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Hey, everyone. It's the Turtle Tower Power Hour, brought to you by the Brazen Turtle and the Kent News Network. My name is Stiles, I'm your host for tonight's event.

But before we begin. I've been asked by a fellow "Foreigner" to bring up a subject that's a little...well. Touchy. Maybe even a little macabre. It's the elephant in the room, discussed by a lot of us, but with no real resolution. It sucks, bottom line, and I think all of us here have been affected by it.

It's the subject of being sent back to our home dimensions. Our home worlds.

Since Eshai's death at the end of December, just a few days before Christmas, we've had a grand total of thirty-four of us simply up and disappear. And the number being brought in is...roughly equivalent, yeah. A net loss overall, though. That's nearly six people going out per week. And in the time I've taken to research who they were, what their impact was on Keelai...there's no common thread. Nothing to link them. They were young and old, powerful and baseline, intelligent and...well, otherwise. They were kind, and they were cruel. They were people.

And I'd like to read off their names.

The first one to go home, the day of the murder, was Jonah Kinlock. He was followed by Rose Tyler. Willow Rosenberg. Peeta Mellark. Barry Allen. Santo Vaccarro. Hikaru Shidou. Olivia Dunham. Robert and Rosalind Lutece. Miranda Lawson. Rodimus Prime. Arnold Rimmer.

[He snorts with laughter for a second, because he is a teenage boy.]

Leonardo. Dorian Gray. Tim Drake. Gentarou Kisaragi. Raven. Peter Quill.

...Hannibal Lecter. Yes. He counts.

Ororo Monroe. Cecil Gershwin Palmer. ...Allison Argent. Jane Foster. The Archive. ...Loki Laufeyson. Raleigh Becket. Orion Pax. Bryn Zethir. Victor Borkowski. Dick Grayson.

...Isaac Lahey. Karkat Vantas. And Rory Williams.

Again, these are only the people sent home in the last six weeks. I know we've all lost more than just this short list, in the random and incomprehensible crap going on in this place. We may never find out exactly what's happening here, how the magic works, or the cloning process, or whatever BS explanation we're given this month. I don't claim to know how it all works. I have my hypotheses, but discussing them seems to give people headaches for some reason.

What I do know is that we're all here. Here and now. We can gripe and moan...or we can start to do something about it all. And I know I'd rather be active in this than just sit around with my thumb up my...ahem. Sorry. Sometimes I forget I'm on the radio and everybody can hear me.

So take a moment. Tonight. Now. Find somebody who you like to be around, and tell them that. Be with a friend, a family member, a loved one. Take an hour and talk to them. Tell them important things. Unimportant things. Talk to them. Give 'em a hug. And remember why we're all here.

That's all. Tonight's show will begin in five minutes. Thanks.

((OOC: This is being broadcast over Clark Kent's radio system. Any discussion taking place will be on the network. Thanks! The actual radio show post will go up in the logs comm tomorrow.))

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Not cool.

[After the broadcast is over.]

No?

Sorry? I'm not trying to be disrespectful. Why not cool?

Because that's the kind of thing you do when people die, man. And they're. Not. Dead. They just went home. And most of them'll be fine.

[Someone has been working very hard to convince himself of that. ]

I never said they were, dude. I was pretty clear about that. I am making the point that we're up against a big bad here, and since Eshai's murder all these people went home.

Which might have something to do with it. Major uptick in people going home since then. Get it?

You're reading their names off like a memorial service and telling people to go find their loved ones. How do you think it feels if most of them were on the list? If it was Dumbass, you can't assume they got sent home.

Wow, okay, you're really upset about this.

Look, seriously, I was really careful with my research. Two of my friends from home are on that list, and my best friend was sent home before that. Not to mention all the other friends I made since I got here.

I'm sorry it came across as a funeral or something. I really didn't mean it like that. But the number of people being sent home has gone up. Which means something's going on. Which means maybe we should be paying attention to it. Regardless of who it offends.

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[He doesn't bother trying to lie and claim he's not upset. It's kinda neon sign blatant that he is.] I'm not offended by the point you were making. But you could've said a number and not gone through the whole thing.

I'm sorry about your friends going home.

[He's quiet for a moment, and then he sighs.]

Again. I'm sorry it came across that way.

But honestly, they're people. They're not numbers, they're not statistics, and treating them that way only fuels the fire for...I don't know. Our unnameable enemy. I won't apologize for naming names. But I am sorry one of your friends is on that list too.

[Because it's so, so freakin' obvious.]

It's not any worse than making it sound like they're dead. Like going home is a bad thing, for them. Just so you can turn it into a rallying cry for. I dunno what. But it's not like the enemy is in sight, once more unto the breach, Ti- sort of moment.

[Bart had almost thrown in a 'Titans together'. Old habits die hard.]

It's over the top. And it was more than one.

All right, fine. Well, duly noted, apology apparently not accepted, and...okay.

Anything else? You want fries with that?

Accepted but still disagreeing with you. I'm allowed to do that, unless they updated that brick of a legal code book.

[Bart can't think of anything else to shoot back. Nothing that isn't circling back around or falling apart into name-calling. He understands that Stiles is trying to be helpful and encouraging and all that, but he's been nervous about the 'getting sent back' element since Eshai was murdered. Coupling it with the disappearance of his grandfather has made it a topic that he's been actively avoiding.

With a deep frown, Bart abruptly cuts the feed.]

You've certainly been paying attention. [Bean thought he was the only one cataloging the entries and exits of Foreigners.]

Well, it took me a good forty-eight hours of digging. But I think I've found everybody, yeah. I mean, I kinda noticed the uptick myself, but Jim Kirk asked me to dig up names.

It's good to have. The information, I mean. Noticing possible trends can help you prepare for the future.

Not that there seem to be any noticeable trends in the disappearances.

I thought I might have found something: A couple of the people sent home have a lot of experience with the theoretical science of the multiverse. But...not everybody.

Like I said, no common denominator. But then, there's no common denominator for the arrivals, either.

...Interesting. Perhaps whoever or whatever force is behind sending people home doesn't want us to know multiverse theory.

There was a period not too long ago when many royals were being brought in.

...And we'll never be Royals...

[He mutters that under his breath, mainly for his own amusement.]

I just don't want to spot connections where there aren't actually any. I mean, honestly, it could all be completely random.

[The song lyric is lost on Bean, but he frowns at the rest of Stiles' statement.]

I certainly hope not. There's no way to predict randomness.

Yeah, see, that's the thing. I think we have to focus on more of the 'hows' of it rather than the 'whos.' It's one thing to just say "MAGIC YAY" and move on. There's got to be another explanation as to how it happens.

It's something bigger than the Emperors behind this, some great force. Do you think it's uncoverable?

That...is a very good question.

I mean, I have a hypothesis but nothing concrete, you know?

[Bean encrypts the connection quickly.]

Oh? Do share.

[Yeah, he's doing the same on his end, and switching to video, because the last time he even hinted at this, he pissed somebody off fierce. ~~Because he used him as an illustrative example.~~]

Heh. This might sound abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous, okay? Bear with me.

[He pulls up a piece of paper and a pen, and starts drawing long parallel lines across it, one after the other, angling it so Bean can see.]

Okay. So imagine that all of reality is this piece of paper. And each line I draw on it is a separate universe, with its separate time line. Always parallel. Never touching, going on into infinity. Infinite variations on infinite themes.

[Then he draws a diagonal line intersecting all his horizontals.]

This path represents Asti. The world turtle. Swimming through this physical universe...but at the same time intersecting all other timelines at random points. As Asti swims, he's grabbing bits and pieces of...stuff. People's consciousness. I don't know, it gets a bit metaphysical at that point, I haven't quite figured that out yet.

So as he grabs these bits of all of us, the clone bodies are prepared, we wake up here with all our memories, all the stuff that makes us us.

And our unnameable enemy...he's using the path Asti creates to siphon off power. Maybe. Or following him to new worlds. That's what Eshai said once, that if we didn't help fight, You Know Who would follow us home.

[Bean appears thoughtful as he watches Stiles' explanation.]

The theory is sound, if a bit oversimplified.

Heh. "Oversimplified." I'm not exactly a genius with a degree in string theory. Just a minor genius with ADHD and too much Adderall.

[How is he getting Adderall in Keeliai? Bean wonders, briefly.]

Regardless. Your theory makes sense. It's what we do with such a theory that will define our next move.

[Ask Bruce Wayne, he's the man with the hookup. Drug dealer Bruce. First one's free.]

Yeah, exactly. I don't even know if there is anything to do. We can't stop it, can't reverse it. It just is. Like gravity. We stick to the turtle, and the turtle swims.

True, but having a theory changes how we proceed. Even just the knowledge will change how we carry ourselves. It's good to have, knowledge. Even if we don't know what to do with it.

[After all of that, he wants to greet Stiles proper and in person, but... first, he has to know.]

What else can you tell me about how the Emperor died? I wasn't here when it happened.

She was murdered. By Hannibal Lecter. He somehow got into the palace and...yeah. He was publicly executed after.

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[NO, SCREW IT. SWITCHING TO VIDEO]

She was what?

Wha-... DUDE!! Hey!

Oh my god, when did you get back? This is you, right? Not some freaky doppleganger who has no idea who I am?

You're Stiles, and I didn't just figure that out because you said so. It's been, um, less than a week?

[H-HI STILES... WAVES...]

But I didn't feel the difference between when I left and when I got back.

[WAVES BACK he's happy to see you dude.]

Yeah, wow, okay. Well, first off, welcome back. Second of all, uh, welcome back at the tail end of a hideous murder mystery that's been solved and pretty thoroughly dealt with.

So, wait. You have no memory of anything that happened to you back home? You just fell asleep here and woke up here and it felt like no time passed? Okay, that's effed up.

Awesome. I missed all the fun. [It's clear from his tone that, no, he doesn't consider hideous murder mysteries fun at all.]

[Jaime shakes his head.]

Nope. As far as I know, Thanksgiving was, like, last week.

Oh man, you missed Christmas. That sucks.

But, plus side, Valentine's day soon, so you can OD on sweets.

Seriously, it's good to see you again, dude.

Oh, man, you're right! Augh, of all times, it had to be the holiday season! [And don't even get him started on his mom having Christmas without him.]

[And now he's starting to miss Traci again, too.] I dunno if kedan-style chocolate'll be a fair enough substitute for the stuff back home, but it'll have to do.

Thanks. [A careful smile.] It's good to see you, too. Even if I feel like I saw you the other day, but. Specifics.

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