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[OPEN] Ha? You think I'll apologize?

Who: Add & you!
What: Arrivals, breaking and entering & other fun activities! I'm kinda using this as a catch-all so feel free to hit me up at

BlueFlewFedUQueen or Discord/PM if you have a different idea for a thread! Prompts are in the comments.
Where: Mainly around the Mortis Lake area and the Merlaut Apartments
When: time is fake
Content Warnings: Add being an asshole to robots and trying to punch people but that's about it rn

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[add is very proud of his punk-nerd aesthetic tyvm

He folds his arms, leaning back in his cozy office chair. Well, alright, the fact that even the sky looks weird should maybe be a hint that things aren't going to behave normally...]

I've been to dimensions with weirder skylines, but this is something else entirely. How can there be an interference that's powerful enough to disable all these machines, yet there are also sentient machines in this very building that are completely unaffected? There's no way an occurrence like that could be natural. There must be something behind all this, deciding which machines to disable and which ones to leave active.

But how would a force like that distinguish its targets if there's nothing unusual in the affected machines...? Maybe if I ask to examine them under those circumstances...

[He trails off momentarily, leaving it unclear if that was a rhetorical question or not. Anyway—]

Is there anything else unusual you've noticed about this place? Besides the obvious.

[Right. This guy is definitely a nerd and Zack is already half lost in all the analysis that he gives. But he doesn't fade out and stop listening just yet. He leans up against the desk and crosses his arms over his chest.]

Who knows, maybe there's something that only wants us to use a few of the machines and not the others. We've got things popping up from our home worlds who's to say there's not something picking those things out too? Maybe there's an admin somewhere with a hand in all of it.

[It's a bit supernatural to think that there is "something else" doing all of this behind the scenes. But honestly, Zack is so new here he has no other clue to give.]

Besides other people being from other points in time than me, I don't know what else to tell you.

An admin... hmph, perhaps. [He doesn't like that idea at all, but it seems more likely than blaming everything on the general chaos of this place. Some details are just too specific. It would make more sense for someone to be directing things here, even if only slightly.

He hears something else interesting, though. Enough about Schrödinger's puppet master for now.]

Elaborate. What do you mean by other points in time?

[Zack raises an eyebrow. That's a good point of interest and yeah maybe he can get some outside insight on it. This guy seems smart, anyway.]

There's a couple people from my homeworld here.

[God, it still feels so weird to say "my homeworld" like it's some sort of city or state.]

They remember things differently than I do. Or they know things that I don't. It's a lot like we're from two different points in the same timeline. If that makes any sense?

... not like time travel is impossible, but if appearing in this place might cause a misalignment...

[He starts muttering to himself again, furrowing his brow with a serious expression. His experience with time travel is limited, but he knows enough not to doubt Zack's claims. Something like that is definitely possible, maybe even more probable than usual?]

This is a chaotic space that exists outside the normal rules of what you would call "reality". It's not that unusual for time and space to get twisted up in a dimension like this.

Still, that's concerning. We'll have to be especially careful about the return method if time is also a variable that needs to be considered. Not to mention the possibility of causing a paradox if someone learns too much about their own future... well, it'll probably be fine.

[For the first time since arriving here Zack feels like he's finally running into someone who has some sort of logical or scientific opinion on what might be happening around here. Everyone has been rather content to tend their bars and plant flowers in their shrines with no real way to know what any of this means.]

So, do you have any idea about how we should get a return method? Timelines or not... I need to get back too.

[He needs to know what's happened to him. And all the other unanswered questions that were left hanging for him. But it still nags at him...]

Do you think timelines can be changed?

[And then very unceremoniously Zack picks up another piece of the computer trash pile like he's going to find his answers in it all.]

If we're outside of normal reality, all of this has to do something.

[Zack, this guy can't just build you a time machine out of computer parts for you...]

Why not? Research into time travel is limited, but if you're aware of your future and choose to act differently, what's there to stop you from changing things?

[Spoken with confidence—it is a goal that he's been working towards himself, after all.

Leaving this world still comes first, though. He makes a bit of a face when Zack picks up another one of his components, but since he hasn't broken anything yet... he'll tolerate it. for now.]

I've dealt with dimensional travel before, but building a portal from scratch won't be easy... hopefully, there's something already in place here that I can work with instead. If not, I'll have to get my own machines working first before I can do anything. It's not my field of expertise, but dimensional travel is basically just teleportation on a grander scale. I'll find a way to make it work.

Really? For real? You can really do it if you get your computer machines up and running?

[Honestly, Zack has no idea what he's talking about or what dimensional time travel really is or if it's actually possible or not but the guy has just proved a very good point. If Zack knows his future (thank you sephiroth) what's stopping him from changing it now that he can go back and try and stop the specific thing that he knows about??

It's brilliant!! ... Maybe.]

If that's going to get us out of here then sign me up. How can I help? I'm yours to command, dude.

[He's also kind of smacking his hands on the counter with that computer chip in hand still...]

[This guy is way too excitable. It's reminding him of a certain other spiky-haired swordsman...

Ugh. That's the last thing he needs to think about right now. Add sighs, rubbing his temples.] You can start by not trying to smash my components...

Yes, for real. I've got too many important things to do to let a place like this keep me down. Even if I have to rewrite the laws of reality myself, I will find a way out of here. That's a promise.

Of course, returning to my own dimension will be my priority, but I suppose I can try to find a way for others to return to where they came from as well, if it's not too much trouble.

Awesome! You're great, man! Great! Let's do this!

[This guy might seem a little arrogant but the fact that he offers up to try and help everyone else home as well is enough for Zack. This is the first sort of lead he's been able to grab since arriving here so Zack is holding on to it.

Oh, and he stops smacking his hands on the counter luckily. Returning that chip to the pile with a flick of his hand.]

Name's Zack Fair, by the way. Really, if there's anything I can do to help you get things up and running just call me up. I don't know much about computers and tech jargon but I'm happy to move shit around for you or help you hook stuff up.

[Or honestly, he'll just be a guinea pig.]

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