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[heartofasamurai]

[He chooses text over audio or video because it makes more sense. The technology of these devices is interesting, but he’s not ready for using more technology right now. Text is efficient enough and he can maintain some amount of anonymity despite his name being available. He doesn’t know who may be watching.]

Although, I am grateful for the orientation and helpful information I have recieved in the days since my arrival, it cannot instill the unique perspective of those who have been brought here and their experiences. I would appreciate hearing those perspectives and if those brought here are indeed seeking the new home that was expressed by the assistants.

It is not a sentiment I am sure that I believe, but as I said, each perspective is unique.

Comments

[heartofasamurai]

I have asked you, and I am grateful for your opinion. Why do you find it unbelievable?

[alchemyfreak]

because I wasn't seeking any new home when I was brought here.

[Feeling displaced? Sure, he'll buy that. Actually looking to relocate to some random new planet? Not on his to-do list.]

[heartofasamurai]

Neither was I. It sounds rather whimsical and romantic, for lack of a better word, to be seeking a new home and find yourself in another world entirely. Even so, to some, perhaps seeking somewhere different from where they found themselves is close enough to qualify.

[alchemyfreak]

Some may benefit from it, anywhere but home might be a better home to them.

There are a few reasons they offer for winding up here, feeling displaced, being about to die, or your home world being about to vanish are the main three that I've heard. I felt displaced a lot where I was before, I'm sure... but I wasn't looking for a new place to feel just as lost. I wanted to go back where I was before, if not my own world the place after that.

In theory, I suppose the fact that I'm going home to die is also a factor. Maybe I'm not here because I felt displaced at all, the portal just drew me in to prevent me from going home to die.

[heartofasamurai]

I appreciate your honesty. My own situation was not ideal. Perhaps I sought refuge, without conscious thought of where that refuge might be.

The portals are sentient in some fashion, that much is what I have come to see more than one person believe.

[alchemyfreak]

There are a lot of theories going around, it's hard to pinpoint what's rumor and what's fact a lot of the time.

The remaining portal was alive once, but from my research it doesn't seem to be any longer. I'm not sure how that works or why it even would, you would think a portal that died could no longer transport people.

[heartofasamurai]

Even if something dies, the energy that existed is not gone. The body may be acting out of instinct in absence of soul.

[alchemyfreak]

That's not really how things work where I'm from so I'll take your word for it.

[heartofasamurai]

The possibilities are endless in that regard. I doubt that any two worlds are identical. My own world is world is unlike this world, or even the worlds connected to it.

[alchemyfreak]

Yeah, a lot of people have asked me if the worlds I've been to previously are like this one. Honestly, it's hard to say, they definitely have their similarities but I wouldn't call them alike.

[heartofasamurai]

The other world I visited was certainly not like this one. This one is far closer to my own, despite the many differences.

[alchemyfreak]

The whole being pulled in against your will, people disappearing without warning apparently to go home, people you know not remembering you and a few other factors make this world similar to the last two I was in.

This place doesn't really have any expectations of us though, just live life, no concept of redemption or need for assistance to keep the place running like I've seen before.

It's nothing like where I'm from originally, for one the technology is far more advanced and it's a quarantine that seems to include only one city.

[heartofasamurai]

Being taken against your will, is similar enough, but those who entered did not leave without finding our own means. This world is far kinder, less menacing, but far harder to leave.

I am not sure which is less desirable.

[alchemyfreak]

At least they're actively trying to find a way to send people back who want to go. They're just working within their own limits.

[heartofasamurai]

I have had no cause to believe otherwise of them, although their attempts still may prove for naught. I appreciate their intent, however long it may take. This is a fascinating world, but my place is not in it.

[alchemyfreak]

That's the whole nature of this place, no one belongs in it.