text | un: anonymous

[hardedged]

[ it's been a rough month for jessica — stuck in this hellhole with a bunch of morons and assholes. present company included.

it's almost midnight, and with her stomach full of hard liquor, she's in the perfect position to make a poor life choice. so she finds herself posting on the network. there's no username attached; she prefers anonymity for this topic. well, here goes nothing. ]

i've heard the same old crap about the portal. that it takes people who need a home.

but is there any way to predict when it happens, or who will show up? can it even pull in someone who's dead?

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[ text | un: parker ]

[starkwebs]

Well, considering the different timelines and universes it seems to be able to access, it could probably bring in someone who has died.

Only they probably wouldn't be dead. It'd probably be a version of them that hasn't died or before their death.

If that makes sense.

[hardedged]

yeah. guess we can't pick and choose which zombies show up here, right?

[ there are a few familiar faces that, despite the guilt she would feel, jess wouldn't mind seeing. and then there's one in particular she'd like to punch repeatedly. ]

[starkwebs]

​No, probably not.

But hopefully we won't get any zombies.
I'm not sure that'd be a good thing.

[text | un: edward.elric]

[alchemyfreak]

[Ed hates text posts and generally tries to avoid them, but this one was hard to ignore. He figures it's safe to guess whoever is on the other end wouldn't appreciate a video response, so he sucks it up and texts back.]

You can't predict who will get pulled here.

As for the dead, that's complicated. Where I was before this could bring in the dead,
but the theory here is that anyone that comes through at the time of the their death is saved just before they actually die.

Either way time is weird here. Someone dead at home could show up any time before they died.

[Not sure if that's reassuring, but good luck Jess!]

[hardedged]

[ thanks, man........... ]

before this. you mean back home?

[alchemyfreak]

[He didn't think it would get so old this fast, what's it been a month? Two? He's already so done with this question.]

Nope.

Third portal, one could definitely bring in the dead well after they died.

[And change their physical form back to what it was originally. You didn't need that to be put delicately, did you? Talking about Nina was not something he did well, he was still angry over it and it had been a few years.]

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[ikols]

It can definitely pull in people right BEFORE they die, handy trick to have.

[hardedged]

[ loki, huh. she's just gonna squint at that. ]

speaking from experience there?

[ikols]

[ He and Victor really need to get new usernames. ]

Sorta.
I've noticed the portal picks variants of one person from across the Multiverse but never the same exact individual from different points in time, so you will only ever be the you of your own world that arrives here. Ten or twenty from other neighbouring universes, sure.
It dictates time as well as space during its selection. You could ask yourself why it didn't pull you in when you felt like shit a while ago, why when it did? It's interesting. To me.

text; un: stranger.things

[potentialed]

Considering it can pull people from multiple universes all across the spectrum and different times, I wouldn't rule it out.

[hardedged]

[ oh, it's him... #ugh #awkward ]

yeah. i get the picture.

text; @eddie

[causational]

I died at home and woke up in a hospital here. From what they told me, I was dead but they managed to revive me.

[hardedged]

died from what?

text; @dag

[foreseeding]

[This texting thing is new, but she knows how to read and write, so that helps.]

Did you find out? Can someone who died be brought here?

[It's part hope, part worry. On one hand: Angharad. On the other hand: Joe.]

[hardedged]

[ it's a simple message, but jess can practically sense the emotion behind it. either concern or optimism, she's not sure which. ]

yeah, sounds like it

Voice @the.boneless

[ragnarsson]

[Ivar can't read, so he's using the voice to text function. His voice has a young Norwegian accent to it.]

Why the curiosity? Hoping for ghosts from the past?

[Ivar was. Then again, just about any orphan would be hoping to see their faces one last time.]

[hardedged]

does it matter?

@ciscodelamancha | text

[franciscoramon]

i think it's a no on the predicting who or when, but i've been thinking about trying to come up with some tech that'll help with that.

[ He isn't about to make any promises, when he doesn't know if it's possible, but... for his own piece of mind, he's been seriously considering it. ]

from what i can tell there is a statistical bias and the people it brings aren't random
there is a slight tendency towards new arrivals who have connections with people already here.
so if someone from the same world as you shows up, it's more likely to be somebody you know or know about than a total stranger.
which is super weird. not sure why or how it's doing that.

[hardedged]

[ finally. a helpful answer for a change. ]

you a scientist or something?

Text; un; Katie.Kates

[littlemisskate]

I don't know if we can predict it but I think that it can pull in someone who is dead.

[hardedged]

yep, like a shitty walking dead sequel

[ that seems to be the general consensus around here. ]

text | un: RE-L124C41+

[realimperfect]

If you can figure out the mathematical algorithm of that portal I think, maybe, it simply brought you here for that kind of brain power.

So far as I'm able to tell, yes, it can bring those who were previous dead, or close to dead. With the fact that it can access different time lines, and all of that? I wouldn't doubt it could bring in someone you may have known prior to their death and they wouldn't be any the wiser.

So I suppose I'm left here hoping that some who are dead stay that way.

[hardedged]

you're not the only one

text; @p.dameron

[followhim]

I've seen people here who I know for a fact died back home. I think it can pull people in who have died — or just before they died, if you wanna get technical. Pretty sure I'm supposed to be dead, too, so there's that.

[hardedged]

pretty sure?

[ she's pretty sure you should know the answer to that, man. ]