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[ascendit]

anyone here good with universe travel tech/magic? can be something from your world, not just the ingress

i have a device that's supposed to do universe travel but that part hasn't been working right since i got here over a year ago

[He's been meaning to find someone to fix it after his day one attempts failed, but. Life happened.]

someone please fix it

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[patchricide]

That's about right, yes. And unlike from what I've seen of the Ingress, we have control over it.

[And then, a moment later...]

*had

[ascendit]

had cos you lost control or because you'r here now?

[Nate makes no such self corrections.]

[patchricide]

Definitely the latter, maybe the former.

We hit a wormhole right before I found myself here, and I can't help but think it caused this, somehow.

[ascendit]

yeah same

i was trying to travel to my home world but ended up here

guess that's what i get for using experimental tech

[patchricide]

Where were you trying to return home from?

[ascendit]

another world where people kept getting pulled in through the after effects of a spell

[patchricide]

Even from other universes? That might be larger than any spell I've ever heard of.

[On the plus side, she's comfortable with the idea of magic and spells, unlike some other alien princesses.]

How was something like that cast in the first place?

[ascendit]

time compression: squishing all of time and space into one point

i don't know how it works, we weren't taught how to do it

[patchricide]

That's definitely larger AND more absurd than any spell I've heard of!

Why would someone want to do that?

[ascendit]

the idea was that she'd put herself at the middle, have all that power from time and space squishing into her, and rewrite reality how she wanted it

i guess everything did change, it just probably wasn't how the sorceress wanted

[patchricide]

I had no idea time and space worked like that.

[AND UH. SHE STILL HAS A FEW DOUBTS. BUT HEY, MAGIC??]

What did she want to change so desperately?

[ascendit]

hell if i know

[No, seriously, that wasn't taught in his history class. Thanks, vague video game that his CRAU game was based on.]

[patchricide]

So she never shared her story?

I can't help but feel that at a certain point, everyone else has a right to know.

[ascendit]

she died before sharing

that's how the spell ended

i think back then everyone was more worried about getting the world back to normal than about why

[patchricide]

I suppose that is a little more important.

So, where were you from, before you started travelling from universe to universe?

[ascendit]

United States of America, Earth, 1990

[She didn't ask for when, but he's found it can be a useful marker.]

[patchricide]

I'm only familiar with the planet. And then, only what my friends have told me about it.

What do you mean by "1990"? [Time doesn't occur to her, since she hasn't managed to wrap her head around the timeline crisscrossing yet. Other things jump to mind -- where in the universe it's located, for example, but the number doesn't sound familiar on any coordination system she's familiar with.]

[ascendit]

the year

where are you from, if you haven't been to earth?

[patchricide]

The planet Altea. It's far from Earth, far enough that only a wormhole could cross the distance in a lifetime.

However, we didn't have an opportunity to visit their home.

[ascendit]

yeah never heard of it