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Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Yes
Action: N/A
When: Now

[putting his voice on this thing is...not preferable, but this has to get out to everyone to be even half as effective as aizawa would like it to be. so time to get over it.]

Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

One: length of time you've been here.

Two: whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

Three: something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

Four: something you miss most desperately from home. No 'family or friends' here, please. Material objects only.

Thanks.

[and below the soundbar, a text transcription:]

Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

1. Length of time you've been here.

2. Whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

3. Something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

4. Something you miss most desperately from home. No people, only items.

Thank you.

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Oh, you and your conversation starters.

Let's see, [Raising fingers for each new answer not that she turned the video on.]

I've been here two years and two and a half months. I was in MarinaNova Asylum for at least eleven months before that, but I've since realized time didn't work the same in there, so maybe several years? [The third finger goes up.] Mmm...that people come back to life if they die here. I tried asking around but I stopped before I found anyone who knew for sure and had all kinds of unnecessary mourning. [She would have mourned and been worried anyway.] And last but not least. Or maybe least. It kind of seems pretty least honestly. I'm not that into things. I don't miss anything desperately or I miss too much of it at the same level and none of it would be around if I did go back to the time I left.

How was that?

Informative.

You mentioned that asylum place before. What do you mean that time works differently inside there?

I aim to please. So hard to get my overachiever ways out without surveys.

Mmm...It was concentrated? I think. I mean I could be way off, but things that happened over the course of a month feel like they should have taken almost a year when I look back on it. At the time it all felt normal for the most part, but at the time it also felt like reality and it was all virtual instead too.

Pavel's from there too and he said he was feeling the same disconnect about it now.

Very interesting. I wonder if that could be the same kind of mechanic Atroma claims is at work here...about "time not passing" back home.

Have you been back to your universe either here or there?

No. I don't exactly have a lot of time left to travel back to though. [It's rough being dead back home.]

It does feel like these places tend to share similarities.

[...right.] I suppose it's to your advantage that they do. [and people like her.

It is.

Doesn't make what they do right though.

Of course not. Valuing personhood and free will thankfully seems to be a universal constant.

One they don't mind dismissing. I guess we don't rank as people to them.

Valuable commodities, at least. [#sarcasm. he's a professional hero after all, he knows what it's like to be "the talent" in a given situation.]

[Does professional mean he gets paid? Does it come with dental? Nice 401k?]

Oh, definitely. And possibly traded as such considering how many of us have been in other places before. Maybe all the mysterious overlords are in touch.

After all the stories of people being elsewhere? I'm more inclined to believe that than not.

Really? I kind of thought I was alone-ish on that one. [It's good to hear. Not that she can be sure she's right or anything, but it's a theory she's grown more attached to anyway.]

Did you hear much overlap between where people have been before and here?

Similar themes. Trapped, here for such-and-such amusement, or some other vague purpose.

Vague purposes sounds about right. I always assume it's an experiment.

What do you think about the 'reality tv show' thing? Any weight to it?

I dismissed it pretty immediately, but I can't really say it's impossible. [Dismissing it just makes it easier to live without worrying about being scrutinized by a large audience.] It could always be an experiment and exploitation. What do you think?

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I'm in about the same boat. I sincerely doubt it, but I can't prove otherwise. Though I am curious about the motivation behind trying to sell the TV show story to us before giving up on it before very long.

You think they've given up on trying to convince us? [She wonders if she missed anything. She did fall asleep for two months about a year ago and seeing the whole place as a ruse doesn't exactly inspire her to follow their breadcrumbs so it's very possible.]

Maybe there's bigger fish to fry.

Like extra stressors like the other fleet?

And various other issues within and without.

It doesn't seem like they had the sturdiest setup to begin with, honestly.

You see some flaws in their design? Something exploitable?

Don't give me so much credit.

All I'm saying is that between the pretty abrupt breakdown in communications and all this business about terraforming, on top of the lack of 'brand name recognition...' Us being the twelfth cycle of whatever this is is pretty damning.

What happened to the other eleven?

Mmm, in Marina I was in the third cycle. There were some hints early on about previous prison populations, but then nothing.

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