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[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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[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.

[hardedged]

variants. so you mean different versions of the same asshole could be here.

[ikols]

Obviously, that's how the Multiverse works and we're in an Omniversal nexus.
Time is being managed within your own existence but space, the selection of people from here and there who are also you, that appears to be without limit.

[hardedged]

[ excuse u, loki. she's not used to all this multiverse nonsense, okay. ]

does that mean there are a bunch of shithead variants of you walking around?

[ guess who's not over the incident™, back in her world. yeah, that's right. this girl. ]

[ikols]

[ hUFFING. ]

It does, but not here.
That one is quite pleasant, by comparison.

[hardedged]

[ HUFFS... LOUDER... ]

much more pleasant if you weren't in this dump at all

[ikols]

[ oooOOOHHHHHH ... ]

Perhaps.

[hardedged]

good talk

[ as far as she's concerned, there's nothing more to say. they're finished. ]

[ikols]

[ Sigh. Time to go rebuild some part of the Sanctum so he doesn't feel like such a waste of space. ]