001; video - un: t.challa

[kumkani]

[T'Challa does not put on the Panther Habit for his first post to the network, preferring to keep the two identities separate for as long as possible. For the duration of his stay, if he can manage it, though it's not he who would tell the others. He cannot vouch for the people from his own world that are here. Not all of them, at least.

He angles his device to capture his face and very little of his surroundings.]

In my culture, death is not the end. It's more of a stepping off point. You reach out with both hands and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into the green veld where... you can run forever.

[He'd been told upon his arrival, after many questions, that he was here because he'd felt displaced. While that had not necessarily been true, the thought that this place was something other than what it seemed had crossed his mind. The afterlife possibly, though he did not recall dying - his beliefs dashed that notion rather quickly.]

So this cannot be life after death. Do you accept the answers you have been given or do you challenge them? What was the outcome of such action?

[The feed ends there. It's enough of a start to generate conversation.]

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[kumkani]

Neither did I.

I was in my home, surrounded by my people.

[He didn't want to be anywhere else. It had to be a mistake. Being kind could be a burden and the weight was not insignificant, but it was who he is and what he wanted. That choice, he'd made a long time ago.]

A detour then. I do not mind the visit as long as it is temporary. Did your friends go back through the portal to where they wanted to go?

[alchemyfreak]

[A pause at the question, keeping his expression carefully blank.]

Couldn't say, none of them have come back to confirm it, and no one's exactly said goodbye or left a note either.

[Which is a movement he tried to put into place, getting people to consider leaving notes if disappearing happened so fast no one could even say goodbye to their friends here.]

Where I was before everyone that came back with any memory of being there said they returned home, to the exact moment they were taken from. In theory this place could work the same way, but I haven't personally seen it yet.

If that's true once the portal is pointed in the right direction you'd just go back home with your people, same as you were before.

[kumkani]

[That didn't sit well with him and he imagined, not with anyone else either. They couldn't confirm that their loved ones and friends were traveling back to the places that they wanted to go. That wasn't a comforting notion.]

With no memory of ever having been here?

Then what is the point of coming here at all if we do not remember it. That implies that the journey isn't for our benefit but rather, someone else's.

These people or someone that we do not know of.

[alchemyfreak]

That's how it worked where I was before, I'm not sure if it's the same here or not. The journey to those places weren't for our benefit, it was essentially an inter-dimensional kidnapping.

[He had his own suspicions, but he didn't like to raise everyone else's, so far Riverview had proven nothing like Attollo or Purgatorium.]

It's possible there's something else going on that we're being kept in the dark about, I've definitely considered it. The thing is... This place isn't meant to be a temporary journey, it's a refuge for the displaced. If we're not really displaced and want to go back home, doesn't it make sense to send us back with as little disruption to our previous existence as possible?

[Benefit of the doubt, maybe? Ed has plenty of reasons to be skeptical, but even he's willing to see how this plays out - if not trust everything is as it seems to be.]