Trial 001 [Radio, audio only] [Public]

[portal_refugee]

I'll admit, you've got one interesting place here.

[The voice belongs to a young woman, and sounds to be in her early to mid-twenties. A bit tired perhaps, but whatever stress she feels is being carefully restrained as she begins her plea for information - with an introduction naturally.] As practiced as that orientation is at the Welcome Center, I take it everyone is rather used to newcomers. So, hi. Name's Abigail, and I'm from a city called San Fransokyo.

[There's a pause that follows, but the hesitation is shaken off as she proceeds to her point.]

Just walking into the city in the first place showed me a lot. And keeping an open mind, the whole Great Turtle is begging a lot of questions, but I have one thing I would like to confirm.

For lack of a better way to say it, did time really stop back where we came from? Has anyone been able to verify it somehow? I ask because I transitioned here at a really...inopportune moment.

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[lasergrenades]

San Fransokyo? Did Japan collide with California or something?

[Because clearly that is the most important thing to discuss out of everything Abigail has just said.]

As far as we know, that's how things work. It's part of the spell. We forget everything here when we go home, so it's kind of hard to, you know, experiment. Some people come and go, though, and things apparently just... pick up wherever they left off.

The turtle is totally real, by the way; you can go walk out to his head and see if you want. Also, hi, I'm Pepper. Welcome to Keeliai.

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[solo_patria]

So I've heard. Although, oddly, most of the Returning that I know, who found a way back home, do not remember their first time here. [Enjolras himself, apparently, is of that number, as mad as he finds the idea.] It is as though they've...started again or something. Quite odd.

[androit]

San Fransokyo? You wouldn't happen to... nah. I just realized how annoying that would sound.

[ He's heard of the city before, but what are the chances she'd know some random professor from the same city??? Dur. ]

I'm not too sure about the time thing myself.

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[looksfine]

While I have not been able to personally verify such claims through first-hand experience...there have been sufficient testimonies from a wide sample of individuals to give reasonable validity to the idea.

[Which, for Aya, was the next best thing.]

And alternative hypothesis, of course, is not that time itself has frozen, but that the source of our arrival here has a strong enough mastery of the space-time continuum that, regardless of our duration of time here, we will be returned to precisely the moment we were taken from upon completion of our mission.

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[wolf_of_war]

[Have a synthesized, mechanical-sounding voice.]

I believe that the "world turtle" myth began with the Chinese, and was later adopted by the indigenous people of the American continent. That the world we know is carried on the back of a giant turtle. This place...seems to take the myth to it's next logical step.

As for your other question, I am afraid I do not yet have that information. Though that is hardly surprising, as I just arrived.

[highprofilerichkid]

San Fransokyo? [Tony snickers. That's some kind of joke, right?] What a coincidence. I'm from New Yortimore.

[But in all seriousness:] Yeah, it's verified. Sometimes people leave here and come back. We don't know why it works like that, but it's worked that way for everyone so far.

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[brewglory]

[With the driest of tones:]

Don't you mean San Francisco?

[And then a horrifying thought strikes him: what if she doesn't? What if there's a place in some world somewhere called San Fransokyo? A place where World War 2 was lost, perhaps?

Suddenly, Severus has mentally invented for himself the plot of Man in the High Castle.]

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[pompous_today]

I believe it does. My sister arrived here some weeks before I did, and yet back home, I saw her maybe half an hour or so before I departed.