thisavrou | video; may 6th

Hey, guys. I... Maybe I should've said something sooner, but I haven't been sure if it'd make much of a difference. But it's been really bugging me, so... I talked to our host, tried to find out more about how the reverse Ingress worked, but she was too busy to really answer any questions. But I asked if she had research somewhere that I could look at, you know, to read about it instead, and she gave me permission to use this computer to access her notes. I've spent my free time the past few days on reading over it, and... I don't know. I feel like there's something weird going on here.

There wasn't any information on her research on the Ingress. And, like, she would've written that down somewhere, wouldn't she? And there are some things she's told us that she wouldn't have known if she hadn't been experimenting on this with other people. Like, how did she know we need to go in as pairs, not alone? But there's no information on her computer about past experiments, either. What information is there... is stuff about our worlds. Population, toxicity, atmospheric and geological, stuff like that.

I asked her about it, and she said she's gathering test data from anyone who stops by here, even though there haven't been all that many, since this place is out of the way. She also said she's gathering the world information so she can use it to make the Ingress better, make it work permanently.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Maybe she's just got her research on the Ingress hidden and locked away in the computer. It doesn't work anything like the computers from back home, so I wouldn't know how to find it. I want to give the host the benefit of the doubt? But... I dunno. I guess I've learned to distrust any time I've been handed exactly what I've been wanting.

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I never heard of it at all before I came here. That's strange, though.

[So, really, maybe alternate realities aren't that rare at all. Which is a chilling thought when he just wants to go home. Bad enough being a galaxy away.]

I went to a place-- well, the places I went, I don't think we really could have gone there.

Yeah... This kind of thing, it's -- pretty new to me, too. But... With all the different Earths and everything, I had to learn kinda fast.

[She tilts her head curiously.]

What kind of places? If, um. If it's okay for me to ask, if you wanna talk about it.

Well, one of them, it was definitely a few years ago, at least. The other time... It was like two places in one. Walked out of a snowstorm into the middle of a city on a whole other planet, other system.

Jesus. That... I can only imagine. I probably would've thought I was going crazy.

That was through the host's Ingress, right? I heard that... things like that can happen. The host is the one who mentioned the -- alternate universe stuff. I guess you guys ended up going to a universe where those two planets were actually one and the same. Somehow.

We were glad to get out of the snow, mostly. I dunno. There's no way it makes any sense. Doesn't really make me trust it, though.

I'd think if the host was trying to lure us through her Ingress into danger and screw with us that way... It'd be more obvious. Like, something really bad would've happened already. But that doesn't mean she isn't using the information for... something. Bad, misguided, both, maybe.