If you were on the Beach before you got here, does that mean you were in the land of the dead?

Oh, the network is all technology. The Internet, the technology they used before, was fiber optics. It was long strands underground, some of them spanning across continents under the ocean.

The Chiral network is like that, except it uses the abundance of chiralium in the atmosphere instead of relying on enormous physical wires.

You'd be correct. More specifically, the Beach is a waystation of sorts. You're not meant to STAY there, but those who die end up stuck; the only way to move forward it to destroy the body otherwise they try to come back. They're not human anymore when that happens.

Normal internet then. Kinda sounds better than wires. Seems like less chance for things to go out without wires? Or I could be completely off. Technology was never really my department.

So like some sort of purgatory? Does that mean you're dead? Wait. That's pretty personal to ask. Sorry.

Well, if you ignore the fact that its mere existence could end the world at any moment it works fine. Bit of a downside to using the afterlife for your everyday power source. It also doesn't work beyond the one country, but I'm not so sure there's anything left outside of it to begin with.

You can travel there, if you know how to. It's a physical place, of a sort. It's just usually inaccessible for people who don't know how to navigate it.

[That doesn't answer her question, though.]

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Okay world ending sounds like a pretty big downside. That kinda sucks to not even know if there's anything beyond.

So you're not dead you just know how to navigate inside of it?

I know how to navigate TO it, more precisely.

Or I did; I've lost the ability to do it. It's not a common one to begin with. For people with it, it's sort of like needing to picture a place clearly in your mind, but you also need to be able to picture where it is within the space beyond it.

It's possible to use it to quickly travel from one place to another, but if you fuck up somehow and overshoot it somehow, it might not be possible to leave. Time doesn't pass normally on the Beach, so it's not ideal at all.

It sounds kinda complicated. But useful as long as you don't mess up. I know a few teleporters that work pretty similar when it comes to needing to see things in your mind.

Did you lose the ability when you got here?

I've been wondering that myself. There's no moon at night. Just the aurora. But it's also so dry here I wonder just how close to any oceans we are, anyway.

It'd be nice to see one. It's been years since I've been near one.

I'm Charlie.

1) What makes you believe this is another reality and not simply another world?

2) Dying.

My, how creative you are.

1.) By "another world" do you mean a different planet, or...
Just so we're keeping our terminology clear.

I actually am familiar with other planes of existence. Just the one, though, and it's not a fun one.

2.) I'm actually kind of surprised I'm not hearing that answer more. I've got experience with that, myself. I don't stay dead, though. It's actually a whole thing.

Personally, I don't see the point in not just using your name. These names all confuse me. Everyone just uses their full names where I'm from, for the most part.

It can be hard to tell.

Where I'm from, nobody lives close to the ocean anyway, so I'm not sure I'd be able to recognize what tides look like to begin with.

It's a pleasure. You been here long?

Sometimes trigger objects can work, to anchor yourself to someone or someplace, but they need to be significant in some way to work. You aren't going to get anything from trying to use someone's toothbrush.

No, I lost it before coming here. It didn't have anything to do with this place.

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