First transmission; video

[frankensteinian]

[It would seem that someone has just been handed a copy of the welcome guide -- and instructed on a few basics, or he wouldn't know how to transmit this video -- and it would seem, also, that he is not entirely impressed by what he found in the guide. The video is just wide enough of an angle to show what appears to be a smear of blood on his shirt.]

It's nice. Someone clearly put a lot of work into it. It's not exactly helpful though, is it?

[It seems to have glossed over quite a few things, or ignored them entirely.]

For instance, for all the trouble it goes to to tell us where we are now, it says nothing about how we get home again.

[He'd really like to get back there. He's got people to kill things to do.]

Or even how we got here. Which is what I'd really like to know.

[Is someone messing with him?]

Comments

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[ventifact]

from what they say, getting us home will take "a long time"
as to how we got here
good old fashioned universe-spanning kidnapping is the simplest way to put it
but it was an accident
really

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[frankensteinian]

It sounds like you don't believe that.

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[ventifact]

it's the same story we've been hearing for months
no way to prove it's true, no way to prove it isn't
so i'm glad my text conveyed my frustration

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[frankensteinian]

So how would you explain it then?

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[ventifact]

how the ingress works technically or literally why we're here?

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[frankensteinian]

Any of it.

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[ventifact]

if you've got a couple hours i can give you the most basic rundown of how we think the portal functions
more than that will take a couple weeks maybe months
i don't have much for the other thing

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[frankensteinian]

It seems like I have plenty of time for any of those answers.

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[ventifact]

not like i have anything else to do either

[but secretly she lives for explaining tech to people]

found a place to stay yet?

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[frankensteinian]

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[ventifact]

right
just got here
well do you know how to cook?

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[frankensteinian]

Not especially.

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[ventifact]

damn
nobody seems to know how

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[frankensteinian]

Someone must know or restaurants wouldn't stay in business very long.

Are there any restaurants around here?

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[ventifact]

yes but you have to pay for them
and i don't have much money
i was going to have you cook for me in exchange for the information
but i guess that's moot now

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[frankensteinian]

Maybe we can work something else out.

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[ventifact]

i guess
do you have any skills?

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[frankensteinian]

I have a way with metal.

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[ventifact]

could you reinforce the existing frame of a house?

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[frankensteinian]

As long as there's metal near to hand, I can absolutely do that.

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[ventifact]

don't worry i've got plenty of metal

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[frankensteinian]

Then I think we both have something the other can use.

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[ventifact]

looks like it
i'm rey

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[frankensteinian]

Erik.
Do we have a deal then?

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[ventifact]

we do
have you found a place to stay?