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[imaginate]

[ if one looks at the location of this post, it's from Wood. Kyle's idea of being careful is essentially walking over to another Sector to use one of the cafes. ]

hello?

seriously there's better things to rip off than myspace

[ He's going to treat this as a chatroom until he has reason to do otherwise. ]

is this network the only way to contact people? what happened to telephones? or shining a signal in the sky? [ subtle. very subtle. He buffers it quickly: ] or even messenger pigeons?

[ now to see if anyone takes the hint. Before then, he decides to offer a helpful tidbit: ]

by the way this isn’t a dream or a collective hallucination

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[thewaythatiam]

That is very generous. Thank you.

[ She'll just. Hide behind the menu for a moment while she figures out what she would like to eat. It's Wednesday back home she should be having stir fry.]

...The people here have been very friendly. I felt very welcomed when I introduced myself.

[imaginate]

Yeah, most of them don't seem to mind having us around. [He offers her a smile, not too wide, not too thin, and briefly glances at his own menu, but he's already picked what he wants to eat.] Earth Sector's a pretty nice place to live, too.

[thewaythatiam]

The people are very straight-forward. That is good, I cannot pick up subtlety very often.

[ she'll just get that thing there, it sounds simple and yummy. ]

[imaginate]

[That's something Kyle can get behind, having very indiscreetly attempted to contact one of the Bats.] Trust me, it's not all that. [Kyle calls a waiter so they can order.] Looks good. Do they have food like this, where you're from?

[thewaythatiam]

Very similar, yes. I don't eat it often. I mostly eat the same meals every week. I find the routine very comforting.

Do you?

[imaginate]

Do I have food like this at home, or do I find routine comforting? Or both?

[thewaythatiam]

[ thinks for a moment ] Both. I am sorry, that was a very vague question.

[imaginate]

We do have something like this at home, although I don't eat it often. [Kyle ponders the second question for a moment.] I guess I'm a go with the flow kind of guy. [He'd had to adapt to many situations very suddenly, routines tended to get disrupted. Then, it hits him, like Zatanna had mentioned why she'd been housed in Wood Sector.] Maybe that's why they put me in Water Sector.

[thewaythatiam]

They choose where you will live based on who you are? [ THAT is curious ] How do they compile enough data on you in the short time between being retrieved and reaching the city to do so?

[imaginate]

[Entirely too cheerfully:] I have no idea. Probably they gathered info on us before they brought us here.

[thewaythatiam]

I believe that would require a higher level of technology than the kedan currently possess.

[imaginate]

[Kyle's smile fades and he looks more thoughtful.] Something or someone is bringing us here - and keeping us here. That takes work. Probably a machine, too.

[thewaythatiam]

[ She nods, pursing her lips thoughtfully as she stares at the table ]

That sort of technology would be extremely advanced, but with the proper calculations and data to input into a sufficiently advanced machine I loosely estimate that there is a 76% chance of being able to pull a person from their universe on any given attempt.

[imaginate]

Why only 76%? Are you suggesting it might try to bring people and fail?

[Jason was here; he was here... Donna wasn't.]

[thewaythatiam]

It is a very loose estimate. I am estimating based on the common level of technology, extrapolating to what cutting edge would most likely consist of based on my own universe's capabilities. Technology of that level would, based on the universe-crossing technology in my own universe, only be successful approximately 76% of the time, if they have the proper data to input into it.

It is more difficult to pull something from the other side than to push something from your own universe there.

[she pauses and looks up, tilting her head ]

Unless they have sent agents into our own worlds, and said agents have chosen us as targets and sent us here from our own universes.

[imaginate]

I think we'd have noticed something like that. [He certainly would have.] But it would need a lot of energy to pull so many of us from so many different places.

[thewaythatiam]

Yes. But this turtle is not the whole world, is it?

[ It sounds like an honest question, not a rhetorical one. Unfortunately, all the uncertainties and guesses and (likely fallacious) extrapolations she's having to make to try to process this all is stressing her out, so... subject change! ]

That is a very distinctive ring where did you get it?

[imaginate]

So far it is. Some people told me about a mainland but it doesn't look like there's any way to get there.

[...... crap she saw the ring. It took too much energy to disguise, usually.] Uh... it was a gift.

[thewaythatiam]

It is very nice. What is it made of?

[imaginate]

[How did one explain Oaite?] Metal, I think.

[thewaythatiam]

I have never seen a metal of that color. It is very interesting.

[imaginate]

['Interesting', while appropriate, is the understatement of the year.] Nah, I think they just painted it with something.

[thewaythatiam]

[ ponders for a moment ] It does not appear to be painted unless it is a very new piece of jewelry, there is no wear on the coating. May I look at it more closely?

[imaginate]

[Oh, why not. It won't work for anyone but him, after all.

He takes it off and passes it to her.]