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.

[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!]

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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. ]

[hardedged]

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

before this. you mean back home?

text » @LOKIOFASGARD

[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.

[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.]

[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. ]

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shit

[ what else is there to say, really? ]

[ikols]

[ hUFFING. ]

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

[alchemyfreak]

Yeah, so if you're hoping to see someone who's dead, good news: they might show up.

if you were hoping to avoid seeing someone here that's dead back home

well, you get the point.

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.

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[ HUFFS... LOUDER... ]

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

[potentialed]

[ YEAH IT'S HIM. He's kinda better versed in this than u are, Jones. ]

You don't get much of it if you're asking everyone else about it.

[ just saiyen ]

[ikols]

[ oooOOOHHHHHH ... ]

Perhaps.

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[ jess knows she can't be too abrasive while she's anonymous, or she might give the game away. even if it's tempting. that little shit. ]

look up. [ at the rest of her post, she means. ] already got my answer.

[hardedged]

good talk

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

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this place blows

[ another helpful comment, jones. nice job. ]

[ikols]

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

[potentialed]

You could try being a little more polite to the people answering you.

[ Looking up is making him all sorts of /squint at this. He can think of someone with this shitty an attitude. Doesn't have proof of who it is tho. ]

[hardedged]

[ he truly is an asshole. keep your cool, jones. don't let him— oh, screw it. ]

or you could just back off