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[problematical]

[ River's sitting in her suite in the Water, evidenced by the soft colours and natural materials in her background. She touches the screen carefully, teeth pinching her lower lip as though she doesn't know recording has started -- but then she starts speaking without changing anything, so maybe she does know. ]

High chance of improbability even in this 'Verse, can't go between-between-between. Even if you use orthogonal coordinates, meeting at right angles. Two wrongs to make a right, two rights to make a wrong, the graph is broken. Order of chelonii or testudines but even the largest can't hold a city. Can't check the book, no chapters on waking up in new places.

[ She seems briefly frustrated, whether at the improbability of her situation or merely her own inability to verify what the kedan told her is unclear. She hadn't had the opportunity to think on it much with being drafted into the bottle, with all that had followed that and now that she did, she was still no better equipped to explain anything. Her fingers tangle in a dingy chain around her neck, tugging at a small ring and charm that seem very tarnished. ]

I'm supposed to have a job.

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video

[chittybang]

[She watches the video with a pinch in her brows, as if she's trying to understand what River is saying... and really failing at it.

But the last part, she can handle. She turns on her feed and speaks gently.]

What're your skills? There's usually something for everyone.

Re: video

[problematical]

Everything.

[ The River says it however, is almost more like an apology than bragging. ]

video

[chittybang]

Okay... well do you have a skill you particularly like to use? Or maybe one that you'd want to develop?

Re: video

[problematical]

I like to fly. Can I fly here?

[backinakidflash]

[Bart looks concerned at this jumbled rambling.]

Did you. I dunno. Hit your head or something?

[problematical]

No. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put him together again.

[backinakidflash]

Humpty Dumpty brought it on himself though. Sitting on the wall like that.

[This girl is cray-zee.]

You're new, right? What's your name?

video;

[iwannabeadragon]

[All those words make his head spin. That may be the single most complicated thing he's ever heard in his life and he's not even about to pretend he understands it.]

If I could understand even half of that I'd be the smartest man in Thedas.

[At least he can do more to help with the last part there.]

What kind of job would you like?

Re: video;

[problematical]

But then you wouldn't go on as many adventures.

[ See, River remembers you just fine Hawke. You're even getting a smile because, honestly, she wasn't 100% sure you weren't a bottle hallucination until now. ]

What kinds are there?

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[iwannabeadragon]

[Hawke's flattered.]

Good point. Suppose I'll stick to blissful ignorance then.

[He gives a shrug.]

Anything from fishing and bar tending to things that make my head hurt just thinking about them. We'll find you something here.

[Hell, Hawke will hire her himself if he has to. Between his black market operations and the shows he puts on for the kids he's got enough to spare.]

Video

[ixis]

[Naugus frowns at the babble, but not because he's having trouble understanding it. He's more concerned with a particular statement!]

What's this about improbable in-betweens?

Re: Video

[problematical]

Can't establish boundaries for interpenetrating dimensions without acknowledging physical laws and constants that describe them... the bottle doesn't make sense. Have to take up the same finite realm, Kithika isn't in the mirror.

[ The whole time she's talking her hands are busy, walking the fingers over and over in a repetitive pattern like a spider walk. ]

Video

[ixis]

Ah, were you present in Kithika? Pocket zones aren't such a foreign concept to myself. They rarely behave in ways physics would prefer, however. You sort of have to take them at face value.

Stop fidgeting.

video;

[washitaway]

[Booker doesn't spend much time on the network (except when Elizabeth bothers him about it) but something about this girl reminds him - of the Luteces, maybe? Except she's missing her other half, in a way.

It's unsettling, but he feels kind of bad for her.]

You okay, miss?

Re: video;

[problematical]

She's all right... less bad air here.

video;

[washitaway]

She? Who's she?

[Booker frowns. He's confused, okay? Who is this girl talking about?]

video;

[imaginate]

Don't think anybody really has a Waking Up In A New Dimension for Dummies.

What do you like doing, sweetheart?

Re: video;

[problematical]

[ River remembers him, though he's seeming far less intense across console and is glad for that, right now. ]

Flying.

video;

[imaginate]

[He grins at her.]

Wanna go?

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[spideyfanone]

[Fortunately, he speaks kid genius, and he's at least flipped through the phrasebook for dotty psychic.]

Honestly, this is far from the weirdest world I've visited. There's more than one technology available for it and that's even leaving aside physics. It's pretty much all copacetic with the many worlds theory.

Re: video

[problematical]

[ River does perk up a little as, blue or no, he doesn't seem to have any trouble following her train of thought-- kind of impressive, since sometimes River herself has trouble following her train of thought. ]

But one makes no sense. Not alone, needs counterbalance.

[spideyfanone]

[Or he can fake it anyway.]

Go around looking for logic in the multiverse and you'll come up empty. In an infinity of possibilities, you find more strange stuff than otherwise, because every other world has its rulebook and there, you're the wonky one.

video;

[oneofthegoodguys]

[Mike doesn't really understand, but codes aren't all that unfamiliar to him.]

Are you having a hard time trying to get somewhere?

Re: video;

[problematical]

Don't have any place to go, just looking for the open sky.

video;

[oneofthegoodguys]

But something's stopping you.. The force field. Is it the force field that's stopping you? Can you fly?